Новости за 31.01.2017

Lyft is having what could only be described as a banner week. The ride-hailing service earned praise from customers for condemning President Trump’s travel ban and pledging to donate $1 million to the ACLU over the next four years. Many on social media urged followers to #DeleteUber for appearing to break up a driver strike […]

President Trump and Republicans want to make lots of changes to taxes, health care, defense and infrastructure. Expensive changes. But many Congressional Republicans also want to achieve the fiscal holy grail: a balanced budget in 10 years. The most conservative among them want a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and have been willing to […]

Anthony ‘Whane’ Thomas of Hyde died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. He was born Sept. 10, 1950 in Riddlesburg, a son of the late Robert Franklin and Antonia (Sacratini) Thomas. He was employed at Douglas Explosives of Philipsburg as the head of safety and compliance.  He was also a licensed blaster. He graduated from Tussey Mountain […]

Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education, was approved by a Senate committee vote Tuesday — twice — despite Democratic efforts to derail her confirmation process. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted two times 12-11, along party lines, to approve her nomination. The second vote came […]

HYDE — With no classes due to the heavy snowfall, the Clearfield Area High School boys basketball team’s Mountain League home game with Bald Eagle Area was postponed to Wednesday night, athletic director Robert Gearhart announced. The reigning champion Bison (17-1, 11-1 ML) can clinch at least a tie for first place with a win […]

The American Civil Liberties Union wants to learn how to grow like a Silicon Valley startup. On Tuesday, Y Combinator announced that the ACLU is participating in its winter accelerator program. The announcement comes on the heels of the nonprofit’s massive weekend fundraising. It said it received $24.1 million in online donations over the weekend […]

All-American beer company Budweiser is famous for classic, tear-jerking Super Bowl commercials with golden retrievers and Clydesdales. This year, Budweiser’s sneak peek of its commercial departs from their normal content and instead tells the story of company co-founder, Adolphus Busch, as he emigrates from Germany to the United States. The commercial, titled “Born the Hard […]

2017 is only a month old, but it’s already seen its share of protests all over the world: on the streets, in public squares, in airports. But Maine may be the only place where a day of protest meant a day at the beach. A group of friends got together early Sunday morning at Sand […]

Anthony Scaramucci is such a fierce defender of Wall Street that he once called a critic “anti-American” and dismissed him as “another hack politician.” That politician? Donald Trump. “He’s got a big mouth,” Scaramucci said on Fox Business in August 2015, after Trump criticized “hedge fund guys paying nothing” in taxes. “You’re an inherited money […]

The two judges who have been considered the top finalists to be President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman — are being brought to Washington ahead of tonight’s White House announcement, sources tell CNN. The move comes as there were increasing indications that Gorsuch will be Trump’s choice, […]

Amid the hue and cry over President Trump’s travel ban, news of another potential change to American immigration rules has set off a panic attack in India’s tech industry. Major Indian tech shares took a nosedive on Tuesday on reports that Trump is planning to make changes to the H-1B visa program that allows skilled […]

On January 20th, our nation witnessed the peaceful transfer of power with the inauguration of a new president. The next morning, America awakened to a peaceful show of power from millions of women and men across the country, and indeed across the world, in the Women’s March. Women and their families marched to show our […]

When outsiders think of rural Texas, their thoughts tend to run toward cactus, tumbleweeds, oil derricks, coyotes and armadillos, cowboys and pickup trucks. Say “rural Texas” to an old-school Houstonian, and you get a different picture. Often as not, their minds will run to the Brenham area about 75 miles northwest of downtown Houston. It’s […]

On a recent Friday morning, Cazembe Jackson donned a sharp blue suit and green paisley tie and made his way to Atlanta’s Midtown US passport office. It was a day he had long been waiting for, one he thought might never come. He took a number and sat with friends who were there for the […]

With all of the political talk dominating the headlines, we almost forgot that it’s Super Bowl week. And the storyline for Super Bowl LI looks very familiar. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Acting attorney general fired President Trump got to engage in his old […]

The Austrian government has announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil in public, part of a raft of measures to contain the rise of the far-right Freedom Party. The plan — which would ban the burqa, niqab and other face-covering veils — echoes calls made last month by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a […]

British lawmakers will on Tuesday debate the parliamentary bill that will give Prime Minister Theresa May the go ahead to withdraw from the European Union. Members of Parliament have been given until midnight to discuss the proposed legislation that would allow May to invoke Article 50 of the EU Treaty and start two years of […]

Businesses and some pro-economic growth Republican think tanks are worried about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies — and they’re hoping that maybe the businessman in chief might be influenced by their message. Their appeal to the famous negotiator: Think about the economy. In just over a week of his presidency, Trump has already issued a […]

In the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito identified a fault line in the tumultuous relationship between the news media and Trump supporters. The press, she wrote, had taken then-candidate Donald Trump “literally, but not seriously,” while his backers regarded his statements “seriously, but not literally.” If you’re not […]

Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, John McEnroe vs. Bjorn Borg, Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier — sporting history is built on fierce rivalries. It’s something basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas knows all about. His Detroit Pistons side — back-to-back NBA champion in 1989 and 1990 — relished feisty, physical encounters with rivals the Chicago Bulls […]

Major League Baseball has ruled that the St. Louis Cardinals have to hand over their top two draft picks and pay the Houston Astros $2 million after Chris Correa, the team’s former director of scouting was found guilty of hacking the rival team’s player roster. CNN St. Louis affiliate KSDK reports that the MLB Commissioner […]

The big fines keep coming for Deutsche Bank. The giant German lender has now been hit with a $425 million penalty in the U.S. over a $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme that involved its Moscow, New York and London branches. It follows a $7.2 billion settlement Deutsche Bank reached with the U.S. Department of Justice […]

President Donald Trump begins his 11th day in office shrouded in crisis, roundly criticized for a chaotic unveiling of immigration measures and under new scrutiny after he fired the nation’s top law enforcement officer who refused to enforce them. On an extraordinary night of political drama Monday, the President dismissed acting attorney general Sally Yates […]

Americans from coast to coast took to the streets for the third consecutive day in support of immigrants and refugees affected by President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. Signed Friday, the executive order bars refugees from entering the country for 120 days, and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations for the next three months. Protesters […]

The alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks that killed 164 in Mumbai, India, has been placed under house arrest in Pakistan. Hafiz Mohammed Saeed — the leader of Pakistan’s Jamaat-Ud-Dawa (JUD) — was detained in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, according to a government statement released late Sunday. Saeed is under detention in the town […]