Новости за 26.07.2016

A Virginia hotel is fighting back against Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee criticized the air conditioning — or lack thereof — at a Monday event there. “If we are in a ballroom, it’s not supposed to be so hot that everybody in the audience is using a fan,” Trump said during the campaign […]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday his whistleblowing website might release “a lot more material” relevant to the US electoral campaign. Assange was speaking in a CNN interview following the release of nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by suspected Russian hackers. However, Assange refused to confirm or deny a Russian origin […]

As a human rights group tells it, this is what witnesses say is happening to some of the thousands arrested after this month’s failed coup in Turkey: captured military officers being raped by police; hundreds of detained soldiers beaten; some withheld food, water and access to lawyers for days. Detainees awaiting trial have been beaten […]

The federal government released preliminary findings Tuesday from an investigation into the fatal Tesla crash that killed a driver using autopilot in May. The National Transportation Safety Board report found that Joshua Brown was driving 74 mph in a 65 mph zone prior to striking a tractor-trailer. His Tesla Model 3 was left largely intact […]

Donald Trump slammed Democrats on Tuesday for not once mentioning ISIS on the first day of the Democratic National Convention and accused his rival party of creating the terrorist group through its policies. Speakers at the first day of the convention Monday largely focused on healing intraparty wounds rather than foreign policy, as supporters of […]

One of the key whistleblowers in exposing state-run doping in Russia has warned Olympic bosses they risk scaring others from coming forward by banning her from Rio 2016. Yuliya Stepanova, who along with her husband Vitaly gave evidence that led to the Russian track and field team’s ban from the Olympics, had been given the […]

U.S. workers have become notoriously bad about taking all their paid vacation days. But some employers have sweetened the pot to encourage their staff to not only take their time but often expand their horizons, too. Roughly 3% of employers offer their staff a “vacation stipend” on top of their regular pay when they take […]

At a time when some discount airlines are leaving the U.K., at least one American airline smells opportunity. Despite the Brexit turmoil in Europe, JetBlue revealed on Tuesday it’s considering flights to Europe for the first time ever. No decision has been made yet, but JetBlue’s low-cost model threatens to disrupt the pricey transatlantic market, […]

A 14-year-old girl has died in another case of a lower-caste woman allegedly being raped by the same man twice in India. The girl was kidnapped in May by the same suspect who allegedly attacked her in December, according to a police report filed by her parents, a senior Delhi police official told CNN. The […]

Representatives for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in discussions for the Vermont senator to formally nominate Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee in an effort to showcase party unity after the convention roll call vote Tuesday, a senior Democratic Party source told CNN. The news follows Sanders speech to the Democratic National Convention on […]

Verizon doesn’t want to just sell phones and wireless service — it also wants to become a formidable media company. Verizon took one step closer to that goal when it announced Monday that it would buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion. “By acquiring Yahoo, we are scaling up to be a major competitor in mobile media,” […]

Actress Margot Robbie is speaking out about that controversial Vanity Fair piece. The “Suicide Squad” star was the subject of an article written for the August issue of the magazine by contributor Rich Cohen. The profile was widely criticized as being sexist toward Robbie, and patronizing toward her native Australia. Cohen’s lengthy physical description of […]

State police at Clearfield State police received a report about an incident of theft that occurred July 18 at the Light House Evangelical Church in West Decatur. During the incident, someone allegedly forced entry into a shed, damaging the door, and then removed a five-gallon gas can full of gasoline. Anyone with information is asked […]

Paramount has broken ranks with other Hollywood studios and agreed to ditch contentious contracts that restricted who could watch its movies on pay-TV in Europe. Europe’s top regulator said Tuesday that Paramount will now allow customers across the European Union to access pay-TV content that had previously been restricted to the U.K. and Ireland. Last […]

One hostage has been killed in a standoff in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France’s Normandy region Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports. The standoff is over and the two hostage-takers were neutralized, the French broadcaster reported. Two men took a priest, two nuns and two churchgoers hostage in a church in the […]

One hostage has been killed in a standoff in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France’s Normandy region Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports. Two men took a priest, two nuns and two churchgoers hostage Tuesday, the French broadcaster reported. The standoff is over and the two hostage-takers were neutralized, it reported. A witness, […]

Two men took a priest, two nuns and two churchgoers hostage in a church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in France’s Normandy region Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reports. The standoff is over and the two hostage-takers were neutralized, the broadcaster reports. Developing story – more to come

Nearly two-and-a-half-years after the disappearance of flight MH370, the sister of the chief pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah still “thinks of him the first thing in the morning and cries for him the last thing at night.” Sakinab Shah struggles to control her emotions as she talks about her brother, who was in charge of the […]

When it comes to the unwanted title of world’s most expensive city for housing, London vies with Monaco and Hong Kong. The average house price in the English capital is now nearly £600,000 ($787,000), and a study from the charity Shelter found just 43 properties affordable to people on an average income. Several of these […]

CLEARFIELD – A recent court ruling could mean that four Clearfield County teenagers convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole will be eligible for release. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled “that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without the possibility of parole for […]

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield Area School Board of Directors approved the lowest bid for the construction of a maintenance garage at its combined committee and board meeting on Monday night. The district received four bids with the lowest bid coming from Dobson Construction in the amount of $337, 625 for a steel building to be […]

The Clearfield Municipal Authority advises its customers in the Technology Drive area that turbidity may be present in their water on Friday, July 29. Representatives of Pennsylvania Grain Processing and Davis Ulmer Sprinkler Company have informed CMA that flow tests will be conducted at their location beginning at 8:30 a.m. All questions regarding the testing […]

The time of the year has come where the Elk County Toastmasters organization has chosen its cadre of newly-dedicated officers for 2016-17. The fast-growing leadership and public speaking organization chose Dale Fox to lead the club as president. An experienced Toastmaster working on her bronze level certification and a member of Toastmasters International since 2010, […]

Melvin C. Smith, 88, of Brookville and formerly of DuBois, died Sunday, July 24, 2016 at the Jefferson Manor. Born Dec. 6, 1927 in Clearfield, he was the son of the late Virginia (Green) Smith. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army for 20 years. On May 23, 1970, he married Mary Lou (Meholick) […]

A military court in China on Monday sentenced former top official Guo Boxiong to life in prison for accepting bribes, according to state media. “His personal assets were seized, and all his illicit gains were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury,” state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Guo was a vice chairman of the […]