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WildCaff 360° Experience A groundbreaking new 360° video experience for fans, media and Heisman voters, presenting Christian McCaffrey through virtual reality. Watch this over and over, trying both mobile & desktop experiences. Mobile is special, so tilt and rotate away (making sure your Facebook app is updated). #OnlyAtStanford #WildCaff Posted by Stanford Football on Saturday,

Critical consensus for movies, Dec. 13 Spotlight Room The Martian Mustang Bridge of Spies Heart of a Dog The Rise and Fall of Tower Records What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy The Peanuts Movie Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict The Good Dinosaur PG Spectre The Hunger Games: Nasty Baby PG Miss You Already PG Legend PG The Intern Secret in their Eyes By the Sea Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Hotel Transylvania 2 PG PG PG Victor Frankenstein The Letters PG *not rated by... Читать дальше...

Bus rapid transit — a system that attempts to emulate subway service above the ground — is planned for San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard, now host to the 38-Geary line and some of the city’s most painfully slow buses. The project would use dedicated bus lanes, stations offering level boarding, and traffic signals that give priority to buses. The final environmental studies are likely to be approved next spring, and construction is tentatively scheduled to start in 2019 — with the first buses using the system two years later. Читать дальше...

Perhaps even more troubling for Bush, given his insistence on talking about policy and his ability to govern, the poll found that GOP voters view Trump, the real estate mogul and reality TV star, as more competent than the two-term governor of Florida. Part of the shift in strategy was redoubling Bush's emphasis on New Hampshire, where aides said the candidate's serious style and affinity for one-on-one policy engagement was a close fit with New Englanders, who also typically hold themselves as independent of the national story line. Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — The investigation into a runaway passenger train has pointed to several violations of safety procedures by the train's operator, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday. The driverless Red Line train left a station Thursday morning and rumbled through four stations before transit workers stopped it by cutting power to the rails. Transit officials say the investigation is focusing on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train's operator, who had sought and received permission... Читать дальше...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – SEPTEMBER 13: TV personalities Ozzy Osbourne (L) and Sharon Osbourne attend the Brent Shapiro Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Awareness’ annual ‘Summer Spectacular Under The Stars’ at a private residence on September 13, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.(Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) OZZY OSBOURNE turned the tables on a home invader who attempted to burgle his home by attacking him while naked. The Black Sabbath rocker’s wife Sharon revealed all about her husband’s encounter... Читать дальше...

The Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party said Friday they will not include WMUR-TV as a sponsor of the Dec. 19 debate and will bar its talent from participating because the station has been unwilling to schedule contract negotiations between its parent company and production department workers. "The right for workers to form and organize a union is a key principle of the Democratic Party, and is key to ensuring the economic safety of the American people by protecting... Читать дальше...

Actress Calista Flockhart (L) and honoree Harrison Ford attend the 2015 Jaguar Land Rover British Academy Britannia Awards presented by American Airlines at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 30, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/BAFTA LA/Getty Images for BAFTA LA) Actress CALISTA FLOCKHART was a little confused when she first heard her husband HARRISON FORD had been injured on the set of the new STAR WARS movie, because she had no idea what a Millennium Falcon was. Ford... Читать дальше...

Actor Kevin Spacey attends Netflix’s “House Of Cards” Q&A screening event at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on April 27, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/WireImage) Hollywood superstar KEVIN SPACEY is offering to share his acting expertise with fans in a series of online classes. The actor has signed up with MasterClass, a company based in San Francisco which offers expert tuition from celebrities including Dustin Hoffman and tennis ace Serena Williams. The course, which costs $90... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and several other California Republicans blamed California Sen. Dianne Feinstein for blocking progress on legislation to bring more water to California's farm belt amid a severe and lengthy drought. At a news conference, the Republicans said Feinstein had walked away from a deal in which GOP lawmakers had already conceded to Democratic demands, including protection of endangered species.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Four of the nine people killed in a melee between rival biker gangs outside a Texas restaurant were struck by the same caliber of rifle fired by Waco police, according to evidence obtained by The Associated Press that provides the most insight yet into whether authorities were responsible for any of the deaths and injuries. The latest trove of potential grand jury evidence reviewed by the AP depicts a chaotic, bloody scene in which police swarmed into the shootout between... Читать дальше...

Family, friends and fans gathered Friday to dedicate the stone, engraved with King's signature, that will become the centerpiece of a memorial garden. The memorial garden, with benches and song titles engraved on metal panels, will be part of an expansion of the museum that tells King's life story.

Stern said the last sticking points in the deal are likely to be the exact climate responsibilities between rich and poor nations, loss and damage issues and financing to counter the effects of global warming. The latest draft of a proposed international climate agreement lists a goal of "holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees... Читать дальше...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New Jersey Lottery's "Midday Pick 4" game were: 4-6-8-3 (four, six, eight, three)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New Jersey Lottery's "Midday Pick 3" game were: 4-6-3 (four, six, three)

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights activists in Charleston called Friday for the resignation of The Citadel's president after online photos surfaced showing cadets with pillowcases over their heads similar to Ku Klux Klan robes Photos appeared on social media this week showing seven freshmen cadets, called knobs because of their short haircuts, wearing white T-shirts and white pants with the pillowcases on their heads. Amid the furor, Democratic presidential campaigns called for the removal of the Confederate flag in the college's chapel. Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in Chicago's efforts to deal with fatal police shootings and police accountability (all times local): A relative of the black teenager shot 16 times by a white Chicago police officer remembers him as gentle, loving and fond of telling jokes. Hunter said the money that really matters should come in the form of government resources to foster economic development and keep such deaths from happening. A spokesman for the family of the black teenager shot 16 times... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's first canine is in the dog house after biting two guests at the Prime Minister's Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony. Kaiya sunk her teeth into parliamentarian Sharren Haskel and the husband of deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely, both of ruling Likud, on Wednesday.

(AP) — A Nebraska man serving time for sexual assault is getting another shot at his case after the state Supreme Court cited his lawyer's failure to object to the remarks of a prosecutor who had promised to remain silent during the man's sentencing hearing. The high court Friday reversed the second-degree sexual assault conviction and 18- to 20-year prison sentence of a 45-year-old Lincoln man who had pleaded guilty to the charge in 2009.

The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1IK6RHo ) that the firm says it will move 85 corporate employees, including top executives, out of Dillard. Taylor says the corporate employees will join 30 information technology workers already in Springfield's former Northwest Community Credit Union building, which Roseburg is remodeling.

The major effect of regular mail service would be in opening a new channel for the movement of goods between the U.S. and Cuba, which suffers from widespread shortages of basic consumer products ranging from batteries to diapers. Mail is, however, unlikely to become a near-term rival to informal networks of importers that pay couriers to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of goods a year into the country in their checked bags. Cuba maintains strict limits on the size, weight and value of packages... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Barack Obama a short-term spending bill to keep the government open through next Wednesday as lawmakers and the White House rushed to finalize a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill and a sprawling tax package. Republicans are seeking to lift the oil export ban and roll back various Obama administration regulations; Democrats are maneuvering to protect Obama's environmental rules and enact permanent tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy. Читать дальше...

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — A Cranston man is suing the police department after it refused to return two guns that police seized after a check on his wellbeing. The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island sued on behalf of Edward Caniglia in federal court on Friday, saying police violated his constitutional rights to due process and to bear arms.

About 20 students attended a regents meeting at UW-Madison Friday. Another began reading a speech about how a resolution the regents passed affirming free expression opens the door to hate speech.

(AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections said Friday it has ordered body cameras to be worn by security staff at two juvenile prisons that are at the center of a widening investigation into alleged abuse against inmates. The department said the cameras are part of its "aggressive action to investigate past misconduct, ensure immediate safety of youth, and strengthen school operations moving forward" at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons in Irma. Prosecutors have been investigating... Читать дальше...