Новости за 15.08.2020

Russia risks being drawn further into the political upheaval in neighboring Belarus after President Vladimir Putin agreed with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko not to let mass protests over its scandal-plagued elections pry the two longtime allies apart.

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund has sold shares valued at over $5.5 billion in several multinational corporations just months after buying into them as the financial fallout from the pandemic weighed on stock-market prices.

SalivaDirect uses spit instead of swabs to test for the coronavirus. Experts say it could be key to increasing the nation’s testing capacity.

‘Reagan Democrats’ found a permanent home in the GOP after 1980. The tables may now turn at last.

The pandemic is throwing the start of school into chaos across the country. For private K-12 schools, it is creating opportunities for some, threatening the survival of others, and raising concerns about growing inequities in access to education.

Broadband usage surged in mid-March as millions of Americans turned to the internet to work, learn and communicate at home.

Gold is sending a signal, but of what? Rampant inflation on the way? The collapse of the dollar as a mainstay of the global monetary system? Low interest rates? James Mackintosh explores the partial truths behind the grim warnings from gold bugs.

The temporary closing of barbershops, salons and gyms during the Covid-19 pandemic wrought transformations in some people. Here are five of the lucky few who liked what they saw.

Pyongyang is using its growing hacking prowess to track down and contact citizens who have escaped and gained prominence in the South.

General Motors and Ford are capping a frenzied effort begun in the spring to mass-produce machines for the sickest Covid-19 patients.

A youthful protest movement is taking aim at the country’s monarchy, a secretive and powerful institution protected by one of the world’s most severe lèse-majesté laws.

Marketers are eager to get back to their ad productions, but they are taking precautions and rethinking future strategies.

As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, more parents are in the market for child care. That means less money to spend, invest and save.

The bustle of visitors has disappeared from places such as Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto—only to be replaced by dissension over whether they should ever be welcomed back.

An infamous 1890s murder trial helped make photography a standard part of detective work.

These “Dark Sky” parks around the U.S. offer superior stargazing experiences, whether you decide to visit them in the flesh or not.

Mom-and-pop carriers are a key link in the telecom system. They can also open the door to scams.

The technology industries of the U.S. and China are in some ways deeply intertwined and in others remarkably separate. The latest actions on the part of the U.S. aim to sever what ties remain.

President Trump set a 90-day deadline for TikTok’s Chinese owner to divest itself of the video-sharing app’s U.S. operations.

Here are seven major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news.

The removal of “Fortnite” from the App Store and Google Play has become a flashpoint in a long battle between app developers and the tech giants.

The criminal inquiry focuses on whether a NASA official improperly shared information about a lunar-lander project with an executive at Boeing, which acted on his guidance.

America’s commitment to the island should be a campaign issue.

A former bureau lawyer is charged with doctoring evidence for a warrant.

Sacramento Democrats float a 16.8% marginal income tax rate.