Новости за 22.02.2017

Berwick– Some residents in a nearby Pennsylvania town say they are upset after finding fliers for the Ku Klux Klan in their yards.

The promises of 5G have been swirling for the last few years — but, finally, the mobile broadband service is getting closer to reality. Verizon announced Wednesday that it will begin testing its fifth-generation wireless service in 11 markets across the country, from rural areas to dense urban centers. 5G provides speeds up to 40 […]

A Missouri man says his neighbor told him a grass fire that spread to his home was initially started as an attempt to get moles out of the yard.

Kellyanne Conway, once the most visible spokesperson for the Trump White House, has been sidelined from television appearances for making statements that were at odds with the administration’s official stance, White House sources told CNNMoney on Wednesday. Conway has not given a television interview since early last week. On that Monday, she claimed that former […]

SodaStream is recalling tens of thousands of bottles because they could explode. The company is recalling 51,000 of its carbonating bottles in the United States and 7,600 sold in Canada because of the risk that they could burst under pressure, SodaStream and American regulators said. There have been no reports of actual explosions, the company […]

Investors have a lot to choose from when picking stocks to buy. But many are honing in on a handful of larger than life blue chips. The 10 biggest companies in the S&P 500 index are collectively worth $4.36 trillion. The entire S&P 500 recently topped $20 trillion in value for the first time. So […]

Russia hit back Wednesday over allegations it was involved in a failed coup in Montenegro and an attempt to assassinate the country’s former Prime Minister, describing the claims as damaging to relations between the two nations. Montenegro’s chief special prosecutor has said that authorities believe Russian security services were involved in a plot to kill […]

State police at Clearfield State police responded to a report of a crash Sunday on Splash Dam Road in Penn Township. According to state police, a Curwensville male was traveling east when he lost control of his pick-up. He was reportedly traveling too fast for the roadway, causing his vehicle to go too far south […]

Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-like planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This discovery outside of our solar system is rare because the planets have the winning combination […]

Crews working on an English harbor found an unexploded World War II-era German bomb containing 290 pounds of explosives. Fortunately, authorities were able to carefully tow it out of the harbor and into open water where it was detonated. A dredger spotted the bomb at the bottom of Portsmouth harbor early Wednesday morning. The harbor […]

ST. MARYS — Curwensville Area High School standouts Hannah Dixon and Madison Weber offset the production of Port Allegany’s high-scoring backcourt tandem, but the Lady Gators got more points from their other starters and reserves to oust the Lady Tide from the District 9 Class AA girls basketball playoffs, 60-46, on the Elk County Catholic […]

Bye-bye, dirty fossil fuels. The clean-energy era is here. That’s the promise of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 132 countries, including the United States, have ratified or accepted, pledging to make the air less deadly and to prevent the most catastrophic consequences of global warming. Donald Trump threatens to undermine all that. It’s […]

Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here. 1. Travel ban and immigration Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency was fueled by his hardline stance on immigration. The next […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives Wednesday in Mexico, formerly one of the more stress-free work trips the top US diplomat could take. No more. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies have cranked up the tension in US-Mexico relations to a high not seen in decades. He’s blamed the country for sending rapists into the […]

President Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, hasn’t shied away from expressing strong public opinions on military and strategic issues. That makes the celebrated military strategist and thinker unusual in the ranks of the Army, which decorated him for his multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also makes […]

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign a new executive order this week that would temporarily halt travel from citizens of seven nations he says pose a high risk of terrorism. Before it was halted in the courts, his initial order caused chaos at airports and prompted outrage around the world. German chancellor Angela […]

The UK Supreme Court upheld immigration rules Wednesday that require British citizens to have a certain level of income to bring their foreign spouses to Britain. Since new rules were introduced in 2012, the UK partner — a British citizen or recognized refugee — must have a minimum annual income of at least £18,600 (around […]

A major European conglomerate says one of its employees in South Korea has gone missing — along with $100 million. Power and robotics firm ABB announced Wednesday that it has “uncovered a sophisticated criminal scheme” at its South Korean unit. It only noticed the huge sums had been stolen after the treasurer of the subsidiary […]

1. Getting greedy: Wall Street is on a major winning streak. The Dow Jones industrial average posted an eighth consecutive record on Tuesday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are also sitting at their highest levels ever. Will the rally continue? It’s hard to say: U.S. stock futures were little changed on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the CNNMoney […]

Peace in Eastern Ukraine remains tenuous as a spate of violations of a newly implemented ceasefire continued overnight into Wednesday. On Tuesday, the head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the ceasefire wasn’t having the effect that his organization was hoping. “It’s not really quiet on the line of contact […]

“One word the police use a lot is ‘troublemakers’.” The hint of a smile crosses Zhang Zhiru’s face as he says this, crammed in an elevator with the contents of his office, which he has had to move more than a dozen times in recent years. Zhang is one of a shrinking number of Chinese […]

As Wednesday’s deadline set by the governor to evacuate the Standing Rock camp site looms, a number of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have vowed to stay put. Last week, Gov. Doug Burgum signed an emergency evacuation order of the property to allow private contractors to remove waste from the Oceti Sakowin camp area, which officials […]

President Donald Trump is preparing to seize on a second chance to make a first impression with the release this week of a new executive order temporarily halting travel from citizens of seven nations he says pose a high risk of terrorism. The order will form the second thrust of a new administration push to […]

A total of 214 people have been indicted so far on felony rioting charges in connection with the Inauguration Day protests in downtown Washington. On the morning of January 20, protests over Donald Trump’s inauguration turned violent when black-clad “anti-fascist” protesters smashed storefronts and bus stops, hammered out the windows of a limousine and eventually […]

Rep. Dave Brat faced a raucous crowd Tuesday night at a town hall here in the outer edge of his district, where a majority of the room interrupted him with angry shouts and jeers. The Virginia Republican took at least 34 questions for over an hour and at times appeared to enjoy the back-and-forth. “I […]