Новости за 30.09.2017

Ten days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, 15-year-old Salvador Gomez Colon and his family are hunkered down in their apartment in San Juan, rationing food and water they stored before the storm hit. His mother Marta has been eating just one meal a day and small “tidbits” after that to ensure Salvador, his father, […]

Major U.S. labor unions are organizing truck drivers to help with relief efforts in Puerto Rico as the island continues to grapple with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria last week. The Teamsters union and the AFL-CIO, a federation of more than 50 unions, are working together to recruit truckers to travel to Puerto Rico […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Saturday that the US has direct lines of communication to North Korea, and his immediate goal is to “calm things down” in the international standoff over the country’s nuclear weapons program. Tillerson was responding to a question at a news conference in Beijing about whether the North Koreans actually […]

Nothing in the tweets President Donald Trump sent out Saturday morning criticizing the people of Puerto Rico and the commonwealth’s female mayor revealed anything new about his character. But his supporters’ continued defense of him in the face of such behavior revealed theirs. That’s a bigger threat to our democracy than anything Trump could do, […]

NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas suggested Saturday that protesting NFL players should wait until “the last note” of the national anthem to take a knee. Costas’s comments came a week after NFL players locked arms to protest President Donald Trump’s criticisms of those who kneel during the National Anthem. But the veteran sports journalist told […]

Bruce A. Baggett, 82, of Clearwater, Fla., and formerly of Clearfield, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 at Freedom Square Rehab and Nursing Services in Clearwater, Fla. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Bennett & Houser Funeral Home, Clearfield.

It is a difficult task to turn the memory of Hurricane Katrina into a quaint story of well-meaning government actors unable to save a city from destruction. President Donald Trump managed to do that on Saturday morning when he essentially blamed Puerto Rico and its mayor, in a series of tweets, for the devastation they […]

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda did not mince words in his message to Donald Trump following the President’s Saturday morning Twitter attacks on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. “You’re going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright tweeted at the President. “No long lines for you. Someone will say, ‘Right this way, sir.’ They’ll […]

An American citizen was found guilty Friday of conspiring to aid al Qaeda and to bomb a US military base in Afghanistan. Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 31, could face life in prison after a federal jury Brooklyn, New York, convicted him on nine counts, including conspiracy to murder US nationals and to use a weapon […]

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré drew a stark distinction Saturday when asked about President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of “poor leadership” in her response to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. “The mayor’s living on a cot, and I hope the President has a good day […]

Much more help is needed to meet Puerto Rico’s critical humanitarian needs after Hurricane Maria, the US territory’s top official said Saturday, while also emphasizing that the federal government is fulfilling his every request — striking a conciliatory tone minutes after President Donald Trump lambasted a mayor who criticized the US response. “We need to […]

The scene is terrifying — entire sections of a Mexico City office building fall away and crash to the ground. The screams of people reacting are almost worse. That moment, captured on cellphone video, shows just one of a number of buildings, from apartments to schools to governmental offices, that collapsed during the 7.1 magnitude […]

As Tony King tells his story, he pauses often. His memory is still sharp, but the words don’t come easily. Maybe it’s because he is turning 92. Or maybe he just hasn’t talked about that day in a very long time. Only 19 men still living — King among them — know exactly how the […]

Thousands of volcano evacuees on the Indonesian island of Bali have been told to return to their homes outside a government-designated “dangerous zone,” even as fears of an eruption grow. Residents earlier this week had been asked to leave an exclusion zone that stretches 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) from the center of Mount Agung. Close […]

We think we know patriotism when we see it. A veteran in uniform, saluting a July Fourth parade. Elementary school students angled toward the flag, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A line of professional athletes, standing at attention during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” But when one of those athletes kneels, it gets complicated. At stadiums around […]

BELLEFONTE-On a night where the fall air for a time turned into a feeling of April showers, it was all about one player when the final whistle blew. The Clearfield Bison, fresh off a much-needed win against Central Mountain, stayed on the road to face off against a surprisingly strong and tough Bellefonte Red Raider […]

The United States does not recognize the independence referendum held this week in Iraqi Kurdistan, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday. “The vote and the results lack legitimacy and we continue to support a united, federal, democratic and prosperous Iraq,” Tillerson said in a statement. The United States is among several global players […]

President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack Saturday morning on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz for “poor leadership ability,” saying she and others in Puerto Rico “want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.” “The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, […]

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz made her message clear on her black shirt that read: “Help Us, We Are Dying.” “People are drinking out of creeks here in San Juan,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday night. “You have people in buildings and they’re becoming caged in their own buildings — old people, […]

As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed House and Senate lawmakers about new limits on refugee admissions, the Trump administration publicly announced the news. “This is upside down,” a visibly exasperated Sen. Dick Durbin told CNN as he left the last-minute briefing for each chamber’s judiciary committee. The Illinois Democrat was referring to a federal […]

Single-payer health care is showing signs of increased popularity — and durability — among Democratic voters, whose support for the policy remains solid even when faced with the potential costs. Asked in a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday whether they support a single-payer system, in which the federal government would expand Medicare to cover […]

The politically divisive Facebook ads bought during the 2016 campaign by the Russia-connected “troll farm” known as the Internet Research Agency were purchased through the social media network’s self-service ad manager platform. These ads focused on topics like LGBT issues, immigration and gun rights, according to Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos, and sources told […]

It’s beyond a cliche to say that a week in the presidency of Donald Trump feels like a month. It’s also happens to be totally true. The sheer pace at which Trump and his administration move — and the massive amount of news those moves create — is absolutely unprecedented. Social media — and Trump’s […]

In the Trump administration’s list of dos and don’ts, “climate change” is out and “resilience” is in. The word choices by administration officials — and the extent to which they’re going to avoid referencing global warming altogether — are notable in the aftermath of recent severe hurricanes and in the face of questions about what […]

Tension between state election officials and the Trump administration is only growing after two states say they were misinformed by the Department of Homeland Security about Russian government-linked hacking, further prolonging a months-long dispute over delayed information from the federal government. California and Wisconsin say DHS was incorrect in its initial assessment that their states’ […]