Новости за 18.05.2016

Legislation will be introduced to address Puerto Rico's debt crisis, according to the chairman of a committee overseeing the territory.

Private equity specialist has background in consumer sector

What do you even call this?

This is Angel Rice. She's a 17-year-old gymnast, and she's about to BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND with an insane tumbling set she performed at a gymnastics competition earlier this month.

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Watch her do this Flippy McFlip-Flip move (that's not the actual name for the maneuver, I just made it up) and TRY to catch your jaw before it hits the floor:

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Google is kicking off its artificial-intelligence-powered vision for the future with a pair of apps that will arrive for both Android and iOS later this summer.

The nominees for the MuchMusic Video Awards were announced Wednesday (May 18), and Drake and singer-songwriter Alessia Cara scored a leading seven...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program.

NASCAR penalizes Kahne and his team for a violation discovered after last weekend's race at Dover.

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NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- After chaos at the Nevada Democratic Party convention, Bernie Sanders' campaign manager promised the national convention in July will be peaceful.

*screams like a tiny child*

Universal Studios Hollywood has teamed up with AMC to create a permanent, walk-through attraction modeled after The Walking Dead, and it looks super creepy:

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Greg Nicotero, executive producer and director of The Walking Dead, has been very involved in crafting the new attraction. "It’s very exciting to be able to make the attraction as 100 percent authentic as possible," he says in the clip. Читать дальше...

Two powerful earthquakes jolted Ecuador on Wednesday, a magnitude 6.7 early morning temblor followed by a 6.8 shake around midday.

Virtual reality is the hot topic in Silicon Valley right now, and on Wednesday Google revealed its plans to place Android at the heart of the VR revolution. But rather than building its own headset to challenge Samsung's Gear VR or Facebook's Oculus Rift, it wants to bring all its hardware partners on board to create a huge VR ecosystem.

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Washington, D.C., is the fittest city in the United States for the third straight year, a new report shows.

When he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, the Rev. Jesse Jackson had precious few prominent endorsers. Many African-American officials turned elsewhere during his first run. Though black leaders were more supportive four years later, the predominantly white Democratic establishment was spooked that he'd torpedo the ticket. They actively worked against him.

Donald Trump has named 11 people he'd consider nominating to the Supreme Court. One judge on the list once tweeted, "Who would the Donald Name to #SCOTUS? The mind reels. *weeps—can't finish tweet* "

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ESMERALDAS, Ecuador, May 18 (UPI) -- Two strong earthquakes rattled Ecuador Wednesday, within nine hours of each other, and are considered aftershocks to the massive quake that hit last month.

Are heels 'the final flourish for formal wear'?

The Raiders have steadily built what should be a solid defense this offseason, and got another member of that under contract today. The Raiders announced they had signed defensive lineman Jihad Ward, their second-round pick. The 6-foot-6, 295-pounder from Illinois figures to go into a deepening rotation up front, with the ability to play end or…

The aldermen said in a news release Wednesday that the Transportation Safety Administration has failed to retain sufficient personnel. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said the situation is unacceptable, but that the TSA is responsible for airport security and must handle the issue.

Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each picked up primary wins, in yet another demonstration of how divided the party is.

See if your hometown made the cut in the 2016 American Fitness Index

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One of Donald Trump's potential Supreme Court nominations has a history of antagonizing him on Twitter.

Don Willett, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court who was included in Trump's Wednesday list of potential nominees, has mocked the Manhattan billionaire on Twitter for years.

The Texas justice repeatedly poked fun at the business mogul's failed Trump University. He also wrote a tongue-in-cheek haiku about Trump's potential Supreme Court nominations last year. Читать дальше...

South Africa’s participation in African competition is over for another year after Mamelodi Sundowns were bundled out of the CAF Confederation Cup by Ghanaian side Medeama SC following a 2-0 defeat in Sekondi on Wednesday.

A small but significant minority of voters would be interested in a more ideologically pure alternative to the two likely presidential nominees, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But that doesn't necessarily mean they'd actually vote for one.

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