Новости за 21.12.2017

Penske Media Corporation has acquired a controlling interest in Wenner Media, parent company of iconic music magazine Rolling Stone, for $100 million.

On Wednesday, lawmakers announced that a resolution laying the groundwork to offer permanent legal status to immigrants who came to the US illegally as children will be pushed back to January as they attempt to avert a government shutdown.

India has officially launched a program aimed at creating its own single-engine combat aircraft that will require no technology from abroad.

The shift to wintry weather in Lethbridge was inevitable, and now residents are making their annual adaptations to brave the cold, snowy terrain.

For the second time in as many months, a North Korean soldier has defected to the South across the the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the heavily guarded border that divides the two Koreas, Yonhap News Agency reports.

Yonhap news agency has reported for the second time in as many months, a North Korean soldier has defected to the South across the heavily guarded border that divides the two Koreas, the demilitarized zone (DMZ).

Republicans claimed they wanted to simplify taxes with a new president and a GOP-controlled Congress, but the new tax bill passed by Congress shows this is “bogus,” investigative reporter Dave Lindorff told Sputnik Radio’s Loud & Clear Wednesday.

Yonhap has reported for the second time in as many months, a North Korean soldier has defected to the South across the heavily guarded border that divides the two Koreas, the demilitarized zone (DMZ).

HARLEM, Manhattan — More than two hundred kids had a chance to visit a “Winter Wonderland,” in Harlem and meet Santa Wednesday. Each child got a toy, thanks to several community organization. Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement hosted the second annual Christmas Corner Toy Giveaway at their headquarters in Harlem. “The best part of this day giving to the children to make their day and seeing their happy faces,” community advocate Carolyn Paul said. Children from P.S. 46 and Thurgood […]

On Episode 142 of The MMA Circus, Nick Baldwin and guest co-host Marvyn Timog (of TSN 1290 Radio) recap UFC on FOX 26, which happened at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg on Saturday and was headlined by Rafael dos Anjos' dominant win over Robbie Lawler.

By Paul Nicholson

December 21 – After months of damning stories and rumours surrounding financial corruption in the Liberian FA and its controversial president Musa Bility, the investigatory chamber of FIFA’s Ethics Committee has stepped in to investigate. Early reports are that their findings are explosive.

Bility called a meeting yesterday informing first and second division clubs that FIFA was carrying out an audit and that FIFA Ethics had sent a three-man delegation to investigate. Читать дальше...

Guest post by Joe Hoft The major complaint that the Democrats have with the tax bill is that it is projected to increase the US debt by $1.5 trillion.  However, when compared to Obama President Trump already nearly has it covered. Democrats don’t care about the amount of US debt.  They never have.  They are only saying this now […]

Vermont sports scores and schedule for Dec. 20-21, 2017, as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.

&version;This is my first time baking vanillekipferl and they are so YUMMY!!!

Vanillekipferl also known as Vanilla Kipferl are small crescent shaped butter cookies that are made with finely ground almonds or walnuts or hazelnuts and typically melty due to the generous coat of vanilla icing sugar.

According to Wikipedia, vanillekipferl originates from Vienna in Austria and is a specialty of the Bavarian town of Nördlingen. Traditionally, these cookies are commonly made for Christmas... Читать дальше...

Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s failure to control 100-plus Board of Elections jobs after she leaves the City Council at year’s end is a win for the rule of law. Though not exactly a triumph for good government: It leaves the jobs in the hands of Manhattan Dem chief Keith Wright, who last we checked was still...

The Associated Press has released an updated casualty report from the battle of Mosul: between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, many times higher than the figure of 1,260 cited by the Iraqi government after the climactic fight against Daesh ended in June 2017.

It took little time for Floyd Mayweather to reject Dana White’s claim that he could compete in an MMA fight.

Dave Majumdar

Security, Asia

Or...a rumor gone mad? 

North Korea might be trying to equip its new intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal with biological weapons—specifically anthrax—according to a new report.

The report from the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun cites a South Korean intelligence source that suggested that Pyongyang has tested loading anthrax onto its ICBMs. According to Asahi’s source, Pyongyang is “conducting heat and pressure resistance tests”... Читать дальше...

Khloe Kardashian confirmed Wednesday on Instagram that she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Tristan Thompson

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• LaVar Ball wants to start his own basketball league aimed at players who don't want to go to college.
• Ball plans to pay players salaries ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 a month.
• The players would wear Big Baller Brand apparel and shoes.

After turning his Big Baller Brand into a household name, LaVar Ball is now reportedly planning his next business venture — his own basketball league.

Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are going to have a baby!

Venezuela's special assembly on Wednesday eliminated the post of Caracas mayor that for years has been an opposition stronghold in another sign of President Nicolas Maduro's tightening grip on power.

The California Supreme Court refused to intervene Wednesday in a state commission’s disciplinary proceedings against veteran Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Mills, whose lawyer claims the commission has a conflict of interest. The Commission on Judicial Performance, which has reprimanded Mills three times in the past, filed new allegations against him in October, accusing him of holding an improper private meeting with a prosecutor in a drunken-driving case and, in a second case... Читать дальше...