Новости за 12.11.2015

3FM-dj Giel Beelen belde donderdagochtend in zijn ochtendprogramma op de radio met presentator Jandino Asporaat en voelde hem flink aan de tand om een 'plagiaatzaak' waar hij op was gestuit. Volgens Giel is namelijk het bekende typetje Judeska van Jandino gebaseerd op Bon Qui Qui, een typetje van comédienne Anjelah Johnson.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe surprised fans during a Patti Smith concert when he opened the show performing covers of classic songs

CALGARY – Bondscoach Geert Kuiper heeft donderdag de schaatsers aangewezen die Nederland vertegenwoordigen op de teamonderdelen van de wereldbekerwedstrijden in Calgary. De Twentse schaatser Wouter Olde Heuvel (Losser), Jan Blokhuijsen en Douwe de Vries rijden zaterdag de achtervolging. Sven Kramer was daarvoor niet beschikbaar.

Wading into the public debate over interactions between campaigns and super PACs: Charlie Spies, the attorney for the Right to Rise super PAC backing Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.

Carolina is last in NHL attendance.

"I know it is happening in some communities," Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, adding voice to a controversial phenomenon known as the Ferguson effect.

Pacific Lutheran University announced Thursday that it will sell its broadcasting licenses to the University of Washington, in a plan that will turn the current KPLU at 88.5 FM into an all-music, all-jazz station while KUOW at 94.9 FM becomes the Seattle outlet for National Public Radio and Northwest news. “Pending FCC approval of the license transfer, 88.5 will assume a new call signal and name that reflects the jazz programming: The new call signal is still to be determined,” said a KUOW news release. Читать дальше...

Andy Murray will play Stan Wawrinka, Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer in the group stage of the ATP World Tour Finals.

The Syrian army backed by pro-government militia started an offensive to free the village of al-Eiss in the south of Aleppo province from terrorist control, a source in the militia told RIA Novosti Thursday.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said in a statement that during the lengthy hearing with Clinton, "Republicans showed the world that the Benghazi Select Committee is a taxpayer-funded fishing expedition to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential campaign — and that their net came up empty." "Instead of working with Republicans to get answers for the families of those killed in Benghazi, Democrats obsessed with defending the former secretary of state continue... Читать дальше...

The Internet was abuzz Thursday with rumors that Teen Vogue, the beloved offshoot publication of Vogue that launched in 2003, would shutter. 

The Jonas Brothers' family home in Westlake, Texas, has sold for an undisclosed amount. They’re a bit touchy about real estate prices in the Lone Star state and don’t divulge them in public records.

Many people who become addicted to drugs, tobacco or alcohol start using as teenagers. So more effort is being put into helping teenagers stop before they get in too deep.

With phantom pain, it feels as if an amputated limb is still there and hurting. The sensation ranges from annoying itching to red-hot burning. U.S. research on this condition has increased recently, spurred by the surge of amputees returning from warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan and by increasing rates of diabetes.

De Eurofractie van de Partij voor de Dieren eist dat de Europese Commissie Spanje op het matje roept om de gewelddadige traditie Toro de Jubilo. Tijdens het 'horrorfestival' worden bovenop de hoorns van een stier brandende ballen vastgemaakt.

In het rapport over het lekken uit de Commissie Stiekem wordt geen van de fractievoorzitters aangewezen als de schuldige. Dat hebben bronnen aan de NOS verteld.

This Veteran’s Day, Trace Adkins commemorated the holiday by playing the “Vets Rock” concert inside Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut – an all-day event starting with a career fair and workshops to provide veterans with valuable resources and capped with an arena benefit concert. “I was just a baby act…I had the opportunity to talk to Wayne Newton.

The failure to reach the European Championships finals still rankles inside the Oranje, and their coach believes weakness at the back contributed to the disaster

Wiped Out!, the sophomore LP from The Neighbourhood, arrives as the band's first No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Albums chart (dated Nov. 21). The...

Afternoon Star Tribune Local Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) Weather Video Forecast

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to create a second emergency board to investigate the dispute between New Jersey Transit and its labor unions. NJ Transit had offered a 10-percent pay increase over 7.5 years, but that would be offset by an increase in health insurance costs.

The Van Der Beek home is growing! Earlier today, James Van Der Beek's wife Kimberly announced that they are expanding their brood. "So grateful to share with you today...

"This proposed rule will help improve the health of more than 760,000 children and help public housing agencies save $153 million," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro says.