Новости за 13.01.2016

NEW YORK — Cable news network Al Jazeera America says it is shutting down just 2-1/2 years after its launch.

COLUMBIA — It was less a game than a worst-case scenario.

Philosopher and educator William James once stated, "The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it." James never once specified what that "something" might be; instead he left it up to us to determine what the best use of our lives might be.

There are many names people use to describe Lisa Lampanelli, very few of which would rank as complimentary, I assure you. But the longtime insult comic has never seemed to mind. She’s happy to remind complainants that she is, in fact, the self-anointed "Queen of Mean," and isn’t interested in public apologies over hurt...

Having already accomplished more than most high school coaches ever will, Teresa Kendle could waltz off into retirement at any time. But, Kendle, who has been coaching since 1976, has no immediate plans to do anything but what she does best.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The gunman responsible for a deadly rampage inside a Louisiana movie theater last summer left a journal thanking the man accused of killing nine black people in a Charleston church.

CLEMSON — Wayne Gallman is coming back. Mackensie Alexander, Jayron Kearse, T.J. Green and Kevin Dodd are going pro.

Linda Neale didn’t have a chance to hesitate over her dessert order. Her server insisted that she get the chocolate souffle, which is what everyone who came to Middleton Place Restaurant in 1987 seemed inclined to do, sometimes even after dining on cheese souffle. "You could make a meal out of souffles," Middleton Place...

The amount of food that annually ends up in U.S. landfills is staggering: More than 70 billion pounds of safe, edible food is never consumed. Feeding America, a food bank network, estimates as much as 40 percent of food grown, processed and transported nationwide goes to waste.

It’s hard to say whether some Republican lawmakers are tone deaf, bullies or just completely clueless about the laws they are responsible for writing and upholding.

Even today, in the deepest, darkest part of winter, there are people comfortably strolling historic city blocks lined with palm trees in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

Charleston’s most successful craft brewers stand to face significant additional expenses under a new federal law requiring chain restaurants and grocers to provide nutritional information for all available beers on tap.

Carol Ladson lives in Wagener Terrace.

Ginger Slap

Q: Some of my friends and myself always go to the Okra Grill for what we think is the best chicken fried steak or country fried steak. Could you recommend some other local eateries that have good chicken fried steaks? Also, it seems that it used to be called chicken fried steak only; but now some call them country fried steak because it gets...

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Arlette O’Rourke is a personal chef who last year launched her IndiGenius Cuisine brand. Here’s what she’s learned from cooking in other people’s kitchens, many of which are located in rented beach houses:

Counterfactual history usually centers on dramatic, sweeping scenarios: The "would you kill baby Hitler?" question that went viral this fall after The New York Times Magazine posed it in a poll is a prime example. But sometimes historians are inspired to speculate about seemingly smaller things. For example, would the Civil War have...

The Powerball — all $1.3 billion of this week’s jackpot — is evil. Lotteries prey on the poor and the elderly. They’re rigged, hyped and glorified. The winners almost always end up as losers.

As the Afghanistan war grinds into its 15th year, many U.S. military officers are telling Congress their hands are tied to go after the enemy, particularly the Islamic State, which is building up its presence in the country despite fierce opposition from the Taliban. Current and former U.S. military officials tell me that the U.S. and...

In the land of violence as a whole, it has become the nation’s highest priority to curb gun violence. Now at least we have a proposed solution.

I really appreciated David Bowie’s talents — musical, visual arts and performing arts, and the courage it took to expose the real him to the world as he did.

Some high-profile sports commentators quickly hailed it as a "classic." But such praise provides severely limited consolation to Clemson players, coaches and fans who will long be haunted by what might have been as mighty Alabama rallied for a 45-40 victory over the Tigers in Monday night’s College Football Playoff...

The stock market’s had a rough start to the new year, largely due to turmoil in the Chinese financial sector. Though the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained nearly 118 points on Tuesday, it’s still 5 percent lower than the closing level on Dec. 31.

Every coastal municipality in South Carolina has said "No." So have Congressmen Mark Sanford, Jim Clyburn and Tom Rice, who represent all of the coastal districts in South Carolina. And so has Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster.