Новости за 13.08.2016

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farm field surveys reflecting excellent spring planting conditions and favorable summer weather have prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to boost harvest expectations for corn and soybeans to record highs.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farm field surveys reflecting excellent spring planting conditions and favorable summer weather have prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to boost harvest expectations for corn and soybeans to record highs.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farm field surveys reflecting excellent spring planting conditions and favorable summer weather have prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to boost harvest expectations for corn and soybeans to record highs.

SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's government said Friday it has reached an agreement with a development bank in Central America to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and widen cooperation in the sector of infrastructure building in the reg

The United Nations’ human rights office said Friday that deaths among civilians due to Yemen’s conflict have been “steadily mounting,” with more than 200 people killed and more than 500 wounded in four months. The air strikes this week marked the total collapse of an already fragile truce declared by the United Nations in April, to pave the way for peace talks in Kuwait. Belgian police launched several raids overnight in parts of Brussels as part of an antiterror probe and took three people into custody. Читать дальше...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are some of the hottest fields in tech right now.

Papers, surveys and retirement research worth a closer look.

Hostess Brands, the maker of lunchbox treats like Ho Hos, is launching packaged "Deep Fried Twinkies" starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods. Investors mostly focused on the latest batch of company earnings from retailers and other companies, as well as new data indicating that U.S. retail sales in July were more sluggish than expected. NEW YORK (AP) — After a tough start to the year, J.C. Penney's business enjoyed a bounce in the second quarter, fueled by efforts to bring... Читать дальше...

July 25, 1927 — June 6, 2016

This GOP strategist says the Republican party is panicking that not only will Trump lose but he will take the entire party down with him.

Renominating the judge could help Clinton preserve valuable political capital if she wins the presidency.

Hafiz Saeed Khan

Afghanistan National Directorate

The head of the ISIS terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed last month in a US drone strike, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Hafiz Sayed Khan was killed in a targeted drone strike on July 26 in Afghanistan's Nangharhar Province, according to a statement.

Afghan forces have been carrying out several operations against ISIS in the area, hoping to stamp out their control in parts of the country. Читать дальше...

The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike. Hafiz Saeed Khan, along with senior lieutenants, was reportedly killed in an air strike on 26th July Mirror reports: The claim, made by the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, has yet to be verified but the US military says it is investigating. Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal said: “”I can confirm that ISIS Khurasan leader Hafiz Saeed Khan along with his senior commanders and fighters died in a U. drone strike on July... Читать дальше...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The Latest on a small plane that crashed near an airport in northern Virginia (all times local): 10:15 p.m. State police say six people have died in a plane crash in northern Virginia. State Police Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says in an email that six bodies were pulled from the burned wreckage of

Since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, Social Security has time and again proven to be our country's most successful and popular anti-poverty program. Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries. Due to sharp income disparities during working years... Читать дальше...

What happens when two cult-favorite beauty brands come together and make a baby? Makeup magic. This week, Too Faced Cosmetics (Better Than Sex Mascara, anyone?) and Kat Von D...

– The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III has made a revelation regarding unpaid salaries – Sa’ad Abubakar said the inability to pay salaries has triggered an increase in crime rates – The Sultan has expressed delight over the recent increase in minimum wage The Sultan of Sokoto,  Sa’ad Abubakar III has expressed concern over the […]

After a lengthy investigation, authorities still don't know what caused a massive explosion that killed two men inside a vintage military tank.

US Department of Defense Deputy Press Secretary Gordon Trowbridge said that US forces killed Afghanistan’s Daesh leader Hafiz Sayed Khan in an airstrike in the country’s eastern Nangarhar province on July 26.

Netflix

A federal judge has overturned the homicide conviction of Brendan Dassey, one of the primary subjects of Netflix's hit true-crime docuseries "Making a Murderer," which tracks the death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Specifically, the judge referenced the "powerful effect" that leading interviews, conducted under "indefensible" circumstances without the presence of a parent, had on the learning-disabled teen, according to TMZ.  

Thomson Reuters

One of Herbalife's largest investors sold more of the company's stock, just weeks after the U.S. government told the protein shake maker to reorganize its business, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In an SEC filing on Wednesday, Fidelity Investments, the second largest investor in Herbalife , said it had cut its stake in the firm to 7.4 million shares, a 14 percent reduction from the 8.6 million shares it reported owning at the end of June. Читать дальше...

Last year, an entrepreneur named Marc Lore announced that he was going to get people to do their online shopping on a new Web site he had created, Jet.com, instead of on Amazon. It was a bold claim—even Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer by far, hadn’t managed to touch Amazon when it came to online retail—but people took Lore seriously because he had a track record. Earlier, he’d co-founded Diapers.com, sold it reluctantly to Amazon for more than five hundred million dollars, and gone on to... Читать дальше...