Новости за 22.01.2017

Prime real estate in the Trump White House, hiccups and help in filling important jobs, making sure agencies know who is boss — and a big question for the now former President Barack Obama. It’s all part of the Inside Politics forecast. 1) Location, location, location President Trump understands a key metric in real estate […]

The White House says it is in the beginning stages of discussions regarding President Donald Trump’s pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Sunday: “We are at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject.” Trump and Israeli Prime Minister […]

President Donald Trump will not release his tax returns — even after the audit he’s frequently cited is completed — senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday. In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Conway was pressed on whether the White House will respond to more than 200,000 petition signatures calling on Trump to release his […]

The New York Times is investigating an apparent hack of one of its Twitter accounts that happened Sunday morning. The newspaper’s video account, @nytvideo, tweeted around 9:40 a.m. ET a hoax about a missile attack from Russia against the United States. The message attributed news about the “missile attack” to a “leaked statement” from Russian […]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were “alternative facts,” a top Trump aide said Sunday. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd pressed Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway about why the White House on Saturday had sent Spicer […]

Compare photos of the scene at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 to images from the Women’s March in Washington on January 21.

The moment Donald Trump became the 45th President, some legal experts say he triggered a violation of the foreign emoluments clause in the Constitution, flouted the plain terms of the lease for his Washington hotel, and opened himself up to a dizzying array of ethical questions on financial conflicts of interests. For months, a vocal […]

Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham announced Sunday they will vote for President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, likely paving the way for his confirmation. The two, along with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, had up to now withheld their support. “Listen, this wasn’t an easy call. But I […]

Eleven people were killed in severe weather that struck southern Georgia in the overnight hours Saturday into Sunday. At least two of the deaths were in Brooks County. The deaths were confirmed by Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Catherine Howden. She said the agency was working to assess the damage. Gov. Nathan Deal declared a […]

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, said Sunday he doesn’t blame President Donald Trump for complaining about leaks from the intelligence community. “You’re going to see at the highest level of the past administration, at that level, I think, Donald Trump had a lot of problems with, and I don’t blame him for having […]

Delegates have begun arriving in Kazakhstan for peace talks on Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey. Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Anuar Zhainakov told CNN the Syrian opposition delegation had arrived at the capital Astana ahead of the talks. Representatives of Syria’s government are due to arrive later. “I can confirm that the delegations from Russia, […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will visit US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, likely making her the first foreign leader to meet with the newly inaugurated president. Speaking in a televised interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, May said she would discuss the countries’ future trade relations, the importance of […]

The families of victims on board the missing flight MH370 said Sunday they planned to hand-deliver a petition and personal letters to Malaysia’s transportation minister urging the search for the plane be resumed. Authorities from Malaysia, Australia and China, which have jointly carried out the needle-in-a-haystack search, announced Wednesday that the operation had been suspended […]

MARION CENTER – DuBois Area High School students participated with students from 30 other schools at the PMEA District 3 Chorus Festival recently at Marion Center. Under the direction of guest conductor, Dr. Christopher Kiver, director of choral activities at Penn State University, students rehearsed all day Thursday and Friday, Jan. 12-13 and performed a […]

CLEARFIELD – The pressed flower and plant art of Ed Anderson are now on exhibit at LHU Clearfield, and the public is invited to view. Anderson, a resident of Clearfield, has always been an artist of one medium or another, creating art in varying forms. He now chooses to work with nature by growing and pressing flowers […]

DUBOIS – Expanding the learning opportunities for students at DuBois Central Catholic Elementary School remains the goal of the highly-successful ELO Program, instituted three years ago to provide enrichment activities for students.   The program is scripture-based and teaches various disciplines, according to program coordinators, Chris Felix and Elaine Jacob. The most recent ELO Program was […]

The GANT weekly reload gives readers a look back upon the most noteworthy stories of their work week.  It contains the big headlines, as well as a few stories you might have missed. It might even include a story or two of the lighter side. The GANT reload will be posted each weekend for your perusal. For most […]

A day after his younger brother nearly upset one of the game’s greats at the Australian Open, Mischa Zverev went one better when he eliminated Andy Murray in four sets to hand the world No. 1 his worst grand slam defeat — in ranking — in a decade. Zverev — a net rushing German ranked […]

A 10-year-old girl and a three-month-old baby boy were among five people killed when a driver deliberately ran over pedestrians in a busy street in central Melbourne on Friday. Photos from the scene showed wreckage of a baby’s pram atop the car’s bonnet, as emergency workers attended to injured people nearby on the ground. Two […]

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake has struck west of Papua New Guinea. The quake was 153 kilometers (95.5 miles) deep and centered 40 kilometers (24 miles) west of the town of Panguna, according to the US Geological Survey. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has advised that tsunami waves of up to a meter above the tide […]

It was a trophy presentation that will stay with me forever. No fist pumps, no back-slapping, no shouting and screaming. There was barely even a team, just a handful of players choking back the tears as they lowered their heads to receive their medals. It was not a happy occasion. It was a brutal ordeal. […]

The Southeast is bracing for more severe weather Saturday night after a tornado killed four people in southern Mississippi earlier in the day. Parts of Mississippi could see tennis-ball sized hail and 60 mph wind gusts, the National Weather Service in Jackson said. Isolated flash flooding was also a threat. Severe weather was also expected […]

These gooey grilled cheese sandwiches, subtly seasoned with garlic, taste great for lunch with sliced apples. And they’re really fast to whip up, too. To save seconds, I soften the cream cheese in the microwave, then blend it with the rest of the ingredients in the same bowl. That makes cleanup a breeze. —Kathy Norris, […]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer launched into a tirade against the media Saturday, slamming what he said was unfair reporting of the attendance of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, along with other criticisms. Many of the facts he cited, however, are inaccurate. Here’s a look at some of Spicer’s claims. Floor coverings Claim: “This was […]

More than a million Americans took to the streets of the United States to protest Donald Trump the day after his inauguration. And that doesn’t include the many thousands of people who took part in the main event — The Women’s March on Washington — for which there was no official crowd estimate. CNN did […]