Новости за 23.05.2017

The Trump administration is backtracking on plans to nearly eliminate the Office of National Drug Control Policy, asking Congress to fund a number of the programs that drug treatment advocates believe have helped fight the scourge of opioid addiction. According to Richard Baum, acting director of National Drug Control Policy, President Donald Trump’s proposed budget […]

Apple has hired its first head of diversity. Longtime Apple employee Denise Young Smith has taken on a new role as vice president of inclusion and diversity. The company hasn’t had someone heading up those efforts since Jeffrey Siminoff left the company to join Twitter in 2015. He had been director of inclusion and diversity […]

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke said this week that a CNN KFile report on plagiarism in his master’s thesis could impact the Trump administration’s decision to hire him for a role at the Department of Homeland Security. A CNN KFile review of Clarke’s 2013 master’s thesis found 47 examples in which Clarke used passages from sources […]

Sen. Rand Paul intends to force a vote in the Senate on the $110 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia that President Donald Trump announced during his visit there, to a Paul aide told CNN. Paul is expected to introduce a measure to disapprove of the sale later Tuesday, and he has the ability under […]

The Green Mountain State could get a little greener. The governor of Vermont has one day left to decide whether his state will become the ninth to legalize recreational pot. Republican Governor Phil Scott is not “philosophically opposed to legalization” but worries about kids getting access to cannabis and people driving stoned, spokeswoman Rebecca Kelley […]

Margaret B. Zinn, 102, of Ramey died Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Christ the King Manor, Dubois. Born April 17, 1915, she was the daughter of the late Martin J. and Anna T. (Grace) Baylin. She worked in Washington D.C., in the Department of Interior. She also did office work in Harrisburg, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and […]

Rep. Tom MacArthur announced Tuesday he is stepping down as the co-chair of the moderate Tuesday Group. He announced his decision during a routine luncheon with members of his group. MacArthur was a key author of an amendment that salvaged the GOP’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacarem but his involvement in negotiations with members […]

Glenn E. Shope Sr., 87, of Irvona died Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at his residence. Born Jan. 26, 1930 in Beaver Valley, he was the son of the late Benjamin and Bertha (Gates) Shope. On Jan. 29, 1955, he married Bertha Lender in New York City.  She preceded him in death in 2010. He is […]

Donald Trump may have convinced Carrier not to move its Indianapolis furnace plant to Mexico. But the company is still shipping about 300 of its jobs to Mexico right before Christmas. In a formal notice to the state of Indiana, the company detailed its plans to eliminate 338 jobs at the plant on July 20, […]

Today should have been the day Richard Collins III walked across a stage in a cap and gown. Instead, his gown lay draped over a chair in the front row at Bowie State University’s commencement ceremony. Collins was three days away from graduating when he was stabbed to death at a bus stop while visiting […]

The top two leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are leaving the door open to holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress after President Trump’s former national security adviser said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena. Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said the […]

Two men were caned 83 times Tuesday as a punishment for having homosexual sex in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Aceh province. Hundreds of people turned out to see the public punishment, held at a mosque in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, filming the caning on their phone cameras. It is very rare, even in Aceh, […]

President Donald Trump asked two of his top intelligence officials to publicly knock down the idea that his 2016 presidential campaign had colluded with the Russians in the days after then-FBI Director James Comey revealed a federal investigation was underway into the matter, according to reporting by The Washington Post and CNN. Both men — […]

President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget calls for more spending for border security and immigration enforcement — but the ask is still modest compared to what fulfilling his campaign pledges would likely cost. The budget proposed by the White House on Tuesday includes $2.6 billion for border security — $1.6 billion of which will be for […]

The aftermath of an unfathomable attack in Great Britain leads off the things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here. 1. Concert attack At least 22 people — many of them children […]

South Korea’s military fired warning shots after it spotted an unidentified object flying from North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two countries, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. The object, which the South Korean military said was no longer visible, was spotted two days after Pyongyang test-fired a ballistic […]

Celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute and express their sympathy in the wake of a terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England on Monday evening that left at least 22 people dead and dozens injured. Grande herself responded on the social media site in the hours after the attack — writing […]

Hours after the blast, a 10-year-old girl who fled Manchester Arena, keeps crying — convinced the attack isn’t over. “She’s just petrified that whoever did this will come to the house or go to her school,” said Coral Long about her daughter. On Monday night, Long and her daughter were getting ready to leave after […]

JOHNSONBURG – When the bottom half of your lineup scores all of your runs, 10 to be exact, it is going to be a long day for your opponent. Such was the case Monday afternoon in the District-9 AA playoffs as the Johnsonburg Ramettes girls softball team advanced to the semi-finals with a 10-0 […]

At least 22 people, including children, have been killed in a blast at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, in the deadliest terror attack on British soil since the 2005 London bombings. Police said they believe a man carrying explosives acted as a lone attacker and died in the powerful explosion that shook part of […]

At least 19 people are dead and almost 60 injured in what police are treating as a terrorist incident Monday night at Manchester Arena, where pop singer Ariana Grande was performing. As concertgoers — many of them young fans of the singer — were beginning to leave the arena after Grande’s closing set, an explosion […]

No victim of terror is deserving. But the attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, on Monday night feels different. It reaches into the core fear of any parent — that you could send your child off to an event and for reasons that are cruel and evil never see them again. By […]

Singer Ariana Grande is expressing her remorse following an incident at her concert in Manchester, England that left at least 19 people dead. “Broken,” the singer tweeted, hours after news broke of the deadly incident. “From the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have words.” Grande was physically unharmed in […]

Let the games begin. Season 13 of “The Bachelorette” premiered Monday night and viewers watched as 31 men did anything and everything for a shot at love with Rachel Lindsay. These men had clearly brushed up on previous seasons because they pulled out all the stops. Bryce, 30, a firefighter from Orlando swept Lindsay off […]

The city of Manchester, where at least 19 people were killed by a suspected suicide attacker at a music concert Monday night, is no stranger to tragedy. In 1996, less than a mile from the Manchester Arena, the site of the explosion, — the IRA detonated a powerful truck-bomb, their largest ever on the British […]