Новости за 09.12.2015

Despite an influential newspaper's recent endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, front-runner Donald Trump has a growing lead among likely primary voters in the state, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll. The poll revealed 32 percent say they support Trump, which is an increase of six points since September, and placed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at a distant second place with 14 percent.

The U.S. Justice Department’s recently announced plan to investigate the Chicago Police Department’s practices and use of force isn’t enough, several black state lawmakers in Illinois said Tuesday. The DOJ’s civil rights probe in Chicago should also cover the city’s Independent Police Review Authority and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, following widespread cover-up allegations in officer-involved shooting cases, the lawmakers said.

The suspected ringleader of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris reportedly dodged the Athens, Greece, police 10 months earlier, the BBC reported Tuesday. A January police operation in the Greek capital had targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud prior to anti-terror raids in Belgium, but the Athens operation did not happen, according to a Belgian anti-terrorism source. Abaaoud was suspected of guiding a Belgian terrorism cell by phone from Athens. He was killed five days after the Paris attacks.

Yahoo Inc. will not spin off its shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Inc. and instead is discussing selling its core Web search business, citing uncertainty over the tax hit as the main reason, CNBC reported Tuesday. In January, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced plans to spin off the company's 15 percent stake in Alibaba -- worth about $23 billion -- into a new company, to be called Aabaco, as a way of unlocking value for Yahoo's shareholders.

The San Bernardino shootings that claimed 14 lives on Dec. 2 have put the spotlight on whether investors are financially tied to one of the nation’s publicly traded gun manufacturers.

Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" is one of the world’s most intriguing paintings, but the latest finding added to the mystery of the 500-year-old masterpiece. There are several hidden portraits under the painting, French scientist Pascal Cotte claimed Tuesday, according to CNN and the BBC.

A significant sliver of Iceland’s population has suddenly found a new religion -- and the promise of a tax rebate. More than 3,100 Icelanders, or about 1 percent of the country’s population of 323,000, have converted recently to a newly established religion called Zuism, which is based on the worship of ancient Sumerian gods. But that’s not really why the religion was founded.