Новости за 13.08.2016

The La Crosse Fire Department will be able to take its preparedness for a rail emergency to a new level after BNSF donated what it calls a general service legacy tank car to the city.

The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer. Hostess Brands marked its first foray into frozen foods on Friday, offering the cream-filled snack in vanilla or chocolate through Walmart. Zenefits CEO David Sacks tweeted Friday that his company, which makes human resources software and sells insurance to businesses, had resolved its licensing problems with South Carolina and Delaware. Martin Shkreli, the former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO arrested on securities fraud charges in December... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on sentencing of Silicon Valley mogul for probation violation in domestic violence case (all times local): 2:55 p.m. A Silicon Valley internet mogul who made $300 million at the age of 25 has been sentenced to a year in jail for violating his probation in a domestic violence case. Gurbaksh

By Shintaro Kano, RIO DE JANEIRO - Kei Nishikori saved three match points to defeat Gael Monfils 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(6) to reach the Rio O...

"He said he was hungry and hadn't eaten in several days, so he tried to sell his stuffed dog to get some money for something to eat," Officer Dunham said.

WATFORD CITY – Research underway at Theodore Roosevelt National Park aims to help scientists better understand bison in order to conserve the species.

Don’t swing your stick when you leave the rink.

The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news that hit the headlines on Friday, August 13. Find all the stories you might have missed below. 1. President Buhari’s special assistant dies The senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on economic matters, Ayodele Adu, is dead. 2. Tension as Fani Kayode tells Emir Sanusi to shut […]

MOTD pundit Alan Shearer is expecting a special Premier League season and says the title race is wide open.

Hillary Clinton’s top pick for the Pentagon, Michele Flouornoy, wants to escalate the war in Syria. A Russia Insider report: Has anyone else noticed that the female neocons are scarier and nastier than their male counterparts? Peter B. Collins presents journalist Gareth Porter. Clinton’s top pick for Pentagon, Michele Flouornoy, calls for US escalation in Syria. Gareth Porter comments on the report from Flournoy’s Center for New American Security, calling for US escalation in Syria, and convention speeches by Leon Panetta and Hillary Clinton. Читать дальше...

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Dassey will be released in the next 90 days.

A judge Friday sentenced an Onalaska sex offender convicted of photographing a nude child to serve five years on probation.

Nate Parker – the star, director, writer, and producer of the highly anticipated movie The Birth of a Nation – is opening up about being put on trial for rape while he was in college. The 36-year-old actor and his Penn State University roommate Jean Celestin, who co-wrote the story for the upcoming movie, were [...]

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families," the superintendent said.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on sentencing of Silicon Valley mogul for probation violation in domestic violence case (all times local):

To understand why cybercrime is rapidly growing, as well as the seriousness and impact it can have, we need to compare it with the more traditional and visible aspects of street crime. If we were to break it down into the business language that we all understand, what is the ROI of crime both online and offline?

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GEESTEREN - 'Dit klopt niet', dacht een bezorger van maaltijdservice Tafeltje Dekje. Een oude, alleenstaande vrouw die in het buitengebied van Geesteren woont, was al twee dagen niet thuis geweest. Een bericht dat hij had opgehangen bij het huis, hing er een paar dagen later nog steeds en de rollator stond buiten.

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia should allow observers, including Western journalists, to attend upcoming military drills that could again put Ukraine on edge just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharpened his rhetoric, the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe told Reuters. The comments by Lieutenant General Ben Hodges came as Ukraine accuses Russia of amassing more than 40,000 troops in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014, and on the Ukrainian border.

After shaking off the weight of expectation to avoid a second major tournament disaster on home soil in quick succession, Olympic host Brazil now faces another date with the past in the quarterfinals of the men’s football event. Two years after humiliation at the 2014 World Cup, the most successful soccer nation in history stood on the verge of yet another harrowing experience in front of its own fans on Wednesday.

Swimmer Michael Phelps won his 22nd gold medal by beating the competition, including rival and countryman Ryan Lochte, in the 200 individual medley. Viewers in Canada, though, were led by CBC’s Elliotte Friedman to believe that Lochte had won.

A temporary decree in the French city prohibits people in attire that is not "respectful of good morals and secularism" from swimming in public areas.

A report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency bitcoin will come to occupy a central place in the global financial system. A report released Friday by the forum, a convening organization for the global elite, is one of the strongest endorsements yet for a new technology — the blockchain — that has become the talk of the financial industry, despite the shadowy origins of bitcoin. “Rather than to stay at the margins of the finance industry... Читать дальше...

Marcus Fraser's Olympic lead has been whittled down to a solitary shot and Henrik Stenson is hot on his tail but little can fluster the unlikely Australian leader at Marapendi.