Новости за 11.01.2017

Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, told CNN that he finds it unusual the intelligence community would present President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama with a summary of information they had not yet verified. “I was a bit surprised that our intelligence community would take a private document and summarize it for the President […]

Rex Tillerson just doesn’t want to talk about whether oil giant Exxon misled the public on climate change. It was a major bone of contention during his questioning at Thursday’s confirmation hearing for secretary of state. Exxon is currently being investigated for allegedly misleading the public about what it knew of climate change decades ago. […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, testified before a Senate panel Wednesday en route to what is expected to be an easy confirmation. Chao has a long track record in Washington and is widely respected on both sides of the aisle. She was deputy secretary of transportation under George […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, testified before a Senate panel Wednesday en route to what is expected to be an easy confirmation. Chao has a long track record in Washington and is widely respected on both sides of the aisle. She was deputy secretary of transportation under George […]

How did President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference go? He nailed it. It was strange, abusive, occasionally misleading. But he nailed it. And while the media will complain that he tried to silence individual reporters — which he did — the reality is that the conference was about as raw and detailed as you’re likely […]

Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin has built up a very diversified portfolio of assets during his years in both the worlds of finance and entertainment. Now he has to sell off the bulk of it in the span of a few months. Government conflict of interests laws require cabinet secretaries to sell off assets that […]

The Pentagon has deployed high-tech radar to keep watch for a potential North Korean long-range-missile launch in the coming months, according to a US defense official.   It is the first US military response to Pyongyang’s claim it could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. The sea-based X-band radar (SB-X) is able to track the long-range […]

Six Volkswagen executives were indicted Wednesday in connection with the carmaker’s emissions cheating scandal. The indictment was announced the day after Volkswagen said that it had agreed to pay $4.3 billion in federal fines and take the unusual step of pleading guilty to criminal charges. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that the six […]

It had been 169 days since President-elect Donald Trump — then the newly minted Republican nominee — took questions at an open news conference. On Wednesday, Trump broke the streak by hosting reporters, along with top aides, family and applauding staffers, for a wide-ranging, at times chaotic question-and-answer session. Here’s how it unfolded, minute-by-minute. All […]

The head of the Brazilian jail where 56 inmates were killed during a riot on New Year’s Day has been removed from office, state-run media agency Agencia Brasil reported. Jose Carvalho da Silva, the interim director of the Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex, was removed Tuesday after corruption allegations by two inmates became public. Silva’s removal […]

CLEARFIELD – A Clearfield woman whose 3-year-old daughter required medical attention after she took a Subutex pill was in Clearfield County Court Tuesday. Brittany Lee Maines, 23, pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person during plea and sentencing court. She was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to […]

Layla Wray is used to dealing with distressed callers all day long. She’s a 911 dispatcher in rural Madisonville, Texas. So maybe that’s why she stayed so calm late last weekend when she took a call — from her teen daughter — and found out her very own house was burning down. Dispatcher: “911 what’s […]

The Force was with Los Angeles. The board of directors for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced Tuesday that the City of Angels will be the site for the $1 billion facility that will house George Lucas’ personal art collection. The city’s Exposition Park will be the home of the futuristic building, which is […]

Yeehaw! The global oil industry is slated to make some big investments in 2017 following a painful two-year spending slump. And the U.S. — specifically Texas — is expected to lead the recovery. Industry research firm Wood Mackenzie predicts U.S. oil sector spending will grow by 23% to $61 billion this year as American companies […]

It sits on some of the world’s biggest oil and gas reserves, but the United Arab Emirates wants to burn much less fuel in future. The country, a core member of OPEC, plans to invest $163 billion to boost its use of alternative energy over the next three decades. That should increase clean energy’s share […]

In a derelict warehouse behind Belgrade’s main coach station, up to 2,000 migrants are trying to survive the freezing Serbian winter in a crumbling building with broken windows, heating, or warm water. It is -11 Celsius and a bitterly cold blizzard is lashing them while they try to warm up by burning wood outside the […]

If you thought last year was rough, just wait: 2017 promises to be a year of extreme risk. Weak economic growth, rising inequality, wild weather, data fraud, anti-establishment politics and forced migration are just some of the potential flashpoints highlighted by the World Economic Forum ahead of its annual meeting in Davos. And then there’s […]

In a derelict warehouse behind Belgrade’s main coach station, up to 2,000 migrants are trying to survive the freezing Serbian winter in a crumbling building with broken windows, heating, or warm water. It is -11 Celsius and a bitterly cold blizzard is lashing them while they try to warm up by burning wood outside the […]

President-elect Donald Trump is finally holding a press conference — 169 days after his last one and more than two months after he was elected. But for as much as has transpired since Trump’s last formal meeting with reporters on July 27, a flurry of reports about Russia are expected to dominate when reporters gather […]

More than 90% of the world’s population breathes in air that violates air quality guidelines set by the World Health Organization, increasing their risk of lung cancer and respiratory infections, but also conditions including stroke, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The situation has reached a tipping point, despite efforts to curb the issue. […]

Prosecutors have named the heir to the Samsung empire as a suspect in the massive corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea. Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who is expected to succeed his ailing father at the top of the country’s biggest conglomerate, has been summoned for questioning over suspicions that include bribery, the prosecutors’ […]

Dylann Roof will be formally sentenced Wednesday after jurors recommended the death penalty for killing nine people in a 2015 massacre at a historically black church in Charleston. Roof will become the first federal hate crime defendant to be sentenced to death, a Justice Department spokesman said. US District Judge Richard M. Gergel, who has […]

Outgoing President Barack Obama used his farewell address to praise his two daughters as his proudest achievement — but one was missing. First Lady Michelle Obama put her arm around Malia as the President spoke. “Malia,” Obama said, gesturing to his eldest daughter, “…and Sasha, under the strangest of circumstances, you have become two amazing […]

The officer involved in the deadly shooting of a black man in September does not bear criminal liability and was legally justified to shoot, according to San Diego’s district attorney. “After carefully reviewing the facts, the evidence and the law, we’ve determined the officer’s use of deadly force was reasonable under the circumstances,” Bonnie Dumanis […]

BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unverified memos alleging that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information about President-elect Donald Trump has set off a fierce debate about the ethics of the decision and the responsibilities of journalists. On Tuesday night, BuzzFeed published a 35 page document compiled by a former British intelligence operative. That publication […]