Новости за 02.03.2017

Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham both ended a CNN town hall wiping away tears Wednesday night, coming as the two leading Republican foreign policy hawks explained their close, years-long friendship. “I feel like I’m on Oprah now,” Graham joked. Graham pointed to McCain’s loyalty, saying the Arizona senator stuck with him through a tough […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the top Russian diplomat in Washington whose interactions with President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn led to Flynn’s firing, according to the Justice Department. Sessions did not mention either meeting during his confirmation hearings when he said he knew of no contacts between […]

Big Sur is gorgeous country where people go to take in nature’s beauty and be away from the trappings of the world. Many people pay good money for the isolation of the retreats along this picturesque stretch of California coast. While the remoteness is a gift, when bad weather hits, it can further isolate people […]

A DREAMer was arrested Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after speaking at a news conference on immigration in Jackson, Mississippi. Daniela Vargas, 22, said she arrived in the United States with her family at age 7 as an undocumented immigrant from Argentina and was later classified as a DREAMer. She spoke on behalf […]

The Texas Rangers, the state’s top cops, have opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that Baylor University mishandled sexual assault cases, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Wednesday. The development follows mounting calls for the agency to intercede in a scandal that has cast a long shadow over the private Waco Christian university and […]

President Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday began with references to the threats against Jewish community centers and last week’s violence targeting two Indian-American engineers in Olathe, Kansas, which is being investigated as a hate crime. While important, President Trump’s statement provides little consolation to communities facing backlash and criminalization in America today. A few […]

Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had a similar reaction to President Donald Trump’s talk of a grand immigration reform compromise: We’ll believe that when we see it. Despite wide support in Washington for a lofty ideal of someday reaching a bipartisan compromise on immigration, heavy skepticism remained Wednesday that Trump would be […]

Watching reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night, the phrase that kept coming to mind was one made popular by former President George W. Bush, “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Bush was bemoaning our habit of accepting underachievement when we expect as much from certain groups or people. But it’s […]

Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez taunted the two men whom he shot and killed in July 2012, then later bragged to an associate about his aim, prosecutors alleged in opening statements for his double murder trial on Wednesday. They claimed that Hernandez said “Yo, what’s up now,” adding a racial slur, before firing at a […]

The hammer has finally fallen at Yahoo over the two massive security breaches disclosed last year. Yahoo’s board decided not to award CEO Marissa Mayer a cash bonus “that was otherwise expected to be paid to her” due to the security incidents, according to a company filing on Wednesday. On top of that, Mayer chose […]

President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress brought in more than 47 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. That was lower than the roughly 53 million viewers who tuned in for Obama’s first joint address in 2009, but was higher than Obama’s last State of the Union which drew 31 million viewers last year. Tuesday […]

William H. “Bill” Graham, 87, of Clearfield died Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at the DuBois Nursing Home. Mr. Graham was born Dec. 9, 1929, the son of Henry and Sarah (Dixon) Graham. He retired from Al Hamilton Contracting after 30 years of service as a heavy equipment operator. He was also the owner and operator […]

Military commanders are discussing speeding up the authorization of counterterrorism missions by allowing the Pentagon or even field commanders to approve some of them rather than the White House, US defense officials told CNN. As CNN first reported Tuesday, the military is seeking to increase US intelligence-gathering raids in Yemen similar to one undertaken in […]

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving gingerly in filling the hundreds of open US ambassador positions, a pace that is surprising to some of the very people who are seeking appointments. Donors and others close to the winning campaign typically eye plush postings in Western Europe or the Caribbean, and the coterie of Trump donors […]

The confirmation path for President Donald Trump’s pick to head the powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hit a minor snag Wednesday when not enough senators — some from each party — showed up at a Senate Finance Committee session to vote on sending her nomination to the Senate floor for a final vote. […]