Новости за 29.07.2017

A transgender ex-Navy surgeon says she will perform free gender-confirming surgery for the service members on her list who have been affected by Donald Trump’s new ban on trans people serving in the military. “If the commander-in-chief won’t take care of our veterans, our veterans will,” Dr. Christine McGinn told CNN’s Michael Smerconish on Saturday. […]

“This is the case of the incredible shrinking airline seat.” That’s how a federal judge in Washington D.C., Patricia Millet, described the issue in a decision she and two other judges handed down Friday, ordering the Federal Aviation Administration to review seat sizes and legroom on commercial airlines. Previously, the FAA has refused to mandate […]

An Ohio factory owner said Saturday that though she has blue-collar jobs available at her company, she struggles to fill positions because so many candidates fail drug tests. Regina Mitchell, a co-owner of Warren Fabricating & Machining in Hubbard, Ohio, told The New York Times this week that four out of 10 applicants otherwise qualified […]

Just a 10-second walk from the Oval Office, the White House chief of staff’s quarters are considered prime real estate. But the corner office’s real value lies in its proximity to the commander-in-chief, perhaps the most prized currency in Washington. At least it used to be. For President Donald Trump, the rigid contours of White […]

“Philanthropy,” Oscar Wilde once wrote, “seems to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures.” With a growing number of billionaires and other wealthy people pledging to give away large chunks of their fortunes to rid the world of diseases, illiteracy, poverty, global warming and much else, the rest of […]

Now what? The Republicans’ years-long desire to repeal Obamacare has collapsed, but that doesn’t mean all is well with the health reform law. There are signs that the individual marketplace is stabilizing, but it remains fragile in many states. And the sudden halt to the repeal and replace effort early Friday morning added more uncertainty […]

For the past six years or so, I’ve been sifting through each week to find the single person who had the absolute “Worst Week in Washington.” Sometimes it’s easy — one person just steps to the front and snatches the award. (Anthony Weiner, I am looking at you.) Sometimes it’s hard — a slow week […]

On his visit to Brentwood, New York, on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump showed how little he understands the nuances of immigration, the signature issue of his campaign. Railing against the MS-13 gang, he suggested that the Long Island suburbs are so out of control they are akin to Cambodia or Iraq. He continually veered […]

North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Friday that appears to have the range to hit major US cities, experts say, and prompted a fresh round of condemnation from the United States, China, Japan and South Korea. A combination of US, South Korean and Japanese analyses of the launch from Mupyong-ni, near North Korea’s border […]

Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are calling for continued protests ahead of Sunday’s controversial election, a day after demonstrators clashed with national guard troops in the capital in defiance of a protest ban. Opposition leaders have vowed unrest before the election of a “constituent national assembly” that would rewrite the constitution at Maduro’s request […]

A man accused of a fatal stabbing in Hamburg was known to investigators as an Islamist and was “psychologically unstable,” but so far does not appear to have any terror links, German authorities told a news conference Saturday. The 26-year-old man grabbed a long kitchen knife at a supermarket Friday afternoon and stabbed three shoppers, […]

Apple is removing software from its app store in China that allows users to skirt the country’s Great Firewall. The operators of two virtual private networks, or VPNs, said Saturday that they had been notified by Apple that their products were being removed from its app store in China. “We are writing to notify you […]

Kalla Bruhl and her boyfriend’s family had their Outer Banks vacation in North Carolina short-circuited. They were among thousands of tourists on Ocracoke and Hatteras islands who have been ordered to pack up and evacuate after a major power outage early Thursday. A transmission line was cut during construction work on a bridge, knocking out […]

President Donald Trump railed against Senate rules requiring 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in a series of tweets Saturday morning, just a day after the chamber dealt a devastating setback to the GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. “Republicans in the Senate will NEVER win if they don’t go to a 51 vote […]

Police investigating two rapes of a 14-year-old girl in one night in Birmingham, England, made two arrests on Saturday. The girl was walking with a friend into the city’s Witton train station on Tuesday evening when a man approached her, led to her to a secluded area of the station, and raped her, police said. […]

President Donald Trump on Friday openly encouraged police to be tougher with crime subjects as they’re being arrested. Trump’s statement before a crowd of law enforcement officials in Long Island pointed to no specific suspect or alleged crime. But here in Baltimore, a city still reckoning with terse relationships between police and the communities they’re […]

With the tilt of his thumb, Sen. John McCain got the last laugh. McCain — with a simple, yet dramatic, thumbs down on the Senate floor in the wee hours of Friday morning — signaled to the Senate, his colleagues and the rest of the United States that he was not prepared to go along […]

President Donald Trump’s attempts to boost domestic metal production could make your booze more expensive. The Trump administration is currently considering administrative action to make American steel and aluminum production — two industries that have long suffered in the face of foreign competition — more robust, including possible tariffs, taxes or restrictions on imported products, […]

A US Navy aircraft carrier fired warning flares at Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said, marking the latest aggressive encounter between the two nations The US carrier was “unprofessional and provocative” Friday, the IRGC navy said in a statement Saturday. CNN has reached out to the US Navy for […]

For Grammy award-winning artist Sheryl Crow, inspiration comes from everywhere, even the most random tweet. This month, Kid Rock announced he was running for Senate, drawing mixed reviews. One Twitter user decided to drag Crow into the debate. “Oh man, @SherylCrow must be rolling in her grave right now ,” user @TunaCatsup tweeted Friday about […]

Dario Zanetti squints into his black plastic pan, tilting it into the sun. There are three tiny yellow specks, and a slightly larger one, the size of a small bread crumb. “It’s a lovely piece,” he says with smile. This English teacher is ankle deep in Italy’s Elvo River, just south of the Alps, panning […]

DUBOIS – Mythology is this year’s Children’s Theater Workshop showcase. It’s Greek to me.  It’s Greek to you, too, at the Reitz Theater of Cultural Resources Inc. (CRI) in Dubois. Thirty children, ages five to 14 years, are in rehearsal for performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 10-12 at 6:30 p.m., at the Reitz Theater, 36 E. Scribner Ave., Dubois.  […]

PENFIELD – The Clearfield Area United Way recently held a site visit/board meeting at Camp Confidence, a member agency. Camp Confidence is a summer camp for challenged youth from the area. It’s held annually at Camp Mountain Run near Penfield. Camp Director Grace Marshall, right, is shown with CAUW board members reviewing information about the […]

HERSHEY, Pa. — Each year, Americans develop more than 50 million cases of foodborne illness. While some are caused by eating out, others originate in home kitchens. Still more result from contact with someone already infected. “It’s one of the most common things we see,” said Dr. Ross Rodgers, an emergency medicine physician at Penn State Health […]

North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Friday that appears to have the range to hit major US cities, experts say, and prompted a fresh round of condemnation from the United States, China, Japan and South Korea. A combination of US, South Korean and Japanese analyses of the launch from Mupyong-ni, near North Korea’s border […]