Новости за 09.12.2016

Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings
Washington Post
Donald Trump's transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the ...
Climate Change Conversations Are Targeted in Questionnaire to Energy DepartmentNew... Читать дальше...

Obama orders 'deep dive' of election-related hacking
Politico
President Barack Obama has ordered a "deep dive" into the cyberattacks that plagued this year's election, the White House said Friday. Obama has asked the intelligence community to deliver its final report before he leaves office. Story Continued Below.
Obama Orders Sweeping Review Of International Hacking Tied To US ElectionsNPR
Obama orders review into 'Russian hacking' before US... Читать дальше...

John Glenn to Lie in State in Ohio
U.S. News & World Report
American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio's capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and history-making voyages into space. Dec. 9, 2016, at 12:43 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon ...
John Glenn and the 'Last Plantation'The Hill (blog)
John Glenn Memorialized with 'Godspeed' Radio Hail Turned HashtagSpace.com
Annie Glenn... Читать дальше...

Dylann Roof's Videotaped Confession Stuns Courtroom
NBCNews.com
Dylann Roof began his videotaped confession with 11 chilling words: "I went to that church in Charleston and I did it." And then for the next two or three hours, the self-declared white supremacist described to an FBI agent how he gunned down nine ...
Mass Shooter Dylann Roof Laughs While Confessing to South Carolina Church MassacreKTLA
Dylann Roof admits he 'killed them' in FBI... Читать дальше...

Obama orders review of Russian hacking during presidential campaign
Washington Post
President Obama has ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the November election, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Moscow did to interfere in the electoral process. “We may have crossed ...
Obama Orders Intelligence Report on Russian Election HackingNew York Times
Obama orders 'full review' of election-related... Читать дальше...

South Korea Impeachment of President Park Is Latest Hit to Global Political Order
Wall Street Journal
SEOUL—The impeachment of South Korea's president heralds the prospect of a new government for one of the U.S.'s closest allies with a more skeptical stance toward Washington, free trade and big business. A resounding decision by South Korea's ...
The Latest: S. Korea PM officially becomes acting presidentThe Boston Globe
Park Geun-hye impeached... Читать дальше...

What Trump's Cabinet picks reveal
The Hill
Trump has so far chosen four major donors or fundraisers to join his Cabinet. With just over half of the jobs filled, he already has more high-end campaign donors in his Cabinet than either President Obama or President George W. Bush did when taking ...
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decadesWashington Post
Donald Trump's lazy, slipshod transition: No ideology, only cynicism... Читать дальше...

South Korea Parliament Votes to Impeach President Park Geun-hye
New York Times
Demonstrators called for the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Friday. The vote to impeach came after weeks of damaging disclosures in a corruption scandal that produced the largest ...
South Korean president is impeached in stunning fallU.S. News & World Report
South Korean legislature votes... Читать дальше...

Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post
President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter attack this week on a union official, followed by his choice of a labor secretary who has criticized new worker protections, has rattled leaders of the American labor movement, who fear unions may be facing their ...
For the Record: Most Americans unhappy with Trump transitionUSA TODAY
Trump to Nominate Fast-Food CEO... Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton attacks 'fake news' in post-election appearance on Capitol Hill
Washington Post
Hillary Clinton challenged Congress on Thursday to combat fake and misleading news on social media, using a post-election appearance to tackle an issue that gripped her presidential campaign and culminated with a shooting incident Sunday in Northwest ...
Harry Reid calls for limits to his own methods as divisive tenure draws to closeWashington... Читать дальше...

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95
New York Times
John Glenn, a symbol of the space age as the first American to orbit Earth, sat down with John Schwartz in 2012 — the 50th anniversary of his flight — to talk about making history and that “beautiful view.” By ERIK OLSEN, JOHN SCHWARTZ and TAIGE ...
Annie Glenn: 'When I called John, he cried. People just couldn't believe that I could really talk.'Washington Post
John Glenn... Читать дальше...

Trump launches war on unions
Politico
The war between Donald Trump and the nation's labor unions is on. Labor leaders, who spent tens of millions of dollars campaigning against Trump, said after the election they'd give him a chance to deliver on his pro-worker agenda. But the cease-fire ...
Trump Picks Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Nominee for Labor SecretaryWall Street Journal
Trump taps fast-food CEO as labor secretaryThe Hill
Trump... Читать дальше...

John Glenn, First American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95
Space.com
John Glenn, seen sitting beside his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule before his historic flight in 1962, died on Dec. 8, 2016. Credit: NASA. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died today (Dec. 8). He was 95. The former astronaut and U.S ...
'That was a real fireball': What happened when John Glenn orbited the Earth in 1962Washington Post
Photos: The Life of John Glenn... Читать дальше...