Новости за 15.06.2016

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to censure IRS head John Koskinen as a result of the IRS targeting scandal. The resolution ultimately passed in a party line vote, 23-15. The censure vote, if passed by Congress, will remove Koskinen’s government pension and other federal benefits, but does not formally punish him […]

Donald Trump on Wednesday admitted that he likes using teleprompters after relentlessly mocking politicians who rely on them throughout most of his campaign. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee, as he often does, imitated Hillary Clinton reading from a prompter and made her appear stiff and robotic. “I never said let’s abandon NATO. If you listen […]

Defendants charged with stealing more than $8,000 combined in separate alleged thefts by inflating their actual work hours    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s office today announced the arrest of two former employees of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission accused of “stealing time” from their employer and using state vehicles for their personal […]

How long must we wait on a “Beetlejuice 2”? There’s been talk of the eagerly awaited sequel for years and now star Winona Ryder is sounding as much in the dark about the plans as fans by saying “I don’t really know what’s going on with that.” “Obviously, it was an iconic film,” the actress […]

Throughout the presidential race, one thing has remained at the center of the debate across all issues — Americans feel vulnerable and not in control of their own lives. Our nation and the world are changing. We look around and see an unpredictable global economy and growing inequality. Health threats like Ebola and the Zika […]

Years ago Jeff Friday attended the Sundance Film Festival, looked around and did not see black people represented. So he decided to do something about it. On Wednesday the annual American Black Film Festival begins in Miami. Now Hollywood looks very different, but it still grapples with some of the same issues of diversity as […]

In a week where it was threatened with expulsion from the tournament and its fans criticized for their behavior, Russia’s football players did little to convince they will be remaining in France at Euro 2016 much longer. Beaten 2-1 by Slovakia in Lille, Russia must now win its final game against Wales on Monday and […]

Hillary Clinton, seated in front of flags from the five branches of the military and flanked by different fighter jets, said on Wednesday that Donald Trump “does not seem to grasp” how to fight terrorism. Clinton opened her military roundtable at the Virginia Air & Space Center here by questioning the proposals that Trump has […]

According to Richard Simmons he is staying Richard Simmons. The fitness guru is denying reports he is transitioning to become a woman. “Some tabloids have recently falsely reported that I am transitioning,” Simmons posted Tuesday on his official Facebook account. “In response, I feel compelled to set the record straight and refute these lies. Although […]

Switzerland missed the chance to make history Wednesday after failing to book its place in the European Championship’s knockout phase for the very first time. A win over Romania would have secured qualification in the last-16 of the competition but a 1-1 draw against Romania means any celebrations have been put on hold. Bogdan Stancu’s […]

Here’s the latest reminder that startup valuations are moving targets: Once hot ecommerce site One Kings Lane was acquired by Bed Bath & Beyond on Tuesday for a price that “was not material” to the retailer. One Kings Lane, a home furnishing and flash sales site, had raised more than $225 million in financing in […]

Donald Trump’s unfavorability level is at 70%, the highest since announcing his presidential campaign, according to a new poll out Tuesday. According to the new Washington Post/ABC News survey, 7 out of 10 American adults have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican presumptive presidential nominee. That’s a significant reversal from a few weeks ago when […]

Before I left for work that balmy spring morning in McLean, Virginia, I placed my casually worded note on the kitchen counter where my kids couldn’t miss it. It was April 1997. Tyler was 17 and Lora was 15. They had the day off from school with no plans, so I didn’t have to compete […]

With Mona Lisa’s intriguing smile, the Venus de Milo, the Law Code of Hammurabi and so much more, it’s no wonder that the Louvre is the most popular museum in the world. For the fourth year in a row, the Louvre dominated the recently released TEA/AECOM Global Attractions Attendance Report’s museum rankings. The Paris museum […]

I’m retired, receive a decent pension and have adequate savings in several retirement accounts. Still, I feel insecure about retirement. Maybe it’s because I was raised to always save for a rainy day, but I agonize a great deal over purchases and I feel guilty about spending money on anything fun. Is there any way […]

One of the most senior and experienced counterterrorism officials in the Middle East recently told me the West is failing to fully understand the impact of ISIS. “It’s not an army, it’s not about religion, it’s not even a movement,” he said. “It’s a label. Every mad and upset young man can just now say […]

The Napster name is coming back from the grave. Rhapsody, a music streaming service, is changing its name to Napster. Rhapsody bought the remains of Napster in 2011. The Napster name is probably more famous than Rhapsody, or at least infamous. Napster was launched as a free music sharing site that became home to pirated […]

An alligator snatched a 2-year-old boy Tuesday night in a lagoon at a Disney hotel near Orlando as his father desperately tried to save him. A frantic overnight search to find the boy was unsuccessful, authorities said, but efforts are continuing Wednesday morning. “This is still a search and rescue operation,” said Jeff Williamson, a […]

A fuel crisis, corruption claims and even a shortage of tomatoes: Nigeria has made headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, and the streak of disappointing news seems to continue, as United Airlines cancelled its daily flight from Houston to Lagos due to weakness in the energy sector and the ongoing difficulties in collecting money […]

Anyone who likes to curl up with a steaming hot drink should consider letting some of that warmth subside; drinking it could increase their risk of developing cancer. In a review published today by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization, drinking very hot beverages was classified […]

You may have heard that insurers are hiking Obamacare premiums by 30%, 40% or even more next year. Certainly, some companies have requested hefty rate increases for certain policies. But that doesn’t mean that everyone will be writing a much bigger monthly check to their insurer. The benchmark silver plan premiums are projected to rise […]

A search is on to find a 2-year-old boy who was attacked by an alligator and dragged into a lagoon at a Disney hotel near Orlando. The child was “wading just in the water along the lake’s edge at the time that the alligator attacked,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said. “The father actually went […]

A search is on to find a 2-year-old boy who was attacked by an alligator and dragged away at a Disney hotel near Orlando, authorities said. The incident happened while the family relaxed at a sandy area near the Seven Seas Lagoon on the property. The child was “wading just in the water along the […]

Turf cutter Jack Conaway was cutting peat for fuel in the Emlagh bog when he made a surprising and smelly discovery. Buried 12 feet under, Conaway found a massive 22 pound (10 kilogram) chunk of butter estimated to be 2,000 years old. Oddly enough, such encounters are not unusual. Hundreds of lumps of bog butter […]

Police are searching for a 2-year-old boy attacked by an alligator and dragged away at a Disney hotel near Orlando, authorities said. The incident happened during movie night Tuesday on the beach of the Grand Floridian Hotel. The family was relaxing at a sandy area near the Seven Seas Lagoon on the property. They were […]