Новости за 22.09.2017

Puerto Rico grappled with damages and deaths caused by Hurricane Maria on Friday as the storm hurtled across the Caribbean and slapped the Turks and Caicos Islands. On Friday afternoon, people in northwest Puerto Rico living downstream from the Guajataca Dam were urged to evacuate immediately because of a potential breach and flash flooding. “All […]

At a news conference Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov once again hit back on claims his country meddled in the 2016 US election, saying his American counterpart failed to offer any proof of interference. “In about a year of this chaos about the so-called interference […]

As official Washington began to wind down on a unseasonably sweaty Friday afternoon, John McCain dropped a bombshell that threatened to end the last-ditch attempt by Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” the Arizona Republican senator said in a statement. “I believe […]

Five officers from the Atlanta Police Department are being hailed for their bravery after helping save the lives of two people trapped in a burning car early Wednesday. When the officers arrived on the scene near Interstate 85, they found a car that had crashed into a support pillar. Flames were coming from the car’s […]

The latest late push by Republicans to kneecap Obamacare is teetering after Sen. John McCain’s decision to oppose it. But the past week’s outbreak of internecine brawling underlines a raft of unresolved tensions. Among Democrats. As recently as 10 days ago, it appeared the party was angling further down the long road to post-2016 reconciliation. […]

Tesla is dropping the cheapest version of the Model S sedan from its line-up. It also happens to be the only rear-wheel drive version of that car now on the market. Tesla’s Model S 75 costs about $70,000, making it the least expensive Model S currently sold. It has a 348 horsepower electric motor and […]

Hiram Navarro had reasons for hope and despair Friday as rescuers hunted for his brother and dozens of others who were feared to be in a Mexico City office building that collapsed in this week’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake. The good news, rescuers told Navarro and other relatives of the missing: Heat-sensing equipment indicates people may be […]

Jessica Michot’s voice breaks, and her eyes fill with tears. Since July, the 33-year-old mother of a severely disabled boy has been trying to meet with her senator, Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana. This year, she and other mothers of children with disabilities took a bus from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Washington to speak with their congressional […]

Imagine having no electricity for months. Credit and debit cards are useless. ATMs are out. No Internet, television or air conditioning. Dead cellphone batteries. Everything from the water supply to sewage treatment to the preservation of food is threatened. What happens to the most medically fragile citizens? Cash-strapped Puerto Rico’s energy grid took such a […]

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has placed a hold on a senior Treasury Department nominee in a bid to pry loose financial documents tied to Russia. Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate finance committee, said Friday he was placing a hold on Isabel Patelunas, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Treasury’s assistant secretary for intelligence […]

Donald Trump’s darkening view of the world and America’s place in it is leaving the United States even more isolated, embracing a vision that few of our allies or even our friends seem prepared to buy into — a process fraught with enormous danger for both the immediate and long-term future. If the United States […]

A spaceship sucessfully zipped by Earth on Friday and used our planet’s gravity to help it pick up speed on its way to explore an asteroid. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx flew about 11,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) above Antarctica at 12:52 p.m. ET. The maneuver, called an Earth gravity assist, pointed the spacecraft in the right direction to […]

“Star Trek: Discovery” might be beaming into the new frontier of streaming, but this latest spinoff is upholding a long tradition of using the 51-year-old franchise as the fuel to launch new services. CBS will premiere the show on Sunday, using the network exposure as a tease intended to drive people to CBS All Access, […]

The Turks and Caicos Islands felt Hurricane Maria’s wrath Friday as the storm hurtled through the Caribbean while still causing trouble on the battered US territory of Puerto Rico after its landfall two days earlier. The storm knocked out power in Puerto Rico, an island of more than 3 million people, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said. […]

Justin Timberlake usually dazzles fans in his “Suit and Tie,” but this weekend he’ll be getting down on the farm at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. The four-time Emmy winner and nine-time Grammy winner co-produced this year’s festival and helped bring in big headliners like Eddie Vedder, Ryan Adams and The Avett Brothers. The […]

Sen. John McCain announced Friday in a statement that he cannot “in good conscience” vote for the GOP’s latest plan to overhaul Obamacare, likely ending Republicans’ latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” the Arizona Republican said in a statement. “I believe […]

Sen. John McCain announced Friday in a statement that he cannot “in good conscience” vote for the GOP’s latest plan to overhaul Obamacare, appearing to halt Republicans’ latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” the Arizona Republican said in a statement. “I […]

Against a plain background in a former school for paramilitary police, next to a church famous for denouncing Galileo’s refutation of the idea that the sun moved around the Earth, British Prime Minister Theresa May gave a foreign policy speech Friday that revolved around divisions within her own Cabinet. Facing demands to side with the […]

Americans dread flying. But relief may be coming. That’s if Montreal-based Bombardier’s C Series airliner doesn’t first trigger an all-out trade war between the U.S. and Canada. The plane’s roughly 110-seat cabin is designed with an aisle wide enough to maneuver around the drink cart, overhead bins big enough to fit your bag, larger windows […]

Our weekly roundup of the news, notes and chatter about the prospects for the next Democratic presidential race: Did Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (and his 16 Democratic co-sponsors) jump the gun by introducing his single-payer health care bill before the end-of-September window had closed on Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare? It’s the debate Democratic party […]

Clearfield Borough Police received a report about an incident of harassment. During the incident, a female was allegedly sending a male unwanted text messages. Police assisted several motorists who had locked their keys inside their vehicles. Police received a report about a fraudulent check. According to police, it was sent to a female to purchase […]

Four days after President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of abuse directed toward North Korea and Iran from the rostrum of the United Nations, those country’s leaders are firing back — a response in kind that only threatens to escalate dueling nuclear standoffs. For a week devoted to diplomacy, the language Trump and his counterparts […]

Although President Donald Trump insists otherwise, most Americans say it’s likely that Russian-backed content on social media did affect the outcome of the 2016 election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The poll result comes on the heels of Facebook’s announcement that it would turn over to Congressional investigators information related to […]

Imagine for a moment that it’s September 2018. The midterm elections are heating up, and you’ve decided you want to do absolutely anything you can to make sure your member of Congress is not re-elected. Well, good news: If you have a credit card and a Facebook account, there’s a way you can spend unlimited […]

Students at Howard University loudly protested former FBI Director James Comey Friday as he delivered a convocation address. As Comey, making a rare public appearance since leaving the FBI, began his speech welcoming new students at Howard University, protesters could be heard yelling from the back of the room, raising their fists and shouting. Some […]