Новости за 11.10.2017

North Korea’s hackers have been accused of carrying out some of the most audacious cyber attacks of the past few years, from siphoning millions of dollars to stealing state secrets. Analysts say cyber capabilities have become a key asset in North Korea’s war chest, used for a wide range of purposes including hacking adversaries like […]

General Electric, once a reliable symbol of American success, is in turmoil at a time when the stock market is booming and the economy is gathering momentum. GE’s stock price tumbled to a two-year low this week, after a series of management shake-ups failed to restore confidence in the industrial giant. The maker of everything […]

MEN’S GOLF VIENNA, Ohio — Senior Jason Thorp (Curwensville) capped a very good first half of Thiel’s 2017-18 season by sharing medalist honors for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Fall Championships at the Avalon Golf & Country Club Oct. 2-3. He posted the low score, a one-over-par 73, for the first round and followed up with […]

US Air Force B-1 bombers carried out mock missile launches off both coasts of South Korea Tuesday night in the latest show of force against North Korea, South Korean military officials said. Two bombers operating out of Andersen Air Force Base in Guam carried out the drills, US Pacific Air Forces said in a statement. […]

Deep in the Aragon river valley, close to Spain’s border with France, lies the abandoned ruin of Canfranc International Station. Once one of Europe’s largest rail hubs, opulent Canfranc opened in style in 1928, with an inauguration ceremony attended by the then-king of Spain and the then-President of the French Republic. During World War II, […]

CLEARFIELD – An area man accused of killing a woman while she was mowing her lawn in DuBois in 2015 is asking for a new court-appointed attorney. Joshua Jeffrey Nelson, 32, left Penn Highlands DuBois, and walked into the Brown Street area of DuBois where he allegedly stole a vehicle and struck a woman as […]

CLEARFIELD – Clearfield County is seeking funds to support the Leonard Street Gardens, a 30-unit, affordable senior housing project. On Tuesday the commissioners voted to approve the county’s 2017 PHARE funding application in support of the project, as presented by Planning Director Jodi Brennan. According to Brennan, the Northern Cambria Community Development Corp. (NCCDC) will […]

CLEARFIELD – Hunger exists in every zip code, and Clearfield County officials are taking up a fight to keep matters from getting any worse. On Tuesday the commissioners passed a resolution to oppose federal efforts to structurally change the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). If approved, changes would make the program unable to respond efficiently […]

DUBOIS – Director of Campus Ministry, Becky Dutra, worked with members of the senior class of DuBois Central Catholic to come up with a unique project in celebration of National Pro-Life Month. Since the seniors make weekly visits to Christ the King Manor in DuBois to meet with the patients as part of their theology […]

DUBOIS – It must have been a complete surprise to both Barrack Obama and George W. Bush to learn that they are related. Likewise, former President Obama and Dick Cheney are actually distant cousins. Who would have thought Diana, Princess of Wales, would have ties to Sarah Palin? Perhaps you have wondered who will fall […]

HARRISBURG – On Tuesday Gov. Tom Wolf threw his support behind commonsense bipartisan proposals to ban the ‘bump-stock’ accessory for military-style weapons used in the Las Vegas massacre that killed and injured nearly 600 concertgoers. “Bipartisan legislators are rightfully sounding the alarm that these devices should not be legal in Pennsylvania,” Wolf said. “Given the bipartisan […]

1. Catalonia calls time out: Investors are welcoming a decision by Catalonia’s separatists to postpone a formal declaration of independence from Spain. Spain’s benchmark stock index shot up 1.5% on Wednesday and the euro was trading higher. Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont backed away from the cliff edge on Tuesday, choosing to put an independence declaration […]

Uber’s big Indian rival just got a fresh influx of cash from one of China’s biggest tech firms. Ola announced Wednesday that it had raised $1.1 billion in its latest funding round, led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, along with Japan’s SoftBank and new U.S.-based investors. Softbank is already one of Ola’s major investors. The […]

Wildfires raging across Northern California have killed at least 17 people, as hundreds of firefighters battle the flames and keep thousands of people away from the blaze’s path. Most of the fires were ignited Sunday, driven by winds of more than 50 mph and dry conditions. With no rain in the forecast this week and […]

The Environmental Protection Agency has identified its priorities, and climate change is not one of them. In fact, the phrase “climate change” does not appear in the agency’s draft four-year strategic plan, a 38-page document quietly released for public comment last week. The three priorities outlined in the plan are consistent with EPA administrator Scott […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will tackle a question it has struggled with but never resolved: Can corporations be sued in US courts for human rights abuses that occurred abroad? The case pits human rights groups and victims of terrorism against multinational corporations that argue they should not be sued in US courts, especially because […]

In what is perhaps the fiercest and the most exhaustive attack against Donald Trump in hip-hop, Eminem “came to stomp,” unleashing on the President in an explosive 4.5 minute freestyle — which aired during Tuesday night’s BET Hip Hop Awards — calling Trump everything from “Donald the b—-,” to a “racist grandpa.” A request to […]

The clock is ticking for President Trump and his trade team to strike a new deal with Mexico and Canada. Round four of the renegotiation of NAFTA, the three-nation trade pact, begins Wednesday, and little, if any, progress on the thorny issues has been reported from any party. Some business groups are becoming extremely concerned […]

US President Donald Trump has called for major cuts in foreign aid under his America First policy, raising alarm among philanthropists and sparking warnings it could be a “death sentence” for some countries. As the US pulls back, a new report suggests China is poised to replace it as the primary donor for much of […]

The two officers in charge of the destroyer USS John S. McCain have been relieved of duty after a deadly accident earlier this year, the US Navy said in a statement Tuesday. The guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship off Singapore on August 21, leaving 10 US sailors dead and five more injured. The […]

Banned on the city’s subway and in many hotels because of its stinky odor, Singaporean scientists may have found a potential lifeline for public durian eaters. A team of cancer researchers in the city state have mapped the genome of the durian — also known as the “king of fruits” — and isolated the causes […]

For the first time since 1986, the US Men’s National Team will be watching the World Cup from home. Falling 2-1 to Trinidad and Tobago, the US fail to qualify for Russia 2018. An early own-goal from Omar Gonzalez set the tone for the defeat, before Alvin Jones doubled the Trinidad and Tobago lead on […]

The United Nations has slapped a global port ban on four ships for their dealings with North Korea, including one that was caught smuggling 30,000 North Korean-made rocket-propelled grenades in 2016. Hugh Griffiths, the coordinator for the UN Panel of Experts on North Korea, called the move “swift and decisive.” The port bans were enacted […]

When Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana Trump seemingly joked about being “first lady” ahead of her newly-released memoir, current First Lady Melania Trump did not find it funny. “There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise,” Melania said in a shockingly sharply worded statement […]

President Donald Trump named Eric Hargan as the acting Health and Human Services Secretary on Tuesday after the resignation of HHS Secretary Tom Price over controversy surrounding his air travel. Hargan was sworn in last week as deputy HHS secretary, and takes the place of Don Wright, who had been serving as acting secretary since […]