Новости за 23.09.2020

Joseph Laurinaitis, one half of legendary WWE tag-team the Legion of Doom, has died at age 60. The wrestler, who competed under the name Road Warrior Animal, was one of the biggest stars during the 1980s and ’90s alongside his partner Hawk – real name Michael Hegstrand. His death, announced Wednesday morning, came as a […]

A leftover sandwich from 60 years ago carries a lot of meaning for one Illinois man. In fact, Steve Jenne just marked the anniversary of the day when got his hands on a half-eaten sandwich left behind by Richard Nixon during a campaign stop. Jenne, who now lives in Springfield, has preserved the remains of […]

Gale Sayers, the electrifying former Chicago Bears running back whose graceful moves earned him Hall of Fame honors and whose bond with a dying teammate was chronicled in the movie “Brian’s Song,” died on Wednesday at age 77, the National Football League said. While playing only seven seasons in a career cut short by injury, […]

There’s a new buzz around The Crown star Emma Corrin. The actress, who plays tragic Princess Diana on the show, always has a vibrator in her handbag. Corrin reveals she never leaves home without the private sex toy after learning the royal she portrays always carried a “secret mascot” on foreign visits. In a candid […]

Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, became the latest prominent Republican voice to back Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in his bid to wrest the White House from President Donald Trump in November. “My husband John lived by a code: country first,” McCain wrote in a Twitter post on Tuesday. “We are Republicans, […]

Mars Inc said on Wednesday it was changing the name and branding of its Uncle Ben’s rice products after the brand came under fire for promoting racial stereotypes. The company said it would drop the logo of an elderly African-American man wearing a bow tie on the 70-year-old brand and replace it with an orange […]

Tiger King star Carole Baskin is being sued by the family of her missing husband Don Lewis. The 59-year-old animal activist has been accused of defamation by Lewis’ daughters Gale, Lynda and Donna and his former assistant Anne McQueen, for being “complicit with jokes about Don’s death on Dancing With the Stars, when judges brought […]

HALIFAX — The centre of post-tropical storm Teddy made landfall in eastern Nova Scotia this morning, delivering another round of punishing winds and heavy rain to a province that has already had plenty of both. Meteorologists say the storm arrived near Sheet Harbour, about 115 kilometres east of Halifax, around 8 a.m. local time. The […]

The Denver Nuggets played their way back into the Western Conference finals on Tuesday night, riding 28 points from Kitchener, Ont. native Jamal Murray, a postseason career-high 26 from Jerami Grant and a key late defensive stand to a 114-106 victory over the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in Game 3 near Orlando. Nikola Jokic contributed […]

Tom Cruise has been given a launch date for his mission to space. The action man will become the first star to actually film in space while he’s onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon trip to the International Space Station – and now he has a countdown to prepare for. He’ll take off with astronauts and […]

The U.S. government plans to execute William LeCroy, a convicted rapist and murderer, on Tuesday, the sixth in a spate of federal executions after a long hiatus at the national level. The Department of Justice says it will put LeCroy, 50, to death using lethal injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate, at its execution chamber in […]

HALIFAX — Residents of Halifax and Nova Scotia’s eastern shore were warned to stay away from the coastline as hurricane Teddy churned its way toward Atlantic Canada on Tuesday, pushing a storm surge ahead of its swirling winds. The immense Category 2 hurricane — measuring about 1,000 kilometres across — was roughly 450 kilometres south […]

British Columbia’s top doctor says she’s received death threats in her role as a public figure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she’s had to have security in her home and has been targeted with death threats, along with abusive letters and phone calls to staff. She says she believes […]

OTTAWA — Canada will see a dramatic resurgence of COVID-19 cases unless people limit contact with others in coming days, the country’s chief public health officer warns. Dr. Theresa Tam said Tuesday the public has a vital role to play in helping health agencies limit the spread of the virus. “The challenge we face now […]

Gwyneth Paltrow’s relationship with Coldplay star Chris Martin is better than ever now they’re not husband and wife. The actress and entrepreneur insists she and the Yellow singer couldn’t be better friends and co-parents to their kids Apple and Moses, insisting getting divorced was the best thing they could have done. “It’s so interesting because […]

TV’s Supergirl will be hanging up her cape after the upcoming sixth and final season. Show producers are hoping to start work on the final season, starring Melissa Benoist as the superhero, in Vancouver, Canada next week. Pregnant Benoist, who will join the shoot later this year, has confirmed the news on social media, insisting […]

Vanessa Bryant has fired back at her mom Sofia’s claims her daughter threw her out of her home following the death of her son-in-law, basketball ace Kobe Bryant. During an interview with Univision reporter Dave Valadez on the show El Gorda y La Flaca on Monday, Sofia alleged that, following the tragic deaths of Kobe […]

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals’ throne speech Wednesday is to lay out plans for child care, health care, affordable housing and navigating the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The speech, crafted by the governing party but delivered by Gov. Gen. Julie Payette, will be given in the shadow of rising COVID-19 cases across the […]

NEW YORK — Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Tuesday declared a new public health emergency and extended a face mask mandate into November to fight a coronavirus flareup, as the number of people who have died across the United States since the pandemic began passed 200,000. In-person social gatherings have led to cases in Wisconsin […]