Новости за 12.05.2016

Colorful protests surrounded Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning as Donald Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other officials inside.

The luxury brand Jaguar is now owned by an Indian car company, Tata. A drive through the Los Angeles hills in a super high-end convertible provides some insights into what a country's auto industry says about its role in the world.

For a brief time Thursday, the gun George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin was up for auction. After outrage, the listing was taken down. Then it was put up for sale again. Zimmerman is the former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who got into a scuffle with the 17-year-old. He was later acquitted of the killing.

The first foreign climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time in two years. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jamling Tenzing Norgay at base camp about the lasting impact of the avalanches of 2014 and 2015 on the climbers, industry and environment.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Aden Tarah, a resident of the Dadaab refugee camp, about Kenya's announcement that the camp will be closed, and the residents will be sent back to their countries of origin.

British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled new rules to tamp money laundering at a summit in London Thursday, and he urged world leaders to do the same. But his announcement was overshadowed by a gaff. Cameron was overheard telling the Queen that Nigeria and Afghanistan are "fantastically corrupt." Leaders of both countries are attending the summit.

Hillary Clinton this week floated the idea of allowing people over 50 to buy in to Medicare. NPR looks at how that would affect health care costs for everyone else.

In India, there is money to be made fighting air pollution. NPR examines one product geared towards the bad air: a negative ion necklace.

"Stephen King's original novel is all about love, death and power," says Pulitzer-winning composer Paul Moravec. "And those are the three foundational components for an opera."

Andrew Bogut limped out of Wednesday’s game in the first half, Draymond Green needed his tweaked left ankle re-taped in the second half, Stephen Curry is still recovering from a sprained right knee and Klay Thompson has spent the past 10 games chasing around James Harden and Damian Lillard. “It felt like we were running on fumes a little bit,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said. The Warriors will have six days between games if the Western Conference semifinal series between Oklahoma City and San Antonio goes to a seventh game. Читать дальше...

– EFCC lay siege to Fani-Kayode’s house again following his alleged role in the $115 million bribe reportedly dispensed by the immediate past minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke – Fani-Kayode urges the EFCC to endeavour to carry out their functions within the ambit of the laws – He says the anti-graft agency has raided his home four […]

The US electricity system is central to the economic life of the country. And and its importance is only going to increase in coming years as: a) more energy uses, like transportation, shift to electricity, and b) more and more people get directly involved in generating and sharing electricity, via distributed energy technologies like rooftop solar panels and home energy storage.

California’s health insurance exchange estimates that its Obamacare premiums may rise 8% on average next year, which would end two consecutive years of more modest 4% increases. The projected rate increase in California, included in the exchange’s proposed annual budget, comes amid growing nationwide concern about insurers seeking double-digit premium hikes in the health law’s […]

Appearing on the Today show on Thursday, former US Vice President Dan Quayle -- whose public misspelling of the word “potato” in 1992 turned him into a national laughing stock -- declared that “Trump is a winner,” and asserted that he will support the nominee.

Now this is having it your way! A Burger King located in Helsinki, Finland offers guests a full sauna and spa experience to go along with their burgers and fries. The spa features showers, Burger King-branded robes and towels, a laundry room, dressing room, and a 15-person sauna area. It also features a media lounge that is fully equipped with a high-end audio system, a giant 55-inch TV screen, and a Playstation 4 (if sitting in a sauna isn’t already relaxing enough for you). There’s also a fully... Читать дальше...

Another medium intensity tremor, measuring 3 on the Richter Scale, hit Gujarat at 11:30 PM.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Brian Winter, editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, about why what's happening in Brazil should matter to people in the U.S.

The Obama administration requested $1.9 billion in emergency funding to prepare against the Zika virus. Congressional Republicans say the administration doesn't need all that money now and insist the White House is asking for a blank check.

It's the new U.S. Army recruiting video, or is it a trailer for a new Hollywood sci-fi movie? Or is it both? NPR takes a look at the new video.

Robinhood

Earlier this week at TechCrunch Disrupt, the cofounder of no-fee stock-trading app Robinhood had to defend his company’s basic premise, and his answer showed a divide in the world of finance startups.

Vlad Tenev’s sparring partner was Jon Stein, the CEO of $700 million robo-advisory startup Betterment, who argued that letting everyday people manage their own investments was “crazy.”

“We think people shouldn’t actually be investing on their own,” Stein said. Stein’s position is self-interested... Читать дальше...

Having come out of Disney’s star-making machine alongside Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato — both of whom bolted for the dark side the second they delivered their last contract-fulfilling obligations — the 23-year-old singer/actress/social media star seems to have skipped all the messy business. Even the rumors of a fling with Orlando Bloom, the 39-year-old “Lord of the Rings” star and Katy Perry’s current beau, on the first date of the tour on May 6 in Las Vegas have done little to shake her pristine reputation. Читать дальше...

The U.S. delegation to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's inauguration walked out of Thursday's ceremony in protest against his disparaging comments about an international war crimes tribunal and the presence of Sudan's leader, whom the court has indicted, the State Department said. … Click to Continue »

Geoff Ziezulewicz
BERLIN, May 12 (UPI) -- The German Ministry of Defense announced plans this week to grow its military by 14,300 troops and 4,400 civilians, the first increase since the Cold War.