Новости за 09.05.2017

In blow to US-Turkey ties, Trump administration approves plan to arm Syrian Kurds against Islamic State
Washington Post
President Trump has approved a plan to directly arm Kurdish forces fighting in Syria, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, inflaming already strained ties with Turkey and putting the U.S. military a step closer to seizing a remaining Islamic State stronghold.
Trump to Arm Syrian Kurds, Even as Turkey Strongly ObjectsNew York Times
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With New Echo Speakers, Amazon Lets You Ask Alexa to Phone Mom
New York Times
Amazon's new Echo Show has a touch screen that allows users to make video calls to others who have the device, or an iPhone or Android device with an Alexa app. Credit Amazon. SAN FRANCISCO — With an Amazon Echo speaker today, you can talk to ...
Amazon's New Echo Adds Touch Screen and Video-ConferencingBloomberg
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Trump sent 4 tweets on the Sally Yates hearing. Not one of them was entirely accurate.
CNN
(CNN) Between 6:41 p.m. and 6:50 p.m. ET Monday night, President Donald Trump sent four tweets focused oh the Senate subcommittee hearing on Russia's meddling into the 2016 election that featured testimony from former acting Attorney General Sally ...
How the White House Explains Waiting 18 Days to Fire Michael FlynnNew York Times
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Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Afghan Deadlock
New York Times
Members of the Marines and the Afghan National Army during a handover ceremony last month at Camp Leatherneck in Lashkar Gah, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. American officials said that 3,000 to 5,000 more troops could be sent.
Trump Weighs Sending as Many as 5000 More Troops to AfghanistanNBCNews.com
UK asked to send more troops to AfghanistanBBC News
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Trump's pointing of the finger at Obama for failing to vet Flynn
Washington Post
“General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration — but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that.” — President Trump, in a tweet, May 8, 2017. “If President Obama was truly concerned about General Flynn, why ...
After Yates, more questions for the Trump White HouseCNN
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The Latest: Attorney: Travel ban is religiously motivated
Washington Post
RICHMOND, Va. — The Latest on the legal challenges to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries (all times local):. 4 p.m.. An attorney challenging President Donald Trump's revised travel ban says the ...
Judges press Trump's lawyer on intent of travel ban rebootPolitico
Judges appear divided on Trump's travel banCNN
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Man accused of killing 9 in Phoenix serial shootings
USA TODAY
PHOENIX — A 23-year-old Arizona man has been arrested in connection with street shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area over four months in 2016, police said Monday. Aaron Saucedo, initially arrested April 19 for a fatal shooting in 2015, was re ...
Phoenix Police Announce A Break In The 'Serial Street Shooter' CaseNPR
Serial killing suspect arrested in 9 deaths, police sayCBS News
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Trump Travel Ban Arguments Heard by Appeals Court
New York Times
Protesters spoke out against President Trump's travel and immigration policies in New York in February. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times. WASHINGTON — Skeptical federal judges peppered a government lawyer on Monday with questions about ...
President Trump's lawyers on revised travel ban repeatedly asked about campaign promisesWashington Post
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Why the populists didn't win France's presidential election
Washington Post
PARIS — France was supposed to be next. Following the seismic shocks of the Brexit referendum and the victory of Donald Trump, commentators worldwide fixed their sights on the French presidential election as the next potential populist upheaval.
Emmanuel Macron Will Take Over as President of France on SundayNew York Times
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Yates says she expected White House to take action on Flynn
Washington Post
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified Monday that she expected White House officials to “take action'' on her January warning that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia, offering her first public ...
Five takeaways from Yates's dramatic Senate testimonyThe Hill
Trump's favorite fall guy: Barack ObamaPolitico
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