Новости за 18.05.2018

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• Carlos Ghosn, the man who helms the world's largest car company, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, says customers who buy electric vehicles are far less concerned about range anxiety than they used to be, and that EVs that travel roughly 200 miles on a single charge is more than enough.
• Ghosn argued that customers also care less about autonomous-driving tech; what they really want are EVs that are more affordable.
• The exec oversaw the development of the Nissan Leaf... Читать дальше...

Meet the real-life sleeping beauty who spends 20 hours a day asleep. Emily Rowland suffers from severe epilepsy which causes her to have “staring spells” when she falls into a deep sleep for days on end. The teen was forced to give up her passion for competing in beauty pageants and has not gone to...

This post contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of Gotham, "No Man's Land."

Alors qu'un groupe de juristes réclame l'adoption au Québec de la loi sur la triparentalité, voire de la multiparentalité, quels pourraient être les impacts et les conséquences d'un tel changement législatif?

A longshot Republican congressional candidate in California took it upon herself Wednesday to harass a transgender woman in a public bathroom and then post a video of the incident on Facebook as part of her crusade against the “family values issue” of trans rights.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A national political committee that helps elect progressive Hispanics is spending an additional $100,000 on ads in support of Democratic congressional candidate Antoinette Sedillo Lopez. The Latino Victory Fund on Friday announced the ad buy in support of Sedillo Lopez, a former law school professor and advocate for immigrants and victims of domestic violence. The fund previously spent $320,000 in support of Sedillo Lopez. Sedillo Lopez is competing in a crowded primary race... Читать дальше...

The ex-girlfriend of San Francisco 49ers player Reuben Foster admitted in court this week that she fabricated claims that the linebacker physically abused her in order to ruin his career and extort him for financial gain, according to The Mercury News.

1 Ebola outbreak: Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak does not yet warrant being declared a global health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Friday, as health officials rushed to contain the often deadly virus that has spread to a city of more than 1 million. The vast, impoverished country now has 14 confirmed Ebola cases, with dozens of others probable or suspected. WHO officials, speaking after an experts’ meeting on the outbreak, said vaccinations are to begin on Sunday in a key test of an experimental vaccine. Читать дальше...

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• Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, have arrived at Cliveden House, a five-star hotel in the English countryside where they still stay before the royal wedding.
• Markle and Prince Harry stuck with tradition in their decision to sleep at separate hotels the night before their wedding, Harper's Bazaar reported.
• Rooms at Cliveden House start at $600 a night and run up to $2,068 for a decadent suite.
• Prince Harry will sleep at the slightly... Читать дальше...

Friends watched on in horror as a man plunged to his death after attempting to take a selfie at a popular Australian tourist site. The international student, said to be in his 20s, was “mucking around” with his friends when he fell 130-feet onto rocks at Western Australia’s notorious tourist hot spot, The Gap. He...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Campaign finance records show U.S. Sen. Dean Heller's campaign paid the Nevada Republican's son at least $52,500 over the past two years. The Reno Gazette Journal reported Friday that 29-year-old Harrison Heller's Utah-based business has no other employees and is not listed as a paid vendor for any other federal election campaign. Heller's campaign says in a statement that the senator's son "produces quality content at a cheap discount" and creates social and digital media for Fortune 500 companies. Читать дальше...

CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Friday, May 18, 2018 _____ 256 FPUS56 KSGX 182025 ZFPSGX Zone Forecast Product for Extreme Southwestern California National Weather Service San Diego CA 125 PM PDT Fri May 18 2018 CAZ552-191130- Orange County Coastal Areas- Including the cities of Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente 125 PM PDT Fri May 18 2018 .TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 52 to 57. Light winds. .SATURDAY...Cloudy in the morning...becoming partly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning. Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Once a leader of California's #MeToo movement and a shoo-in for re-election, Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia is campaigning for her political life under the cloud of a sexual misconduct investigation and against half a million dollars of blistering attacks from unions and a charter school group. Investigators on Thursday cleared Garcia of the most serious allegation against her — that she groped a male legislative staffer in 2014. But it found Garcia frequently... Читать дальше...

Arnoldo “A.J.” Lerma, Jr., told Toledo police he “lost it for 10 seconds” when he pummeled his former girlfriend's face at her home in Point Place last October.

Midcentury grandeur takes center stage at 2160 Mastlands Drive in Montclair. “It’s got corner windows and an amazing cantilevered staircase,” said Rick Richetta of Compass Realty, who is co-listing the home with Denis Neema for $1.25 million. “It’s really a fabulous home.” The listing offers a total of four bedrooms, three in the main home and another in its adjoining in-law suite. A wraparound deck off the main level lingers over the sloping landscape, and a second deck waits off the carport. Читать дальше...

BELLEVUE, Iowa (AP) — Police in northeastern Iowa have announced an arrest in the Christmas Day 2016 stabbing death of a Bellevue man. Bellevue police say an arrest warrant was issued Thursday for 23-year-old Drew Alan Mangler, of Dubuque, in the death of 59-year-old James Remakel. Police say Mangler was arrested Friday and has been charged with first-degree murder. Police found Remakel's body after being called to a house in Bellevue on Dec. 25, 2016. An autopsy showed Remakel had been stabbed multiple times. Читать дальше...

Three months after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, reignited the debate around assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, no sweeping gun control laws have been enacted at the federal level.

ATLANTA (AP) — The playoff run by the Winnipeg Jets has ripped the bandages off some old wounds in their former home. Hockey fans in Atlanta — yes, they actually exist — are still bitter about the way they lost the Thrashers seven years ago , a move that deprived this city of a team for the second time and probably any chance of ever again being a member of the NHL club. In the A-T-L, a popular refrain of the postseason seems to be A-B-T-J. Anybody But The Jets. "I won't support the Jets," former Thrashers fan Fred Johnson wrote in an email. Читать дальше...

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A Washington Metro station

How desperate is the state of public transit this Infrastructure Week? So desperate that the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority turned to a foreign government to secure the $100,000 it needed to keep Metrorail open late, so that hockey fans could get home from National Hockey League Eastern Conference Playoff Game 4 on Thursday at a downtown arena.

Ponder that for a second: District of Columbia... Читать дальше...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new $26 million federal grant is expected to result in thousands of Arkansas low-income children being taken off of a waiting list for child-care vouchers. Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the new Child Care Development Fund block grant on Thursday. It'll be used to fund 3,800 more child-care voucher slots, which erases the list of the more than 2,000 children waiting for assistance due to funding constraints, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported . The number of children... Читать дальше...

In a press conference today, a coalition of activists from Myanmar, Syria, and six other countries called on Facebook to take a more consistent and transparent approach to moderation. Facebook has come under fire for its role in fueling a genocide in Myanmar as well as enabling broader political manipulation around the world.

A coalition of House Democrats has begun proceedings to force a vote to restore net neutrality protections. The discharge petition, introduced by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), allows the House to force a vote if half the representatives sign on, giving activists until the end of the session in January to collect the necessary signatures. They currently have 90, all from Democrats.

NEW YORK (AP) — Interest rates are charging higher, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on whether you're saving or borrowing. For savers, it's a long-awaited win. After years of making virtually nothing on their money market accounts and certificates of deposit, savers are finally getting closer to keeping up with inflation. Investors are also getting rewarded with higher interest payments for buying newly issued bonds. For borrowers, though, the math is getting tougher. Loans for a car or house are getting more expensive... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Interest rates are charging higher, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on whether you're saving or borrowing. For savers, it's a long-awaited win. After years of making virtually nothing on their money market accounts and certificates of deposit, savers are finally getting closer to keeping up with inflation. Investors are also getting rewarded with higher interest payments for buying newly issued bonds. For borrowers, though, the math is getting tougher. Loans for a car or house are getting more expensive... Читать дальше...