Новости за 12.11.2015

President Barack Obama says an Army captain who spared fellow soldiers by tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan had the instincts and courage to do what was needed. Obama presented the Medal of Honor to ...

Colonel Sanders wants to come to your home: KFC said it will start delivering its buckets of fried chicken to customers in two U.S. cities. It will be the first time the chicken chain has delivered in the United States. Starting Thursday, people in Los Angeles and San Francisco will ...

An emu on the run for more than 60 days has prompted lockdowns at two elementary schools in Delaware. The runaway emu was spotted Monday near Spring Meadow Elementary School and Old State Elementary School, leading to ...

Bird flu took a bite out of the turkey supply. Heavy rain washed out the pumpkin crop. Yet Thanksgiving groceries likely won't cost Americans much more than last year, and nobody should have to miss gobbling down their favorite holiday foods. The holiday season perennially generates stories about some items being in short supply or dramatically pricier, but markets have ...

With an Olympic boycott ruled out, Russia is planning to at least partially admit it has a doping problem. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told The Associated Press on Thursday that there will "not in any case" be a boycott of ...

A man accused of making online threats to shoot blacks on the University of Missouri's Columbia campus said he mimicked postings linked to a deadly college shooting rampage in Oregon last month, according to a probable cause statement obtained ...

Republican presidential candidates agree that Islamic extremists are running rampant, the Mideast is on fire and Russia, China and Iran are flexing their muscles, yet they are far from reaching consensus on how much is enough when it ...

Follow the money; there’s no debate about that. A front-page story in a recent edition of the New York Times rocked the Republican presidential landscape regarding that other race: The race for the most power-packed donors.

The official language of the U.S. is not English, it’s money. We are infatuated with money and those who have the most. The adage “work hard, play by the rules and one day you’ll be rich” is laughable now. Today, one aspires first to be born rich, become a rock star or professional athlete, or live a life of white-collar crime. None of the just-mentioned goals can get the wealthy in trouble because they can always buy themselves out of any problem.

Just when his fellow Republican presidential candidates most need to listen closely to what he has to say, Chris Christie finds himself knocked off the main debate stage.

On a crisp Sunday morning the Sierra Club, Friends of Gold Butte and several members of the Moapa Band of Paiutes gathered near the entrance of Gold Butte, with one of the Paiute members leading a blessing before the hike.

Donald Trump is just one symptom of today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence. Another is the fact that the book atop the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list is a tissue of unsubstantiated assertions. Because of its vast readership, “Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency” by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and collaborator Martin Dugard will distort public understanding of Ronald Reagan’s presidency more than hostile but conscientious scholars could.

A Las Vegas-based startup is tackling distract driving among teenagers with an application designed to help keep teens' focus away from their phones while they're behind the wheel. The app allows parents to ...

The Rebels’ only shot at a bowl game is to win out, and the next step on that possible path will take them back on the road Saturday for a trip to Colorado State.

Any bettors who foresaw the success of the Carolina Panthers and Cincinnati Bengals before the season stand a strong chance to be rewarded during Week 10 in the NFL. ...

New York followed in Nevada’s footsteps with a ruling that the two leading daily fantasy sports companies are gambling operations. But the fallout seems notably more ...

Liverpool lass Rachel Tyler arrived having been here only once before for a wedding. Now her name is up in lights as the Strip’s newest singing star. I saw her in “Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers” last weekend, and she had the audience giddy with the phenomenal strength of her voice.

This playoff run helped me fall in love with high school football. And with being a Chaparral Cowboy. I didn’t miss a snap during my freshman year in 1990 as our beloved orange and black advanced to the state championship game. From the spirit assemblies, cups of hot chocolate during those cold November games and making new friends because we shared a passion for ...

The Clark County School Board recently voted to give itself the ability to review the proposed changes to sex ed standards before ...

Four years ago, European auto regulators identified and debated a loophole in their pollution testing rules that could render vehicle emissions tests ineffectual, but it was ultimately left in place ...

An Elon University football player has died after falling from a 10-story dormitory on the campus of ...

Why did actor Shia LaBeouf invite his fans to watch all the movies he's ever made with him during a three-day (and two-night) marathon at a Manhattan theater?

The tumbleweed, a symbol of vast, ephemeral Western life, becomes “Tumble Weave” in Douglas’ work.

Two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady Cilia Flores were arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into ...

San Francisco supervisors are considering a $290,000 payout to settle a lawsuit by the guitarist of rock band Journey over his lavish 2013 wedding to ...