Новости за 03.01.2017

Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado is the front-runner to head the US Departure of Agriculture, a source familiar with the transition process told CNN Tuesday. The owner of a vineyard in California, Maldonado has a farming background. He grew up picking crops with his parents who were agricultural workers themselves. Maldonado is Mexican-American. His […]

The US administration is “is 100% certain in the role that Russia played” in election-related hacking, State Department Spokesman John Kirby told CNN. “There’s no question” about what Russia did to “sow doubt and confusion, and getting involved through the cyber domain, into our electoral process,” he told Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “And that’s not […]

United Airlines is investigating how a baggage handler became locked in the cargo hold of a plane and remained trapped during an hourlong flight. In a statement, the airline said the man was found unharmed after United Airlines Flight 6060 landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on a New Year’s Day flight from Charlotte Douglas […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is no Donald Trump, at least not in terms of viewership. The premiere of this season of NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” Schwarzenegger’s first as host, brought in an average of 4.9 million viewers on Monday night. That number is well below the 6.5 million viewers that the premiere of the last season of […]

The act of watering the ground after applying pesticide may seem innocuous, but it was enough to kill four children in Texas. One was a high school senior on the brink of graduation. The other three were her little brothers. The youngest was 7 years old. So far, authorities believe Monday’s deaths are accidental. But […]

British pop singer Rebecca Ferguson says she has been invited to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, but her response may not be the RSVP the President-elect’s team were expecting. The former UK X-Factor runner-up said she would only accept the invitation on the condition that she could perform “Strange Fruit” — a song protesting racism […]

Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to make free tuition a reality at New York’s public colleges. Students whose families earn $125,000 or less would pay nothing for tuition at two- and four-year public colleges under the governor’s plan. It’s similar to what Hillary Clinton proposed for public colleges across the country during her presidential campaign. Cuomo […]

Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs. Ford CEO Mark Fields said the investment is a “vote of confidence” in the pro-business environment president-elect Donald Trump is creating. However, he stressed Ford did not do any sort of […]

Facebook has come under fire for blocking a photograph of a bronze statue of Neptune in Italy. Designed by Jean Boulogne, better known as Giambologna, the mid-sixteenth century fountain of Neptune stands in the Piazza del Nettuno in Bologna. Facebook appeared to have taken offense at the disrobed Roman god, asking Italian writer Elisa Barbari […]

As if recent red alerts for smog weren’t bad enough, China has now issued its first-ever red alert for fog to go along with them. China’s national observatory issued the fog alert Tuesday in a number of northern and eastern regions. That followed some 24 cities issuing red alerts for air pollution. Red is the […]

MEN’S BASKETBALL NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Freshman forward Cody Spaid (Clearfield) had two productive performances for Pitt-Greensburg at the 2016 Crowne Plaza Captains Shootout hosted by Christopher Newport in the Freeman Center last week. He had a busy nine minutes Wednesday in the Bobcats’ 96-43 loss to the host Captains, who are 8-2 and ranked […]

Two-year-old Brock Shoff owes his twin brother Bowdy big time. The boys were playing at their home in Orem, Utah, Friday morning when a dresser fell on Brock. A home surveillance video shows Bowdy trying for almost two minutes to free his brother from under the furniture — eventually succeeding. The boys’ parents posted the […]

The Cannon House Office Building was abuzz Monday afternoon as new members made their way to their workplace. Staffers installed flags outside office entryways. Workers wheeled furniture through the halls. Bounties of office supplies were stacked on unclaimed desks. A chief of staff inquired about the Wi-Fi password. A hopeful administrator, whose boss was defeated […]

Democrats plotting a return from the political wilderness are facing their first big dilemma: how fiercely to fight President-elect Donald Trump. A new conservative era will dawn in Washington Tuesday when the next Congress, dominated by Republicans, is sworn in. GOP leaders are exuberant about the Trump administration that will soon follow and are preparing […]

Republicans have spent years bashing Obamacare. Now, they’re about to own it. When Congress returns to Washington on Tuesday, the Republican Party — which controls the House and the Senate and will soon see GOP President-elect Donald Trump sworn into office — will move quickly to repeal President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law. These first […]

Paul Ryan is expected to be easily re-elected Tuesday as speaker of the House, kicking off the new Congress and marking a quiet end following a year that saw both parties questioning their congressional leadership. Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is also expected to maintain her post as minority leader. Ryan was re-elected by the […]

China has slapped millions of dollars worth of fines on alleged offenders for violating anti-pollution rules, according to state media. The move comes as large swaths of the country are blanketed in dangerous, thick smog. Some 24 cities issued the first “red alerts” for pollution of 2017 on Tuesday, according to Xinhua. Red alerts are […]

1. Positive start to 2017: Traders are not wasting any time in the new year. U.S. stock futures are rising and global stock markets are all pushing higher. The upbeat mood is being attributed to strong Chinese economic data. The Caixin Purchasing Managers’ Index, which tracks manufacturing activity in China, showed the fastest rate of […]

DUBOIS – A Punxsutawney woman accused of wearing a stolen Halloween costume that she tried to return waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday. Corine Darci Shannon, 26, is facing two third-degree felony counts of retail theft for her actions Oct. 29 at the DuBois Spirit Halloween store. Her bail is set at $5,000, […]

Dr. Thad Diehl, D.C. Founder and Director of Advanced Center for Pain Relief and Wellness and CentralPAWeightLoss.com, Clearfield and State College There is an ever-growing movement among patient advocacy groups for an improvement in the standard medical approach to supporting people with thyroid problems. There should be. As many as one third of the population […]

It looks like a Transformer, moves like a Transformer and with a name like Method-2, it even sounds like a character from a blockbuster franchise. But while this 13ft “robot-powered suit” is the work of Hollywood designer Vitaly Bulgarov, he says Method-2 is very real and being developed in a giant lab in Gunpo, South […]

Here’s one of those no-fuss recipes you can toss together and cook in one skillet. Ideal for a busy weeknight, it’s also good with crumbled Italian chicken sausage if you need to please meat lovers. —Julianne Meyers, Hinesville, Georgia View the recipe at TasteofHome.com >>

Four children died after someone at their home sprayed water on an applied pesticide, causing a reaction that resulted in toxic gas, officials in Amarillo, Texas, said. At least five other people were hospitalized in Monday’s incident. Fire Capt. Larry Davis said a family member used water to try to wash off the aluminum phosphide, […]

The Myanmar government has launched an investigation into police brutality against members of the Muslim Rohingya minority after video has emerged that appears to show police beating civilians in the west of the country. The selfie-style video was filmed on November 5, according to the office of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and after […]

A computer outage Monday night left thousands of international travelers stuck in US airports for hours on one of the busiest travel days of the year. All affected airports were back online after US Customs and Border Protection experienced a temporary outage with its processing systems at various airports, spokesman Daniel Hetlage said. The outage […]