Новости за 02.08.2016

Rather than consider the possibility that he might actually be slipping behind Hillary Clinton in the polls, Donald Trump has concluded there simply must be something wrong with the polls. "I think these polls, I don't know ... there's something phony," Trump said at a Tuesday rally in Ashburn, Virginia.

Since endorsing Donald Trump in February, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has had pretty much only good things to say about the Republican presidential nominee. On Tuesday, however, that came to a screeching halt. Christie announced during a press conference in New Jersey that he found Trump's recent attacks on the Khan family "inappropriate."

Following last month's leak of internal party emails, the Democratic National Committee is undergoing a flurry of personnel changes, Politico reports. CEO Amy Dacey resigned Tuesday after one of the leaked emails appeared to show her discussing with DNC CFO Brad Marshall how to use Sen. Bernie Sanders' faith against him during the Democratic primary race. The email leak raised suspicions that the DNC acted during the primaries in ways that would benefit Sanders' rival, Hillary Clinton.

The head of NBC denied the network is responsible for Donald Trump's success as a celebrity and as a presidential candidate, despite its Apprentice reality series, Business Insider reports. NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told a reporter who asked Tuesday if the network had a pivotal role in Trump's success that while NBC was "happy to have a show that was doing really well with a guy that was a big TV star... [i]t's impossible to figure out where he goes from there. I think it surprised all of us that he wanted to do this... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday, one of Donald Trump's longtime dreams finally came true: He got a Purple Heart award, and he didn't even have to serve in the military for it. Instead, retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman handed Trump a copy of his Purple Heart award before a rally in Ashburn, Virginia. Trump was positively floored by the gesture. "Man, that's like big stuff," Trump said. "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier."

Flossing might not actually do anything.

Yeah. Let that sink in. Think back over all the years you lied guiltily to your dentist about how you definitely wiggle thin little strands of thread between your teeth every night in the name of preventing cavities and gum disease. And let the sweet, sweet vindication flow in. (Alternatively, if you are a professed flosser, despair).

Apparently the federal government has recommended Americans floss their teeth since 1979, but when recently... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump may claim that the media is overrun with anti-Trump news, but in the publishing world, it is anti-Hillary Clinton books that make the big bucks. At the time of publication, three of the top five New York Times' Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction and Hardcover Nonfiction books are works of anti-Clinton literature.

Speaking from the White House on Tuesday, President Obama said that Donald Trump is "unfit to serve as president," perhaps Obama's strongest language yet denouncing the Republican nominee since the election season began.

Stephen Colbert had some choice words for Donald Trump on Monday night's The Late Show. In a special segment called "The Werd," Colbert called Trump everything from a "P.O.S." to a "D-Bag" — all without actually calling him either of these things.

In the decade he's known Donald Trump, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough said he's "never seen him act like this before." "It's unhinged, it's not the Donald Trump I've known for over a decade," Scarborough said on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday. "I never have seen anything remotely resembling this type of behavior from a guy who I've known and liked and called a friend."

This is the way it ends, not with a bang but a squirt. After facing controversy for including the pistol emoji on iPhones, Apple will be replacing the symbol with a far less innocuous squirt gun in its iOS 10 update this fall.

Donald Trump is pretty sure he got out of being drafted for the Vietnam War because of heel spurs, but he can't seem to remember which heel it was that gave him problems, when the injury finally cleared up, or how serious the heel spurs actually were.

Update 11:01 a.m.: After a flurry of questions and criticism surrounding the report, KUTV has unpublished its original story. A SurveyUSA poll from June conducted for The Salt Lake Tribune between Trump, Clinton, and Johnson shows Trump and Clinton tied at 35 percent and Johnson at 13 percent. Our original post appears below.

On Tuesday, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) became the first Republican member of the House to openly admit he will be voting for Hillary Clinton for president, in a move that prioritizes defeating Donald Trump over party loyalty. "I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?" Hanna told Syracuse.com, adding that the Republican nominee is "unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country."

Eric Trump defended his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Tuesday against claims he's "targeting Muslims for their faith," Politico reported. "This isn't a Muslim thing," Eric Trump told CBS This Morning. "This is an ISIS thing. And this is also an anti-immigration, anti-Syrian refugee thing coming into the country. He doesn't want to see more Americans dead. My father's a great patriot."

On Monday, lawyers for Dylann Roof filed a challenge to the federal death penalty. Roof is accused of killing nine people in a shooting spree at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June.

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The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday approved $274 billion worth of financial measures meant to boost its struggling economy. Abe called the measures a "bold stimulus proposal that is an investment in the future." The plan includes infrastructure projects, low-cost loans, and other measures, with $73.5 billion in extra government spending over several years and the rest in subsidized lending and private-sector spending. Abe's government estimates the effort will... Читать дальше...

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Hillary Clinton surged past Donald Trump after her party's convention, giving her a nine-percentage point lead in a head-to-head matchup, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. Fifty-two percent of the survey's participants backed Democratic nominee Clinton while 43 percent supported her Republican rival. In a similar poll before the Democratic convention, Trump led 48 percent to 45 percent, indicating a seven-point post-convention bounce for Clinton. In a four-way race including... Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton is dominating in post-convention polls that show voters believe she is better equipped to handle foreign policy issues than her opponent, Donald Trump. Fifty-nine percent of voters said they believe Clinton would be better at foreign policy, as opposed to just 36 that said Trump would be, a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday found.

Hillary Clinton is dominating in post-convention polls showing voters believe she is better equipped to handle foreign policy issues than her opponent, Donald Trump. Fifty-nine percent of voters said they believe Clinton would be better at dealing with foreign policy, as opposed to just 36 percent who said Trump would be, a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday found.

Donald Trump violates political taboos so fast and so often it's very difficult to keep up, even for a political journalist. Just read through Photoshop whiz @darth's running thread of all the blatant lies, racism, conspiracy theories, and general madness surrounding Trump's campaign. It's dizzying.

Does Donald Trump's character matter to conservatives? It should. But it often seems it doesn't.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are, in many ways, polar opposites on the political, philosophical, and temperamental spectrums. But in others, they are two sides of the same coin.

The elite media is jam-packed with moralists who have collectively decided in the days since Donald Trump trained his rhetorical fire on Khizr and Ghazala Khan that any pretense of covering the presidential campaign dispassionately deserves to be thrown out the window.

Genomics? Yeah, maybe you've heard of it. But what is it, exactly? Well.... maybe you're not so sure.