Новости за 29.01.2016

Volkswagen, which has yet to find a fix for its emissions-cheating diesel cars, may buy back some of those cars. So far, the German automaker has officially rejected demands by lawmakers and owners that it should repurchase cars with software designed to trick emissions tests. But recent statements from the company indicate it’s reconsidering that […]

President Barack Obama made his latest push to advance equal pay for women Friday, proposing a new rule that will require companies to report pay data by gender, race and ethnicity. The rule, which would apply to companies that have 100 or more employees, will require employers to include salary information on a form already […]

Paul Kantner, a founding member and guitarist in the ’60s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its successor, Jefferson Starship, has died, the Grammy Awards Twitter page said Friday. He was 74. The statement did not mention a cause of death. “Paul was a key architect in the development of what became known as the […]

Nine years after he launched his unlikely presidential bid, President Barack Obama plans to return to the site where it all began: Springfield, Illinois. The White House said Friday that Obama planned to visit there February 10, the same date he announced his candidacy in 2007. “As a state senator, he spent each day in […]

Ted Cruz’s campaign said it would announce it had $19 million in the bank as of the end of 2015, a sizable figure that could lead the Republican field, communications director Rick Tyler tweeted. No other campaign has released its cash-on-hand figure, which are due to the Federal Election Commission this weekend. But few campaigns […]

The U.S. Navy is acknowledging an unarmed Iranian drone recently flew over an American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. The Navy termed the incident “abnormal and unprofessional” in a statement released by U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet spokesman Cmdr.Kevin Stephens. The statement said that on the morning of January 12, an Iranian drone flow toward […]

Another company goes cage-free. White Castle announced on Friday that all of its eggs would come from cage-free hens by 2025 at the latest. White Castle said in a statement that it had been reviewing the issue for months in collaboration with The Humane Society. With the news, White Castle becomes the latest of a […]

After days of delays, the Syrian peace talks led by the United Nations kicked off Friday — though the exact parties involved remains to be seen. Syrian state TV reported late Friday afternoon that a delegation from President Bashar al-Assad’s government was meeting with the U.N. special envoy for Syria. A day earlier, that same […]

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are closing out their Iowa caucus campaigns with notably different strategies. Both candidates are blanketing the state in the closing days of the first-in-the-nation caucus — that’s obvious. But that’s where the similarities end. The secret to this Iowa caucuses is this: Not all caucus sites are created equal. Each […]

It’s the story that just keeps on giving. First, rapper B.o.B launched into an incredibly bizarre Twitter rant insisting that the Earth is flat and we’ve all been lied to. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson felt compelled to politely point out the scientific inaccuracies in B.o.B.’s argument. In response, the rapper released a diss track, “Flatline” […]

Forget the old “I don’t have change” excuse you give panhandlers. Abe Hagenston has an app for that. Well, more like a card reader. He takes credit cards through Square as he works the corner of Woodward Avenue and 8 Mile Road in Detroit. Oh, and he has a website too. “Being homeless is my […]

Officer Jesse Hartnett was halfway through his 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift in West Philadelphia, one of the toughest beats in the nation’s fourth-largest police department. Hartnett was in his patrol car just before midnight on January 7 when a man in a long white tunic took aim with a 9 mm Glock pistol […]

For the second time in six months, there are allegations of sexual abuse by foreign soldiers in the Central African Republic. The reported cases took place in 2014 but came to light only in recent weeks. The alleged abuse involved six children: five girls and a boy who were between the ages of 7 and […]

How slick will “Grease” be? Sunday night, Fox will present “Grease: Live,” a TV version of the hit Broadway musical that was turned into — or, depending on your view, glossily twisted — into a blockbuster 1978 film. It’s the network’s entry into the live-musical TV sweepstakes that’s been dominated by NBC’s holiday productions of […]

The Indianapolis office of the FBI is helping in the search for Lauren Spierer, a college student who went missing nearly five years ago. The FBI and the Bloomington Police Department confirmed Thursday that the federal agency was assisting at a location in Morgan County, about 30 miles north of the college town. CNN affiliates […]

When it comes to diversity at the Academy Awards, most Americans shrug their shoulders, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. More than six in 10 say it doesn’t matter much to them that none of the nominees in major Oscar categories are racial minorities, and 37% say it matters at least somewhat. Even among non-whites, […]

MORRISDALE — The Clearfield Bison wrestling team will be competing in the 1st Annual Ultimate Warrior Wrestling Tournament at West Branch High School on Friday and Saturday. 226 wrestlers from 21 teams representing half of the PIAA’s 12 Districts will converge on the Allport Cutoff this weekend in what shapes up to be a great warm […]

Norman Boudreau, a 72-year-old retired policeman, is sitting at The D.W. Diner pondering his options for the Republican nominee — he likes Donald Trump for his verve, but he also thinks that Marco Rubio better says what Trump is actually thinking. “He’s right in what he’s saying, he just doesn’t know how to say it,” […]

The father of a 12-year-old has been charged with homicide after the girl was accidentally shot to death by a police constable in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Ciara Meyer was killed by a police constable who was serving eviction papers at their apartment in Perry County on January 11. Constable Clark Steele’s action was justified, and […]

After days of delays, the Syrian peace talks led by the United Nations will start Friday, a U.N. spokesman said. “All I can say about the talks is that they will start as planned … I don’t have a time. I don’t have the exact locations,” spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told journalists. With a new round […]