Новости за 24.09.2015

Day-use visitors will not need a Discover Pass to visit state parks on Saturday. ‘Free days’ apply only to day-use access by vehicle, not overnight stays or rented facilities.

Bills running back LeSean McCoy said Wednesday that he thought he would “be fine” to play against the Dolphins in Week Three after he missed practice to rest the hamstring injury that’s been nagging him since the preseason. McCoy’s prediction appears to be on track. He was back on the practice field Thursday and was…

High-style overhead ideas—from tenting effects to high-gloss paint—that let you embrace the oft-forgotten ‘fifth wall.’

GENEVA - Dutch diplomats want the U.N. human rights chief to send a mission to report on possible abuses and conflict-related crimes in Yemen, all but challenging Western and other nations to take a stand over a war that has involved blistering Saudi air power and over 2,100 civilian deaths.

A spokesman for Canada’s Open Media civil liberties non-profit says that the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York will in all likelihood be awash with surveillance operations.

Eventually, real human beings will be exposed for their imperfections. They become the fixed objects against which subsequent generations can do a political version of isometric exercises. Think of the way adolescents disavow their previously omniscient parents as idiots.

Jenna Coleman, just like the rest of the world, is being kept in the dark about who will replace her on BBC's "Doctor Who." The 29-year-old actress announced last week she was vacating her long-running role as the Time Lord's (Peter Capaldi) companion, Clara Oswald.

JERUSALEM - Israel on Thursday approved harsher measures to combat the practice of stone-throwing amid a recent surge in Palestinian violence, widening the rules of engagement for police and vowing to raise minimum penalties for offenders to four years' imprisonment.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Thursday approved harsher measures to combat the practice of stone-throwing amid a recent surge in Palestinian violence, widening the rules of engagement for police …

Brooks Hays
CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Over the last 11 years, a team of astrophysicists have been looking for direct evidence of Einstein's gravitational waves. Their efforts have proven fruitless.

See Pluto's mountains and basins in "extended color"

The post NASA’s Highest-Res Photos Yet Show Pluto’s Bizarre Geology appeared first on WIRED.

See Pluto's mountains and basins in "extended color"

The post NASA’s Highest-Res Photos Yet Show Pluto’s Bizarre Geology appeared first on WIRED.

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina - When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged into a legal morass with the potential to be branded as sex offenders for decades.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged into a legal morass with the potential to be branded as sex offenders for decades. [...] under a quirk in the law, the legal system treated them as adults for purposes of prosecuting them, but also considered them minors by deeming their selfies child pornography. A sheriff's office investigator found an explicit picture of his girlfriend and determined she was under 18... Читать дальше...

You can search for all the Donald Trump videos, and this will bring up a video when Trump turns up only when someone asks Lady Gaga if she's a Donald fan.

You can search for all the Donald Trump videos, and this will bring up a video when Trump turns up only when someone asks Lady Gaga if she's a Donald fan.

If the stakes were low, such rhetoric wouldn’t matter much. But of course the stakes are high, and millions of Americans who follow political news as entertainment could end up believing simplistic talking points or even outright misinformation.

Dan Neil reflects on the damage done by the Volkswagen diesel scandal. Plus: Highlights from the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show.

Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Seen Hastening Clean Diesel’s Demise Eight years ago this week, a 53-foot tractor-trailer rolled out of Volkswagen’s U.S. headquarters on a four-month, cross-country mission to persuade America that dirty diesel was dead. As the world now knows, VW was cheating on U.S. emissions standards, including those for that new Jetta. “VW may have killed the niche, along with its reputation,” said University of Michigan business professor Erik Gordon. Wildly popular in Europe... Читать дальше...

Ulsterman returns with a round of 68 and says he is ready for fresh chapter in his career after a five-week break

Jabil Circuit Inc. said Thursday it earned $87.7 million, or 45 cents a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter, reversing a loss of 13 cents a share a year ago. Revenue hit $4.7 billion in the quarter, up from $4.1 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected GAAP earnings of 35 cents a share on sales of $4.5 billion. For the full 2015 fiscal year, the company reported earnings of $1.45 a share, up from $1.19 a share in fiscal 2014. The company said it expects revenue of $5.1 billion to $5.3 billion for fiscal 2016... Читать дальше...

Nike shares up more than 5% after earnings beat estimates

FORT WORTH, Texas - A former Texas funeral home operator has been sentenced to two years in state jail for accepting money to do cremations but never processing the remains.

An 11-year-old boy miraculously survived after a sharp arrow pierced his skull during archery training, Ahmednagar, in Maharashtra, India. Please, scroll down for photos. Warning: graphic content! Ritvik Ankush Tarte has almost died after he was shot by a flying arrow during his weekly archery practice. Shocked teachers rushed him to a local hospital, where neurosurgeons spent three hours removing the arrow which […]

The missile defense program known as JLENS was facing extinction in late 2010. Army leaders, frustrated by the system’s shortcomings and skeptical that it would ever perform as promised, wanted to cut off funding. Supporters at the Pentagon mounted a successful rescue effort, backed by Marine Corps Gen. James E. “Hoss” Cartwright.