Новости за 21.07.2017

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a close political ally of President Donald Trump, is urging him and Congress not to ban internet gambling in the United States.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a close political ally of President Donald Trump, is urging him and Congress not to ban internet gambling in the United States.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a close political ally of President Donald Trump, is urging him and Congress not to ban internet gambling in the United States.

The Arsenal star was in Paris on Friday for talks with PSG's sporting director and chief executive ahead of a prospective €50 million move to Ligue 1

Simon Cowell is keen to persuade One Direction to get back together and hopes their solo success will encourage them.

U.S. Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz, District of Minnesota, presented Certificates of Citizenship to 23 children during a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services citizenship ceremony at the Minnesota Children's Museum, Friday, July 21, 2017 in St. Paul.

Google's popular map tool now allows a peek inside the International Space Station.

American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten wants to “dehumanize” charter school advocates through inflamed racial rhetoric, a sector backer charged Friday. At a Thursday AFT conference, Weingarten argued that the charter and school choice movements are motivated by little more than segregationist racism. “This privatization and disinvestment are only slightly more polite cousins of...

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, a candidate in next year’s Republican Senate primary, sided Thursday with two prominent right-wing nationalist commentators over the Anti-Defamation League, which put them on a watch list of what it called “alt-lite” figures.

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, a candidate in next year’s Republican Senate primary, sided Thursday with two prominent right-wing nationalist commentators over the Anti-Defamation League, which put them on a watch list of what it called “alt-lite” figures.

NPR's Audie Cornish wraps the week in politics with David Brooks of The New York Times and Jamelle Bouie of Slate. They discuss Sean Spicer's resignation as White House press secretary and the failure of the Senate Republican health care bill.

In September, Iraqi Kurds have scheduled an independence referendum. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group about the prospects for Kurdish independence.

The U.S. is about to ban travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea. The move comes after the death of American Otto Warmbier, who spent a year and a half in a North Korean jail only to return home in a coma.

Racially offensive trademark applications are piling up at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Supreme Court decided last month the federal government couldn't ban trademarks simply because they're disparaging. NPR's Planet Money team talks to some of the people trying to trademark racial slurs.

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews director Christopher Nolan's new World War II film, Dunkirk, which opens this weekend.

Fifty years ago, the town of Winneconne, Wis., made short-lived plans to secede from the state. In 1967, as a result of the town name being inadvertently left off the official Wisconsin road map, a secret committee formulated a plan to set up toll gates on local roads, began annexation of nearby communities to form a Sovereign State of Winneconne.

Several game shows from the '70s and '80s have been revamped for summer TV, including Battle of the Network Stars, The Gong Show and Match Game. NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast talks about whether these shows are diversionary fluff or filling a summertime need.

After a tumultuous tenure in the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced his resignation on Friday.

News reports suggest President Trump's lawyers are exploring ways to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which is raising questions about conflicts of interest and the president's pardon power.

In a day of intensifying violence, three Palestinians were killed during a wave of clashes with Israeli forces. Later a Palestinian stabbed to death three Israelis in a West Bank Jewish settlement.

A group of investors headed by a former Chicago alderman, which included labor groups, closed a deal to purchase the struggling Chicago Sun-Times and keeping Chicago a two newspaper town. But some wonder if the paper will now skew further left editorially to counter the more conservative Chicago Tribune.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Andy Mannix about the police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman earlier this week.

Rwanda is pushing through a plan to ban second hand clothes within two years. The government says it's about "dignity," but the plan threatens trade with the U.S. and a central part of poor people's lives.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Moziah Bridges, the 15-year-old CEO of Mo's Bows, who just entered a licensing deal with the NBA. Bridges started his bow tie company with his mom when he was 9.

Eric T. Schneiderman's office is launching an investigation into National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts.