Новости за 22.05.2017

The ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee is leaving open the option to hold Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress, after the former national security adviser said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena. Two other former Trump campaign officials have turned over documents to the Senate intelligence […]

Three Mississippi teens accused of killing a 6-year-old boy last week were denied bond during their first court appearances on Monday. Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest briefed reporters Monday about the case and said there would be no more arrests. The suspects have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Kingston […]

President Donald Trump made history on Monday when he became the first sitting president to visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism. But the trip was also “deeply meaningful” for daughter Ivanka, who appeared to cry as she visited the wall. The Western Wall sits in Jerusalem’s Old City, which was […]

Theresa May tried to rescue her faltering British election campaign on Monday by accusing her opponents of “playing on the fears of elderly and vulnerable people” and dismissing claims that she has broken voters’ trust. On the worst day so far of her campaign for re-election to Downing Street, the Prime Minister performed a U-turn […]

In the budget that President Donald Trump is expected to release Tuesday, CNN has reported that there will be $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid, which assumes that the reductions contained in the House health care bill become law. With all of the frenzied coverage of President Trump’s trip overseas and the ongoing investigation into […]

James “Jim” Robert Smith, 80, of DuBois died Sunday, May 21, 2017 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. Born in Falls Creek on Sept. 20, 1936, he was the son of the late Fredrick and Mildred (Jones) Smith.  On Sept. 21, 1957, he married Mary Jane Ball.  She survives. He […]

Charlene M. Kephart, 70, of Penfield died Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. She was born May 11, 1947 in Clearfield, a daughter of the late Carl D. Sr. and Nora D. (Hand) McCoy. She was a housewife and had also been employed by Shortway Products for nine years.  She was an […]

Longtime TV talk show star David Letterman, now in retirement, has no regrets about playing host to then-businessman and reality TV boss Donald Trump time and time again over the years. “I’m disappointed that this man is representing me and my country. It makes me sick,” he told GQ magazine in an interview published Monday. […]

Health insurers are not going to like this. The Trump administration and Congress are once again delaying their decision to fund Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies, according to a motion filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday. The move gives them another three months to come to a resolution. The payments reduce the deductibles and […]

Vice President Mike Pence’s commencement speech at Notre Dame on Sunday drew national attention due to the fact a group of students decided to protest the address by leaving once it began. How big a deal was the walk-out actually? And how did Pence do overall? I reached out to longtime South Bend Tribune political […]

Former President Barack Obama will sit side-by-side with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday in the first event of what will eventually become his worldwide program to inspire young people to create change. Obama will join Merkel at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to highlight his foundation’s new global effort to inspire and support young people […]

This much we do know: A white University of Maryland student is accused of fatally stabbing a black student who was visiting campus. What we don’t know is whether the suspect, who police say is a member of a Facebook group called Alt Reich, committed a hate crime. But the university’s police chief said the […]

We’re going to need a bigger boat — a much bigger boat. A buoy moored about 400 miles south of New Zealand recorded a monster wave Saturday towering nearly 20 meters high. The wall of water measured 19.4 meters (approximately 63.6 feet). “This is one of the largest waves recorded in the Southern Hemisphere,” said […]

President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism. Trump, wearing a yarmulke, placed his right hand on the wall and swayed slightly back and forth with his eyes closed. He was flanked by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, […]

Authorities in Nepal have denied reports that the famed “Hillary Step” on Mount Everest has collapsed, despite a veteran climber saying he saw it first hand during an ascent last week. Mountaineer Tim Mosedale, from Everest Expedition, said he passed the sheer rock face near the summit on May 16 and all that remains of […]

Video has emerged of a little girl being dragged off a pier and into the water Saturday by a sea lion in British Columbia. The girl’s family reportedly had been feeding the sea lion and whistling or holding their hands over the water, as if they were holding a treat. The video shows the emboldened […]

A raid by police on a gym and sauna in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday evening is being seen by some as the latest evidence of a crackdown on the rights of the country’s LGBT population. Police detained 141 men as part of the raid on the establishment in North Jakarta, said Polda Metro […]

The 2017 Billboard Music Awards were held Sunday in Las Vegas and oh what a night. In case you missed it, here’s what folks are buzzing about: Drake breaks records and mends fences Drizzy owned the evening. The rapper took home 13 awards including top artist, surpassing singer Adele’s 12 trophies for the most wins […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his New Year’s resolution to visit and meet people from every U.S. state this year doesn’t mean he’s currently running for public office. “Some of you have asked if this challenge means I’m running for public office. I’m not,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post late Sunday. Speculation that Zuckerberg […]

Doris A. Crain, 78, of Gearhartville died Saturday, May 20, 2017 at Windy Hill Village. Born May 4, 1939 in Philipsburg, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Mary (Burton) Long. She was a 1957 graduate of Philipsburg High School. She attended G-Free Methodist Church. She had worked at the former McCrory’s 5&10 […]

The FBI is helping to evaluate whether the fatal stabbing by a white student of a black student visiting the University of Maryland will be prosecuted as a hate crime, university police said Sunday. Richard Wilbur Collins III was with two friends on the university’s campus in College Park when he was approached by a […]

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will depart on an official five-day visit to Moscow Monday, as part of an effort to realign his country’s foreign policy away from longtime ally the United States. Under Duterte, who took office in June 2016, the Philippines has made overtures toward Beijing and Moscow — seeing the countries as a […]

US President Donald Trump arrives in Israel Monday in search of what he has called “the ultimate deal”. When he hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington earlier this month, Trump said: “we will get it done,” as the two men discussed a deal to end the conflict in the Middle East. But like so […]

The name BTS may not be familiar to the majority of Americans, but that didn’t stop the South Korean boy band from making history Sunday night, when they became the first K-pop group to clinch a Billboard Music Award. Beating out US favorites Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes, BTS scooped the […]

Seth Meyers may have issued an on-air invite to House Speaker Paul Ryan, but the “Late Night” host is not holding his breath waiting for the RSVP. “I have great doubts he will ever come on our show,” Meyers told reporters in a recent roundtable. “Paul Ryan will go on any show if he can […]