Новости за 12.12.2016

Venezuela haalt zijn grootste bankbiljet, een briefje van 100 bolivar waarvoor op de zwarte markt 2 Amerikaanse dollarcent wordt betaald, uit roulatie. President Nicolas Maduro maakte de maatregel vandaag in een urenlange redevoering bekend.

CLEVELAND — Robert Griffin III returned from injury but couldn’t keep Cleveland from falling closer to infamy as the Cincinnati Bengals built a big early lead and held off the winless Browns 23-10 on Sunday in the snow.

The "green" in Green Monday doesn't refer to the environment, unless that environment is a tank full of money. EBay's Shopping.com comparison site coined the term "Green Monday" in 2007 to refer to its own best sales day in December,…

The "green" in Green Monday doesn't refer to the environment, unless that environment is a tank full of money. EBay's Shopping.com comparison site coined the term "Green Monday" in 2007 to refer to its own best sales day in December,…

Could this be the highest scoring Premier League season, who are the one-man teams, and are there more bookings for diving?

Senators call for nonpartisan probe into Russian role in U.S. election

Since Democrats can't stop Donald Trump's controversial Cabinet picks on their own, they're hoping his nominees' own pasts will do it for them.

Demi Lovato smiles as she performs at the 2016 Z Festival held at Allianz Parque on Saturday night (December 10) in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The 23-year-old “Body Say” singer performed a bunch of songs off of her album Confident, including “Stone Cold,” “Wildheart,” and “Kingdom Come,” as well as “My Love Is Like A Star,” [...]

The first episode alone of the adventure show for car enthusiasts has been illegally downloaded an estimated 7.9 million times, according piracy tracking firm Muso (via The Daily Mail). Amazon ushered in “The Grand Tour” with a massive marketing campaign, presumably spending millions in advertising. The show was intended as big incentive to get people to sign up for Amazon Prime’s streaming service, which costs £79 a year in British pounds and $99 in the U.S.. In spite of the illegal downloads... Читать дальше...

New Yorker reporter Steve Coll discusses the background of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. News reports say Donald Trump is likely to pick Tillerson for secretary of state.

Only a few American states offer paid family leave for workers. Washington, D.C. city council member Elissa Silverman and small business owner Jonathan Cho discuss the measure proposed in D.C.

On Dec. 15, Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement regarding his business interests. The wide range of his dealings leaves him open to potential conflicts of interest.

After a man took a gun to a pizzeria to investigate a fake conspiracy theory, psychology professor Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, U.K. discusses why people are susceptible.

NPR's Michel Martin offers a commentary about recent police shootings and how they relate to the idea of "discipline theater," of going against your better judgment to impress others.

There's still a chance of more snow in the region, but it's far less likely than last week.

This is the complete text of a statement from top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Charles Schumer and Jack Reed. McCain is the committee’s chairman. The statement is unedited by MarketWatch.

This is the complete text of a statement from top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Charles Schumer and Jack Reed. McCain is the committee’s chairman. The statement is unedited by MarketWatch.

This is the complete text of a statement from top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Charles Schumer and Jack Reed. McCain is the committee’s chairman. The statement is unedited by MarketWatch.

HOUSTON — When Stanford goalkeeper Andrew Epstein started to lift himself off the ground after his game-winning save in penalty kicks on Sunday, all he saw were his teammates racing towards him.

Technology alone cannot solve the fake news problem – only through teaching society to be data and information literate can we improve citizens’ ability to interpret the world around them

New Yorker reporter Steve Coll discusses the background of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. News reports say Donald Trump is likely to pick Tillerson for secretary of state.

Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island was one of four senators to write a letter calling for a further look into the CIA's conclusion that Russia tried to help the election of Donald Trump.

Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William and Mary, discusses whether Neanderthals had "religious capacity."

North Dakotans have mixed opinions about the Dakota Access Pipeline, which has been put on hold. Oil and gas is a big industry in the state.