Новости за 13.12.2017

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) — A Texas man arrested in Springdale with 10 pounds of cocaine has been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges. Eloy Balderrama-Chavez of El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Monday (Dec. 11) in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Balderrama-Chavez, 29, was arrested Dec. 1 following a two-month investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Springdale Police Department... Читать дальше...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Paris appealed to the international community to support Nigeria’s commitment to reducing the negative effects of climate change. The appealed was contained in the President’s submission at the “One Planet Summit” in the French capital  on “Climate Change Financing”. President Buhari told the meeting  attended by over 60 Heads of State and […]

Liane Tessier has released details of an agreement that she says comes after years of complaints about abusive and disrespectful behaviour from her male counterparts.

Harry Potter fans who have already finished reading The Cursed Child and A Journey Through the History of Magic from the past two years have a new chapter in the story of the wizarding boy to tide them over—one brought to us not by J.K. Rowling, but by AI-generated text prediction. Botnik Studios created the three-page chapter, titled “Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash,” after training an algorithmic tool on all seven of the children’s fantasy novels. The end... Читать дальше...

Montevideo, 12 dic (dpa) - Uruguay se quejó hoy de que la Unión Europea (UE) demore la respuesta sobre las cuotas de carne y etanol, dos de los rubros que mantienen trabadas las negociaciones hacia un Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con el Mercosur.El canciller uruguayo, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, se lamentó hoy en Buenos Aires, donde se desarrolla la XI Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC), de que la UE aún no haya respondido. "Ahora continuamos con la expectativa de que... Читать дальше...

Huddersfield (dpa) - Der englische Fußball-Meister FC Chelsea hat den dritten Platz in der Premier League gefestigt und zu Manchester  United aufgeschlossen. Die Londoner siegten am Dienstagabend souverän mit 3:1 (2:0) bei Huddersfield Town mit dem deutschen Trainer David  Wagner. Tiemoue Bakayoko (23. Minute), Willian (43.) und Pedro (50.) erzielten die Tore für die überlegenen Blues, die mit 35 Punkten nun gleichauf mit United liegen. Laurent Depoitre schoss in der Nachspielzeit den wertlosen Anschlusstreffer... Читать дальше...

It took a while, but winter has finally come to Kingston and southeastern Ontario. Fifteen centimetres fell between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon thanks to an Alberta Clipper. In Kingston, the city’s public works department deployed its fleet of plows at about 10 p.m. Monday working through the night to make sure arterial and collector roads were...

Google's Earth Engine lets you view two decades of environmental and population changes on Earth. Following is a transcript of the video.

Lawyers representing 10 Haitian women who say they had children with U.N. peacekeepers have filed the first legal actions in Haiti against the U.N. and individual peacekeepers for child support and paternity claims. The lawsuits filed by the Haiti-based human rights group Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) are part of a legal battle by Haitian women to force peacekeepers who they say fathered their children to contribute to their upbringing. "Having and then abandoning children is not within... Читать дальше...

Continuing to try to find players to complete their roster and finish the final three games of the season with enough healthy bodies, the Giants on Tuesday signed two players off other teams’ practice squads, adding offensive lineman Damien Mama from the Chiefs and receiver Hunter Sharp from the Broncos. This is not exactly an...

In February, Lana Del Rey decided to put a hex on the president.

This was a month before she debuted the trailer for her album Lust for Life — a two-and-a-half-minute short film about how she recedes into her home (in the middle of the H in the Hollywood sign) to practice witchcraft and figure out what her “contribution to the world should be in these dark times.” Fans on Tumblr had long considered Lana a witch, mostly just based on her general aesthetic and some garden-variety pop-culture conspiracy theories. Читать дальше...

Every year businesses in downtown Salmon Arm decorate Christmas trees outside of their offices but one woman has taken the idea and created what she calls a "mini act of kindness".

The GOP wants to enact a final bill into law next week, but it has to make some tricky decisions first.

Twice a week, The Chronicle features a home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. More photos: www.sfgate.com/columns/walkthrough Address: 1005 Duncan St., Diamond Heights, San Francisco. Asking price: $2.15 million. Description: Clean lines, lots of glass and an elegant use of natural light define this four-bedroom Eichler. The home offers spacious bedrooms... Читать дальше...

Steven Gerrard picked out Tiemoue Bakayoko for special praise after the midfielder’s performance in Chelsea’s 3-1 win at Huddersfield Town on Wednesday night. Bakayoko managed to break past the Huddersfield defence to latch onto Willian’s through pass before he lifted his finish above Terriers goalkeeper Jonas Lossl. The 23-year-old striker was bundled across the line […]

The overnight success story in Hollywood is as much of a fairytale as its movies. Years of training, sacrifice and failed attempts at stardom typically define the experience of entertainers before that breakthrough moment occurs. But when it happens, things change overnight — as Daniel Kayuula found after he starred in "Get Out." He went from playing bit parts in movies to having deep conversations about race with total strangers at music festivals. Millicent Simmonds, the 12-year-old star of "Wonderstruck,"... Читать дальше...

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• The Fed’s widely expected quarter-percentage-point hike on December 13 will cost consumers with credit card balances an additional $1.5 billion in 2018. 
• Credit card rates have increased in lockstep with rate hikes since 2015, by 101 basis points. Mortgage rates move in near-parallel with the 10-year Treasury yield, which, at 2.39%, has declined from about 2.6% a year ago. Auto loans have moved up only a little. 

Outstanding “revolving credit” owed by consumers ... Читать дальше...

The lights of the Christmas tree in Syntagma Square, central Athens, were switched on Tuesday night. In a speech to a crowd of Athenians and visitors, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis, said City Hall commissioned Greek artists to decorate the country’s capital this year. "We entrusted the adornment of the city to accomplished and popular artists," he said. The mayor thanked contributors for "decorating streets, squares and neighborhoods" and for organizing 220 Christmas-themed events and exhibitions in different parts of the city... Читать дальше...

OAKLAND, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on a fatal school bus fire in western Iowa (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Authorities have identified the student and bus driver who died after a school bus caught fire in western Iowa. The fire happened around 7 a.m. Tuesday at a farm southeast of Oakland, which is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Omaha, Nebraska. The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office says the bus driver was 74-year-old Donnie Hendricks of Carson, Iowa. The student who died was 16-year-old Megan Klindt. Читать дальше...

Schwedens Handball-Frauen spielen bei der Weltmeisterschaft erstmals um eine Medaille. Im Duell mit Dänemark behielten die Schwedinnen am Dienstag in Leipzig vor 2.387 Zuschauern mit 26:23 (13:11) die Oberhand und zogen als erstes Team ins Halbfinale ein. Gegner dort ist am Freitag der Olympia-Zweite Frankreich.

WASHINGTON — US regulators are gearing up for a vote on a plan which — depending on your viewpoint — would “restore internet freedom” or, alternatively, result in “the death of the Internet” as we know it.

Talk about a Scrooge! It appears someone broke into several mailboxes in the south Edmonton community of Summerside.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Brown, whose 1966 surfing documentary "The Endless Summer" molded the image of the surfer as a seeker of adventure and fulfillment and transformed the sport, has died. He was 80. Brown died of natural causes Sunday in Santa Barbara, said Alex Mecl, general manager of Bruce Brown Films. Along with the music of the Beach Boys, Brown took surfing from a quirky hobby to a fundamental part of American culture. Surfers had largely been portrayed as beach blanket buffoons in the mindless party movies of the early 1960s. Читать дальше...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was “controlled by special interests,” “a wholly-owned subsidiary of people that donate to her campaign,” “a puppet of Chuck Schumer” and “somebody that is controlled by people that help donate money to her cause.”