Новости за 23.11.2016

Ellen DeGeneres Posts Mannequin Challenge Video After Being Blocked From White House Event Talk-show host gets in on viral sensation with Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Ellen DeGeneres certainly knows how to make lemonade out of her own woeful lack of preparedness. The talk-show host arrived at the White House on Tuesday to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, only to be temporarily turned away because she forgot to pack her identification. Shortly after posting about her temporary exile... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Open government advocates are speaking out against Western Michigan University's decision to keep names of candidates being considered for the school's president confidential. University officials said the Presidential Search Advisory Committee chose a confidential process in hopes of attracting the best candidates and hiring the best person for the job. "Anyone planning on becoming a president of a public university should be very sensitive to transparency and accountability, and should... Читать дальше...

Veteran news anchor Dan Rather took to Facebook on Tuesday to call out neo-Nazis, President-elect Donald Trump and a news media he says is too “pliant” to take a stand against them. When I see that action mildly rebuked by a boilerplate statement from the President-elect whom these bigots have praised, the anger in me grows. Rather, 85, rejected the idea that Trump, like other incoming presidents, deserves a traditional “honeymoon period” with the news media. Rather gained national prominence... Читать дальше...

The NCAA says a student trainer who worked in Notre Dame's athletics department from fall 2009 through the spring of 2013 completed substantial academic work for two Fighting Irish football players and helped six others impermissibly. The Rev. John Jenkins, the university president, said NCAA has previously only vacated victories when schools had direct involvement or knowledge of a coach or academic personnel being involved. The NCAA contends the student trainer was an athletics department employee... Читать дальше...

IRBIL, Iraq — Iraqi troops gained a foothold Tuesday in another neighborhood in the northern city of Mosul after fierce battles against Islamic State militants dug in behind heavy fortifications, according to a top Iraqi commander. According to IHS Markit, the extremist group has used chemical weapons at least 52 times in Iraq and Syria since 2014, including 19 times in the Mosul area alone. Suicide bombings, sniper fire and concerns over the safety of civilians — there are 1 million still in Mosul ... Читать дальше...

Federal auto safety regulators are allowing General Motors to delay a large recall of potentially defective air bags, giving the company time to prove that the devices are safe and to possibly avoid a huge financial hit. The unusual move by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration buys time for GM to do long-term tests of Takata air bag inflators in older trucks and SUVs including its top-selling vehicle, the Chevrolet Silverado pickup. The recall also covers the GMC Sierra pickup and... Читать дальше...

Syria’s military announced Tuesday it is forming a new antiterrorism commando force, calling on volunteers interested in “achieving the final victory against terrorism” to apply. After nearly six years of combat, Syria’s conscription-based armed forces have become overstretched and Syria has increasingly relied on its regional allies that have boosted its numbers and capabilities. Despite a global treaty that bans land mines, casualties from those weapons and other unexploded munitions lurking... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A former USA Gymnastics doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in his home with a girl under 13, charges that Michigan's attorney general said are the "tip of the iceberg" as authorities investigate roughly 50 complaints. [...] on Tuesday, a Detroit attorney said he filed a civil lawsuit against Nassar on behalf of a Los Angeles woman who says she was sexually abused about 20 years ago during treatments when she was a 14-year-old gymnast. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Authorities say a man stood up from a blackjack table in West Virginia, drove to rob a bank and then returned to continue gambling. The Charleston Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/2gdclNS ) reports a Kanawha County grand jury last week indicted 52-year-old Kerry Johnson of Charleston on a bank robbery charge.

Discount store chains made large gains, but health care companies tumbled. Health care stocks slumped after weak results from medical device company Medtronic. “The consumer in general is far more budget-conscious than they were in previous generations,” Ken Perkins, president of research firm Retail Metrics, said of discount chains. The Dow has closed at a record high six times in the two weeks since the presidential election, but trading volume has fallen in recent days. Perkins, of Retail Metrics... Читать дальше...

Not the audience, who that same night booed and jeered fellow attendee Vice President-elect Mike Pence. [...] not the show’s far-flung liberal fans, who cheered reports of Pence’s apparent comeuppance and mocked Donald Trump’s thin-skinned tweets demanding an apology. Maybe Pence decided to see the hottest show on Broadway because it’s the hottest show on Broadway. Or because it’s a Pulitzer-Prize-winning work by a bona fide genius. Or because, with its story of a destitute autodidact pulling himself up by his own bootstraps... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Dallas woman accused of killing a Kansas woman and kidnapping her newborn daughter was arrested in July for allegedly threatening another woman with a knife and trying to hold that woman's two daughters for ransom. In a jailhouse interview with Dallas-Fort Worth TV station KUVN, Sesmas admitted that she killed Abarca-Nogueda but said she didn't mean to. Records show that Sesmas was booked into a Sedgwick County jail in July on suspicion of aggravated battery, aggravated kidnapping and kidnapping. Читать дальше...

Ship traffic, November 23 Ship traffic Cap Capricorn Cap Jackson Dream Ocean Busan, South Korea SFO Ever Sigma Cabo San Lucas, Mexico SFO Ulsan, South Korea Horizon Enterprise Algoma Vision Port Unknown Cap Capricorn Clipper Vision Port Unknown SFO Cosco Pride SFO Port Unknown SFO Port Unknown Global Aquarius Port Unknown SFO SFO Port Hueneme, Ventura County Port Unknown SFO Busan, South Korea SFO SFO Portland, Ore. Thorco Raffles SFO Source: S.F. Marine Exchange

Most of those who have received clemency are nonviolent drug offenders, though many were also convicted of firearms violations related to drug crimes. “It makes no sense for a nonviolent drug offender to be serving decades, or sometimes life, in prison,” Obama wrote in a Facebook post. Though Obama is expected to grant more commutations in his final weeks, officials acknowledged a large number of applications will be pending when Obama leaves office. Some will see their sentences end in 2017 or 2018 ... Читать дальше...

Fox News Channel finished No. 1 among all cable networks in both total day and primetime viewers for the week of Nov. 14-20, marking the 14th straight week that it was the most-watched network. Fox News averaged 3.09 million viewers from 8-11 p.m., edging ESPN’s 3.02 million viewers despite a big week of NFL coverage. Fox News (1.8 million) and ESPN (1.2 million) also finished atop total day viewers, with Nickelodeon, Hallmark and Adult Swim rounding out the top five.  On Friday night, Fox News aired a special hosted by TMZ’s Harvey Levin... Читать дальше...

Novartis is reported to be weighing the sale of its Ritalin, Clozaril and Exelon drugs as the Swiss giant cuts back on treatments for the central nervous system in favor of generics and other products. The sale of the drugs, which treat attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, respectively, could command a price of more than $300 million and draw offers from other pharmaceutical companies, according to people familiar with the matter. The company reorganized some of its biotech divisions this year... Читать дальше...

Once a child bride, Syrian refugee is now sole provider While she still misses her old comfortable life, she has discovered a fortitude she didn’t know she had and discarded traditional notions of what a woman should be. “I tell my children I’m the man of the family,” Kalawi says, sitting on one of the gray mattresses spread on the floor of the family’s small rented room. In Lebanon, about one-third of 240,000 Syrian refugee households are headed by women whose husbands — traditionally the providers and protectors ... Читать дальше...

If you're looking for a way to burn off some calories before you feast this Thanksgiving, check out this festive, albeit challenging, bike route through San Francisco.

“I realize that if you look at my résumé, you might think, ‘Oh, he’s really out there in left field,'” said Viggo Mortensen with a laugh. [...] the 58-year-old, Danish-born actor in recent years has made “Everybody Has a Plan,” a Spanish-language film in which he plays twin brothers; “Jauja,” an arty, surreal travelogue in which he speaks in Danish and Spanish; and “Far From Men,” an Algerian drama in which all his dialogue is in French and Arabic — a far cry indeed from his days as Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” movies... Читать дальше...

Under Stocks' leadership, overall student enrollment has grown by over 40 percent and minority student enrollment is up by over 60 percent. Senior Associate Provost Noel Wilkin will serve as interim provost and executive vice chancellor pending a national search for Stocks' replacement.

Drivers can also look forward to enhanced police presence on Interstate 17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff, Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson and State Route 87 between Mesa and Payson.

(AP) — A school bus driver was behind bars Tuesday after a crash killed five youngsters and plunged Chattanooga into mourning over what the mayor called the "most unnatural thing in the world" — a parent losing a child. Police said Johnthony Walker, 24, was speeding along a narrow, winding road Monday afternoon with 35 elementary school students aboard when he wrapped the bus around a tree. Reeling from the tragedy, Chattanoogans lined up to donate blood, created a memorial of flowers and stuffed... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Tuesday urged the incoming Trump administration to weigh patient access, health care quality and affordability in reconsidering the law that extended Medicaid and private insurance coverage to millions of Americans. Trump has praised its guaranteed insurance coverage of people with pre-existing conditions and letting young adults remain on parents' policies until age 26. Rocco Massey, community chief executive for Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital... Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a Colorado man in the stabbing death of a Utah woman four decades ago (all times local): A 76-year-old Colorado man who was charged four decades after police say he stabbed a 23-year-old Utah woman to death will serve 10 years to life in prison for the killing. The investigation was reopened seven years ago at the urging of Jones' now-grown daughter, who was determined not to let her mother's death be forgotten.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former Rhode Island state employee has pleaded guilty in federal court to altering computer files to steal more than $500,000 in benefits from the state's unemployment insurance system. Federal prosecutors say Ambulai Sheku pleaded guilty in Providence on Tuesday to conspiring to commit mail fraud, theft of government funds and accessing a protected computer to commit fraud.