Новости за 11.10.2017

PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today sued President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration for issuing new rules that allow virtually any company to deny women insurance coverage for basic, medically-necessary contraception.   According to the lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, the rules issued by the Trump Administration […]

Turkey appears to be deepening its crackdown on journalists, putting one on trial the day after another was sentenced to prison.  Mesale Tolu, whose trial began Wednesday, is charged with being a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party — which is labeled in her indictment as an “armed terror organization” — and with spreading “terrorist propaganda,” according […]

US President Donald Trump has “lit the wick of the war” against North Korea, a Russian state news agency quoted North Korea’s foreign minister as saying on Wednesday. The statement follows weeks of escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, fueled by Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear tests and Trump’s tough talk. Speaking to Russia’s […]

One way or another, Delta Air Lines won’t be paying the tariff the U.S. Department of Commerce wants to put on the delivery of each of its Canadian Bombardier C Series jetliners. “We do not expect to pay the tariffs and we do expect to take the planes,” said Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian on […]

Last year NBC News was scooped on one of the biggest stories of the year — Donald Trump talking about groping women on NBC’s “Access Hollywood” tape. The Washington Post published it first. Now NBC is under scrutiny for another missed opportunity. Reporter and NBC contributor Ronan Farrow pursued leads about Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct for […]

“Mr. Robot” was a comet, blazing brightly in its riveting first season at the risk of crashing and burning in its second. While that flame is unlikely to be fully rekindled, version 3.0 marks a welcome return to form, one that tightens the story but still seems disarmingly weird and appropriately suited to the current […]

Former President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail for the first time since leaving office next week, campaigning for Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam in the closing weeks of the Virginia governor’s race. Obama has previously held fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee and the newly launched National Democratic Redistricting Committee led by his […]

The House intelligence committee will release copies of the election-related Facebook ads that were purchased by Russian-linked accounts, the committee leaders said Wednesday. Following a meeting with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, the leaders of the House Russia investigation — Reps. Mike Conaway of Texas and Adam Schiff of California — said they had […]

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance on Wednesday defended his office’s decision not to prosecute disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein or members of the Trump family. He denied specifically that any donations to his campaign had or would ever influence his decisions. Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in 2015, and Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump […]

A key House Republican involved in immigration negotiations said Wednesday that he expects his chamber will pass a bill with only GOP votes — and would include some version of a border wall — even as Democrats dismiss the idea that such a deal could reach the President’s desk. Texas Rep. John Carter is a […]

DUBOIS – On Monday night, the DuBois City Council held a public hearing on its 2018 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.  CDBG funds must be used for projects that will support areas that have people who are at least 70 percent low- to moderate-income.  According to council, DuBois City’s 2016 income survey shows it […]

Kirstjen Nielsen, John Kelly’s principal deputy chief of staff, is expected to be named secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to a source close to Kelly, an administration official and a GOP source close to the White House. Sources caution, however, that President Donald Trump has not made a final decision and could […]

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump was clear about his view of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which delays the Islamic state from acquiring nuclear weapons for more than a decade in exchange for the lifting of draconian US-led sanctions on Iran. Trump told CNN in the summer of 2015, “[The Iranians] are laughing at […]

The Boy Scouts of America’s board of directors has unanimously agreed to welcome girls into the Cub Scout program and to forge a path for older girls to pursue and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout, the organization said Wednesday. “The historic decision comes after years of receiving requests from families and girls,” Boy […]

Facebook has confirmed a widespread outage impacting users’ ability to access the social network and Instagram across the U.S. and parts of Europe. The outage started around 8:20 a.m. ET, according to DownDetector.com, a site that monitors service disruptions. Users of the social platforms reported difficulty accessing the Facebook through its apps and website. The […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan called for a regulatory fix for bump fire stocks Wednesday rather than passing legislation that was proposed in the House and Senate. “We think the regulatory fix is the smartest, quickest fix,” he said during his weekly news conference at Capitol Hill when asked about how to address the devices, also […]

President Donald Trump has said a lot of bad things about the media since he started running for president two-plus years ago. He’s suggested that the press doesn’t really like America. He has said the media is the “enemy of the American people.” He has repeatedly called journalists the “most dishonest” people. He has worked […]

Nothing could separate Charles and Sara Rippey. Not war. Not even a deadly California wildfire that engulfed their house. They spent 89 years together, including their final moments in their Napa home, son Mike Rippey told CNN affiliate KPIX. Charles was 100; Sara was 98. The couple’s children marveled at their parents’ longevity, both in […]

Catalonia is prepared to enter into a dialogue on independence from Spain “without preconditions,” Catalan President Carles Puigdemont told CNN on Wednesday, as the Madrid government took the first steps to imposing direct rule on the region. Speaking a day after he appeared to delay a formal declaration of independence, Puigdemont struck a conciliatory tone, […]

Thousands of supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and his National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition converged on downtown Nairobi on Wednesday, the day after he quit a presidential election rerun because he did not believe an unreformed election commission can hold a fair vote. Police tried to prevent the crowd from reaching its destination, […]

A major flaw has been detected in the newly-unveiled Google Home Mini speaker that allows it to secretly record conversations without users knowing. Last week, Google showed off its next-generation smart speakers at an event in San Francisco. Following the event, it sent members of the press home with a review unit of the Google […]

Police at Louisiana State University have issued arrest warrants for 10 Phi Delta Theta members as they investigate whether a fraternity hazing led to the death of a freshman student. Maxwell Gruver, a fraternity pledge from Roswell, Georgia, died last month. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office ruled Gruver’s death accidental and said it […]

Coach, the brand famous for its handbags, is about to change its corporate name. It’ll soon be called Tapestry. The company announced Wednesday that it was planning to rename itself as Tapestry, effective on Halloween. The company’s ticker symbol will change from COH to TPR as well. Shares of Coach fell more than 2% after […]

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Bernie Sanders of Vermont will participate in a CNN town hall debate October 18 to discuss President Donald Trump’s push to overhaul the nation’s tax code. CNN’s Jake Tapper, anchor and chief Washington correspondent, and Dana Bash, CNN’s chief political correspondent, will moderate the debate, which takes place in […]

The wildfires raging across Northern California could cause up to $65 billion in property damage, according to a new analysis. CoreLogic, the property analytics firm, says 172,117 homes in the Napa and Santa Rosa regions are at some level of risk. It compiled the data based on where homes and five active fires are located […]