Новости за 17.04.2018

The mystery of who stole the life-sized cardboard cutout of the Leunig's Bistro owner from the Burlington airport has been solved, sort of.

Someone is selling this super cute 1958 Nash Metropolitan that runs on batteries for $12,500. It has a range of 45-55 miles. There's no room in the trunk because of all the batteries, but I am tempted to buy it.

WASHINGTON — Global warming is screwing up nature’s intricately timed dinner hour, often making hungry critters and those on the menu show up at much different times, a new study shows. Timing is everything in nature. Bees have to be around and flowers have to bloom at the same time for pollination to work and...

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• Gregg Popovich on Monday praised LaMarcus Aldridge for playing through adversity and being there for his team.
• Many in the NBA world wondered if the comments were a veiled shot at Kawhi Leonard.
• Leonard has not been with the Spurs in the playoffs as he rehabs a quadriceps injury that kept him out of all but nine games this season.

The Kawhi Leonard situation continues to linger over everything the San Antonio Spurs do, even if he is not directly involved. Читать дальше...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has signed an education funding bill despite a multi-million dollar flaw in the bill's language. Because of an accounting error, the bill calls for a $454 million spending increase, which is $80 million less than intended. The bill is aimed at addressing a state Supreme Court's ruling that funding for schools is inadequate. A lawyer for the school districts that sued the state said the bill doesn't do enough to address that problem. During Tuesday's signing at a Topeka High School... Читать дальше...

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced on Tuesday his office found criminal wrongdoing by Republican Governor Eric Greitens and will pass the information along to the corrupt St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office. Missouri A.G. Josh Hawley announced that his office has uncovered potential criminal wrongdoing by Gov. Eric Greitens. Hawley’s office found evidence that Greitens […]

The EU on Tuesday backed the opening of formal membership talks with Albania and Macedonia as the bloc looks to expand into the Balkans and grow for the first time in years.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday said his office is investigating the practices of digital-currency exchanges that facilitate trading in assets like bitcoin . In a letter sent to 13 cryptoeexchange platforms, Schneiderman said he was kicking off a "fact-finding inquiry" to increase consumer-protection within the virtual-currency industry. "With cryptocurrency on the rise, consumers in New York and across the country have a right to transparency and accountability when they invest their money. Читать дальше...

Get ready, “Family Feud” fans, because the best episode in the history of the game show is coming your way, courtesy of the Kardashian-West family.

By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge said Tuesday he planned to call 800 to 1,000 potential jurors for the trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sign of how complex it will be to try drug the Mexican drug lord on trafficking and conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn said at a court hearing that the potential jurors would arrive court in late July and early August to receive questionnaires, in preparation for a planned September trial. The... Читать дальше...

BERLIN — Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea. A single silver coin was first found in January by two amateur archaeologists, one of them a 13-year-old boy, in a...

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Principal dancer Maria Kochetkova — who has graced the War Memorial Opera House stage with performances in such dances as “Giselle,” “Coppelia” and “Swan Lake” — will be leaving San Francisco Ballet following the 2018 season. “The time has come for me to move on to other opportunities,” Kochetkova said. “I don’t know what my next big step is going to be, but I’m excited to see where it takes me. I’m very lucky and grateful for the career I had with San Francisco Ballet. I want to... Читать дальше...

Last-minute filers got a rude surprise on tax day: The IRS website to make payments and access other key services is down.

Iowa State football fans may remember the star of one of the most popular Geico commercials

He was once held underneath Raqa's stadium, a prisoner in the Islamic State group's Syrian capital. Now Aziz al-Sajer has returned to the pitch -- only this time, with a football.

Raqa (Syria) (AFP) – He was once held underneath Raqa’s stadium, a prisoner in the Islamic State group’s Syrian capital. Now Aziz al-Sajer has returned to the pitch — only this time, with a football. The 25-year-old and his fellow players on the Al-Rashid football team gathered this week in the stadium for a play-off tournament between local clubs. Dressed in white and bright yellow shirts, they stretched and did warm-up exercises before sprinting onto the sun-parched dirt field.  A few dozen... Читать дальше...

Syrian government forces walked through a remarkably large and durable tunnel network built by Jayesh al-Islam in Douma, located in East Ghouta, on April 16. The tunnel network was large enough for vehicles to drive through, and the reporter for the Syrian military, who posted these video, said the network of tunnels extended 15 meters underground. In the footage, he climbs multiple sets of staircases before emerging at street level, indicating that the tunnels were dug very deep. The Syrian government said it gained control of East Ghouta... Читать дальше...

At the worst possible time.

The IRS’s e-file system is overtaxed.

Just a few hours before the 2018 tax filing deadline (on April 17) the IRS.gov e-filing system went offline.

The site’s error message indicates that the e-file system is down for a “planned outage” — which, if true, indicates extremely poor planning on the IRS’s part. However, the error message also says that the site will be back up either in September 2016 or in December 9999 — which indicates that perhaps... Читать дальше...

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Myanmar to take back Muslim Rohingya refugees. "The international community needs to put more pressure on Myanmar so that they take back their own people and ensure their security," she told an audience in London. According to U.N. officials, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh from Rakhine to escape a military crackdown since August, amid reports of murder, rape and arson by Myanmar... Читать дальше...

Si certaines communautés autochtones tiennent à ce que l'oléoduc Trans Mountain de Kinder Morgan traversant leurs terres puisse voir sa capacité tripler et que d'autres ne veulent rien savoir du projet, il existe un consensus au sein des Premières Nations du pays : elles doivent avoir le dernier mot sur ce qui se passe chez elles.

900 Soldiers Head to U.S.-Mexico Border to Aid Patrol

900 Soldiers Head to U.S.-Mexico Border to Aid Patrol

In his 2005 police interview read to jury, Cosby acknowledged fondling Andrea Constand but claims he had 'romantic' relationship with her.

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Tuesday that his office has turned up evidence indicating that Gov. Eric Greitens may...