Новости за 17.11.2016

There’s nothing like having a home cooked meal from grandma during the holidays. Even if it’s not from your own grandma. A woman in Mesa, Arizona, sent a text message to tell her grandson Thanksgiving dinner would be at her house at 3 p.m. this year. But she accidentally sent it to the wrong number. […]

BREAKING NEWS: Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan announced Thursday that he will challenge House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi later this month. “Last Tuesday’s election will forever be remembered as a major turning point for the United States of America. Like many Americans, I was disheartened by the results, but I also realized that Democrats must not […]

It’s long been said that to escape reality, people often turn to fiction. But in a post-election world — one that in a little over a week has seen protests, hate crimes and complex emotions — some people may look to their favorite television comedies for perspective on America’s new political reality. Following a path […]

Mexico just showed the first signs of its “contingency plan” to weather a Donald Trump presidency. To save the suffering Mexican peso, the central bank, known as Banxico, raised its key interest rate Thursday, citing the U.S. election as the main reason. “The view for the global economy became more complex, among other factors, as […]

For-profit colleges and their investors have had a rough couple of years. But they’re hoping for easier days ahead under a Trump administration. Stocks of for-profit education companies spiked the morning after Election Day, and they’ve continued to outperform the overall market ever since Trump’s win. Both DeVry and Strayer are up about 23%. The […]

The New York Times has added 41,000 paid subscriptions across its print and digital platforms in the week since the presidential election, representing the largest subscription increase since it introduced its pay-wall in 2011. The surge, undoubtedly influenced by Donald Trump’s historic victory and the resulting anxieties of many Americans, is a boon to an […]

This weekend’s America’s Cup event in Fukuoka is the continuation of “a dream come true” for one of Japan’s most experienced sailors. Kazuhiko “Fuku” Sofuku has waited a decade for another crack at yachting’s greatest prize, and he thought his latest chance had ended before it even started. “It’s been a long road to get […]

Can culinary skills come in a box? Hundreds of thousands of Americans have used meal kit delivery services in the hopes that, yes, they can. Meal kits are disassembled dinners: Recipes and pre-portioned ingredients delivered directly to your home. (But they still require all the chopping and sauteing before you can actually enjoy the meal.) […]

Bloomberg’s “With All Due Respect,” the political talk show co-hosted by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, will cease day-to-day broadcasts next month and officially end after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the company has announced. The show, by turns irreverent and insider-y, was the flagship of Bloomberg’s foray into the 2016 campaign, and came with a high […]

A federal appeals court Thursday blocked the release of Brendan Dassey, the teen whose confession became a subplot in Netflix’s “Making a Murderer.” The ruling represents a win for Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, who had fought the release. Now 27, Dassey was set to be freed under the supervision of the US Probation Office, […]

“The Shining” star Shelley Duvall has made some disturbing comments during an appearance on “Dr. Phil.” A clip released from the show features Duvall telling the talk-show host, “I’m very sick, I need help.” Duvall, 67, acted opposite big names such as Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” and Robin Williams in “Popeye” in the 1970s […]

Cumberland County (WPMT) — They were American patriots at a time when many of their peers were still slaves. On Wednesday, 130 years after they died and were buried on a private plot of land in Cumberland County, three African-American veterans of the Civil War were paid long overdue proper respects. Corporal William Anderson, Private […]

Former US Rep Pete Hoekstra said Thursday he would accept the position of CIA director if offered to him by the incoming Trump administration, while also taking positions on waterboarding and Russia likely to inflame critics in a potential confirmation battle. Hoekstra — a former representative from Michigan who chaired the House Intelligence Committee from […]

Iraqi security forces have discovered two mass graves near the city of Mosul containing around 250 bodies, police said Thursday. The graves were found near the town of Hammam al-Alil and were created by ISIS militants, Iraqi Federal Police Commander Brig. Gen. Faris Radhi Abbas told CNN. Their discovery follows the uncovering of 100 decapitated […]

It’s definitely not par for the course, but golfer Greg Norman has taken on a political role, teeing up a call between Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and US President-elect Donald Trump. Shortly after Trump’s victory at the polls, Australia’s ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, asked if Norman could provide his government with the […]

It took less than three months for an online coding game to transform James Johnston’s life. Johnston, 31, was designing software for orthodontists and living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when he landed a better-paid software engineering job in Silicon Valley at a major tech startup. The key to this career upgrade and cross-country move? CodeFights, an […]

At least 21 people were killed and dozens injured as airstrikes and barrel bombs pounded eastern Aleppo for the third consecutive day, the Syrian Civil Defense volunteer group said Thursday. More than 40 airstrikes and barrel bombs struck rebel-held neighborhoods in the besieged east of the city Thursday, the volunteer group, also known as the […]

Once a child refugee of the Cuban Revolution, Raul Alarcón, Jr. had big dreams growing up. He wanted to become a doctor. He studied pre-med at Fordham University. But medical school — and a career in the medical profession — weren’t in the cards. Instead, Alarcón took a much different turn. He helped his father […]

Kosovo police say they prevented planned synchronized terror attacks in Kosovo and the Balkans, one targeting Israel’s national soccer team and fans during the Albania vs. Israel match on November 12. In a statement Thursday, police said they arrested 19 people believed to be planning attacks coordinated by two ringleaders currently in Syria “alongside ISIS.” […]

A video showing two white men forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him alight has gone viral under #coffinassault in recent days, once again igniting the discussion of racism in South Africa. The two men, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson, appeared in court on Wednesday facing charges of assault with […]

How do you open this door without all the plates smashing? That’s the crockery conundrum confounding Internet users in Taiwan and China. It began when a photo of a closed cupboard, containing piles of porcelain bowls tumbling off the shelf and leaning against the glass door, was posted on a Taiwan-based Facebook community page. Hundreds […]

Women wail in the background as the camera pans across the scene. “Oh brothers, look at this, look,” the narrator says, as he films the remnants of a burned house, bodies clearly visible sticking out of the mud and ash. The disturbing video is one of a handful that have emerged from northern Rakhine State, […]

Melvin Laird, the former secretary of defense who ended the unpopular military draft and initiated withdrawal of US troops from the Vietnam War, died Wednesday. Laird was 94. In 1969, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Laird joined President Richard Nixon’s administration as the secretary of defense. Before joining the Cabinet, Laird had been […]

“I felt like a human being who had been dropped into a shark tank.” Fox News host Megyn Kelly says that’s what it felt like when Donald Trump was attacking her in interviews and in tweetstorms. Kelly attracted Trump’s ire during the first GOP primary debate in August 2015, when she asked him about his […]

Malaysia’s former prime minister has appeared in an online video urging opponents of the current leader to take to the streets to demand his ouster. Mahathir Mohamad, who oversaw a brutal repression of opposition protests while the country’s prime minister from 1981 to 2003, called on supporters of the civil and electoral rights group Bersih […]