Новости за 30.10.2018

With the midterms next week, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., about black women voters and the challenges they face within the Democratic Party.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with researcher Joan Donovan about how the online platform Gab appealed to white supremacists, and why it provides lessons in combating extremism online.

In North Dakota, the Republican-controlled government has changed voter identification requirements. That's prompting confusion for many Democratic-leaning Native Americans.

Pittsburgh's Jewish community began the first funerals on Tuesday for those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday. President Trump also visited the city, but was not welcomed by everyone.

Funerals began Tuesday for the people killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Rabbi Aaron Bisno of the Rodef Shalom Congregation talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about how the community is coping.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has referred to the FBI an alleged scheme involving a purported offer to pay a woman to make false sexual misconduct allegations against Mueller. News organizations including NPR received unverified claims about the alleged scheme which have not been possible to substantiate.

Sexual misconduct allegations dominated the Colorado statehouse session this year. Now, many are asking whether the state's #MeToo movement actually changed Colorado's political environment.

MOYASSAR can star in Nottingham’s 2.10, Richard Hannon’s juvenile was unlucky not to win a hot contest at York last time out. He was coming with a real rattle when forced to put the brakes on. He got going again nicely but the winning post came too soon. Getty Images That turn of foot suggests […]

U.S. lobbyists on Saudi Arabia's payroll gave more than $2.3 million to U.S. political campaigns in late 2016 and 2017 as they mounted a massive influence operation to blunt anti-Saudi congressional action and promote other Saudi interests in the United States, according to a new study of federal lobbying records. The analysis of 2017 Foreign Agents Registration Act filings conducted by the Center for International Policy found that while a quarter of the money was given to political action committees... Читать дальше...

On another short week, the University of Toledo football team hosts Ball State on Wednesday night at the Glass Bowl. Both the Rockets (4-4, 2-2 MAC) and the Cardinals (3-6, 2-3 MAC) must win if they want to stay alive in the Mid-American Conference West Division race. Here are the factors that will determine the game:

Oracle founder Larry Ellison hosts a cocktail reception for startup founders at his home each year. He shared some advice from his experiences.

Republicans are outspending Democrats in races around the country for state legislatures — and by 5-1 in key battleground states, according to a new report. The GOP’s State Leadership Committee is spending an estimated $50 million this cycle for state legislative and other down-ballot races, Vox reported. Its Democratic counterpart, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee,...

Cyber sensors deployed to monitor the security of voting systems in United States are finding no signs of an imminent attack with the midterm elections just a week away, according to U.S. officials. There have been persistent concerns that Russia and other countries might try to meddle in the November 6 U.S. elections by penetrating voter databases and other systems or networks to cause confusion, prevent voters from being able to cast their ballots or even find a way to change actual vote counts. Читать дальше...

Sustainability in business has become a popular topic as companies increasingly recognize the need to have a firm grip on their triple bottom line – financial, social and environmental. Financial, social and environmental risks and opportunities abound in business, but creating an operations model that speaks directly to aspects of profits, people, and planet is…

NBC is developing an adventure drama titled “Goldbug,” Variety has learned exclusively. Inspired by a true story of gold lost in South America at the beginning of World War I, “Goldbug” follows a bookish PhD student who must travel halfway across the world to find the treasure her estranged mother never could. What begins as a […]

Gone was Sen. Don Plett's headshot. Instead there was a black-and-white photo of a heavily-tattooed male model, and a new description: 'Harley Davidson Enthusiast'

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has asked companies within the oil and gas sector to employ more local people in the communities they operate. According to him, oil and gas companies in the Western Region, must first consider people from the region before bringing labour from elsewhere. Speaking at this year 39;s Kundum festival in the W ...

Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Greizmann admits that he is targeting a Ballon d’Or win in the future, along with a maiden Champions League win. The Frenchman became a World Cup winner with his country over the summer, scoring four goals during Les Bleus’ run to glory in Russia, including one in the final 4-2 victory against Croatia. At club […]

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The Jacksonville Jaguars have traded defensive end Dante Fowler to the Los Angeles Rams for a third-round pick in the 2019 and a fifth-round pick in 2020.

"i wish jonathan swan would swan dive into a vat of acid," tweeted 'Young Turks' commentator Hasan Piker.

The eighth staging of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, back in 2006, was the first time the "Queen" of solo transatlantic races admitted Class40s and an impressive fleet of 27 of these fast monohulls took the starter's gun.

The company is focused less on making every aspect of its products perfect, and more on keeping profits and revenue growing.

An increasing number of operating systems are available to municipalities looking to streamline data sharing, but a global network wants them thinking about urban resilience as they do.