Новости за 18.09.2015

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Republican Rep. Mimi Walters of California and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona about the current budget battle in Congress.

Migrants crossing Croatia are on dangerous ground. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Megan Burke of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines about the thousands of landmines there.

The gang of robbers that has kept police across three commissionerates on the tenterhooks has struck for the fifth time in just 11 days.

Companies advertising their products illegally during festivals like Ganeshotsav, Navaratra and Eid will have to be cautions now.

Microsoft has admitted to something that used to be unthinkable: using Linux to run some of its own operations.

Microsoft has admitted to something that used to be unthinkable: using Linux to run some of its own operations.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released his campaign position on Friday regarding Second Amendment rights, stating that the government should expand gun rights for law-abiding citizens. In his position paper, Trump advocated for bringing back and expanding programs that would get gang members and drug dealers off the street.

The House passed two controversial measures Friday aimed at satisfying conservative Republicans in an uproar over videos alleging Planned Parenthood profits from fetal tissue.

The chief investigator into the actions of Army Sgt. Bergdahl testified Friday that Bergdahl was not a cowardly deserter, but he left his unit to draw attention to the platoon's poor leadership.

The Pune district consumer disputes redressal forum has directed a cooperative bank at Shanipar in Shukrawar Peth to pay Rs 2.56 lakh, along with Rs 20,000 costs, to a jeweller for deficiency in service that resulted in financial loss to the latter.

A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood's federal funds for a year.

The latest season of "American Horror Story" is still a couple weeks away from its premiere, but a newly released clip is here to offer a first look behind the dark walls of the Hotel Cortez.  

Like a river diverted, Europe's flow of migrants and refugees on Friday surged through Croatia, which sought to hand them off to angry and resistant Hungary and Slovenia. About 15,000 voyagers were left miserable, bewildered and marooned in the small former Yugoslav republic amid the standoff.

Will Smith has again gushed over his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, this time for her 44th birthday. The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" alum, 46, took to Facebook to post a vintage image and sentimental greeting to his wife of nearly 17 years, further attempting to prove that all's well in the Smith-o-sphere.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Obama administration on Friday announced the end of certain restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba that have been in place since the height of the Cold War.

Forbidden fruit, indeed.  

Angel Anderson got a surprise when she opened up her produce box on Friday.

Pope Francis begins his pilgrimage to North America on Saturday with a historic three-day visit to communist Cuba.

U.S. stocks fall sharply in early trade Friday as fears about global growth resurface a day after the Federal Reserve left its key borrowing rate unchanged.

Earth’s concentric layers scale remarkably well to those of a peach. The atmosphere is proportionally as thick as the exterior fuzz. The crust corresponds to the skin, the iron core (although spherical rather than pointed) to the pit, and the rocky mantle, which constitutes eighty-four per cent of the volume of the planet, to the flesh of the fruit. The lower mantle is about eighteen hundred miles from Earth’s surface—roughly the distance from Manhattan to Denver—but is less accessible and less known to us than the face of Mars. Читать дальше...

Forget it: You can't afford Costa Rica, not even Ecuador -- but you can afford these exotic locations

NEW YORK - Travelers entering the U.S. from Liberia will no longer be screened for Ebola.

Comedian and actor Bill Engvall, the one-time Blue Collar Comedy troupe member, sold a house in Manhattan Beach for $5.2 million.

Aspiration Partners Inc., an online investment service that lets customers decide how much to pay in fees, has raised $15.5 million.

The United States is updating contingency plans in the event of a war with Russia, the first time the U.S.

Thursday’s “topping out” ceremony at the new Vikings’ stadium — a traditional thing at a construction project to celebrate the placement of the highest or last steel beam — was partially delayed because of heavy rain. The Vikings made it through that bit of misfortune in pretty good shape … but now they’re dealing with another issue from the event. Stadium workers were given Vikings stocking caps as a thank-you gift in connection with the ceremony. The only problem? Minnesota was spelled “Minesota,” as you can see in the picture above ... Читать дальше...