Новости за 21.12.2016

Police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with an arson attack on a historically black church in Greenville, Mississippi, that happened one week before Election Day.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada called Monday for the unconditional release of a Canadian man and his American wife after a new video appeared to show them begging their governments to intervene on their behalf with their Afghan captors.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois judge has put on hold a state requirement that health care providers who oppose abortion must give information or referrals to patients seeking the procedure.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Angered by skyrocketing drug prices, a pair of senators on Wednesday urged Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs.

The Alabama governor's office confirmed Wednesday that he had interviewed suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to potentially replace Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

Donald Trump on Wednesday implied that recent attacks in Europe justified his campaign trail call to ban Muslim immigration to the United States.

Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus may be shifting their uncompromising, tough budget stance under President-elect Donald Trump, according to a report in the National Review.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For people staying in homeless shelters in the District of Columbia, deer meat is what's for dinner.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans grappled internally Wednesday with whether to repeal a 9-month-old law dictating which bathroom transgender people must use that damaged the state's economy and national reputation.

Some conservative publications have taken to arguing this week that the President-elect did much better on Election Day than his nearly 3 million-vote deficit suggests—if only certain liberal cities and states were completely discounted from the popular vote total.

A coalition of neo-Nazis and hard-right Zionists can be unwieldy.

A representative of the Trump transition has decided to boycott a meeting with the Israeli government after the Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to meet with a member of their delegation. Becky Norton Dunlop, deputy to the senior adviser on Trump’s transition team, was in Jerusalem with a delegation of far-right Bannonite European parliamentarians. But Israel said it couldn't meet with Sweden's Kristina Winberg because... Читать дальше...

In the six weeks since Donald Trump's surprise election we've already seen numerous grifts, shakedowns and efforts at various levels of completion to monetize the US Presidency - all this in advance of Donald Trump's actually becoming President. But this unfolding story of the Trump's sons "Opening Day" fundraiser seems significant to me in a way that goes beyond the money involved or precise details. It somehow brings the whole story together. It captures a point I've been trying to make in recent weeks. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin's spokesman is voicing hope that Donald Trump's administration will improve relations between the U.S. and Russia.

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he's on board with Trump's proposal for a massive $1 trillion infrastructure bill, according to a report from Politico.

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will become a principal at a new government relations and political consulting firm in Washington, D.C. rather than joining the President-elect's administration, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.

A representative of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team was among a group of conservative lawmakers and officials from the U.S. and Europe who boycotted a meeting with Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely this week over her decision to exclude a far-right Swedish pol from the briefing, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry told the Times that the delegation had canceled its briefing with Hotovely (pictured above) because she would... Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — Wanted notice for suspect in Berlin truck attack says he has used 6 different names, 3 nationalities.

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Donald Trump’s eccentric longtime doctor thinks the President-elect should fare just fine health-wise once he takes office, but doesn’t seem too concerned about what happens if he doesn’t.

Newt Gingrich is sad that Donald Trump has decided to ditch language about "draining the swamp" but "you know, he is my leader and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator I will drop the swamp and the alligator.”

A new report published by the Commonwealth Fund this week highlighted a variety of aspects of the insurance coverage gains made after Obamacare was passed, including a sizable decrease in the number of people who say they skipped going to the doctor because of cost concerns. In 2013, before the law had gone fully into effect, 20 percent of adults said they had forgone seeking medical treatment because of the cost. Two years later, after the ACA had been mostly implemented, that number had shrunk to 13 percent nationally. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump’s aides have met with officials at the Office of Government Ethics to discuss the use of a “discretionary trust” that would allow officials in the next administration to continue to draw income from their businesses, Politico reported Wednesday.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jurors who convicted two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie in a political revenge plot acted improperly by disobeying the judge's orders during deliberations, the two defendants claim in court filings seeking to have their convictions thrown out.

A team of independent researchers is working to download Obamacare data and preserve it before Trump takes office in January.