Новости за 17.01.2017

Bad weather and possible ‘crew error’ appeared to be an early focus of an inquiry into what caused a Boeing 747 freighter to crash Monday in a village near Kyrgyzstan’s capital. The jumbo Turkish freighter slammed into the village of Dacha-Suu on the outskirts of Bishkek, killing 37 people and destroying at least 15 houses, […]

CURWENSVILLE – After winning the last two games, the DuBois Central Catholic (DCC) Lady Cardinals girls basketball team stopped that streak of Curwensville’s Monday night, winning 56-41 on the Lady Tide home floor. The loss has the Lady Tide with an overall 2016-17 season record of 4-6 while the Lady Cardinals move to 9-5 […]

Some CEOs are nervous at the prospect of a 6 a.m. tweet from President-elect Donald Trump, accusing their company of not doing enough to keep jobs in the U.S. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, however, is confident about Microsoft’s place as a job creator. “We’re a U.S.-based company that operates worldwide and our predominant employment is […]

Participants at a Miami event celebrating MLK Day scrambled for safety Monday afternoon after gunfire erupted, leaving eight people, including five juveniles, injured, officials said. Video from CNN affiliate WSVN captured the emotional scene at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. Law officers and paramedics treated the wounded and tried to calm friends and family. […]

Tom Barrack, President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime friend and the chair of his Presidential Inaugural Committee, said that the team has not asked rapper Kanye West to perform at the inauguration — despite having had a high-profile meeting with Trump last month. “We haven’t asked him,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.” “He considers himself […]

Tom Price made his name in Washington as a critic of Obamacare — in fact, he has a plan to dismantle it. But he may not want to talk about that much when he testifies before Congress this week as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Price, a Georgia congressman and […]

Just days ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump has issued his own data dump. It amounts to a blueprint of his foreign policy and has caused widespread consternation among European allies. Germany’s foreign minister at EU meetings in Brussels described reaction among leaders as “astonishment and agitation.” After months of little detail, Trump has […]

Police in Istanbul have arrested the man suspected of plotting the deadly New Year’s Eve attack on the Reina nightclub along with four others, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu. The suspect, who has not been named, was arrested late Monday, Andalou reported, citing security sources. A man of Kyrgyz origin and three women were […]

I live in Miami. I’m pregnant. I tested positive for the Zika virus. At least that’s what I was told, and that’s what I believed for six long, painful weeks. They were excruciating weeks of waiting for a special test that only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can do to confirm whether I […]

The shrill sobs just won’t stop. Although some bawling is normal for babies, excessive crying for more than three hours a day, lasting more than three days a week, might be a sign that a doctor’s intervention is in order. Excessive crying is known as infantile colic, and a new study suggests that acupuncture may […]

Several of the wealthiest nominees for top Cabinet posts are headed to Capitol Hill for confirmation hearings this week, but the clock is ticking for them to complete the ethics and financial review process. Of the current list of 21 nominees, 14 must still sit for Senate hearings, and only five of those 14 have […]

In recent years, business leaders at Davos, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, have ranked inequality as one of the greatest risks to the global economy. They have recognized that it is not just a moral issue but also an economic issue. Of course, if ordinary citizens don’t have incomes with which to buy the […]

One family of superbugs, known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE, may be spreading more widely than previously thought, according to a study published Monday (PDF) in the journal?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, transmission of these bacteria person-to-person may be occurring without symptoms, say the researchers, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School […]

The “alt-right is having a falling out — in some ways with their President-elect, but in perhaps even more instances with each other. And it comes on the eve of an alt-right inaugural celebration called the DeploraBall — a play off of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” campaign remark. Look no further than the white […]

Police in Istanbul have arrested the man suspected of plotting the deadly New Year’s Eve attack on the Reina nightclub, according to Turkish news agency Anadolu. The suspect, who has not been named, was arrested late Monday, Andalou reported, citing security sources. The attack left 39 people dead and dozens more injured after a gunman […]