Новости за 18.09.2017

Actress Kate Walsh, best known for her role in the TV series “Grey’s Anatomy,” went public on Monday with a brain tumor diagnosis in 2015. “I was shocked,” Walsh said of the moment doctors revealed her MRI results. “It was not what I expected.” Walsh was diagnosed with a meningioma: a tumor arising from the […]

A Georgia Tech senior was shot in the heart because a campus police officer “overreacted,” the attorney for the student’s family said at a news conference Monday. Georgia Tech Police officers responded to a 911 call at 11:17 p.m. Saturday reporting a person with a knife and a gun on the downtown Atlanta campus. They […]

Bad karaoke, “Top Gun” references and motorcycles — a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia put all that and more in his latest campaign video. Dan Helmer, a Democrat running to unseat Rep. Barbara Comstock in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, released his latest campaign video Monday, and it has been making the rounds on social […]

September was shaping up to be a decent month for Democrats. They scored a tactical victory when President Donald Trump made an unexpected concession to Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, ceding an upper hand to the minority party in upcoming negotiations. Reveling in the positive reviews, Trump appeared poised to pursue more bipartisan […]

Travel photographer Austin Mann was taking a wide shot on his new iPhone 8 Plus last week when he noticed a young boy peeking his head out of a train window. He changed the device’s feature to Portrait Mode and captured the image before the train sped off. Mann, who is from Wichita, Kansas, is […]

September was shaping up to be a decent month for Democrats. They scored a tactical victory when President Donald Trump made an unexpected concession to Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, ceding an upper hand to the minority party in upcoming negotiations. Reveling in the positive reviews, Trump appeared poised to pursue more bipartisan […]

A young doctor just three years out of medical school talked a frantic father in Miami through delivering his baby’s placenta as Hurricane Irma’s winds whipped outside his door. The placenta was stuck inside the uterus — a potentially deadly situation for the mother. At 3:30 Sunday morning, the baby’s father, David Knight, called 911. […]

Ivanka Trump is back in her native New York City and stepping out on her own for meetings at the United Nations General Assembly this week. Joining her father at UNGA, the first daughter and senior adviser to the President will privately attend meetings of her own, a source familiar with the meetings told CNN. […]

Amid increased tensions with North Korea, a group of Senate Democrats have written a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to make appointments to several unfilled posts with responsibility for the region, including the ambassador to South Korea. The letter’s 10 authors, including members of the Intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations committees, expressed […]

Sean Spicer was wrong again about audience size. The 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards averaged 11.4 million viewers on Sunday night, according to CBS. That is about even with last year’s telecast, which was the least-watched Emmys on record with 11.3 million viewers. The ceremony included its fair share of surprises. Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” […]

Puerto Rico is years into an economic crisis. Now it’s facing a potential natural disaster. Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello has declared a state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Maria, which may hit the island on Wednesday. It’s already deep in a years-long debt debacle spurred by mismanaged funds, archaic energy policies and a struggling […]

Anthony J. “Snake” Mitravich Jr., 68, of DuBois died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 at his home. Born of April 10, 1949, he was the son of the late Anthony and Eugenia (Egan) Mitravich Sr. He was a 1967 graduate of Central Christian High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in October of 1967. He […]

In interviews over the last week surrounding the release of her 2016 memoir “What Happened,” Hillary Clinton has been hugely critical of President Donald Trump. She’s suggested he is a misogynist and said repeatedly that she fears for the country with Trump in charge. But in an interview Monday with NPR’s Terry Gross, Clinton raised […]

Republican leaders are serious about one last attempt to overhaul Obamacare. What began last week as a long-shot option after Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana introduced their latest blueprint to overhaul the health care system has transformed into an all-hands-on-deck operation at the Capitol ahead of a September […]

It’s official: Laura Ingraham is Fox News’ newest primetime host. As CNN first reported last week, Ingraham will take over the 10 p.m. slot and the rest of Fox News’ primetime lineup will change. Ingraham’s show will be called “The Ingraham Angle,” and will debut on October 30th, the network announced Monday. In advance of […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that America will pay a “high cost” if US President Donald Trump makes good on his threats to scrap the Iran nuclear deal. Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNN in New York, Rouhani said: “Exiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United States of […]

Hillary Clinton, in an interview that aired Monday on NPR, said she “would not” rule out questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election if Russian interference is deeper than currently known. The comment, a remarkable step for the former Democratic nominee, exemplifies Clinton’s belief that President Donald Trump and his campaign could have knowingly received […]

Even if you’re cautious, it’s still possible for hackers to infiltrate your computer. The latest security breach targeted British software firm Piriform, known for its free software CCleaner. Hackers compromised CCleaner in a sophisticated attack that affected over 2 million computers, security researchers and Piriform confirmed Monday. CCleaner deletes unneeded files and web browser caches […]

Christmas is still more than three months away. But it looks like investors in several toy makers may be left with lumps of coal in their stockings thanks to concerns that one of their biggest customers could be in trouble. Shares of industry leaders Hasbro and Mattel as well as smaller toy company Jakks Pacific […]

Hurricane Maria’s brute force doubled in strength as it barreled toward Caribbean islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma. On Monday afternoon, Maria was hurling winds of 125 mph (200 kilometers per hour) as it closed in on the Caribbean and took aim at Puerto Rico. That’s nearly twice the hurricane’s strength from just 24 hours […]

Like all of President Donald Trump’s enemies, Kim Jong Un now has a catchy nickname — “Rocket Man.” Trump will always be Trump, no matter international protocol or the gravity of a national security crisis. Yet mocking Kim, as Trump did on Sunday in a tweet, cannot disguise a sobering reality that the North Korean […]

PENNSYLVANIA – Average retail gasoline prices in Pennsylvania have fallen 2.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.85/gallon yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 5,269 gas outlets in Pennsylvania. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.60/gallon, according to gasoline price […]

All eyes are on New York City as leaders from around the world convene at the United Nations for the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. While President Donald Trump’s first appearance and address — which UN ambassador Nikki Haley has said “slaps the right people” and “hugs the right people”– will certainly make […]

From the moment Sean Spicer — yes, the real one, not Melissa McCarthy — stepped on stage at the Emmys on Sunday night, the show amounted to a full-out roast of President Trump. “And in 2017, we still refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot,” said Lily Tomlin, who was standing […]

It’s fair to say Jermaine Fowler stole the Emmys show on Sunday night. In between award presentations and host Stephen Colbert’s segments, Fowler injected humor and energy into a three-hour-long show at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. The Emmy announcer dazzled the audience with trivia about Kate McKinnon and Laura Dern and gave shout-outs to “Insecure” […]