Новости за 31.07.2016

Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct connection. “There might have been some sympathetic people [to Gulen] among them,” he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has […]

Charles Koch, frustrated by questions about whether he could support Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, on Sunday deemed that idea a “blood libel.” Koch, speaking halfway through his biannual donor summit at the Broadmoor resort, has long said he will not support Republican Donald Trump in November. But the billionaire — and conservative […]

The making of the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic medals is a mix of art and science. A team of about 100 people, including sculptors and machine operators, have been working in secret inside the Brazilian Mint to produce more than 5,000 medals ahead of the Games. And while the athletes will be earning the […]

Terminix may be close to paying a Delaware family $87 million to keep them from suing over a horrifying poisoning while they were vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A quarterly earnings report filed with the SEC released this week states that there is a tentative settlement in the works after the family of four […]

Two people are now confirmed dead in flash flooding that swept through a Baltimore suburb over the weekend, a spokesman for Howard County told CNN. One victim was a woman and the other was a man, said spokesman Mark Miller. He did not know their ages or the circumstances of their deaths. County authorities said […]

Matt and Sunday Rowan had been married less than six months before their lives were cut short in this weekend’s hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people near Lockhart, Texas. Authorities believe the balloon caught on fire after crashing into power lines on Saturday. There were no survivors. The Rowans had just gotten married […]

Donald Trump’s campaign will begin a push this week to reschedule the presidential debates set for this fall, but the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonpartisan group responsible for scheduling, is standing firm for now. “Our position on the debates is we want as many people, as many voters, to be participants in and to […]

Why is Donald Trump campaigning in New York? Where will we see daughter Ivanka next? And why is Mike Pence going against the top of his ticket? Those stories and more are all part of today’s “Inside Politics” forecast. 1) Can Trump change the electoral map? Election Day is 100 days from Sunday, and so […]

For the first time since 16 people were killed in a hot air balloon crash near Lockhart, Texas, the pilot of the aircraft has been identified. The pilot was Alfred “Skip” Nichols, said Alan Lirette, the ground crew supervisor for Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides. Lirette also confirmed to CNN that 16 people […]

Donald Trump’s campaign will begin a push this week to reschedule the presidential debates set for this fall. “Our position on the debates is we want as many people, as many voters, to be participants in and to see the debates as possible,” Jason Miller, senior communications adviser with the Trump campaign, said on CNN’s […]

In what may be a sign of a cultural shift in India, well-known Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted of raping an American researcher. A New Delhi trial court found Farooqui, best known as co-director of the 2010 film, “Peepli (Live),” guilty Saturday of raping the 35-year-old woman in the nation’s first conviction for […]

Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Donald Trump’s apparent call for Russia to hack her email shows he is “not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief.” Clinton told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace that Trump’s remarks — which the Republican nominee has said were sarcasm — are a national security problem. Russia’s […]

A woman was found dead after severe thunderstorms and flooding lashed parts of Maryland Saturday night. The woman’s body was found near downtown Ellicott City, which was swamped by flash floods Saturday, according to Howard County Office of Emergency Management Press Secretary Andy Barth. Video from the scene shows cars being swept away in roads […]

Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t make a military move into Ukraine — even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country’s Crimean peninsula. “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You […]

It was a big weekend for Harry Potter fans. Nearly ten years since the final book J.K. Rowling wrote for the franchise, a new installment, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” dropped at midnight. The timing was fitting — Sunday is Potter’s birthday, and Rowling’s. Fans of the series flocked to bookstores around the world […]

So now it’s official. With the conventions over, it is notable that the nominees of both major parties are from New York. After many decades when the city and the state have been relegated to secondary status in presidential politics, today two New Yorkers are at the top of the major party tickets. Hillary Clinton, […]

An ISIS hostage-taking at an oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has ended with the attackers killed and their captives safely freed, a senior security source in the city told CNN. Four hostages — employees of the Iraqi North Oil Company — were taken captive after four attackers, believed to be wearing […]

Four employees of an Iraqi oil company are being held hostage after armed militants attacked an oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a senior security source in the city told CNN. The ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. Four attackers, believed to be wearing […]

As Turkey returns to some degree of normality following the July 15 coup attempt, which claimed the lives of 246 people and 24 coup plotters, the government has wasted little time in their response. The country’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim quickly made public addresses denouncing the failed military uprising. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed […]

Armed militants, believed to be wearing suicide vests, attacked the Bai Hassan oil field near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday and have taken four workers hostage, according to a senior security source in the city. One attacker remains in the facility, while two were killed by security forces and another detonated himself […]

A woman in her 30s was killed and four others were injured early Sunday in separate shootings in downtown Austin, Texas, according to the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. According to Austin police, there are “separate shootings within the same area. Both scenes are secure at this time.” Two females and one male were taken […]

Two car bombs detonated Sunday at a Somali government office in the nation’s capital, Mogadishu, police said. Police Capt. Bashir Mohamed said one of the explosives went off at the gate of Somalia’s Criminal Investigative Division. The other detonated outside the gate. The blasts were followed by heavy gunfire. Police say they shot and killed […]

Kenneth E. Lukens, 87, of Chester Hill died Friday, July 29, 2016 at his home. Born Sept. 23, 1928 at Philipsburg, he was a son of the late Arthur W. and Emma B. (Bergh) Lukens. Mr. Lukens was a 1947 graduate of Philipsburg High School and received a certificate in construction management from Penn State. […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Extension educators will be visiting hundreds of farms in the next month to follow up on a survey Pennsylvania farmers received earlier this year asking about conservation practices they have adopted to promote water quality and soil health. The survey was sent by the Penn State Survey Research Center to 20,000 […]

CLEARFIELD – Below is the event schedule for Sunday at the Clearfield County Fair. The fair runs through Saturday. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Minted Farmers Market 1 p.m., Reithoffer Amusements, Midway 1 p.m., Harness Racing, Grandstand Track 2 p.m. – 3 p.m., .Clearfield Hospice Memorial Service & Butterfly Release, Grove Stage 3 p.m. – […]