Новости за 06.07.2017

By Paul J. Weber / Associated Press The White House wants the courts to uphold voter ID restrictions in Texas that opponents call discriminatory.

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Climate change, left unchecked, is expected to make the U.S. poorer and more unequal. (Pictured: A house in New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.)

By Henry Giroux / Alternet The right’s politics are as vicious as ever, but they also present a unique opportunity.

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams During a speech at the site of the Warsaw Uprising Monument in Poland on Thursday, President Trump proclaimed that “the fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”

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By Mel Gurtov A potentially catastrophic endgame is playing out between bellicose North Korea and the pugnacious U.S. regime.

France’s environment minister Nicolas Hulot announces the ban Tuesday. (Screen shot via The Independent) France is on track to ban the sale of cars that use gasoline or diesel fuel by 2040. The news was announced Tuesday by France’s environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, and is part of the country’s plan to meet its climate target under the Paris accord. The Guardian reports: The announcement comes a day after Volvo said it would only make fully electric or hybrid cars from 2019 onwards, a... Читать дальше...

By Dilip Hiro / TomDispatch President Trump’s public alignment with Saudi Arabian King Salman in his anti-Iran campaign could engulf the Middle East in a new global crisis.

Democratic leaders have positioned themselves to portray just about any concession from the U.S president in bilateral talks with the Russian president as a corrupt payoff.

By The Associated Press The home crafts chain imported more than 5,500 Iraqi artifacts that were intentionally mislabeled, federal prosecutors say.

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By Derek Kravitz and Cezary Podkul / ProPublica, and Will Parker / The Real Deal Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric (pictured) in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Germany still has a long way to go to be green, but so far this year, over a third of German electricity has come from wind, solar, biomass and hydro.

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Kris Kobach, Kansas’ anti-immigrant secretary of state, is the operational leader of the president’s newly launched commission to investigate fraudulent voting.