Новости за 21.11.2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study predicts daily heat records are going to be broken far more often than cold ones in the United States.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal court says voting districts drawn by Wisconsin Republicans are unconstitutional.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Donald Trump on Monday discussed the conflict in Syria and the need to focus resources on defeating terrorist organizations like the Islamic State in the President-elect's first meeting with a Democratic lawmaker, according to a statement released by Gabbard's team.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach -- a far-right Republican known for championing anti-immigration measures and voting restrictions -- was photographed with President-elect Donald Trump Sunday holding Kobach's "strategic plan" for the Department of Homeland Security, the Topeka-Capital Journal reported. The plan appears from the photograph to include some of Kobach's most extreme anti-immigration proposals and even alludes to election law, another area where the secretary of state is known for taking hard right positions. Читать дальше...

A high school senior, Yaocihuatl Reyes didn't pay much attention to the presidential race until she found her teacher sobbing and her east Los Angeles classmates terrified that the election of Donald Trump would lead to the deportation of their families.

A Washington, D.C., restaurant issued an apology after it hosted the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist group led by the man who claims credit for coining the term "alt-right," for a banquet this weekend.

Retired Gen. Michael Flynn is known for his focus on Islamic extremism and anti-Muslim sentiments, as well as a combative management style, yet he has come out against torture several times, arguing that using controversial interrogation techniques hurts the United States, according to comments surfaced by CNN on Monday.

A short while ago we flagged that one of Argentina's top journalists reported that Donald Trump asked Argentine President Macri to help work out some permitting issues holding up a building Trump is trying to build in Buenos Aires. This came during Macri's call to Trump congratulating him on his election as President of the United States. Now President Macri is denying that they discussed the problems with Trump's building project.

In a conference call with reporters on Monday morning, Donald Trump spokesman Jason Miller said that legal counsel are "comfortable" with all the meetings the President-elect has held to date, including those with his business partners.

In an interview Monday morning, Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway dismissed concerns about the President-elect's penchant for using Twitter to take potshots at critics.

A motorist was caught on video berating an Arab Uber driver while their cars paused at a stoplight in Astoria, Queens on Thursday, calling him a “fucking sand nigger” and telling him he would be deported under Donald Trump’s administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley says pharmaceutical company Mylan is declining to testify at his committee's hearing next week on a settlement between the company and the Justice Department over its life-saving Epi-Pen.

At first glance, the victory of Donald Trump suggests that big political money has less clout than imagined in U.S. democracy. Not only are defeated Democrats consumed with blame-shifting and calls to deliver better messages to a supposedly crucial “white working class,” but pundits are portraying President-Elect Trump as a populist politician unmoored from the establishment or big donors. Some journalists even suggest that the hundreds of conservative millionaires and billionaires organized by... Читать дальше...

Green Day's frontman chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” on stage at the American Music Awards on Sunday.

Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina.

Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) wrote a scathing Facebook post Sunday criticizing President-elect Donald Trump for taking to Twitter to demand an apology from the cast of the Broadway musical "Hamilton," which called out Mike Pence at a performance he attended.

Over the weekend, the white supremacists (the self-labeled 'alt-right') who run the 'National Policy Institute' met in Washington to celebrate Trump's victory and stake their claim to a role in Washington and the new government. Steve Bannon, the incoming White House counselor said earlier that he had made Breitbart "the platform for the alt-right." He owns these folks. After a prettied up day when most journalists were there, leader Richard Spencer gave an explicitly Nazi speech. Here are some... Читать дальше...

Fox News host Megyn Kelly claimed that some journalists who supported Donald Trump would pre-arrange difficult questions with the real estate mogul to preserve some appearance of neutrality.

House Republicans are preparing to gut Obamacare, but they also eyeing other ways to cut further into Obama's legacy.

Several Republican North Carolina state lawmakers are shooting down rumors that the legislature could expand the number of seats on the state Supreme Court, allowing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory (R) to appoint Republicans to those seats and flip the state's top court back to Republican control.

Donald Trump is expected to meet with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) Monday morning at Trump Tower in New York City.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Tension flared anew on the Dakota Access pipeline as protesters tried to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway, only to be turned back by a line of law enforcement using water cannon and what appeared to be tear gas.

The actor who called out Vice President-elect Mike Pence after a Friday night performance of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" said Monday that there is "nothing to apologize for," after Donald Trump demanded an apology from the cast.

In a speech Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged attendees to move away from “identity politics” and towards policies aimed at helping the working class.

PUKHRAYAN, India (AP) — The death toll from India's worst train accident in years rose to 146 on Monday after rescuers used cranes to lift the last of the twisted metal wreckage to check for bodies underneath.