Новости за 10.05.2017

Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None’ makes hilarity look effortless Brian (Kelvin Yu) tries to help his dad, Peter (Clem Cheung), decide between two women he’s dating. Another episode focuses on traditions, as Dev tries to hide the fact from his parents (Shoukath and Fatima Ansari, Aziz’s real-life parents) that he’s been secretly eating pork. “Master of None” is hardly the first comedy to explore assimilation issues among generations of an immigrant family, but it accomplishes it so naturally that... Читать дальше...

HONG KONG — Li Suet-wen’s dream home would have a bedroom and living room where her two children could play and study. “I say it’s because mommy doesn’t have any money,” said Li, a single mom whose $580 a month in rent and utilities eats up almost half the $1,290 she earns at a bakery decorating cakes. Housing costs are among this wealthy Asian financial center’s biggest problems. The figure doesn’t include many thousands more living in other “inadequate housing” such as rooftop shacks, metal... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — An oldies country music radio station serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station's owner said Wednesday KAVV-FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona's 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers. Читать дальше...

If Dorothea Lange’s mark on the history of photography was profound, her pictures have a continuing effect that is not bound by the borders of the art world. The Oakland Museum of California possesses an extraordinary trove of works by the woman universally acknowledged as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Politics of Seeing, opens Saturday, May 13, with the goal of reaching a new understanding of the artist and the 25,000 negatives, 6,000 prints and myriad other materials she left behind. Читать дальше...

On Wednesday morning, a body of a man in his 30s, wearing pants and shoes but no shirt, and carrying identification, was found about 1½ miles south of the reservoir in Swan Lake, a pond frequented by tourists near The Plaza hotel. Swan Lake, at the southeast corner of the park, is surrounded by pink and white azaleas, Japanese maples and other lush vegetation and is populated with all manner of birds. According to the park's website, the reservoir was decommissioned in 1993.

Thursday is Bike to Work Day in the Bay Area, and though you still can't fulfill the ultimate dream of biking across the Bay Bridge, it's a good day to be a bike commuter.

Windows 10 is now running on a half-billion devices nearly two years after its release, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed Wednesday during the software maker's annual conference for applications programmers. Windows 10 represents a comeback for Microsoft after the colossal flop of Windows 8, whose ill-conceived designed deepened a decline in PC sales and contributed to the departure of Nadella's predecessor, Steve Ballmer. People are increasingly connecting to digital services, checking email... Читать дальше...

For believers, Fatima’s message of peace, prayer and conversion from sin is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago, when three illiterate shepherd children first reported seeing visions of the Madonna. The pope will canonize two of those children on Saturday and is likely to make his own Fatima message of peace and conversion as a weapon against secularism and the persecution of Christians today. The first two described an apocalyptic image of hell, foretold the end of World War I and the start of World War II... Читать дальше...

Hitler first gained national attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for his son, who's named Adolf Hitler Campbell after the Nazi leader. During a family court hearing for his youngest son, Hitler reportedly entered a New Jersey courthouse dressed in a Nazi uniform.

WASHINGTON — All but ignoring the unfurling drama over Russia and the U.S. election, President Trump on Wednesday sought to advance prospects for cooperation between the former Cold War foes in Syria and elsewhere in a rare Oval Office meeting with Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s talks with Trump were already destined to be a closely watched affair, given the dire state of U.S.-Russian relations and diplomatic wrangling going on over a Moscow-backed deal to stabilize Syria. Читать дальше...

In April, 49ers starting cornerback Tramaine Brock was released via a 12-word statement just hours after the team learned he’d been arrested for felony domestic violence. Amid a public outcry, the 49ers, citing “due process,” allowed starting defensive tackle Ray McDonald to play after he was arrested for felony domestic violence involving his pregnant fiancée. [...] York’s family is also involved. In January, the NFL Network reported York’s mom, owner Denise DeBartolo York, interviewed head-coach... Читать дальше...

The White House says Trump spoke with President Moon Jae-in to congratulate him on his election victory and his country's "peaceful, democratic transition of power." A liberal leader in South Korea seeks warmer ties with North Korea, clashing with the Republican in the White House intent on snuffing out the North's nuclear weapons program. The election victory of Moon Jae-in (MOON JAAH IHN) in South Korea confronts Washington with a scenario it faced a decade-and-a-half ago, when differences on... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Snap, the company behind the Snapchat app popular with young people, says revenue grew sharply, but it had a large net loss related to its initial public offering of stock. The owner of Snapchat reports a net loss of $2.2 billion in the January-March period.

Executives Behind ‘Moonlight’ Re-Live Best Picture Flub: ‘I Watched People Almost Pass Out’ The Best Picture Flub heard around the world — when “La La Land” was erroneously handed the top Academy Award in February over “Moonlight”– was a veritable meme factory thanks to shocked A-listers and filmmakers from both projects. What we haven’t yet heard is an account from the film boutique “Moonlight’s” distributor A24, a five-year-old art house that defied the odds and claimed Best Picture in its young life. Читать дальше...

After President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Spicer briefly spoke with Fox Business, but then disappeared into the shadows along with his staff to avoid further questioning, the Washington Post reports.

ABOARD THE COAST GUARD CUTTER STRATTON, in the eastern Pacific Ocean — The drone is loaded onto a catapult on the flight deck. From a control room, a technician revs the motor until the go-ahead is given to press the red button. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton is steaming more than 500 miles south of the Guatemala-El Salvador border, along the biggest narcotics smuggling corridor in the world. Deep within the 418-foot Stratton, which is based in Alameda, specialists crunch data from radar... Читать дальше...

Twenty-First Century Fox revealed its financials for the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2017 on Wednesday afternoon, reporting adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of 54 on $7.56 billion in revenue. The EPS figure topped Wall Street’s anticipated result by 6 cents per share, though the top line number fell shy of the expected $7.63 billion in revenue from a Yahoo Finance compilation, which aggregated the estimates of 25 media analysts. For the publicly-traded corporation’s Filmed Entertainment arm... Читать дальше...

An attorney for one fraternity brother charged with aggravated assault said that prosecutors wrongly assume that the students should have been able to tell the difference between extreme intoxication and a life-threatening head injury. Aggravated assault, involuntary manslaughter, simple assault, reckless endangerment, evidence tampering, hazing, alcohol-related charges. Aggravated assault, involuntary manslaughter, simple assault, reckless endangerment, evidence tampering, hazing, alcohol-related charges. Читать дальше...

"Training Day" director's show follows a young doctor (Manish Dayal) as he learns the sometimes harsh realities of medicine Fox announced Wednesday that it picked up Antoine Fuqua’s medical drama “The Resident” to series. The news comes on the heels of other show pick-ups by the network, including two sitcom pilots: “LA to Vegas,” which hails from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and the Craig Robinson/Adam Scott-starring “Ghosted.”

Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez sat down with Dr. Phil to talk publicly for the first time since the former New England Patriots player was found hanging in his Massachusetts prison cell on April 19. The 2013 murder conviction (for the shooting of Odin Lloyd) against Hernandez was overturned on Tuesday due to a state law citing that defendants who die before their appeals are heard should have their convictions vacated. The legal development now sets up a complex legal battle that could have the Patriots... Читать дальше...

Sunday afternoon was filled with laughter, glamour and the clinking of wine glasses. About 200 Bay Area women filled the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco on Sunday May 7 for an afternoon benefitting the Saint Francis Foundation's Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership (TLHIP). San Francisco’s inaugural Wine, Women & Shoes was a great success with ladies from all over the region supporting the Partnership's mission to renovate two parks in the Tenderloin.
The benefit featured a fashion show... Читать дальше...

One publication misused the term "come out of the closet" and it has Matthew McConaughey fans up in arms over a headline.

The tragedy came early in the marriage of the Cooks, the first major episode in the illustrious, marvelous and sometimes strange family history of one of early San Francisco's most notable families.

Hitler llamó la atención nacional por primera ocasión cuando un supermercado se negó a decorar el pastel de cumpleaños de su hijo, de nombre Adolf Hitler Campbell, en honor al líder nazi. Durante una audiencia en la corte familiar por el caso de su hijo menor, Hitler ingresó a un tribunal de Nueva Jersey vestido con uniforme nazi, de acuerdo a reportes.

The 51-49 vote against the repeal measure was a blow to the fossil-fuel industry and groups linked to the conservative Koch Brothers, which had waged a public campaign to overturn the Interior Department rule. The vote marked the first time that the Republican-led Congress has rejected a bid to overturn a rule imposed by President Barack Obama using the previously obscure Congressional Review Act. Republicans and industry groups complained that the federal rule duplicates state regulations in place... Читать дальше...