Новости за 20.07.2015

Two top editors at Gawker Media have resigned in protest over the company’s removal of a story that ignited an online firestorm. Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com editor-in-chief Max Read announced their decisions in a pair of memos that were republished Monday on the company’s flagship site. Both Craggs and Read cited […]

A company co-founded by Elon Musk is off to a great start Monday. Tesla? No. Although the electric carmaker’s stock is up nearly 3%. We’re talking about PayPal — the online payment service that was spun off from eBay. PayPal shares rose 6% on their first day of trading as a separate company. It is […]

Top amateur golfers are set for a bittersweet finish to The Open championship at St. Andrews in Scotland. Paul Dunne and Jordan Niebrugge are among a handful of amateurs performing way above par on the competition’s final day, but because they’re not professionals they won’t be allowed to claim any prize money. Zilch. Zero. Nada. […]

Less than a month passed between Charleston and Chattanooga — two tragedies that shook their communities and the nation at large. In America, we are constantly tallying up the senseless toll of gun violence. Nine killed in Charleston. Five killed in Chattanooga. A spotlighted fraction of the 88 Americans, on average, killed every day due […]

Philae, the probe that landed on a comet, has been uncommunicative for more than a week, and scientists are trying to figure out what’s wrong. “No contact has been made with Philae since Thursday 9 July,” the European Space Agency, which is overseeing the mission, said in a blog entry. “The data acquired at that […]

It’s 2015, and if you still think you can use your real name online and stay private, you’re insane. The news: Cheat-on-your-spouse website Ashley Madison got hacked. Hackers are threatening to reveal the names of its 37 million cheating users. The lesson: If you give a company your name, credit card number, photo — don’t […]

CLEARFIELD – District Attorney William A. Shaw Jr. has announced Clearfield County’s Fugitive of the Week for the week of July 20. Shaw identified the fugitive as Robert Selfridge, 35, of Main Street, Falls Creek. Selfridge is wanted for failure to appear at a Pre-trial Conference held July 16. On Feb. 23, 2015, Sergeant Kris […]

One bitter holdover of the Cold War slipped into the history books at 12:01 a.m. Monday, when the United States and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations. For the first time since severing ties in 1961, they reopened embassies in each other’s capitals. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla was to travel to the Cuban Embassy in […]

One bitter holdover of the Cold War slipped into the history books at 12:01 a.m. Monday, when the United States and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations. For the first time since severing ties in 1961, they reopened embassies in each other’s capitals. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla was to travel to the Cuban Embassy in […]

Rock legend and former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been released on bail a day after he was arrested in New Zealand for breaching the terms of his house arrest, his lawyer says. “He’s been arrested and bailed on one charge of breaching his home detention,” Rudd’s lawyer Craig Tuck told CNN. “It’s been remanded […]

It was a solemn apology that came far too late for many of its victims to hear, but one warmly welcomed by former prisoner of war, James Murphy. The 94-year-old American was forced to work down a mine operated by Mitsubishi Mining Co during WWII, and was there to hear an apology first-hand from the […]

China has deported nine tourists who had been detained on suspicion of alleged links to terror groups because they watched a documentary on Genghis Khan in their hotel rooms, a press release distributed by the families said. The visitors, from the United Kingdom, South Africa and India, were expected back home over the weekend. The […]

It’s called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But any real notions of democracy end with the name. North Koreans headed to the polls at the weekend to cast their ballots in elections for local representatives on provincial, city, and county People’s Assemblies. Citizens were not asked to make a choice — the results had […]

Bill Cosby said he had sexual relationships with at least five women outside his marriage, gave prescription sedatives to women he wanted to have sex with and tried to hide the affairs from his wife, according to a court deposition obtained by CNN. The deposition, first reported by the New York Times, was taken 10 […]

China has released nine tourists who had been detained on suspicion of alleged links to terror groups because they watched a documentary on Genghis Khan in their hotel rooms, a press release distributed by the families said. The visitors, from the United Kingdom, South Africa and India, were expected back home at the weekend. The […]

A 30-year-old suspect has been arrested after police found two women and three girls, including an infant, dead in a California home. Martin Martinez is accused of killing a woman he once had a relationship with, his own daughter and three other people, Modesto Police Department spokeswoman Heather Graves said Sunday. Authorities aren’t yet releasing […]

Leobaldo Pina produced three hits for the State College Spikes, but a four-run third from the Batavia Muckdogs was too much to overcome as the Spikes dropped a 5-2 decision on Sunday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.