Новости за 11.04.2016

Two would-be robbers left a shiny impression on police in southern Brazil, when they chose an unusual form of camouflage during an attempted bank robbery: head-to-toe aluminum foil. According to Santa Catarina military police, the suspects were most likely trying to foil the alarm of the Praia Grande branch of the Banco do Brasil late […]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday assailed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — though not by name — for raising the prospect that Japan and South Korea could seek their own nuclear weapons during a visit to Hiroshima, Japan, a city that knows the horrors of nuclear warfare firsthand. “Any suggestion by any […]

With Donald Trump and Ted Cruz locked in a bitter battle for the Republican nomination, the stakes in 2016 rise dramatically. The likely victory of either one of these deeply flawed candidates will give Democrats a chance not only to hold the White House, but also to realign U.S. politics. No wonder Republicans are panicking. […]

After three days in emergency mode, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is stable again — prompting sighs of relief 75 million miles away. Kepler, a telescope that searches for habitable planets, showed signs of distress and went into emergency mode Thursday. “Emergency mode is the lowest operational mode and is fuel intensive,” NASA said. It’s still not […]

More than 13,000 Amazon customers have signed a petition calling for the company to cut ties with Donald Trump. The petition was created by UltraViolet, a women’s rights group, and addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. It asks Bezos to stop selling menswear from the Donald J. Trump Collection. Trump currently has eight items on […]

Don’t get your hopes up for a Khloe Kardashian-Lamar Odom vow renewal any time soon. That’s the theory, anyway, after the reality star took to social media this weekend to share her feelings. Kardashian posted a photo which read “It doesn’t matter how loyal you are to someone. You can’t change someone’s heart and bad […]

Cardell Hayes did not know former New Orleans Saint Will Smith, and he was not the aggressor in the quarrel that ended with Smith dead in the street and Hayes charged with murder, an attorney for Hayes told reporters. Hayes was the victim of a hit-and-run before his altercation with Smith, lawyer John Fuller said […]

In his 10 years in the NFL, and before that at Ohio State, Will Smith developed a reputation as a man to be reckoned with on the football field. In the years after leaving football, especially, he became a force in his community — helping at-risk children and those addicted to drugs and alcohol. On […]

A large search off the coast of North Carolina is underway for a missing sailor who is presumed to have fallen off the deck of the USS Carter Hall on Saturday afternoon. The search over a 4.500-square-mile area off Cape Hatteras was still underway Monday, according to the U.S. Navy, with eight ships, and is […]

Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, the long-serving former New York City chief medical examiner who vowed to identify every victim of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center died on Friday, the city medical examiner’s office announced in a statement. On September 11, 2001, Hirsch dashed to the World Trade Center, but got trapped under […]

It was agonizing to watch — imagine how it must have felt for poor Jordan Spieth. With nine holes to play, the 22-year-old was imperious, imperturbable, and in pole position for a second straight Masters title. In the space of 40 minutes, he looked stunned, vulnerable and alone. Spieth’s quickfire Masters collapse — up there […]

Jopwell, a minority recruiting platform, is getting into content creation. “It’s hard to be who you cannot see,” said Jopwell cofounder Ryan Williams. “Internally, we thought about what would have been helpful to us in our own careers.” Jopwell launched in January 2015 to give employers a resource for finding minority job candidates. Now, it’s […]

Cardell Hayes did not know former New Orleans Saint Will Smith, and he was not the aggressor in the quarrel that ended with Smith dead in the street and Hayes charged with murder, an attorney for Hayes told reporters. Hayes was the victim of a hit-and-run before his altercation with Smith, lawyer John Fuller said […]

Despite customer outcry, Starbucks is gearing up to launch its new rewards program on Tuesday. Starbucks Rewards (formally known as My Starbucks Rewards) will be based on how much customers spend in the coffee shops, not how often they make purchases. So starting Tuesday, instead of earning one star per visit, members will earn two […]

Switching plans. Laying low. Changing sides. It’s Monday, and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Terrorism They were going to hit Paris again. That’s what the Belgian prosecutor’s office said yesterday of the terror network in Belgium, responsible for the Paris terror […]

Senate Republicans would be wise to confirm President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Justice Merrick Garland, says Abner Mikva, a former Democratic congressman, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and White House counsel. If GOP lawmakers stick to their current strategy of denying Garland hearings and a vote, the next nominee could be […]

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are confronting the same paradox: the fate of their insurgent campaigns built on scorn for the political establishment rests on how well they play the inside game. For Trump, the challenge is shifting from a strategy of piling up state primary wins to one that also takes into account states […]

The journalist who broke the story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald at the hands of a Chicago policeman says the city, riddled by gun violence, is a broken place. Chicago is “a broken city where the police don’t want to interact with the community and the community doesn’t want to interact with […]

After seeing how the action went on Saturday night, at the moment, NASCAR has a new sheriff in charge of celebrating wins.  And to think last year he was instead of strapped into his Toyota, he was in rehab working on broken bones. Right now, Kyle Busch is absolutely showing up the competition, but is […]

Fati Abubakar knew something was wrong when a local preacher started to draw larger crowds with his outspoken rhetoric. The place was Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State, and the man in question was Mohammed Yusuf, the late leader of Boko Haram. Eight years on and the militant Islamist cell has become the deadliest […]

A senior intelligence officer with the North Korean military has defected to South Korea, officials in Seoul said on Monday. The defector was a senior colonel with the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau, which is in charge of espionage operations against South Korea, according to South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun and Unification Ministry […]

Bryan Adams has canceled a concert scheduled for April 14 in Mississippi to protest a new state law that critics describe as discriminatory. “I cannot in good conscience perform in a state where certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation,” the Canadian rocker wrote on Instagram. Mississippi Gov. Phil […]

In the beleaguered, isolated community of the Ontario First Nation of Attawapiskat, one of the greatest dangers comes from within. The 2,000-strong indigenous community in the far north of the Canadian province has seen a spate of suicide attempts over the past eight months — over 100 members, young and old, have tried to take […]

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield Volunteer Fire Department held its annual banquet Saturday night with guest speaker, State Rep. Tommy Sankey, R-73 of Clearfield, and the presentation of several awards. Sankey began by noting that several firefighters who were scheduled to be at the banquet were instead responding to a call at his cousin’s house that […]

A ceasefire brokered by the United Nations in war-torn Yemen went into effect Sunday at 11:59 p.m. local time. Forces loyal to the Yemeni government, backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Shiite rebel Houthi militia agreed to a truce ahead of a planned resumption of peace talks in Kuwait. Those talks will be held on […]