Новости за 16.01.2016

A new agreement between the Asian and African football confederations could break FIFA electoral rules, according to one of the candidates for February’s presidential vote. Prince Ali of Jordan said he has asked soccer’s governing body to investigate the new Memorandum of Understanding signed in Kigali, Rwanda, on Friday. Ali claims the agreement will allow […]

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ripped into each other Saturday morning, with the brash billionaire tearing into Cruz’s Canadian birth and two undisclosed loans he reportedly made during his 2012 Senate run, while the Texas senator unloaded on Trump’s record, temperament and fitness to be commander in chief. The salvos exchanged between the two men, […]

Iran has freed four prisoners from the United States, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported Saturday, citing Tehran’s prosecutor. Senior U.S. administration officials confirmed the release as part of a prisoner swap involving seven Iranians held on sanctions charges. The deal comes after more than a year of secret […]

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday hailed the release of Saeed Abedini, an American pastor held in Iran, who was freed along with three others as part of a prisoner exchange. “Praise God! Surely bad parts of Obama’s latest deal, but prayers of thanksgiving that Pastor Saeed is coming home,” Cruz tweeted Saturday morning. Cruz […]

Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who has been detained in Iran since July 2014, is being released as part of a prisoner swap deal, according to an Iranian news agency report on Saturday. Three other prisoners are also being released, the semi-official FARS news agency said, citing Tehran’s prosecutor. Rezaian’s brother Ali said he had […]

Iran has freed four prisoners from the United States, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported Saturday, quoting Tehran’s prosecutor. The release is part of a prisoner swap deal, FARS reported. The news agency did not name the other prisoners being released, or provide any details on the deal. Iran […]

Iran has freed four prisoners from the United States, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported Saturday, citing Tehran’s prosecutor. According to FARS, Iran freed Rezaian, Marine veteran Amir Hekmati and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, who had been held on various charges. The news agency did not name the fourth […]

Indonesian police have arrested 12 people in connection with Thursday’s deadly attack in front of a Starbucks in central Jakarta, including one accused of having received a wire transfer from the alleged ISIS-linked operative suspected of orchestrating the assault, the country’s police chief said Saturday. Two people — an Indonesian and a Canadian — were […]

HYDE — No game is exactly like the last in sports, especially basketball.  Whatever happened the previous quarter on the previous night is nothing like what the game before that was, nor the next game will be.  The Clearfield Bison may have only one loss on their record, but the victories have been close battles, along […]

It was the most legendary moment in Ted Cruz’s young political career, winning him legions of never-going-to-leave-you activists, never-going-to-forget-this enemies and cementing the freshman senator’s stature as a national phenomenon: the October 2013 government shutdown. More than two years later, the fight to force the White House’s hand to defund Obamacare that left both Republican […]

DUBOIS – The Penn Highlands Community Pharmacy, located in the DuBois Community Medical Building, 621 S. Main St., DuBois, is now open to the public for both prescription and over-the-counter medication needs. The “inside” pharmacy will be open for prescriptions and over-the-counter items from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. daily, closed only on Easter, Thanksgiving […]

Inside your bones, a spongy substance called marrow produces the red and white blood cells and platelets you need to stay alive and healthy. When blood cancers and certain genetic conditions damage this marrow, it prevents these blood-making factories from functioning effectively. That’s when you need a bone marrow transplant, an infusion of healthy blood […]

PHILIPSBURG – Timberland Federal Credit Union, a member-owned, federally-insured, not-for-profit financial cooperative, is pleased to announce the opening of its Philipsburg branch located at 308 Walton St. In honor of the new branch, TFCU will be offering a three-day, 3 percent loan and CD special. People can stop in or call any branch location to […]

Interested in learning something new? The Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc., in collaboration with Lock Haven University Clearfield, announces an upcoming educational seminar offered through the Clearfield Community Lifelong Learning Institute. Courses are geared towards the interests of the baby boomers and older citizens.  Typical sessions will last approximately 90 minutes and will […]

Security forces raided a besieged hotel in Burkina Faso and freed 126 hostages early Saturday — hours after terrorists struck under the cover of darkness. Preliminary reports indicate that 20 people were killed, Alpha Barry, the nation’s foreign minister, told CNN affiliate BFMTV. Some of the freed hostages have been hospitalized, he said. The French […]

Top negotiators for Iran, the United States and other countries are converging Saturday on Vienna in anticipation of a crucial judgment on whether Iran has complied with an agreement to restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some international economic sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to certify that Iran […]

Votes are in for a landmark election that’s expected to result in Taiwan’s first female president and could unsettle relations with giant neighbor China. Voters lined up Saturday at polling stations, and when they closed, surveys suggested that Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), would win the presidential vote by a […]

Singer Celine Dion has shared funeral preparations for her late husband, René Angélil, who died Thursday. He is to be laid to rest this coming Friday. In addition, a public visitation will be held a day before the funeral, and the family will host a public memorial for fans in Las Vegas on February 3, […]

Rescuers fought rough weather as they looked for 12 Marines who went missing after two military helicopters apparently collided. “It is very difficult to find things right now,” Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Scott Carr said. “Our goal is to find survivors.” The two CH-53 copters appear to have gone down during a training flight off […]

Security forces raided a besieged hotel in Burkina Faso and freed 63 hostages early Saturday — hours after terrorists struck under the cover of darkness. Preliminary reports indicate that 20 people were killed, Alpha Barry, the nation’s foreign minister, told CNN affiliate BFMTV. Of the hostages freed, 33 have been hospitalized, he said. ‘We could […]

Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is not considering changing strategies despite questions about the Texas senator’s Canadian birth and a lawsuit filed by a Houston attorney challenging his eligibility to be president, an adviser told CNN Friday. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by Newton Boris Schwartz Sr., raises legal uncertainty about whether Cruz qualifies for the constitutional […]

[Breaking news update, posted at 8:42 p.m. ET] Burkinabe security forces have managed to bring out eight hostages from the hotel where gunmen have been holding an unknown number of people, a journalist at the scene said early Saturday. Burkinabe police did not say if the hostages were freed by security forces or if they […]

Six gunmen stormed a hotel frequented by Westerners in the capital of Burkina Faso late Friday, took hostages and exchanged fire with security forces, the gendarmerie said, according to the country’s state broadcaster, RTB. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb immediately claimed credit for the assault that had similarities to a November hotel attack in […]

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. He opposed affirmative action. He grew so radical near the end of his life that he considered renouncing nonviolence. Which of those statements are true? None of them. They’re all bogus. But that won’t stop them from circulating among some Americans as MLK Day approaches. When […]

The battle lines are being drawn. For months, Ted Cruz hugged Donald Trump so closely on substance and style that it was nearly impossible to divine any ideological split between them. Now, with 17 days until Iowa Republicans crown one of them a king, “the bromance is over,” as Trump put it on CNN Thursday […]