Новости за 11.12.2017

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A state employee charged in the Flint water scandal is returning to court for a possible plea deal with the attorney general's office. Online records at District Court in Flint show Adam Rosenthal is scheduled for a plea Tuesday. He's charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor, including tampering with the results of lead tests. A message seeking comment was left for his lawyer Monday. The attorney general's office declined to comment. Rosenthal has been suspended with pay... Читать дальше...

Deer harvest in Illinois' muzzleloader season was ahead of last season and harvest during archery season remains more than 4,000 ahead of last season

Michael Douglas‘ first grandchild is on her way. “Cameron wasn’t at Kirk‘s birthday because he wanted to be by Viviane’s side this close to the birth,” an insider told Page Six on Monday. The Brazilian yoga instructor began dating Michael’s eldest son, 38, before he was sentenced to seven years in prison and stood by his...

Kayode Fayemi has said that for Nigeria to succeed in the fight against corruption, it must say no to impunity and eliminate the syndrome of ‘sacred cows’

Kayode Fayemi has said that for Nigeria to succeed in the fight against corruption, it must say no to impunity and eliminate the syndrome of ‘sacred cows’

A Moroccan man was arrested for trying to smuggle a 12-year-old boy into Spain by hiding him in his BMW’s dashboard – after guards detected his heartbeat using a special sensor, according to reports. The 65-year-old man’s BMW X5 was stopped Friday at the border between northern Morocco and the Spanish city of Melilla, where...

Mike Godwin

The larger theme of this colloquy is whether “social media” are “broken.” Will Rinehart’s essay hones in on a particular version of that question, which is whether “fake news” is in some sense responsible for course and outcome of the 2016 election. In doing this, he cuts down the “broken-ness” question into something more bite-sized, and hooray for that, because doing so gives us fulcrum we can use for leverage into larger issues.

“We need to be pro-active because so much of these plans and preventative approaches depend on cooperation on a metropolitan basis," Ed Burke said.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands remain without electricity across the Deep South days after a winter snow storm snapped power lines across the region. At least 18,500 homes and businesses in Georgia were still in the dark Monday according to Georgia Power and Georgia Electric Membership Corporation. Metro Atlanta got several inches of snow Friday and Saturday, while some areas farther north saw up to a foot of snowfall. Utilities in Louisiana reported at least 1,000 customers were still waiting for power to be restored. Читать дальше...

More than 20 Internet experts want Congress to prevent the Federal Communications Commission's vote to overturn the 2015 net neutrality rules.

New rules to legalise medicinal cannabis products would under no circumstances allow smokeable cannabis to be sold legally, Health Minister Chris Fearne told parliament on Monday as he said the government was in no way "soft on drugs".  Speaking during a debate on amendments to the Treatment not Imprisonment Act first introduced in 2015, Mr Fearne emphasised that it was the medical, and not recreational, use of cannabis and cannabis-derived products that was under discussion. Legal amendments would allow any registered doctor... Читать дальше...

Google just announced three new photography applications: Storyboard (Android only), Selfissimo! (iOS and Android), and Scrubbies (iOS only). The releases are part of a new “appsperiments” program that Google just launched.

Kobe Bryant will long be remembered as one of the NBA’s best players and also one of the league’s biggest competitors. The former Lakers star is famous for his Mamba mentality that constantly kept him in the conversation of the best players each and every season. Bryant debuted in the NBA in 1996, almost a...

Ever feel hungry after a meal? Here are the foods you should stick to – and the ones to avoid – if you want to banish that feeling.

Chicago/Frankfurt (dpa) - Der Bitcoin hat erstmals auf breiter Front mehr als 17 000 Dollar gekostet. Die umstrittene Digitalwährung legte am Montagabend auf allen großen Handelsplätzen spürbar zu und bewegte sich vereinzelt sogar weiter in Richtung 18 000 Dollar.Der abermalige Wertzuwachs kommt kurz nachdem die einst nur von Computerexperten genutzte Digitalwährung einen großen Schritt in Richtung des klassischen Finanzmarkts gemacht hatte: Seit Sonntagnacht gibt es mit Bitcoin-Terminkontrakten... Читать дальше...

A potential reclamation project trade!

Per a report from Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports, the Mets and Rangers have discussed a trade that would send Matt Harvey to Texas and Jurickson Profar to Queens. While this is a trade that would have been much more interesting in 2012, there’s still some intrigue here. Profar, of course, is the former top prospect of all of baseball, while Harvey was dominant in his first three years in the majors, the last of the three after returning from Tommy John surgery. Читать дальше...

In the history of TV anchor pairings, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer stand out as one of the strongest — which makes her reaction to his bombshell firing even more poignant.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Veterans who say they responded to a 1966 accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain and then became ill from radiation exposure asked a federal appeals court on Monday to allow a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Yale Law School students in Connecticut filed the request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on behalf of veterans who sought disability benefits from the VA but were denied. The students represent Air Force veteran Victor Skaar... Читать дальше...

Aaaron Jackson, 42, is the CEO of Wise Co., a company that sells survival food like freeze-dried Savory Stroganoff, Loaded Baked Potato Casserole, and chicken pot pie in a pouch. His customers are FEMA, the Red Cross, and, of course, everyday people awaiting the apocalypse. Guess what... business is booming. From Amanda Little's profile of Jackson in Bloomberg Businessweek:

In the past four months, the spate of natural disasters combined with the specter of nuclear war with North Korea has pushed... Читать дальше...

December 11, 2017

Question: Why are we unable to do anything in the case of Viktor Bout, Konstantin Yaroshenko and many other Russian citizens who have been serving sentences in US prisons, many of them for years? Has Washington advanced any preconditions for turning them over to us, for example an exchange of prisoners?
Anatoly Viktorov: The Russian consular staff regularly visits Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko and maintains contact with their lawyers and families. They have... Читать дальше...

Three guesses as to whom that might be. The advent the Christmas season also means that attention starts turning to the January transfer window. Tottenham Hotspur hasn’t done a whole lot of wheeling and dealing mid-season during Mauricio Pochettino’s tenure, but in an interview with David Hytner in The Guardian, he did have some things to say about Spurs’ transfer activity in general, and this upcoming transfer window in particular. Specifically, Pochettino said that he’s interested in “tak[ing]... Читать дальше...

The United States has forfeited its authority as a neutral broker. It may be time for the Palestinian street to have its say.