Новости за 29.07.2015

NEW YORK — The Boy Scouts of America has ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders but will allow church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons. The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately. It was approved Monday by the group’s national executive board on a 45-12 vote during a closed-to-the-media teleconference. “For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us,” the group’s president... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to relax some limits it set on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and taint downwind a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to relax some limits it set on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and taint downwind a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to relax some limits it set on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and taint downwind areas with air pollution from power plants. At the same time, the court upheld the EPA's right to impose the clean-air standards, rejecting an argument by states and industry groups that the rule was overly burdensome. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit orders the EPA... Читать дальше...

Officials say the National Finals Rodeo will return to the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus this December and as long as 10 more years. Las Vegas Events announced the deal Tuesday. Terms ...

Cecil the Lion‘s killing has outraged people around the world and tons of celebs are speaking out to show their disgust at alleged killer, Walter J. Palmer. The Minnesota dentist reportedly paid $55,000 to kill the iconic lion in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. Cecil was lured out of the park and shot to death. [...]

A 34-year-old teacher was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting an SSC student for over a month in Dombivli.

In some ways, of course, ‘art’ is already all around us. Sometimes we call it a car or a building, graffiti, advertisements, signage or some combination of all five. Sometimes someone else calls it art or it’s on a platform we normally consider the environment of art, such as a canvas or in an art studio or it just has that scent of “art installation” about it. You know it when you see it, sort of thing. Yet, apparently, even more art — the official kind of “art,” no less — is going to be spread... Читать дальше...

Yelp is getting panned by investors after the online business review service sank to a second-quarter loss and dimmed its outlook amid a slowdown in its digital advertising sales.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's almost as if the dozens of exquisitely detailed, often perfectly intact bronze sculptures on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum disappeared into an ancient witness-pro…

Joyce Mitchell admitted supplying Richard Matt and David Sweat with the tools they used to bust out of the high-security prison.

"So you wanna redo your vacation from 30 years ago?" Debbie Griswold asks her husband, Rusty, with a look of bewilderment, early on in the new comedy "Vacation."

The North Dakota Industrial Commission moved forward Tuesday to seek fines against an oil company for not cleaning up a pair of spills at well sites.

Core Laboratories Chairman and CEO David Demshur, discusses U.S. oil production, and whether the price of oil has reached a bottom.

The husband of a woman who died in police custody wants to know why cops ignored her pleas for medical attention, his lawyer said.

Procter & Gamble has named company insider David Taylor as president and chief executive effective Nov. 1.

Procter & Gamble has named company insider David Taylor as president and chief executive effective Nov. 1.

Procter & Gamble has named company insider David Taylor as president and chief executive effective Nov. 1.

Procter & Gamble has named company insider David Taylor as president and chief executive effective Nov. 1. The executive, who heads P&G's global beauty, grooming and health care division, succeeds A.G. Lafley, who will stay on with the Cincinnati company as executive chairman. Procter & Gamble said Tuesday that Taylor will also join the board of directors. Taylor started with P&G in 1980 and has helped build many of the company's core businesses and led global businesses. It marks... Читать дальше...

On Monday night, as news of the demise of former President APJ Abdul Kalam spread, there were rumours that schools and colleges would remain shut on Tuesday.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia - The New Orleans Saints have released veteran defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley, citing a failed physical.

ALLEN PARK, Michigan - Free agent cornerback R.J. Stanford has signed with the Detroit Lions.

DENVER - Troy Tulowitzki is gone. Carlos Gonzalez might be next. Maybe even just-acquired Jose Reyes.

San Francisco police shot and wounded a 3½-year-old pit bull near City Hall after officers said the dog charged at them, officials said Monday, though bystanders said the animal had been playing just moments earlier. Officers patrolling the area of Fulton and Hyde streets about 6:45 p.m. on Monday spotted the dog’s owner with narcotics paraphernalia, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a police spokesman. When they got out of their car to question the man, the pit bull “charged toward the officers,” Manfredi said. Читать дальше...

The company’s shareholders are suffering major dilution, says Phil van Doorn.