Новости за 09.09.2016

It hasn’t been easy for fashion student Nayyara Chue to design clothes for women like herself. Chue, a 22-year-old senior at Parsons School of Design, petitioned the dean of her school to use more plus-size mannequins. The petition, created last spring, garnered more than 8,000 signatures. “I’m not going to design for a size I […]

Louisiana GOP Rep John Fleming?, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he plans to call up a resolution forcing the House to vote on impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen next Tuesday. The “privileged resolution” requires the House to take action on it within two legislative days. House Speaker Paul Ryan scheduled a […]

A British-Iranian woman has been been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly working with organizations that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims were attempting to overthrow the government. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s prison term was disclosed Friday by her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “This is a very serious condemnation that comes without any charges […]

Are you ready for some football during this opening weekend for the NFL? Or more to the point, are you ready to scream at your TV when the zebras (aka the referees) give the running back on your favorite team (real or fantasy) a bad spot after a key third down? Well, some of those […]

Facebook will reverse course and allow users to post the iconic “Napalm Girl” image hours after facing fierce criticism for censoring one of the most famous war photographs in history. “After hearing from our community, we looked again at how our Community Standards were applied in this case,” a spokesperson for Facebook said in a […]

ALLPORT – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is advising area drivers that work to upgrade a box culvert on the Route 2030 (Allport Cutoff) project will bring traffic impacts and delays next week. The culvert location is near Owens General Store and work will include replacing the culvert with a large concrete pipe. Flaggers […]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to make remarks at prominent conservative leader Phyllis Schafly’s funeral in St. Louis Saturday, a source told CNN Friday. The funeral is open to the public. Schlafly, an early supporter of the Religious Right, died Monday. She was 92. She was most well-known for her work opposing the […]

It’s become a yearly ritual: As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to settle into place, inevitable growing pains get portrayed by critics as doom for health reform. This year, we’re seeing it again. Many of these claims are detached from the facts, and blind to what health care was like before the ACA was […]

I never planned on becoming a fireman. As a young New York actor, my brother had persuaded me to take the test so that I had something to fall back on if the acting thing didn’t work out. I could never have imagined how, years later, what would turn out to be my two big […]

His name sounds like it has been plucked from the pages of a comic book or a Hollywood movie, but now real-life Formula One drama finally beckons for Stoffel Vandoorne. Since 2014, the Belgian has had to play understudy to former world champions Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button as McLaren’s reserve driver. But with Button […]

AT&T is benefiting from providing slow broadband internet service to some poor neighborhoods. The FCC requires AT&T to provide discounted high speed internet service to poor families who are eligible for food stamps. But AT&T is exploiting a loophole in the federal mandate to refuse those discounts to some qualified families. The reason: AT&T says […]

The stench isn’t so bad anymore inside the three-bedroom house in north Baton Rouge where Rodney Davis has been living since the water receded. Volunteers tore out the hallway carpet. They hauled fouled furniture to the curb. And in a few rooms, they removed four feet of soggy drywall, exposing the skeleton of the home’s […]

Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that Donald Trump does believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States, seeking to end criticism of the Republican presidential nominee for his ongoing refusal to put the issue to rest. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” the former New York City mayor was asked whether Trump still […]

Be patient, Apple fans: You might not get your new iPhone for a while. Preorders began early Friday morning for the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus ahead of the September 16 release. But the overwhelming demand for the new black and jet black iPhones in particular is prompting Apple to push delivery dates […]

Planes completed aerial spraying for mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus early Friday in the Miami area, despite concerns over possible effects that the insecticide Naled may have on health and the environment. Since the mosquito that carries Zika is most active at predawn and at sunset, all spraying must take place at those times. So […]

A train traveling from the Spanish city of Vigo to Oporto in Portugal has “derailed causing deaths and injuries,” according to officials. A spokeswoman for the rail company RENFE told CNN that at least three people died, including the driver, after the train went off the tracks at around 9.25am local time (3.25aET) near O […]

North Korea’s claim that it conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test has set the international community on edge yet again. But aside from fear-mongering and posturing — just what does North Korea hope to achieve? Rather than a bargaining chip used to gain more foreign aid or access to the world stage, it […]

It’s final: Atlanta remains the world’s busiest passenger airport for another year. More than 101 million passengers passed though Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 2015, an increase of 5.5% over 2014, according to Airports Council International’s 2015 World Airport Traffic Report. The report, which was released Friday, credited the Atlanta airport’s location as a major […]

Dozens of people trapped overnight in cable cars dangling at 12,000 feet in the French Alps have been rescued safely, officials said Friday. At least three children and their families were among 33 passengers forced to spend the night in the cabins after weather conditions and the onset of darkness meant the operation to bring […]

Happy Friday, all. I’ll be off all next week and various folks will be filling in [Wait, what? -Editor]. Here are the 5 things you need to know today to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. North Korea North Korea’s conducted another underground nuke test, and this one may be its most […]

Ten years, five nuclear tests, and they appear to be getting stronger. North Korea claimed to have detonated a nuclear warhead Friday. At an estimated 10 kilotons, it’s thought to be the most powerful explosion yet. #1 October 6, 2006 U.S. intelligence estimated the first North Korean test, in October 2006, produced an explosion equal […]

North Korea has hit the button on its fifth and potentially most powerful nuclear test, claiming to have successfully tested a nuclear warhead. State media said the warhead could be mounted on ballistic rockets and would enable North Korea to produce “a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power.” “It’s […]

In a stunning essay, Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera is apologizing for his initial reaction to Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against Roger Ailes. Rivera says he is “filled with regret” for his instinctive support of Ailes, the Fox News chairman who resigned in July under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations. “It became apparent that Gretchen […]

On September 11, 2001, amid the burning ashes of the World Trade Center, three New York City firefighters hoisted a small American flag removed from a nearby yacht. It was 5 p.m. on a day that would radically change the course of history. The image, captured by a former photographer from The Bergen Record, became […]

The US Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship the day before, according to a news release. The woman was Rina Patel, 32, of Interlaken, New York, the Coast Guard said in a statement. While witnesses said they saw her fall off the 11th […]