Новости за 24.10.2016

When fans of Girl Scout cookies place their orders next year, they won’t have to wait weeks for the boxes to arrive. They’ll only have to wait till breakfast. General Mills announced plans Monday for limited-edition Girl Scout cookie cereal. It will come in two flavors, Thin Mints and Caramel Crunch. Thin Mints are, of […]

MTV’s script programming might conjure thoughts of werewolves (“Teen Wolf”) and serial killers (“Scream”), but next month the network will debut a new series unlike anything else on its current slate. On “Sweet/Vicious,” Taylor Dearden and Eliza Bennett play a pair of wannabe vigilantes who seek to bring justice for victims of sexual assault on […]

Rapper Jay Z will headline a concert for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland before Election Day, according to a Clinton aide. The event — which aides expect will draw thousands — is part of an ongoing series of concerts that aim to motivate young people to turn out for Clinton the way they turned out for […]

Political ads can be downright scary these days. Between Donald Trump’s increasingly apocalyptic videos about his rival candidate’s alleged failures, and Hillary Clinton’s slow music videos of Trump’s critical views of women, US political ads seem like commercials for a movie you want to avoid. But away from the jabs and snipes of the US […]

Wall Street is worried about a lot of things with AT&T’s proposed buyout of Time Warner. Ma Bell might be paying too much. Regulators could shoot down the deal. There may not be many, if any, cost-cutting opportunities for AT&T. The lack of overlap is a reason why the deal might not be too bad […]

John Oliver is raising the stakes with Donald Trump, and putting up one of his trophies as a prize. The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” made the presidential candidate an offer during Sunday night’s episode of his show: if Trump loses the election in November Oliver will give Trump his Emmy. “Of course he […]

If I want to understand the currents in this election, Florida is the place to visit. The state has voted for the winner in every race since 1996. Most memorably, the highly controversial Bush victory over Al Gore in 2000. And in 2012, when President Obama beat Mitt Romney by just 1%. The state’s demographics […]

A gunman is on the run after police say he killed two people and injured four others, including two police officers, Sunday in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Highway Patrol identified the suspect as 38-year-old Michael D. Vance of Chandler, Oklahoma. He is believed to be carrying an AK-47 and driving a silver 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse sedan. Another […]

Wells Fargo used to be able to brag of a superior reputation, rich in history, and mostly clean of the mud from the Great Recession. But over the past two months, the storied Wells Fargo name has been tarnished by a scandal. And unlike complex financial crisis-era crimes, this is one all Americans can understand. […]

Donald Trump criticized the Obama administration’s move to normalize relations with Cuba as a “very weak agreement,” though he said some sort of a deal is “fine,” in an interview with a local CBS station in Miami over the weekend. The Republican nominee also said he would do “whatever you have to do to get […]

Last year, according to USA Football, over 2 million children between the ages of 6-14 participated in tackle football. For many parents, the worry has been over concussions. But a new study finds there could be cause for concern over the cumulative impact of repetitive or sub-concussive hits on the brains of young players when […]

Discount brokerage TD Ameritrade is buying rival Scottrade in a deal worth $4 billion. The move, announced Monday by both companies, will allow TD Ameritrade to quadruple the size of its branch network. As part of the deal, TD Bank, which already owns 42% of TD Ameritrade, will increase its stake in the combined discount […]

France’s Alexis Pinturault powered to victory in the opener of this season’s Alpine Skiing World Cup, winning the giant slalom event in Soelden, Austria. Notching a time of 2:14.01 over the two runs, the 25-year-old finished just 0.7 seconds ahead of Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, a three-time winner in the giant slalom event, in a thrilling […]

Five people were killed when a light aircraft on a French customs surveillance operation crashed in Malta on Monday. The Maltese government said the plane was taking part in an operation to track illicit trafficking routes, including human and drugs trafficking. The Fairchild Metroliner crashed at 7:20 a.m. local time on Monday, Malta International Airport […]

What job could be attractive enough to lure almost 8,000 candidates in China? It’s not a high-flying position with a popular tech firm like Alibaba or Tencent. Instead, the legions of applicants are apparently eager to become an office worker for a powerless political party. Monday was the deadline to register for China’s civil service […]

Good Monday morning from CNN where we have a new boss. Here’s what you need to know today to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Mosul offensive The coalition of 100,000 troops is tightening the noose around ISIS. Peshmerga forces are just 5 miles from Mosul. So, how does ISIS retaliate? By […]

It’s the ultimate $300,000 shoe shine! The ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in the beloved 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” are set to undergo a major conservation effort following a successful crowdfunding campaign. The Smithsonian, which has displayed the iconic slippers at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. for […]

A brief, unilateral ceasefire effectively ended on Sunday with the resumption of airstrikes against the besieged, rebel-held portion of eastern Aleppo. Residents said warplanes began bombing the city in the latter half of Sunday. “The bombing started again,” a Syrian White Helmet rescue worker named Ismail Abdullah told CNN by phone from eastern Aleppo. “I […]

Hundreds of ISIS fighters are fleeing Mosul in Iraq and crossing into neighboring Syria as coalition forces close in on the city, a powerful tribal leader in the region says. Sheikh Abdullah Alyawer, a tribal leader in the town of Rabia, on Iraq’s border with Syria, told CNN that dozens of ISIS militants and their […]

The sounds of artillery boomed across the desert as dawn broke Monday, signaling that Peshmerga and Iraqi forces weren’t letting up in their push to regain the Iraqi city of Mosul from two years of ISIS occupation. Coalition forces celebrated better-that-expected territorial gains over the weekend and as artillery fire pummeled ISIS positions in the […]

Warning: This story contains spoilers about “The Walking Dead” Season 7 premiere. Death comes to “The Walking Dead” probably more often than the rain comes to Los Angeles. But on Sunday night, as Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) swung his bat upon his first victim in the show’s Season 7 premiere, the heavens opened up over […]

Venezuelan lawmakers have announced they plan to push for impeachment proceedings against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In a special session on Sunday, the Venezuelan National Assembly, which is made up mostly of opposition parliamentarians, approved a measure that declared “there has been a breakdown of constitutional order and a continued state of coup led from […]

They’ve spent months, even years, living in squalid tents, makeshift shelters and tumbledown caravans at the side of a motorway in northern France. Through it all — rain, cold and mud; boredom, anger and fear — they’ve been sustained by the hope of someday making it to the UK, just 30 miles away across the […]

Inmates at the Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, North Carolina set fires Sunday in a disturbance which led to the injury of one prison staff member and an inmate. Two separate fires were set by a small group of inmates at around 4.30 p.m. before being brought under control by correction and law enforcement officers […]

A man has been killed, and three people injured, in a gruesome explosion in a Japanese park on Sunday afternoon. A suicide note was found stuffed inside the sock of 72-year-old Toshikatsu Kurihara, a resident of Utsunomiya, Japan, local police told CNN, after he was blown apart by an explosive device. The incident took place […]