Новости за 26.08.2017

In 1973, when President Richard Nixon proclaimed August 26 Women’s Equality Day — commemorating the day in 1920 that women won the right to vote — a woman could still be denied housing by a real estate broker or credit by a bank, simply because of her gender. Employers could fire a woman who became […]

Hurricane Harvey slammed directly into the coastal Texas city of Rockport overnight, knocking down trees and signs, bending utility poles in half like toothpicks, and blowing out the windows of police cars. At least one person died in a house fire during the storm, Aransas County Judge Burt Mills said, and about a dozen others […]

Hurricane Harvey slammed directly into the coastal Texas city Rockport overnight, knocking down trees and signs, bending utility poles in half like toothpicks, and blowing out the windows of police cars. In addition, a hotel wall fell in, the high school suffered major damage, and business and homes suffered “catastrophic damage,” Rockport Mayor Charles Wax […]

Hurricane Harvey made landfall late Friday in Texas as a Category 4 storm, battering the coast with 130-mph winds and torrential rain. It was the strongest hurricane to hit the United States in more than a decade. This is what parts of South Texas looked like the morning after: Rockport Corpus Christi Portland Portland, Texas, […]

Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn sought Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the attempt to find the hackers who had allegedly stolen Clinton’s emails was headed by now-deceased […]

Saturday morning turned out to be social-media-free for a number of Facebook and Instagram users, albeit involuntarily. Some people reported difficulties accessing the two social platforms beginning at about 9 a.m. ET, according to Down Detector, a site that tracks real-time outages and other online issues. Facebook acknowledged the outage in a statement sent to […]

Texans who rode out the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States in a decade ventured out Saturday to find “widespread devastation” as Hurricane Harvey lumbered north in what was “now turning into a deadly inland event.” With dire warnings of tornadoes, torrential downpours and days of flooding to come, broad swaths of southeast […]

President Donald Trump issued a major disaster declaration as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday evening. Trump directed federal aid toward the state’s recovery efforts in affected areas, the White House said in a statement. “Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and […]

President Donald Trump provided reassurances about the emergency response to Hurricane Harvey on Saturday morning, tweeting that he is “closely monitoring” the situation from Camp David as the storm dumps torrents of rain on Texas and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without power. “We are leaving nothing to chance. City, State and Federal Govs. […]

Bands of heavy rain from Hurricane Harvey began pummeling Houston early Saturday as the flood-prone city braced for what could be several days of downpours as the monster storm hovers over Texas. Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 storm late Friday between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas, about 150 miles southwest of Houston, […]

Iraqi forces have now seized control of most of the strategically significant city of Tal Afar from ISIS, the Iraqi Joint Military Command said Saturday. Iraqi Joint Military Command spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool said units from the joint Iraqi forces are in full control of 60% of the “operational area” and 90% of the […]

President Donald Trump’s decision — announced late Friday night — to pardon controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the Platonic ideal of Trumpism. “Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration,” read a statement released by the White House. […]

The happy couple wore matching cream flower garlands in their hair but, although they were married in front of thousands of witnesses, their union isn’t legal. Jane Mahoney, 28, and Josie Lennie, 26, danced and kissed in front of the crowd after a celebrant officiated a “mass illegal wedding” in Melbourne, Australia Saturday. “We’ve been […]

The number of people killed in clashes in northern India after a controversial spiritual leader was found guilty of raping two of his followers climbed Saturday to 28, according to local official Gauri Prashar Joshi. Flamboyant spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted Friday in a case that dates back to 1999. Following the […]

CLEARFIELD – A Curwensville man will be spending time in state prison for robbing a local drug store at gun point. Jeff A. Ullery, 41, pleaded guilty before Judge Paul E. Cherry to robbery and possession of a firearm prohibited during sentencing court Friday. He was sentenced to serve five to 10 years in state […]

HERSHEY, Pa. — Most brain cancers start elsewhere in the body, but one particularly aggressive and uncommon form — glioblastoma — originates in the brain itself. Sen. John McCain of Arizona was recently diagnosed with the disease, which also was blamed for the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts in 2009. “The big problem […]

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP – Lawrence Township police conducted an aggressive driving detail from 6 p.m. Thursday until 2 a.m. Friday. The detail was conducted on numerous roadways within the township. It resulted in two DUI arrests; one drug arrest; the service of an out-of-state and a local warrant; and the issuance of 10 traffic citations. Police […]

DUBOIS – Penn State DuBois Outreach will offer two technical workshops that aid those employed in the manufacturing industry in the area. The Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) is a class designed to provide an in-depth view of the AIAG Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) Fourth Edition. The students will discuss the different topics of […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A high volume of donations by Class of 2021 students are making food and personal care items more accessible for Penn State students this year. Established in 2014, Lion’s Pantry is a student-run food pantry that welcomes undergraduate and graduate students who have a valid Penn State ID. The facility is […]

A controversial rally in San Francisco scheduled for Saturday has been replaced with a news conference, while in nearby Berkeley the organizer of an anti-Marxism rally has requested that no one attend Sunday. Officials from the liberal Bay Area cities had expressed concern that the rallies could attract extremists and spark violent confrontations. Organizers of […]

Counterterrorism officers are investigating after two police officers were injured arresting a man with a large knife outside Buckingham Palace, London’s Metropolitan Police said Saturday. A 26-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault on police. He has now also been arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said. […]

Hurricane Harvey hit South Texas head-on late Friday, with the Category 4 storm unleashing torrential rain and blasing winds, and leaving thousands without power. The powerful eye wall of Harvey reached land by 11 p.m. ET between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas, with winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It is […]

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Friday that he is “100% confident” that the government will raise the federal debt ceiling, a day after President Donald Trump publicly criticized the Republican-led Congress via Twitter for not having accomplished it already. Congress has until the end of September to either raise the debt limit or default. The […]

North Korea launched a barrage of missiles Saturday, less than one week after being praised by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for showing ‘restraint’ in its weapons program. Pyongyang fired three short-range ballistic missiles from the Kangwon province, according to US Pacific Command. The launches occurred in the midst of the US and South […]

As the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the US in more than a decade took aim at Texas, President Donald Trump’s White House engaged in an age-old Washington tradition: the Friday news dump. Transgender individuals? Banned from joining the military. Convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Officially pardoned. Controversial White House adviser Sebastian Gorka? Out of […]