Новости за 11.11.2016

A Hindu devotee holds offerings during the religious festival of Chhat Puja in Kolkata, India. | (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Over the next few days, a rash of racism, sexism, abuse, and hatred spread across the country.

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Donald Trump has named three of his children as well as his son-in-law to the executive committee overseeing his presidential transition team, inciting major concerns about the potential conflict of Trump's business interests and his presidency. Trump's attorney reported Thursday that the president-elect's vast holdings would be placed in a blind trust with his children Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. But "under the legal definition of a blind trust, a public official places his finances under... Читать дальше...

Twitter is a great place for jokes, but it often seems like a place where political organizing goes to die. One member of the loose-knit community of jokesters known as "Weird Twitter" decided to take some more concrete steps: He joined a Kurdish militia to fight ISIS.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is losing his job as chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, The New York Times reported Friday. He'll be replaced by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Christie was tapped for the position months ago, but the recent conviction of two of his former allies in the Bridgegate trial had left the status of his role in question; he'll instead serve as vice chair of the transition effort alongside former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

In an email sent to Hillary Clinton's senior campaign staff and obtained by Politico, the campaign's head of opinion research Navin Nayak listed what he believes went wrong for Clinton's presidential bid — and a lot of the blame is being pinned on FBI Director James Comey.

Before Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017, President Obama will sit down for meetings with key U.S. allies during the final international tour of his presidency. Obama will embark Monday on a six-day trip to Greece, Peru, and Germany: In Peru, Obama will attend an Asia economic summit and meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull in Lima; in Germany, he will dine with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and meet with European leaders, including British... Читать дальше...

It's getting closer.

The moon, that is — by Monday morning at 6:15 a.m. ET, our lunar companion will be at its nearest since 1948, and within just 85 miles of the closest it can possibly get to Earth, Space reports.

As a result, this is a good weekend to spend some time looking at the night sky. The moon will be at its brightest in nearly seven decades as it heads towards its Monday morning peak, when it will also be a full moon. At that point, it will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than normal. Читать дальше...

To make his point about how anti-Donald Trump protestors should decide where to draw the line, The Daily Show's Trevor Noah employed a colorful analogy about sex. "You can be loud and wild and do it all night long, but when something starts to burn, you should probably stop," Noah said during Thursday night's episode, urging protesters to refrain from burning effigies or lighting anything else on fire, really.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid (D) is retiring from the Senate come January, his seat safely ensconced in the Democratic hands of Catherine Cortez Masto, who won election Tuesday and will become the nation's first Latina senator. And with the burden of literal political correctness lifted off him, it seems Reid is ready to say what he really feels about Donald Trump, America's president-elect.

Now that Republican Donald Trump has been elected president, conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer is convinced President Obama's legacy will be nothing more than a "parenthesis in American history." "Obama's legacy is toast. Obama's legacy is gone, which explains why he so desperately — and unusually in American history — campaigned so roughly against Donald Trump," Krauthammer told Fox News' Megyn Kelly during an appearance on The Kelly File on Thursday night.

A very bundled up Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Antarctica on Friday. Kerry will be there for two days to talk to scientists about how the continent's climate is being impacted by climate change. He plans to stop by the U.S. research center McMurdo Station as well as the South Pole.

During her campaign, Hillary Clinton called for about $500 billion in infrastructure spending. Donald Trump promptly promised to double it, which is how the president-elect is pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan his own party does not particularly support.

Filmmaker Michael Moore showed up Friday morning for a seven-minute segment on MSNBC's Morning Joe — and ended up staying for a commercial-free 45 minutes. In a wide-ranging conversation, Moore slammed Democrats for enabling Donald Trump's win by ignoring Rust Belt voters, but he predicted America would not actually "have to suffer" under Trump for the entirety of his four-year term. "He has no ideology, except the ideology of Donald J. Trump, and when you have a narcissist like that who is so narcissistic where it's all about him... Читать дальше...

Suicide prevention hotlines received a landslide of phone calls late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning as the election turned in favor of Donald Trump, The Verge reports. "We haven't seen anything like that in our history," National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director John Draper said.

Some 42 percent of Americans say their reaction to Donald Trump winning the presidency is fear, new Gallup poll results released Friday show. The experience of fear is divided heavily along partisan lines: Seventy-six percent of Hillary Clinton voters say they are afraid because of the election outcome, and curiously, 5 percent of self-identified Trump voters say the same.

The CEO of GrubHub is facing backlash for a companywide email he sent out the day after Election Day. In an email Wednesday to the food delivery website's more than 1,000 employees, Matt Maloney told workers that if they agreed with Donald Trump's "hateful politics," then they had "no place" at the company:

The New Yorker has immortalized Donald Trump's presidency by building a wall on its own cover:

The American electorate is more polarized by party than at any time in a century, at least by one metric. For the first time since the 17th Amendment went into force in 1914, allowing the direct election of U.S. senators, no state split its vote between Senate and presidential candidate, Harry Enten notes at FiveThirtyEight. Every state that voted for Trump and had a Senate race also sent the GOP candidate to Washington, and every state with a Senate race that picked Clinton also chose the Democrat. Читать дальше...

The greatest gift my dad has ever given me is a love of Leonard Cohen. When I heard on Thursday evening that the Canadian singer and songwriter had died, I immediately called my dad. "Say it isn't so," he said. "It can't be."

Donald Trump's Mexico border wall will indeed be paid for, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) assured Fox & Friends on Friday morning. And it is Congress that is going to rustle up the dough.

Germany isn't feeling too encouraged by the United States' new president:

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U.S. stocks rallied Thursday for a second straight day since Donald Trump's election as the next president. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped by 218 points, or 1.2 percent to close at 18,807.88, although futures trading pointed to a slightly lower open on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.2 percent to close near a record. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite fell by 0.8 percent. Before Election Day, investors were jittery about Trump, who has promised to rock the... Читать дальше...

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President-elect Donald Trump met with President Obama at the White House on Thursday for their first discussion of the transition of power in January. Obama called the meeting "excellent." Trump said the two were only supposed to talk for 15 minutes or so, but they kept going for 90 minutes. Trump said he would seek Obama's "counsel" through the transition process, calling him a "very good man." During the campaign, Obama stumped for Hillary Clinton and called Trump unfit for the office... Читать дальше...