Новости за 11.08.2017

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer appeared to break with President Donald Trump on Thursday over the President’s intention to ban transgender individuals from serving in the US military. Asked about Trump’s transgender ban, Spencer said Thursday he would carry out any order given — but added that he believed “any patriot” who wanted to serve in […]

The city of Long Beach, California, will pay $85,000 to settle a 2016 lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman after an officer forcibly removed her hijab, or headscarf, when she was in police custody. The incident started when Kirsty Powell and her husband were pulled over by police for driving a “low rider” car, according […]

A Wall Street bank is starting to turn a cold shoulder on Venezuela amid the nation’s political crisis. Credit Suisse is banning its bond traders from buying two specific Venezuelan bonds — one from the government and another from the state-run oil company PDVSA, or Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. It is the first major global […]

Visitors to some British beaches are in for a surprising sight when they head to the coast for some sun, sea and sand: four enormous plastic pipes have washed ashore along the East Anglian coast. The brand new bore pipes were being towed to Algeria, where they were “destined for a large project,” according to […]

In the end, perhaps fittingly, it was a question of money. After a four-and-a-half month review, the Bank of England decided it would simply cost too much money to switch production of the UK’s new plastic five-pound notes from a polymer that contained tallow to one containing palm oil. Or from an “animal slaughter-derived polymer,” […]

Recently, Amazon announced the development of “Black America,” a series by producer Will Packer and “Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder, which imagines a group of newly-freed black slaves controlling parts of the South following the Civil War and after post-Reconstruction reparations. From Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, they form a nation called New Colonia. While the show […]

BELL TOWNSHIP – A Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal is investigating a house fire that occurred at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday at 5922 Colonel Drake Hwy., in Bell Township. According to the Punxsutawney-based state police, the fire destroyed a single-story residence. The victim, Robert Litz, 65, of Mahaffey, and his family were out of town at […]

Several key Republican senators are leaping to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s defense as the Kentucky lawmaker’s relationship with President Donald Trump continues to deteriorate. Sen. John Cornyn, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, voiced support for McConnell on Twitter Friday, saying that “no one is more qualified” than the Senate majority leader to […]

The doom-and-gloom crowd on Wall Street is making a comeback. After months of relentless rallies, the U.S. stock market is finally showing some cracks. The S&P 500 is on track for its worst week in nearly five months, and Wall Street’s fear gauge has spiked by the most in almost three years. The big winners? […]

You probably recognize designer Olof Bäckström’s classic orange-handled scissors. The company that makes them, Fiskars, claims to have sold over a billion worldwide, so there’s a good chance you have a pair at home. But you may not know this: In Bäckström’s homeland of Finland, the scissors are so iconic that their 50th birthday is […]

Canadian officials confirmed that a diplomat in Havana suffered from “unusual symptoms” just one day after the US said its diplomats in Cuba were targeted by an “acoustic attack.” In a statement, a spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada said the country is “aware of unusual symptoms affecting Canadian and US diplomatic personnel and their families […]

Washington is gearing up for a busy fall loaded with a number of fiscal issues, perhaps the most mammoth of which is comprehensive tax reform. Leaders from both the White House and Congress have been working quietly for months on the topic. While the White House is eager to get a bill passed by the […]

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As late-night comedians ramp up their roles as political commentators in the age of President Donald Trump, CNN’s #GetPolitical series caught up with comedian Lizz Winstead — the co-creator and former head writer of “The Daily Show” — to talk politics, comedy and social activism. Winstead, who backed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, […]

At 37 years old, Lisa Pessah-Bloom, a mother of three, was pre-diabetic, struggling with losing postpartum pounds and concerned about her health. “I had gestational diabetes for all three of my pregnancies. After my third, my A1C (blood sugar measurement) kept rising, and the doctor told me for the first time to be careful, because […]

1. Nervous markets: Global markets are heading for a third consecutive day of losses amid growing tensions between North Korea and the U.S. U.S. stock futures were pointing to a weaker open on Friday. European markets were also in the red following a negative session in Asia. Investors are increasingly nervous: The VIX volatility index, […]

Some of China’s biggest tech companies are in trouble with the country’s powerful internet regulator over activity on their social media platforms. The Cyberspace Administration of China said it’s investigating Tencent, the owner of the country’s biggest messaging app; Baidu, the dominant Chinese search engine; and Weibo, the leading Twitter-like microblog service. Shares of Tencent, […]

Months after the underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was called off, an American company is offering to resume the hunt for the missing airliner. Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based firm that specializes in seabed exploration technology, told CNNMoney on Friday that it has submitted an offer to search for the remains of the Boeing […]

CLEARFIELD – A public meeting will provide the opportunity for municipalities to speak out regarding the proposed landfill in Boggs Township. At Thursday’s work session, the Clearfield Borough Council discussed a local municipality involvement process meeting to discuss the landfill permit application received by the Department of Environmental Protection. Borough Operations Manager Leslie Stott said […]

A car which plunged 500 feet (152 meters) off a cliff into a raging river may contain the bodies of two missing Thai students. Police in Fresno, California have been working for two weeks to try and retrieve the vehicle, which is stuck in the middle of a fast-moving part of Kings River. In a […]

A car which plunged 500 feet (152 meters) off a cliff into a raging river may contain the corpses of a missing Thai couple. Police in Fresno, California have been working for two weeks to try and retrieve the vehicle, which is stuck in the middle of a fast-moving part of Kings River. In a […]

President Trump was not surprisingly spoofed by “Saturday Night Live’s” summer “Weekend Update” premiere, but it turned out that Anthony Scaramucci — the short-term White House communications director — offered a more enticing target. “SNL” alumnus Bill Hader played Scaramucci, who referred to himself as “the Mooch” and insisted he had “no regrets, baby” about […]

Josh Lopez drove in two runs for the State College Spikes, but Oscar Rojas gave the Hudson Valley Renegades the winning run in the ninth with a sacrifice fly as the Renegades took a 4-3 win over the Spikes on Thursday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

An Oregon woman who says she accidentally suffocated her newborn baby after falling asleep with him in her hospital bed has filed an $8.6 million lawsuit against the institution, Portland Adventist Medical Center, and a nurse there, according to court documents. The mother, Monica Thompson, filed the suit last week Multnomah County Circuit Court. She […]

An Ohio doughnut shop has voluntarily closed as public health workers investigate a norovirus outbreak affecting 266 people, according to county health officials. Mama C’s Donuts and Coffee in Maumee, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo, volunteered to shut its doors Tuesday after the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department informed the owners that the restaurant is associated […]