Новости за 22.08.2016

When the comic book character RiRi Williams takes over the “Iron Man” suit, she will not be known as “Iron Woman.” Instead, Williams has been christened “Ironheart.” “Ironheart” writer Brian Michael Bendis told Wired that “Iron Woman seemed old fashioned to some.” “Iron Maiden looked like a legal nightmare,” Bendis said. “And Ironheart, coined by […]

CLEARFIELD – On Saturday, Aug. 6, the Clearfield County 4-H Teen Council announced the Top 3 winners of its Annual 4-H & FFA Royalty Contest. The contest was open to current 4-H and FFA members, as well as 4-H and FFA alumni. The contest served three primary objectives: to increase awareness of the 4-H and […]

So Rio pulled it off, successfully delivering perhaps the most doubted Olympic Games of the modern era. Worries over terrorism and the Zika virus took a back seat and, for a short while at least, the sport and the business of winning gold medals stole the headlines. With the Olympic cauldron now extinguished and the […]

Senator Bernie Sanders has a message for Pfizer: Make your new prostate cancer drug cheaper. Pfizer announced Monday plans to spend $14 billion to acquire Medivation, a San Francisco-based drug maker that developed a medication called Xtandi, which treats prostate cancer. Sanders’ qualm is that Xtandi costs “$129,000 — 4 times more than in other […]

Disgraced U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte lost two sponsorship deals Monday, hours after the end of the Rio 2016 games. Speedo was the first to drop the swimmer. “While we have enjoyed a winning relationship with Ryan for over a decade and he has been an important member of the Speedo team, we cannot condone behavior […]

Tracee Ellis Ross is looking forward to the day that there is no longer discussion about diversity in Hollywood. The actress is the first African American woman to be nominated for an Emmy in the outstanding lead actress in a comedy category since Phylicia Rashad was recognized in 1986 for her work on “The Cosby […]

Hillary Clinton has a narrow advantage over Donald Trump in the swing state of Ohio, according to a new poll released Monday. The Monmouth University poll finds Clinton up four points on Trump among likely Ohio voters, 43% to 39% — within the survey’s 4.9-point margin of error. Additionally, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is getting […]

More good news for the country’s affluent: It literally pays to be rich. The wealthy make more money on their investments than the less affluent, according to data from Openfolio, an app that tracks investment portfolios. An analysis of the app’s users found those with larger portfolios have higher returns. The top 1% averaged 3.73% […]

Miranda Lambert has a new guy in her life…and he’s a 6-year-old. During her concert on Saturday, Lambert announced she was engaged to marry a young fan. “There’s a little 6-year-old boy somewhere here named Sebastian,” Lambert said on stage. “He asked me to marry him and I said, ‘Yes, in 25 years.'” Lambert, 32, […]

In the horrific aftermath of a blast that ripped through a wedding at Gaziantep in southern Turkey — being blamed by officials on a child suicide bomber — CNN’s Ben Wedeman visited the distressing scene. Row after row of freshly filled graves stretch along the northern side of the hilltop cemetery outside Gaziantep. The soil […]

Barbra Streisand is upset about her iPhone mispronouncing her name. So she decided to call Apple’s CEO. The star recently told NPR’s Scott Simon that Siri has been saying “Streizand,” instead of “Streisand.” “She pronounces my name wrong,” Streisand said.”Streisand with a soft S, like sand on the beach. I’ve been saying this for my […]

Donald Trump, presidential nominee, is taking a backseat to Donald Trump, media critic — again. On Monday morning he trained his Twitter fire at the MSNBC show “Morning Joe,” formerly one of his favorite places to campaign. Trump criticized “Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski in highly personal terms, calling her “off the wall, a neurotic and […]

“Wanna go for a ride?” The Speed King’s son poses the question as the early dawn paints pastels along the horizon and sends light dancing on the vast shimmering flatness that hot rod racers call the Great White Dyno. His moment has arrived, at last. It took all of his 66 years and every penny […]

Twenty-two of the 54 victims of a devastating bomb attack that struck a Kurdish wedding celebration in southern Turkey were children, a Turkish official said Monday. The revelation added a fresh layer of horror to Saturday night’s bombing in Gaziantep that killed 54 and wounded dozens of others — the deadliest in a string of […]

On a sunny Saturday morning, Dr. Karla Maguire helps her mother-in-law get her son’s stroller out of their house in Surfside, Florida, and then goes back inside while Rafael and his grandmother walk to the beach alone. It isn’t that Maguire doesn’t like the beach. She loves it; it’s one of the reasons she and […]

Pfizer announced a $14 billion deal for Medivation, a biotech company that makes an important cancer drug. Medivation’s portfolio includes Xtandi, a drug that treats prostate cancer. Pfizer said Xtandi generated approximately $2.2 billion in worldwide sales, and the purchase should add to its earnings per share immediately. Pfizer will pay $81.50 in cash for […]

Wasn’t it just last week during an off-weekend where I talked about rain?  I should stop doing that and instead find another topic.  Reason being, this weekend’s action simply just couldn’t find traction. The night race at Bristol is an event that seems to just have a bulls eye on it as a race to […]

Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence sought to soften Trump’s pitch to black voters and thread the needle on their free trade positions in a wide-ranging interview that aired Monday. Trump told black voters last Friday that their job prospects were dim and urged them to break from Democrats, saying “What the hell do you […]

Volkswagen is being forced to cut production of cars in Germany. A dispute with parts suppliers is causing serious disruption at six of the automaker’s factories in Germany. Volkswagen said it has had to reduce hours for about 27,700 workers until the end of the month. The suppliers, owned by Prevent Group, are seeking compensation […]

Cakes have been raising spirits and clearing gloom since ovens were invented. There’s no situation too big or too minor for cake. No major milestone in life can be passed without cake marking the occasion, and few bad moods cannot be temporarily cured by several forkfuls of the sweet stuff. Here are our favorite cakes […]

Pills seized inside Prince’s Paisley Park compound by investigators were labeled as hydrocodone but actually contained fentanyl — the drug that killed the singer — according to a source with knowledge of the investigation who revealed the information to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The revelation gives more insight into what may have caused Prince’s overdose. […]

The world’s most famous plumber stole the show at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics. Nintendo character Mario was shown jumping into a pipe in Japan before popping out in the Rio stadium in the unlikely form of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The ingenious cameo drew a delighted reaction from fans on social […]

Pills seized inside Prince’s Paisley Park compound by investigators were labeled as hydrocodone but actually contained fentanyl — the drug that killed the singer — according to a source with knowledge of the investigation who revealed the information to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The revelation gives more insight into what may have caused Prince’s overdose. […]

A tiny scrap of land might not catch your eye. But to Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Tekuto, there’s nothing more beautiful. A veteran designer of kyosho jutaku — or micro homes — Yamashita has built more than 300 houses, each uniquely shaped and packed full of personality. All starkly different, the only thing […]

A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation. “He had a wild urge to consume metal. Even for us, the experienced surgeons, it was frightening,” Dr. Jatinder Malhotra told CNN. “We were so nervous… a small […]