Новости за 28.12.2016

Ford’s self-driving car team has a brand new toy. The company unveiled on Wednesday an updated version of its autonomous car Fusion. The automaker sees the latest iteration as a significant step toward its goal of putting self-driving vehicles on roads by 2021. The vehicle will expand on the company’s trials already underway in California, […]

A football coach from Charlotte, a project manager from Florida and a teaching assistant from Iowa. Three people from three different backgrounds with a dedication to three different causes. But there’s one thing that united them this year: They were among the thousands who took to the streets across the nation and captured the moment […]

This recipe just says “party!” The ingredients are basic, but the finished appetizer looks like you worked a lot harder than you did. —Carol Bess White, Portland, Oregon View the recipe at TasteofHome.com >>

Within the span of three days, two of the entertainment world’s leading icons departed from this Earth. But George Michael and Carrie Fisher were more than iconic artists or iconic celebrities. They were icons of sexuality — archetypes of late 20th-century sexuality who then defied and redefined those archetypes for the 21st century. The first […]

In Europe or North America, if you dressed up as a Nazi there’d be outrage. In Asia, it could be just another day in class. A recent event at a Taiwanese school, in which students held a mock Nazi parade, led to an international outcry and forced the resignation of the school’s principal as well […]

Most of you probably remember seeing her first as a hologram. I remember seeing her first in tennis whites coming on to Warren Beatty. That latter movie was 1975’s “Shampoo”, a sexual roundelay of a Hollywood tragicomedy about how life went south on Election Day 1968 for a hairdresser (Beatty) juggling several affairs at once […]

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was charged with corruption Tuesday and had $643 million of her assets frozen, according to state-run news agency Télam. A judge indicted Fernández de Kirchner along with 11 others on illicit association, for allegedly directing public road works to a company called Austral Constructions during her presidency. The […]

Massive brawls and food-court fights played out at more than a dozen malls across the country in what proved to be a chaotic day after Christmas. Some of the mayhem was captured on social media. The chaos prevented some shoppers from grabbing clothes off clearance racks and returning gifts. The mall incidents, which ranged from […]

Josephine A. Skraba, 91, of DuBois died Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 at Christ the King Manor. Born Feb. 25, 1925 in Johnsonburg, she was the daughter of the late Marion and Mary (Kasmierski) Marciniak.  She graduated from Johnsonburg High School in the class of 1942. On May 3, 1947 at the Holy Rosary Church in […]

Josephine F. Carpin, 85, of DuBois died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016 at Christ the King Manor. Born Oct. 1, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Stanley and Marie (Wojcik) Makofka. On Oct. 24, 1953, she married Thomas Carpin Jr.  He survives. Mrs. Carpin was a homemaker. She was a member of the St. […]

The following contains spoilers regarding “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” “Star Wars” fans grew up on, and with, Princess Leia. They will want to see her story told to completion. But now, with the untimely death of Carrie Fisher, the actress who so memorably brought Leia to life, that task may become harder for […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a historic visit to Pearl Harbor Tuesday, offering condolences to the thousands killed in the Japanese sneak attack 75 years ago. Abe’s visit comes seven months after President Barack Obama traveled to Hiroshima to pay his respects to the thousands who died there. The two leaders used the ceremony […]

Seven months after President Barack Obama traveled to Hiroshima to pay his respects to the thousands who died there, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did the same at Pearl Harbor Tuesday alongside Obama. In his speech, Obama reflected on the events at Pearl Harbor 75 years ago while also paying tribute to the restored relations […]

Two of the Senate’s most prominent hardliners on Russia are framing the Washington consensus of Russian aggression as free from any disagreement whatsoever — except from President-elect Donald Trump. Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain, on a trip to Estonia, a Baltic nation threatened by a belligerent Russia, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto in an exclusive […]

Trump Tower was briefly evacuated Tuesday afternoon after authorities discovered a suspicious package that was later determined to be a bag of children’s toys. The package was discovered in the lobby of the New York City skyscraper, where President-elect Donald Trump resides. He was in Florida at the time. A video posted to Twitter by […]