Новости за 09.05.2018

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) — A Fort Smith woman was sentenced Wednesday (May 9) to 10 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and fined $1,400 for trafficking methamphetamine in Northwest Arkansas. Ingrid Garcia, 40, pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court to one count of distributing 50 or more grams of meth. Prosecutors dropped three other drug trafficking charges as part of her plea deal. Federal and local agencies spent months investigating Garcia, using controlled... Читать дальше...

A community-owned sustainable grocery store will occupy the newly restored Gerber Building that is part of the CTA Wilson Red Line station.

Shares of Synaptics Inc. fell nearly 6% late Wednesday after the maker of laptop touchpads and other human-interface hardware and software narrowly beat forecasts for per-share adjusted earnings and reported sales below expectations. Synaptics said it lost $13.7 million, or 40 cents a share, in the fiscal third quarter, versus earnings of $4.5 million, or 13 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted for one-time items, the company earned 92 cents a share, compared with $1.27 a share a year ago. Читать дальше...

Philadelphia's T.J. McConnell admitted an encounter with Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger didn't go as planned when McConnell was a kid.

Outside the rarified sphere of the super-rich, tycoon Viktor Vekselberg is mostly known in Russia for spending more than $100 million to bring cultural artifacts back to their homeland, including an array of Faberge eggs glittering with gold and jewels. By Vekselberg's standards, the money he laid out wasn't all that much: His fortune has been estimated at about $14.6 billion. But after his holding company Renova was hit by U.S. sanctions against Russia in April, his worth appeared to shrink markedly... Читать дальше...

Saudi Arabia will develop its own nuclear arsenal if Iran restarts its efforts to build nukes, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Wednesday, AFP reported. Asked whether Riyadh would “build a bomb itself” if Tehran seized on President Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran deal to resume a nuclear weapons program, Jubeir said, “If Iran acquires...

Medhi Benatia hit a brace as Juventus thrashed AC Milan 4-0 at the Stadio Olimpico to win the Coppa Italia for the fourth year in a row.

Tiffany Lynn Elfstrom

• Levi Fry Intermediate School in Texas fired a teacher who insulted a student in texts to his mother.
• The texts were apparently intended for someone else.
• The students mother told INSIDER she was heartbroken when she received the messages.
• She spoke to the school's assistant principal, who apologized to her.

A teacher was fired from a Texas school after texting his parent about her autistic child in crass terms.See the... Читать дальше...

DC's Action Comics No. 1 — the 1938 comic that features the first appearance of Superman — is expected to sell for at least $650,000.

Reynaldo Lopez pitched 7 1/3 innings of 2-run ball, but Nate Jones couldn't protect a three-run lead in the ninth inning as White Sox fall to 9-25

• Monica Lewinsky claims that she was uninvited to an event held by a magazine because Bill Clinton said he might attend.
• According to the Huffington Post, the event was a philanthropy summit held by Town & Country magazine.
• Lewinsky is not happy.

It's 2018 and Monica Lewinsky was uninvited to an event that held by a magazine because Bill Clinton decided to attend. According to the Huffington Post, Town & Country magazine invited Lewinsky and then... Читать дальше...

How a Super Bowl bet is forcing some people in New England to call Foles the 'GOAT'

How Paulette Jordan’s roots influenced her campaign to become the first Native American governor in the United States

WASHINGTON — Prison reform advocates scored a major victory Wednesday when the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill offering convicts a “second chance” in a bipartisan 25-5 vote. The “First Step Act” is authored by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) with the help of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, who has...

Olivia Enos

Security, Asia

Pyongyang is not immune from criticism on its human-rights record.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s second trip to Pyongyang was remarkably productive. Not only did he nail down a date and location for the highly anticipated U.S.–North Korea summit, he also managed to secure the release of three American hostages.

Joining Pompeo on the flight back to Washington were Kim Dong-chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak-song—three Americans who were sentenced... Читать дальше...

In a new interview with Newsweek Polska, Roman Polanski essentially likened #MeToo, which has prompted huge numbers of women all over the world to be explicit about sexual harassment, to Middle Age massacres of protestants in France, which most certainly fueled a stormy reaction on Twitter.

Hibs’ hopes of a top-two finish in the Scottish Premiership were ended after they were defeated by fired-up Hearts at Tynecastle.

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on smoke that forced the evacuation of a Delta Air Lines flight (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Delta Air Lines says fluid dripping onto a power unit created the smoke that forced passengers to evacuate a plane after it landed at Denver's airport. After flight 1854 from Detroit landed normally Tuesday night, passengers reported that smoke filled the cabin as the MD-90 aircraft was taxiing to the gate. Delta says the plane stopped and its 146 passengers used the plane's slides and over-wing exits to escape the cabin. Читать дальше...

A new study of 55 leading travel websites by Dashlane, a digital security company, found that 89 percent of them got a failing grade, leaving users' data "perilously exposed to hackers due to unsafe password practices. The only airline websites that earned a passing grade were those of United and Hawaiian, which both scored 4. Airlines earning a score of 3 were Alaska, Delta, Frontier, Southwest and Spirit. JetBlue and Sun Country each got a score of 2, while Air Canada, American and Allegiant only managed a score of 1. Читать дальше...

Manchester City returned to winning ways to set three new Premier League records with a 3-1 victory over Brighton and Hove Albion.

The Brexit strategy of both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn has been blown apart in the last 24 hours. MPs will now have a vote on remaining in the European Economic Area – effectively a vote on the single market – after a shock defeat for the government in the Lords.

KENNESAW, Ga. — An Atlanta-area high school student is facing a felony charge after being accused of secretly recording a sex act between two other students in a school bathroom. News outlets cite an arrest warrant that says the 17-year-old boy reached over a closed bathroom stall at Harrison High School and recorded a 15-year-old...

Mario Balotelli is one of football's most controversial figures but he is the type of player top European clubs need. One of the major breakthrough is in career was when he joined billionaire club Manchester City in 2010/11.