Новости за 17.06.2020

The Trump administration levied sanctions against top Syrian officials and family members of President Bashar al-Assad, accusing them of supporting and profiting from a brutal civil war.

‘Sales…were promptly suspended pending further understanding of the nature and timing of the staff’s review,’ Hertz said in a filing.

For hours into the night on Monday, Indian and Chinese forces fought with fists, rocks, batons and clubs wrapped in barbed wire at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet in a remote part of the Himalayan mountains, according to an Indian account of the clash.

CEO Sundar Pichai said in a memo to staff that he aimed to boost the proportion of “leadership representation of underrepresented groups” at Google by 30% by 2025.

The Justice Department proposed a rollback of legal protections that online platforms have enjoyed for more than two decades, in an effort to make tech companies more responsible in how they police their content.

Some women swear by the functionality and style of working out in stretchy dresses. Others are more ambivalent.

The maker of small engines for lawn mowers and other outdoor maintenance equipment missed an interest payment this week as it fights to preserve cash.

Less than four weeks after he took over as chief executive of Simon & Schuster, Jonathan Karp finds himself in the eye of a publishing industry storm with explosive titles coming about President Trump.

The musician talks about love songs, the problem with the term “urban” to describe black music and why touring will never go away.

Germany has recorded its largest local Covid-19 outbreak since it started reopening its economy in early May, with more than 600 employees of a slaughterhouse testing positive for coronavirus this week, authorities said on Wednesday.

The Commerce Committee alleged foot-dragging by senior Federal Aviation Administration officials in providing internal agency documents and emails related to initial certification of Boeing’s embattled 737 MAX jets.

An executive said the network’s entertainment programming will prominently feature the racial-justice and law-enforcement crisis as well as the coronavirus pandemic, citing an effort “to reflect the society in which we live.”

U.S. government bond prices edged higher Wednesday, reflecting continued anxiety among investors about the economy as some parts of the U.S. and China report an increase in coronavirus cases.

The sharp rebound in building permits, and the disappointing one in housing starts, underscores the difference between planning to build something and building it.

‘Qualified immunity’ lets cops avoid accountability. It’s an invention of the liberal chief justice.

The network colluded with a foreign advocacy group that wanted Google to demonetize the Federalist.

Disney is reportedly locked in a legal battle over the value of its Florida properties.

The federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program failed to take into account the widely varying needs and limitations of small businesses caught in Covid-19 lockdowns.

Cooped-up folks settle down with heavy or interminable tomes they could never get through before. ‘Infinite Jest,’ anyone?

Chinese officials canceled hundreds of flights in and out of Beijing, restricted movement and renewed closures of businesses and schools as they battled to contain a fresh wave of new coronavirus cases in the nation’s capital.

Investors weighed signs of the economy recovering against a rise in coronavirus infections in the U.S. and China.

People who cut the cord have a host of streaming-video options, including live-TV bundles and on-demand entertainment. The Wall Street Journal created a quiz that weighs your household’s needs and budget to recommend the best services for you.

The former chief executive and president of Bumble Bee Foods was sentenced to more than three years in jail for his lead role in a conspiracy to fix prices of canned tuna, the Justice Department said.

With little direction from the feds and pressure to fill seats as safely as possible as coronavirus continues, U.S. carriers offer significantly different policies.

The European Union plans to tighten its defenses against subsidized foreign companies, marking a sharp increase in the bloc’s effort to assert “strategic autonomy” from China and the U.S. while defending its economic interests.