Новости за 20.03.2017

FBI director James Comey at the House Intelligence Committee hearing. (C-SPAN) Add a new chapter to the Russia-2016 election story. For the first time in public, FBI director James Comey confirmed that the federal law enforcement agency is investigating Russian interference in the presidential race and potential links between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, Vox reports. “[The FBI is] investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign... Читать дальше...

By Annie Waldman / ProPublica Taylor Hansen lobbied to weaken regulation of for-profit colleges. Since he joined Betsy DeVos’ Education Department, it’s started doing just that.

“We’re not seen as citizens, we’re seen as consumers” the comedian says in a clip for “NowThis” in which she explains one small thing she did to combat the sick feeling she got watching the Dakota Access Pipeline go through.

Citing passages from Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” the “Last Week Tonight” host analyzes why his proposed budget plan is a huge mistake.

By Joe Sexton / ProPublica America may get its border wall. It just might have to do without a lot else.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment At this rate we won’t have any allies soon.

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Research has found that even a modest switch to a more vegetable-based diet could lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

By T. Christian Miller / ProPublica The Trump administration has solicited bids for the first $600 million of work on the wall planned for the U.S.-Mexican border.

Unless we act now, Americans will remember 2017 as the year their naive belief in the recovery of democracy died under the heel of despotism.

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Finance ministers from the world’s leading economies went against German leadership to try to keep climate funding in the statement, a G-20 official told Reuters.