Новости за 12.12.2017

American voters would not give more money to the wealthy.

The unhealthiest states in the country all lie in the southeast US.

For the 28th year in a row, the United Health Foundation has ranked America's states based on factors including obesity, air pollution, and poverty. Massachusetts made the top of the list as America's healthiest state, while Mississippi was declared the unhealthiest.

Here's a map, with the healthiest states in light blue and the least healthy in dark blue.

Looking at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... Читать дальше...

Recent surveys show that at least half of Americans regard Trump's leadership as the worst and most corrupt ever in the history of American politics.

In his first first comments to the media in two months, Park says his leave of absence stemmed from troubles off the field.

Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health has issued an extreme cold weather alert for Tuesday as the temperature is expected to fall to -11C this evening.

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Starbucks is famous for concocting festive holiday drinks. This year, everyone is talking about the Instagram-friendly Christmas Tree Frappuccino, but this green whipped cream-topped frapp isn't the only festive drink Starbucks offers.

INSIDER has rounded up our nine favorite holiday season drinks that we'll continue sipping — and dipping Christmas cookies into — all month long. 

Christmas Tree Frappuccino

A remixed... Читать дальше...

Still-shaken Big Apple commuters carried on with their daily grind Tuesday, trudging through the reopened passageway where an ISIS-inspired madman detonated a pipe bomb the day before. Several NYPD patrol cops were on-duty inside the walkaway linking the Port Authority and Times Square subway stations where police say terror suspect Akayed Ullah carried out the...

US Air Force

• The Air Force’s A-10 Warthog just picked up a major boost from current Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.
• Wilson said a multimillion-dollar A-10 wing production program to upgrade the wings on half the service's A-10s would keep the aircraft in the air. 
• The funding upgrades for the branch’s nine squadrons are the clearest evidence yet that the venerable close-air support platform will live on.

After years of speculation surrounding... Читать дальше...

A new study on canola oil now suggests that this vegetable oil may also not be as good for us as once thought.

When one person in a household gets prescribed opioids, the other people who live with them are more likely to get their own prescriptions for these narcotic painkillers, a US study suggests. Researchers examined data on about 12.6 million people living in a household where someone was prescribed opioids and 6.4 million individuals in homes...

SKIATOOK, Okla. – While many families will be home for the holidays, Donny Garrison isn’t sure what Christmas will hold for his wife and daughter. “It’s different without them because they’re always here when I’m home,” Garrison told KJRH. Recently, Garrison’s 18-month-old daughter, Mackenzie, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow failure. Now, his wife and Mackenzie are in Boston for her treatments. “She struggled through two weeks of chemo, the bone marrow transplant and now her medications... Читать дальше...

On December 11, 2017, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov took part in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Central Asia and Afghanistan, organized in Ashgabad.

Karlsruhe (Alemania), 12 dic (dpa) - La fiscalía general de Alemania presentó hoy acusación formal contra el soldado Franco A. por preparar un atentado terrorista bajo la identidad falsa de un refugiado sirio.El teniente del Ejército, de 28 años, actuó movido por su ideología ultraderechista, sostuvo la fiscalía de Estado en el escrito elevado al Tribunal Regional Superior de Fráncfort. El objetivo era que el ataque fuera percibido por la población alemana como un acto de terrorismo islamista radical... Читать дальше...

Berlin (dpa) - Die AfD fordert die Aufhebung des Gesetzes gegen Hass und Hetze im Internet. Die Fraktion brachte dazu am Dienstag einen Antrag in den Bundestag ein, der an den Hauptausschuss überwiesen wurde. Die AfD-Abgeordnete Joana Eleonora Cotar kritisierte das sogenannte Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz als «unsägliches Zensurgesetz», das zur «Abschaffung der Meinungsfreiheit in sozialen Netzwerken» führe. Das sei eine «Schande für Deutschland». Politiker von SPD und Union wiesen die Zensur-Vorwürfe... Читать дальше...

• Multiple wildfires continue to burn throughout Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Diego counties in Southern California.
• The largest blaze — known as the Thomas Fire — began last week in Ventura County and burned more than 200,000 acres.
• Santa Ana winds have pushed the Thomas Fire into Santa Barbara County, threatening the seaside communities of Carpenteria, Summerland, and Montecito.

A series of wildfires last week scorched more than 260,000 acres in Los Angeles... Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign pushed ‘fake news,’ tied to opposition research firm Fusion GPS just one week before the election.  Daily Caller reports: On October 31, 2016, Slate’s Franklin Foer wrote a story alleging secret communications between Trump’s company and Russian bank Alfa. Foer’s story cited a group of computer scientists who claimed to have proof of […]

Shares of security-software firms Imperva Inc. , Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. , and Fortinet Inc. fell 3.5%, 0.3%, and 0.1%, respectively, in Tuesday morning trading, after analysts at JP Morgan downgraded the stocks. The analysts, led by Sterling Auty, now rate Imperva at underweight and both Check Point and Fortinet at neutral. Auty points to "sales execution issues" for Check Point and Imperva; he thinks it's unlikely that Check Point will go back to "winning consistent market share"... Читать дальше...

Reform of U.N. peacekeeping missions has been a foreign policy goal for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which believes the United States, the largest funder of the missions, should pay less, and the U.N. should cut costs. There are currently 15 U.N. peacekeeping missions around the world, including eight in Africa. The United States contributes 28 percent of the U.N. peacekeeping budget. The second-biggest contributor, China, pays about 10 percent. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations... Читать дальше...

The attack that killed 14 Tanzanian and five Congolese soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week highlighted the risks faced by U.N. peacekeeping missions, and the need to provide enough funding to ensure soldiers who operate in some of the world's most volatile countries remain safe. Reform of U.N. peacekeeping missions has been a foreign policy goal for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which believes the United States, the largest funder of the missions, should pay less... Читать дальше...

Ryanair pilots turned up the heat on the embattled airline Tuesday, with German pilots saying they were planning walkouts, while pilots in Ireland announced a one-day strike before Christmas.

Farmers, gardeners and stockbreeders, representatives of agricultural enterprises, the general public gathered at the national sayil at the end of the harvest at the Otchopar stadium in the Ferghana region.

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