Новости за 01.06.2016

Thurston Moore is feeling the Bern. The Sonic Youth co-founder joins the ranks of Vampire Weekend, Neil Young, Grizzly Bear, Killer Mike, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in supporting the Democratic underdog, and apparently has taken his fandom a step further by breaking out his guitar for an original Bernie-inspired piece.

Two people were killed in a murder-suicide at UCLA on Wednesday, Los Angeles police say.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (D) really likes Hillary Clinton. At a rally in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Booker, appearing alongside Bon Jovi and the Democratic presidential frontrunner, declared, "I hate to contradict Bon Jovi but, dear God, Hillary Clinton you give love a good name." (Booker was referencing Bon Jovi's 1986 hit "You Give Love a Bad Name.")

UCLA is on lockdown following reports of a shooting in an engineering building Wednesday morning. Law enforcement sources have reportedly told NBC that at least two people have been killed.

Just when you thought the 2016 race couldn't get any stranger, Hillary Clinton goes and approvingly retweets Mitt Romney. Apparently, there's one thing the likely 2016 Democratic nominee and the 2012 Republican presidential nominee can agree on: Donald Trump.

Thanks to wooden tablets buried deep underground, we now know what life was like in London some 2,000 years ago. On Wednesday morning — after two years of transcribing and translating — researchers released the texts from Roman writing tablets that were discovered about 400 meters east of St. Paul's Cathedral in the center of London. The documents, all of which were written between 43 A.D. and 80 A.D. — right around the time when the city was founded by Romans — are thought to be the oldest texts ever found in Britain. Читать дальше...

In a sworn deposition newly made public, the IRS' Chief Risk Officer David Fisher told the House Ways and Means Committee that he had raised concerns to the Obama Administration in 2014 when it was about to authorize subsidies to insurance companies as part of ObamaCare, a move which a judge ruled was illegal in early May.

General David Petraeus' executive officer in the Iraq War, retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor, says he will be voting for Hillary Clinton this November. "It will be the first Democratic presidential candidate I've voted for in my adult life," he told The Washington Post, claiming that Donald Trump is simply too dangerous to be president.

In a YouTube video entitled, "How to pay a speeding ticket. #ResistTheft," Texan Brett Sanders walks viewers (1.5 million of them, as of this writing) through the process.

"In Anchorage, you're never surprised where you'll find a moose," wildlife photographer Coby Brock told Alaska Dispatch News — and it turns out this is true even for the tiniest specimens of the species. On Tuesday, a mother moose gave birth to her calf in the parking lot of a Lowe's hardware store, which apparently is just business as usual in the Last Frontier. Get ready to awwww, below.

While Donald Trump's behavior may seem unprecedented in the modern American political sphere, historian Tom Holland suggests this isn't the first time the world has seen a politician like Trump. Indeed, Holland told The Guardian that the presumptive GOP nominee has a lot in common with the infamous Roman emperor Caligula.

When ESPN announced in October that it was shutting down the publication of its acclaimed sports and pop-culture website Grantland, nobody thought it would be the last we saw of its ousted creator, Bill Simmons. And indeed, Simmons has since launched a highly successful podcast network. Then there were murmurs of a television show (which we now know is Any Given Wednesday, premiering June 22 on HBO). And then, in February, Simmons announced he would be returning to the website world.

MSNBC's new ad campaign makes it plain as day that MSNBC is done casting itself as America's left-leaning cable news network. The ad, which is set to run in conservative and mainstream media outlets, highlights some of the network's conservative and Republican contributors alongside the rather unexpected message: "People might start accusing of us of leaning too far to the right."

At the end of the month, there will be a referendum to decide if Britain should leave or remain in the European Union. The implications are radical for the United States: Following World War II, the EU brought stability and order to Europe, and as a single unit it has helped the U.S. with geopolitical responsibilities around the world. On the economic front alone, President Obama has urged against a Brexit, saying it could take as many as 10 years for Britain to negotiate new trade deals with... Читать дальше...

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General Mills on Tuesday said it was voluntarily recalling 10 million pounds of flour "due to an abundance of caution" over possible E. coli contamination. State and federal health officials say flour appears to be the common link among 38 illnesses in an ongoing E. coli outbreak across 20 states. General Mills said it was collaborating with health officials in the investigation. The recall affects Gold Medal flour, Wondra flour, and Signature Kitchens flour sold in Safeway, Albertsons... Читать дальше...

For the first time in over a decade, death rates in the United States are on the rise. The death rate in 2015 was 729.5 deaths per 100,000 people — up from 723.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2014. Typically, death rates decline each year because of improvements in medical technology and preventative care, The New York Times reports. But in 2015, death rates climbed due to more deaths from drug overdoses, suicide, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as a slight uptick in the death rate from heart disease. Читать дальше...

A French naval search ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea may have picked up signals from the black boxes of the crashed EgyptAir jet, Egypt said Wednesday. The signal from the black boxes, which The Associated Press reports emit "locator pings," could help further narrow the search for the plane that crashed May 19 en route to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

It seems everyone on TV has to weigh in on Donald Trump these days, but at least former Star Trek star George Takei has met the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. On Tuesday, MSNBC's Steve Kornacki asked Takei what he learned about Trump from his time on Celebrity Apprentice, and Takei, who is voting for the Democrat in November, obliged. Trump "is a very assertive man — whether he knows an issue or not, he will be outspoken on it," Takei said. But his apparent conviction won't last, he added. Читать дальше...

Officials discovered 40 dead tiger cubs in a freezer at Thailand's Tiger Temple on Wednesday, embroiling the popular tourist attraction even deeper into controversy by raising concerns about the temple's participation in the illegal trafficking of endangered animal parts.

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California Gov. Jerry Brown endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday, giving the Democratic frontrunner a boost ahead of the state's June 7 primary. Brown praised Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders, for standing up for the majority of Americans left behind as "the top one percent has unfairly captured way too much of America's wealth." Still, Brown said, Clinton's "tenacity" and support offer the "only path forward to win the presidency and stop the dangerous candidacy of Donald... Читать дальше...

Jake Strotman, 23, faced judgment at Cincinnati's Hamilton County Courthouse last week over a January brawl outside a Cincinnati Cyclones game, and Judge William Mallory handed down an unusual sentence: 12 consecutive Sundays attending the Morning Star Baptist Church, all 90 minutes of the service, with his program signed by a minister, Joshua Johnson. Strotman, who is Catholic, also paid $480 in court fines and $2,800 to his lawyer. Now, "before you go getting into a snit," says Chris Graves... Читать дальше...

At least seven people died in flooding in Texas over the Memorial Day weekend, and heavy rains will continue to douse the state through the end of this week. On Wednesday, thunderstorms are forecast to dump rain on Oklahoma and central and western Texas, but Houston and eastern Texas, still reeling from heavy weekend flooding, will get hit again on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. In suburban Houston's Fort Bend County, the Brazos River surpassed 54 feet on Tuesday night, topping a 1994 record by about four feet. Читать дальше...

The story we've all heard a thousand times about Donald Trump is that he's broken the rules, upended the conventional wisdom, and proven all the critics wrong. He doesn't have to do things the way they've been done before, and his success in this campaign is proof. Which is all true. But is it also true that he doesn't have to do anything the way it's been done before, and that none of the rules apply to him?

Donald Trump has a big problem with women.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee lags 23 points behind Hillary Clinton with women, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken in April. It's become conventional wisdom that the combination of Clinton's gender and Trump's spotty record with women will lead to him getting crushed with female voters in November. But that's not necessarily the case.

First of all, Clinton isn't as strong with women as she looks. Bernie... Читать дальше...

No matter what happens in November, we will be debating the rise of Donald Trump for a long time to come.