Новости за 24.01.2019

These tips can help you cut your energy costs without sacrificing comfort.

Re: “School closes for a day amid fallout over D.C. videos”: Perhaps a next bold next step for Twitter in working toward solutions to our pervasive problem with snippets of information becoming “truth” would be to tweet to its followers the email from a Twitter representative: “Deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter […]

Re: “Bills propose ending Daylight Saving Time”: DST is sound public policy for reasons that have been largely ignored by politicians. Standard time causes early-evening darkness. There are about twice as many traffic fatalities during early-evening darkness as there are during morning darkness because nearly everyone in society is awake and moving around in the […]

OTERO COUNTY, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say two soldiers from an Army base in Texas have died and seven other military members remain hospitalized after two military training vehicles crashed in southern New Mexico. El Paso TV station KTSM reports the soldiers were part of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss that’s headquartered in […]

Numerous governments in the Western Hemisphere quickly recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the interim president of his crisis-torn country Wednesday. The United States and all but one member of the Lima Group of regional nations threw their support behind Guaido after he declared himself interim president in a defiant speech before masses of […]

Minshew is auditioning for NFL teams and knows he'll have to explain the circuitous journey he took around college football before landing in Pullman.

Washington should ban high-capacity magazines and undetectable guns.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers have introduced legislation that will for the first time in 16 years raise the assessment private forest owners pay the state to make sure logging is done in a sustainable way and in compliance with Idaho laws. The House Resources and Conservation Committee on Tuesday unanimously advanced the legislation put […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A disgraced former commander in the New York Police Department’s gun licensing bureau says President Donald Trump and his eldest son were among celebrities and donors who got licenses without proper credentials. Former Lt. Paul Dean pleaded guilty in August to a conspiracy to bribe licensing officers in exchange for favorable […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Director Bryan Singer has been accused of sexually assaulting minors in an expose published by The Atlantic. The Atlantic on Wednesday published a lengthy article about four alleged victims who said they were seduced and molested by the “Bohemian Rhapsody” director while underage. Three of the men spoke on the condition […]

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party’s governing body is set to offer its “undivided support” for Donald Trump and his “effective presidency,” lending its backing to the president and his re-election campaign. The Republican National Committee’s resolutions committee unanimously approved the measure Wednesday at a winter meeting in New Mexico, clearing the […]

Veteran sports writer Ivan Maisel of ESPN has taken on the task of telling the tale of college football, starting from the very beginning. College football turns 150 this year, and to celebrate the sesquicentennial, ESPN is planning a mountain of content, including 35 hours of television programming. Maisel has taken on the role of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s nothing like two overtime games in the NFL conference championships to keep television viewers glued to their recliners. The New England Patriots’ thrilling victory over the Kansas City Chiefs was seen by 53.92 million viewers on Sunday. The Nielsen company says that’s up 22 percent from the Patriots’ victory over […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — At this time of year, John Sprinkle and his wife would normally be planning their summer vacation. Not now. Sprinkle, a furloughed federal employee, is about to miss his second paycheck since the partial government shutdown began just before Christmas. With no end in sight to the longest shutdown in American history, […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Christen Cunningham’s sole focus a year ago was recovering from illness and salvaging what remained of his senior season at Samford. Playing at Louisville or anywhere in the Atlantic Coast Conference never crossed his mind, which makes his current situation all the more satisfying. Not only is Cunningham healthy again, the […]

No matchup engendered skepticism of Iowa quite like its 90-68 loss at Michigan State in early December. The Hawkeyes collapsed late in the first half, allowing the Spartans to reel off a staggering 40-11 run in a drubbing that felt like so many of the ones Iowa suffered through a year ago. The 19th-ranked Hawkeyes […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Proposals by a U.S. judge to prevent Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment from causing any more wildfires would create safety risks, cost too much money and interfere with the work of federal and state regulators, the utility said Wednesday. PG&E said in a court filing that it’s committed to system […]

TOKYO (AP) — An investigation by French prosecutors into alleged vote-buying connected with Tokyo winning the 2020 Olympics has raised questions about one of Japan’s most powerful companies, the giant advertising and marketing agency Dentsu Inc. From its 48-story headquarters in central Tokyo, Dentsu is the exclusive marketing agency for the next Summer Olympics, landing […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers managed to capture the moment of an impact during this week’s eclipsed moon. Spanish astrophysicist Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva said Wednesday it appears a rock from a comet slammed into the moon during the total lunar eclipse late Sunday and early Monday. The strike was […]

LOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) — A teacher’s aide in North Carolina has been given a 10-day jail sentence and a year’s probation after being found guilty of using corporal punishment on a handicapped child. WNCN in Raleigh reports a Franklin County judge found 61-year-old Margaret Harris guilty of a misdemeanor charge of striking a handicapped person. […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee carries its longest losing streak in nearly half a century into a matchup with the nation’s top-ranked team. The Lady Volunteers (12-6) have dropped five straight games and have fallen out of the Top 25 as they prepare to host No. 1 Notre Dame (18-1) on Thursday. If Tennessee can’t […]

The ability of drones to interfere with airliners — and inconvenience their passengers — has now been demonstrated on two continents, and the problem is likely to get worse as the number of small, unmanned devices multiply. Law enforcement authorities are trying to figure out who flew a drone so high and so close to […]

After bringing 30,000 fans to the Pioneer Square in each of its first two years, the startup festival backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan is off this year.