Новости за 14.05.2016

Another Latin American leader is facing corruption charges. Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was indicted Friday for allegedly meddling with the sale of dollars by the nation’s central bank. If the claim is true that Kirchner’s team fixed the contracts, their aim was to make Argentina’s finances look better than they actually were […]

Award-winning hip-hop artist Macklemore joined President Barack Obama in his weekly address to talk about opioid abuse in the U.S. “Addiction doesn’t always start in some dark alley, it often starts in a medicine cabinet,” Obama said in the video, which was posted Saturday morning. In the video, the President discusses the steps his administration […]

A man who admitted yanking a Muslim woman’s hijab from her head during an airline flight pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of obstruction of a person’s free exercise of religious rights, according to the plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court in New Mexico. Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, will […]

The realm of “Game of Thrones” isn’t known for being a romantic place. But its bloody storyline has inspired a true connection between two favorite characters. (WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW) (SERIOUSLY – DON’T READ BELOW IF YOU’RE NOT CAUGHT UP!) Kit Harington, who plays the much-beloved Jon Snow, has opened up about his real-life romance with […]

I don’t know about you, but I’m glad it’s the weekend. Time to sit back, relax and enjoy some of the weirdest, wackiest, wildest stories of the week — such as how a skinny-dipper may have killed an extremely rare fish, why a turtle crossed the road but didn’t quite make it, and another example […]

The United States condemned the 2008 arrests of Baha’i leaders in Iran Saturday and asked the Islamic Republic to free them. Iran arrested Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Vahid Tizfahm, and Mahvash Sabet. They were all convicted of espionage, insulting religious sanctities, and propaganda against the Islamic Republic. They were […]

One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The American space agency released a series of images on Thursday of Comet 252P/LINEAR flying past our planet. The images were captured in early April — two weeks after the icy object zoomed by. On March 21, […]

The man credited with spearheading reforms at scandal-hit FIFA resigned Saturday in a major blow to the world governing body’s new president Gianni Infantino. Swiss Domenico Scala stepped down as chairman of FIFA’s independent audit and compliance committee, complaining that the reforms were being undermined. Scala was angered by a decision of the FIFA Congress […]

Supplies of lethal injection drugs are running low and new sources are becoming increasingly difficult for states to come by. Pfizer, the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, just made the job even more challenging by blocking its drugs from being used in executions. Here is how the United States got to this point: Opposition […]

World powers turned their focus to the Boko Haram terror group this weekend, with the U.N. Security Council citing its anxiety over the group’s ties to ISIS as regional leaders gathered in Nigeria to devise ways to battle the Islamist extremist movement. In a presidential statement issued Friday, the Security Council expressed alarm at Boko […]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is keeping up its attacks on Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. The former secretary of state’s campaign on Saturday released a web ad asking what the presumptive GOP nominee could be hiding in the documents. The spot mentions that every single presidential nominee since 1976 has released his tax […]

House Republicans, who have resisted approving the $1.9 billion that President Barack Obama requested to combat the Zika virus, now are preparing their own spending package and are aiming for a vote as early as next Wednesday. Ever since they sent the request to Capitol Hill, the White House has complained that Republicans are ignoring […]

An investing group backed by Warren Buffett is among the bidders for Yahoo’s core Internet business, according to a person familiar with the sales process. The group is led by Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yahoo began accepting bids last month and many major tech and media […]

Singapore has confirmed its first imported case of the Zika virus, the Ministry of Health said. In a joint statement with the National Environment Agency, the government confirmed Friday that a 48-year-old man, a permanent resident of Singapore, tested positive for the virus following a trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil, from March 27 to May […]

It’s never too early to think about the next election. The outrageous, precedent-defying 2016 presidential race still has six months to go, and multiple wild twists and turns to negotiate, before it produces the 45th president. But for the likes of House Speaker Paul Ryan, former candidates like Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and […]

PHILIPSBURG — Sophomore Gage Coudriet pitched a seven-hit shutout as Philipsburg-Osceola, which had stumbled after jumping off to a 5-0 start in the Mountain League, ended a three-game losing streak and claimed a share of the 2016 championship with a 4-0 victory over the Clearfield Area High School baseball team at the Don Womer Complex […]

Iraqi security forces and Sunni tribal fighters killed 10 ISIS militants in an hours-long clash Saturday, security sources said. The incident occurred in Amiriyat al-Falluja in Anbar province — a town more than nine miles, or 15 kilometers, south of city of Falluja. Security sources said the attackers came from inside the town and were […]

The Deluca family rescued Haus the German Shepherd from a Florida animal shelter. Now, he’s returned the favor. The family is calling the recently adopted 2-year-old dog a hero after he saved their 7-year-old daughter, Molly, from a possible bite from a venomous Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. “He kept jumping back and then forward… and he […]

Did a drunken man’s skinny-dip in a Nevada wildlife refuge kill one of the world’s rarest fish? The National Park Service and the sheriff’s office in Nye County sure think so. Here’s what they said happened: During a night of drunken revelry, three men broke into Devils Hole, a protected area that’s part of the […]

CLEARFIELD – Central Pennsylvania Community Action (CPCA) is the recipient of a grant from the Northwest Charitable Foundation to be used as matching funds for CPCA’s Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG). The ESG provides rapid rehousing for those individuals at risk of becoming homeless. Residents who may qualify for assistance under the ESG are those who […]

Greg Barger of Clearfield was selected as the 2016 Outstanding Educator at the Clearfield County Career & Technology Center. Mr. Barger instructs the carpentry program. From left are Elizabeth Frankhouser, executive director; Barger; Jeff Shaffer, CCCTC Joint Operating Committee chairperson; and Ron Matchock, superintendent of record.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-5) voted in favor of more than a dozen bills intended to turn the tide against the nationwide epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction. The package of bills constitutes the Comprehensive Addition and Recovery Act (S.524).  Thompson has been active […]

CLEARFIELD – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Leslie S. Richards has announced that 30 department employees received the agency’s Star of Excellence Award, PennDOT’s highest recognition. Two employees from PennDOT’s District 2, which represents Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Juniata, McKean, Mifflin, and Potter counties were among the honorees. “Our success serving the people […]

The Clearfield County Career & Technology Center announced Kirstan Eger as outstanding student for the 2015-16 school year.  Eger is a student in the collision repair program. From left are Elizabeth Frankhouser, executive director; William Houser, Eger’s step-father; Eger; Lori Houser, Eger’s mother; Jeff Shaffer, CCCTC Joint Operating Committee chairperson; Ron Matchock, superintendent of record; […]

Hezbollah is accusing Islamist extremists of killing its military commander in an explosion in Syria. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah announced the death of Mustafa Badriddine on Thursday. It said he died in a blast that hit one of its centers near the Damascus International Airport. The blast “was a result of artillery bombardment” by Islamist extremist […]