Новости за 13.02.2017

President Donald Trump’s patio strategy session at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening is drawing scrutiny for its open-air nature, including aides’ use of cell phone flashlights to illuminate potentially sensitive documents. As Trump discussed a response to North Korea’s missile test with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, other diners looked on freely. Sources who don’t work […]

President Donald Trump has been increasingly chatting with other world leaders during his first weeks in office. On Monday he turned his attention to Africa. Trump spent Monday morning calling two of the continent’s most prominent leaders, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and South African President Jacob Zuma, to discuss combating terrorism, trade relations and other […]

Health officials across the United States are still urging people to get their flu vaccines as the virus continues to spread in 40 states and Puerto Rico and has been associated with 20 pediatric deaths, seven of them reported in the week ending February 4. The latest report (PDF) from the Centers for Disease Control […]

John Onder, 81, of Clarence died peacefully Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 at Juniper Village at Brooklyn in State College. Born Sept. 15, 1935, he was the son of the late Andrew and Helen Nodesky Onder. On April 18, 1959 in Clarence, he married his soulmate for life, Dorothy D. Granite, who survives at home. He […]

Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin on Monday said terrorist organizations are using President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban as a tool for recruitment. “I talked to King Abdullah from Jordan just about ten days ago, he mentioned that,” said the senior senator from Maryland, speaking on CNN’s New Day. “He said ISIS is losing its caliphate, […]

A US citizen and NASA engineer returning from a trip abroad says he was held at the border by US Customs officers who demanded that he unlock his phone. Sidd Bikkannavar said in a post on social media that US Customs and Border Protection officers wanted his cell phone — and password — before they […]

Actor George Clooney, 55, will soon to be a father to twins with his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, 39 — reigniting a conversation about what it means to be an older dad. Despite growing awareness of in-vitro fertilization and aging mothers — such as Janet Jackson, who gave birth last month at 50 […]

President Trump has bashed Dodd-Frank as a loan-killing “disaster” that’s crushing the economy. Trump recently complained that “many friends of mine who have nice businesses” can’t get loans because of the regulations in Dodd-Frank. “The banks just won’t let them borrow,” the president said. The White House argues this lack of business lending is precisely […]

The Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 each hit new all-time highs Monday. Investors are giddy with excitement and they clearly believe that both big blue chip multinationals and smaller companies that do most of their business in the U.S. will continue to thrive. So is this the Donald Trump rally? Or the Janet […]

For the Lakota American Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota winters are an annual time of danger and desperation. Temperatures there drop as low as -25 degrees. But homes on the reservation are often substandard, without central heat or proper electricity. Local activist Bamm Brewer says, “So many people here have wood stoves […]

An image of a Turkish gunman assassinating the Russian ambassador to Turkey has won the World Press Photo of the Year award. Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici was at the launch of a new art exhibition in Ankara on December 19 when Mevlut Mert Alt?ntas, an off-duty police officer, opened fire and killed Andrey Karlov. […]

O Canada! A big meeting is taking place at the White House today, but there is plenty that happened over the weekend to talk about first. Here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. North Korea North Korea launched a test fire of a […]

China has voiced opposition to North Korea’s test of a reported new ballistic missile more than 24 hours after reports of the launch emerged. But the country shrugged off suggestions it should be doing more to intervene in the rogue state’s military affairs, pinning the test down to Pyongyang’s testy relations with Washington and Seoul. […]

Repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a suitable replacement would weaken the finances of Medicare and mean higher prescription costs for seniors, an architect of former President Barack Obama’s health care law warns. “Seniors will lose their coverage for prescription drugs in their ‘donut hole,’ so they’ll have a lot of drugs that they […]

President Donald Trump will meet for the first time Monday with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ideological opposite who nonetheless hopes to avoid clashing with his new US counterpart. In his previous US visits, Trudeau found a leader almost exactly aligned with his liberal worldview and youthful image. In return, then-President Barack Obama met […]

Republican leaders have a lengthy list of talking points about the shortcomings of the health law. Shortly before his inauguration last month, Donald Trump said that it “is a complete and total disaster. It’s imploding as we sit.” And the GOP can point to a host of issues, including premium increases averaging more than 20% […]

It may be the great irony of President Donald Trump’s passion for tightening up immigration enforcement that his strident positions have made achieving any compromise nearly impossible, effectively dooming chances of actually getting legislation to enhance immigration enforcement in the near term. Immigration policy trackers give astronomical odds to the likelihood of any substantive bill […]

1. Stocks surge: U.S. stock indexes look set to build on their record-setting performances. The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 have both added more than 2.5% since the start of the year. The Dow is now trading near the 20,300 point level. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index has also turned in a very strong […]

DUBOIS – A DuBois woman has been charged with statutory sexual assault for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old male. Bobby Jo Gregor, 42, is also charged with indecent assault person less than 16-years-old and corruption of minors. The charges were filed by Sandy Township police in regard to a June of 2016 incident. According […]

Organizer is Seeking Volunteers CLEARFIELD – Plans for this year’s Hoodie Hoo Day in Clearfield are taking shape, according to organizer Jane Lee Yare. Hoodie Hoo Day is a little known national holiday celebrated annually Feb. 20 as a counter to Groundhog Day.  Its major purpose is to hasten the arrival of spring. In Clearfield, […]

These days, Deborah Johnson is on edge. She says she’s worried she won’t qualify for Social Security disability benefits, anxious about her middle son’s recovery from a car accident last year, and feeling the pervasive effects of her complex post-traumatic stress disorder that dates back to an abusive childhood. But by her mid-morning coffee on […]

Adele really, really wanted to share her admiration for Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards and social media felt her on that. After sweeping the night’s top awards for song and record of the year for “Hello” and album of the year for “25,” Adele let it be known she thought Beyoncé deserved the latter. “My […]

The US Tennis Association has apologized to the German Fed Cup team for playing the Nazi-era national anthem ahead of a replay match in the women’s tournament. Instead of the current version of the anthem, a singer performed verses of “Das Deutschlandlied” which included the words “Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles, uber alles in der Welt,” […]

A Tribe Called Quest used their time on the Grammy stage on Sunday to put on the most politically-charged performance of the night. The group — who was joined by best new artist nominee Anderson .Paak and Busta Rhymes — performed “Movin’ Backwards” and “We the People” from their album “We got It from Here… […]

Damage to a spillway on California’s Oroville Dam — which prompted an urgent call for residents downstream to evacuate to higher ground — may not be as bad as previously thought, the Butte County sheriff said Sunday. Still, the evacuation orders for cities and counties near Lake Oroville remain in effect. “I would rather be […]