Новости за 09.03.2017

Who hasn’t complained about airline fees? Well, there’s apparently a limit to the degree a customer can gripe — especially if it happens in midair. It this case, it seems a chilly cabin — and a dispute over cold, hard cash — sparked a heated exchange Wednesday between a passenger and an employee of Hawaiian […]

Britain’s new tax on sugary drinks won’t come into effect for more than a year, but it’s already working. The government announced the new tax in 2016 as part of an effort to reduce childhood obesity, projecting that it would raise £520 million ($632 million) in additional revenue. But drinks companies, fearful that higher prices […]

On her first full day in Thailand to fulfill her lifelong dream of competing in an international beauty pageant, Camille Anderson wrapped a day of glamorous photo shoots and returned to her hotel room. And burst into tears. Maybe it was all too much. Twenty-five years earlier she had been Mark, an effeminate boy trying […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he does not believe Mexico will pay for a wall along the border, something President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised. The Kentucky Republican was asked at a Politico Playbook event in Washington if he believes Mexico will fund the project aimed at blocking illegal immigration along the southern […]

Here we go again: Crude oil is once again in selloff mode with prices sinking below the closely-watched $50 threshold. Oil has plunged 7% in the last two days, taking its first sub-$50 trip since mid-December. This breaks a period of relative stability in the oil patch since November, when OPEC reached a deal to […]

America has way too many stores — at a time when consumers are increasingly shopping online instead of at the mall. One retail CEO even compared the state of retail today to the housing bubble back in the mid-2000s. Urban Outfitters, Staples, Dick’s and Men’s Wearhouse/Jos. A Bank owner Tailored Brands all reported disappointing quarterly […]

Russia rejects claims it has deployed a cruise missile in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday. “Russia has been, remains and will remain committed to all international obligations, including those arising from the INF Treaty,” Peskov said. “I want to remind you of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s […]

President Trump’s pledge to unleash $1 trillion in infrastructure spending is generating a flurry of lobbying from an alphabet-soup list of trade groups whose members are jockeying to reap potentially huge benefits. In the latest and most sweeping publicity effort, the nation’s association of civil engineers said Thursday that the nation’s roads, dams, airports and […]

The Illinois special prosecutor investigating whether authorities manipulated evidence to convict an innocent man of a 1957 child murder soon may be answering to a special prosecutor himself. Brian Towne is conducting a perjury inquiry that is part of the fallout from a wrongful conviction in the kidnapping and murder nearly 60 years ago of […]

A group that aimed to raise $30 million to organize women voters to help elect Donald Trump came up millions of dollars short, FEC records show. Now one of the group’s co-founders, Tea Party activist Amy Kremer, is running for the U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 6th district. The “Women Vote Trump” PAC, co-founded by […]

An explosive headline about President Donald Trump rippled through Chinese media this week. But the outlets reporting it overlooked one important point — the story wasn’t real. Its source was a well regarded U.S. publication: The New Yorker. Chinese news websites slipped up by taking as fact a satirical article by author and comedian Andy […]

There are a bunch of questions circulating now about why Republicans decided to tackle enormous task of repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, instead of going after the issue tax reform first. Even President Donald Trump has said publicly that tax reform would be easier, so why go after Obamacare first? […]

By Joe Guistina, Lycoming College Associate Athletic Director/Communications WILLIAMSPORT — They are the two winningest wrestlers in Lycoming College program history, combining for 278 wins in their careers. They have taken Lycoming College from a program that didn’t have a national qualifier two years in a row to a program that has three All-American honors […]

Leaders of Turkey and Israel find themselves inside the walls of the Kremlin in the next two days as President Vladimir Putin tries to entrench Russia’s resurgent role in the Middle East. Putin’s interests hardly coincide with those of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — especially in Syria. But […]

An outbreak of yellow fever in rural Brazil is raising concerns that the disease could spread across borders to the US, like Zika, say two health experts writing in an essay published in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the likelihood of yellow fever outbreaks in the US is low, “travel-related cases of yellow […]

Over a century ago, in a Washington town called Bellingham, a xenophobic mob attacked a community of recent immigrants from India. Most of the victims were Sikhs. The incident occurred in 1907 at the height of the nativist movement in the United States and is remembered in history as the Bellingham Riot. Last Friday, about […]

1. Bull market birthday: America’s bull market turns eight years old on Thursday. The S&P 500 has shot up an incredible 250% since March 2009. But it would have to charge ahead for another four years to match the length of the longest bull market in history, which ran between 1987 and 2000. Investors aren’t […]

CLEARFIELD – New staff members are coming to the offices of Visit Clearfield County and the Clearfield County Recreation & Tourism Authority welcomed the new director and named other staff members during yesterday’s meeting. The new director, who was able to attend the meeting, is Josiah Jones, currently employed with the Community Guidance Center based […]

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Recreation & Tourism Authority board accepted the resignations of two board members yesterday, but instead of it being a sad occasion the board members were pleased as this indicates the authority is moving forward. County Commissioners and board members Mark McCracken and Tony Scotto will be stepping down after yesterday’s […]

CLEARFIELD – A DuBois man accused of trying to burglarize a home while he was out on bail for another burglary was scheduled for court this week. Torry David Gonzales, 34, was supposed to plead guilty in his original case where he and two others were charged with removing guns and other property worth more […]

Vice President Mike Pence avoided answering a question about whether he believed President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims. Trump alleged on Saturday without evidence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. On Wednesday, CNN affiliate WEWS’ reporter John Kosich asked the vice president a yes or no […]

AT&T wireless customers in several states were unable to make calls to 911 on Wednesday. The outage was resolved by Wednesday night, according to AT&T, but it had affected customers from coast to coast. Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, tweeted that his staff was investigating the incident. “We’re receiving reports of widespread […]

A man who allegedly posed as singer Justin Bieber online has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, including rape. The 42-year-old man allegedly used multiple platforms — including Facebook and Skype — to communicate with his victims, Australian police said in a statement Thursday. “The breadth of offenses committed in this instance […]

Twenty-one were killed after a fire tore through a youth home on Wednesday in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala, according to Jorge Mario Cruz, a spokesman for the country’s volunteer firefighter brigade. Video from the scene showed sobbing family members outside the home, banging on the doors looking for loved ones. Nineteen female residents of Virgen […]

An Illinois high school has been accused of body-shaming after a 21-slide presentation about acceptable prom attire was published online. Boylan Catholic High School’s guide says that girl’s dresses should not have necklines low enough to show cleavage, and that the skirts of the dresses should hit below the mid-thigh. Critics have taken issue with […]