Новости за 09.08.2016

CLEARFIELD – One of the two men who escaped in November from the Quehanna Boot Camp pleaded guilty Monday. Nicholas Guido, 31, and Trent Robert Maffei, 21, walked away from the boot camp Nov. 1. According to the affidavit of probable cause, they were with other inmates outside the boot camp when they got into […]

For the second time in a week, Israel has accused a humanitarian aid worker of assisting Hamas. Waheed al-Bursh, 38, from the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, is charged with using his position with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist Hamas, said the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency. Israel named al-Bursh in […]

An Indian photographer is enjoying a fabulous Italian honeymoon — without his honey. That’s because just two days before Faizan Patel and his wife Sana were supposed to leave for their two-week trip, she realized she had lost her passport. Patel went on the trip anyway, and kept his wife with him, kind of. On […]

[Breaking news update, posted at 1:26 p.m. ET] A federal judge Tuesday upheld former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges. Blagojevich was originally sentenced in 2011 following his conviction for trying to exchange an appointment to President Barack Obama’s old US Senate seat for campaign cash. An appeals court ordered a […]

Another day, another bunch of Republicans fleeing Donald Trump. In what seems like a nearly daily occurrence, Republicans are bolting their party’s nominee. But if not him, who? Some are going so far as to endorse Democratic rival Hillary Clinton; others, like Maine Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday, are just saying they can’t stomach supporting […]

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is four years into a 14-year sentence imposed after he was convicted of corruption in two separate trials, appeared at a federal resentencing hearing Tuesday via closed-circuit television. Blagojevich, 59, who was convicted in 2011 of charges including attempting to sell the Senate seat vacated by the election of […]

You run to the boarding gate, only to find it closed. But you can see your plane, just now rolling across the tarmac. If only you could run out there and flag it down! That’s exactly what one man did in Spain recently. The Ryanair passenger managed to bypass security at Madrid-Barajas Airport and leap […]

Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday that Donald Trump could make the world “more dangerous” and that his values represent a threat to the Republican Party. “Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous,” Collins told CNN’s Jamie Gangel. “I worry that his tendency to lash out and his ill-informed comments […]

Anne Hathaway wants mothers to love their bodies. The 33-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to encourage new mothers to embrace their new curves. “Love what you have been given.” she wrote alongside a picture of her jeans. “There is no shame in gaining weight during pregnancy (or ever). There is no shame if […]

A 6-year-old girl remained in critical condition Tuesday after a Ferris wheel accident at a county fair in eastern Tennessee the night before, a doctor said Tuesday. She and two other girls — ages 10 and 16 — fell 35 to 40 feet after a basket overturned on a Greene County Fair ride and dumped […]

Park ranger Ron Johnson peers down from a helicopter, watching friend and fellow ranger Darin Jernigan suspended from a rope about 200 feet below him.  Working as the spotter for this latest mission, Johnson works in tandem with the pilot tasked with inserting Jernigan into a high alpine meadow near Teewinot Mountain in the 310,000-acre […]

At first look, three particular tropical diseases could seem unrelated. They affect millions of people worldwide, but in much different ways. One can cause cardiac arrest in 30% of people infected, another can enter the brain to cause confusion and changes in behavior, and the last can cause skin lesions and swelling of the liver […]

In a few weeks, the temperatures in Michigan will begin to drop and the balmy summer months will be well and gone. In a hospice bed in Grandville, 91-year-old Morrie Boogart is deep in preparation. Boogart knits hats — 8,000 of them so far — and donates them to the homeless. He’s been doing it […]

The travel woes aren’t over yet for Delta passengers. A day after the airline canceled 1,000 flights, Delta said it canceled another 250 flights from Tuesday’s scheduled. And about 200 morning departures are expected to be delayed. “We are still operating in recovery mode,” said Dave Holtz, a senior vice president at the world’s second-largest […]

While the world’s brightest and strongest toil away in Rio, you’re probably toiling away under the fluorescent lights of your office. There’s no shame in that. Just because you don’t have lats of steel or half a mine’s worth of precious metal around your neck doesn’t mean you aren’t an athlete in your own right. […]

It could be one of the feel-good stories of Rio 2016 — a tiny island nation triumphs on the world’s biggest sporting stage to win its first Olympic medal. Fiji is favorite to claim gold in the men’s rugby sevens tournament, which starts Tuesday, having overcome financial problems and the loss of leading players to […]

In Italy, they’ve decided to fight them on the beaches. By imposing hefty fines, authorities are hoping to deter towel hogs who stake an overnight spot with sun loungers and umbrellas. The “ancient and ingrained” habit has been blighting Italy’s crowded summer shorelines for decades, according to La Repubblica website. Now coast guards are trying […]

Two former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency under Republican presidents endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, citing her plan to tackle climate change and Donald Trump’s “profound ignorance of science.” William D. Ruckelshaus, who was the first EPA administrator under President Richard Nixon and then again the fifth under President Ronald Reagan, and William K. […]

The first set of results is in, and it’s confirmed: The US women’s gymnastics team is that good. And barring a major disaster, the question heading into the team final Tuesday afternoon at the Rio Olympic Arena won’t be whether these five American women will win gold. It will be which teams get silver and […]

Last week police officers responded to a call in Rome after someone reported they had heard crying and shouting coming from an apartment, but when they arrived they were met by an elderly couple. The Italian couple were in tears, not because a crime had been committed, but because they were overcome by loneliness and […]

The travel woes aren’t over yet for Delta passengers. Cancellations and delays caused by a crippling computer system failure have spilled into a second day, the airline said as it continued to wrestle with the crisis. The outage Monday grounded Delta flights for at least six hours, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers around the […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is traveling to the Russian city of St Petersburg for a face-to-face meeting with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin. It will be the first time the two strongmen leaders have met since Turkish interceptors blasted a Russian warplane out of the skies over Syria in November. The incident, in which one […]

The American University of Afghanistan has temporarily suspended campus operations after two of its teachers were kidnapped at gunpoint Sunday, according to a statement released by the school. “We are devastated by the news and will remain vigilant to ensure the safety and security of all university personnel and students,” said Mark English, the president […]

Taiwan has strongly protested the deportation of five of its nationals from Kenya to mainland China, the second such incident in recent months. The move showed “contempt for human rights,” Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said in a statement. According to Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, the five Taiwanese were part of a group of […]

It’s day four in Rio and the action doesn’t let up. After a manic Monday, there will be 15 gold medals decided across nine events Tuesday. From somersaults to flip turns and leaps of faith — here are five things to look out for this Tuesday. Equestrian In October 2015, William Fox-Pitt was fighting for […]