Новости за 21.12.2016

President-elect Donald Trump has not exactly been clear about if he wants to ban Muslims from the U.S. or put them in a registry or if the whole controversy has just been one giant "suggestion," kind of like "draining the swamp" and "locking up" Hillary Clinton. Nevertheless, following the terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, Trump told reporters that in regards to creating a Muslim ban or registry, "you know my plans," even though no one really does.

After a year of pushing for negotiations, workers at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas have finally reached a union contract with management.

Video game developer Brianna Wu will run for a seat in the House of Representatives in 2018, she announced on Facebook on Wednesday. Wu, 39, is perhaps best known for heading the indie game studio Giant Spacekat as well as for being an outspoken critic — and target — of the GamerGate movement and the harassment women face online.

As President-elect Donald Trump fills his last remaining Cabinet positions, analysts are turning to his ambassador appointments as the next signal to how the president-elect will run his government. While Trump has already named South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, and conservative hard-liner David Friedman as the ambassadors to the U.N., China, and Israel, respectively, the remaining posts could indicate whether Trump plans to stick to a more traditional ambassador team or whether he will buck the norm. Читать дальше...

Three terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were evacuated Wednesday morning after police received reports of suspicious packages.

In the Siberian city of Irkutsk, 62 people have died after drinking a bath lotion that contained methanol and antifreeze.

The Chronicle of Higher Education crunched 50 years of data to better understand who is going to college — and the findings might surprise those who assume universities are liberal hotbeds. "The perception that four-year colleges are only for liberal students may partly be a vestige of the Vietnam era," the Chronicle explains. "Beginning in the late 1970s, similar percentages of freshmen identified as liberal or conservative, with more than half describing themselves as 'middle of the road.'"

Germany's strict privacy laws prevent the widespread usage of surveillance cameras, but the coalition government on Wednesday approved regulation that could change things.

In their first conversation after the election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump discussed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which was rejected by the Obama administration last year.

After a delay of more than 24 hours, evacuations resumed in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday.

Corey Lewandowski announced Wednesday that he is launching a government relations and political consulting firm with former Donald Trump adviser Barry Bennett. Lewandowski was Trump's first campaign manager and later served as a CNN commentator, though he left his job at CNN just three days after the election amid rumors that he might take a role in the Trump administration.

Fans of Donald Trump who have his oft-shouted catchphrase "drain the swamp!" in their Twitter bios should probably consider making an edit.

Gone are the days of trying to figure out the address of the party you're at, so that your late friend can plug in the destination for their Uber driver. The transportation app launched a new feature Wednesday that will allow users to simply input their friend's name and then automatically route the car to where that friend is located — no address required.

Could these be the waning days of Apple's influence on the computer and smartphone market? It might be so, Bloomberg writes, observing that the Macintosh computer line "sometimes seems like an afterthought these days," leaving room for innovative competitors, like Microsoft, to swoop in:

The votes of all 50 states and Washington, D.C., have been fully counted and certified, Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report announced Wednesday. Hillary Clinton received 65,844,610 votes, totaling 48.2 percent, and Donald Trump received 62,979,636 votes, totaling 46.1 percent. Clinton won the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes.

Donald Trump's personal physician once deemed Trump the "healthiest individual ever" to run for president, a conclusion he reportedly reached in just five minutes. But now that Trump has been elected, Dr. Harold Bornstein claims that it doesn't much matter "if something happens to him" in an interview with Stat News.

"How does America get its news? How does it know who or what to trust?" BBC special correspondent Allan Little asked in a year-end look at the fake-news phenomenon, pointing first to The Tribune-Democrat, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania: "You find conflicting opinions in its pages, a diversity of views. It offers its readers a shared public reality within which they can disagree, dispute, and challenge each other." This model doesn't appear to be thriving in the digital world, he adds. "Traditional... Читать дальше...

Director Wes Anderson officially announced the details of his next feature-length film in a video Wednesday morning. "It's called Isle of Dogs," Anderson revealed. "It's an animated movie. We're shooting it in England." Anderson additionally named some of the actors who will have voice roles in the film, including Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Tilda Swinton, Greta Gerwig, Yoko Ono, and Edward Norton.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average came within 13 points of reaching the 20,000 milestone on Tuesday, before edging back slightly but still closing at a record 19,948. The Dow gained 66 points or 0.3 percent on the day, continuing a post-election rally fueled by optimism over President-elect Donald Trump's promised tax cuts and stimulus spending on infrastructure. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite also hit the latest in a string of records. "The market is focused on the Trump agenda, which is tax cuts... Читать дальше...

Delta Airlines passenger Adam Saleh claims he was kicked off an airplane early Wednesday morning after making a fellow passenger "uncomfortable" by speaking Arabic to his mom on the phone and to a friend he was traveling with. "Please spread," Saleh asked, posting a video of the aftermath of the incident to Twitter:

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President Obama on Tuesday withdrew large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from future oil and gas drilling leases, using a little-known 1953 law. The announcement came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took similar action to protect a huge part of his nation's Arctic waters from drilling. "These actions, and Canada's parallel actions, protect a sensitive and unique ecosystem that is unlike any other region on earth," the White House said. White House officials said the move can't be reversed ... Читать дальше...

German investigators are searching for a Tunisian man whose identity document was found in the cab of the 18-wheeler that crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, German media reported Wednesday. According to Der Spiegel, the temporary residency permit points to a man in his early 20s who goes by the name Anis A., born in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine. Bild says the man, who uses aliases, is part of a large Islamist network and may be dangerous. On Tuesday, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack... Читать дальше...

Since being elected, Donald Trump has squirmed under pressure from critics who have demanded he divest assets in his companies completely, and soon. The Trump family has repeatedly insisted on setting up a blind trust to deal with the ethical quandary, although exactly how "blind" such a trust — run by Trump's sons, Don and Eric — would be, many critics are doubtful.

On Tuesday, a federal judge unsealed the search warrant and related documents used by the FBI to justify reactivating its investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, less than two weeks before the presidential election. The Oct. 30 warrant request came two days after FBI Director James Comey took the unusual and controversial step of informing Congress and the public that agents had found emails that "appear to be pertinent" to the closed Clinton investigation. Two days before the election... Читать дальше...

President Obama disappointed liberal detractors and admirers alike last week when, in his last press conference of the year, he did not go ballistic about Russian efforts to tip the presidential election to an unqualified and bigoted clown, but instead spoke about Russia's electoral meddling in the slightly-bored tone of a medical examiner.