Новости за 13.12.2017

Arsenal will hope to climb back in to the top four of the Premier League with a win when we take on West Ham at the London Stadium tonight. These are the teams: West Ham Adrian, Reid, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Arnautovic, Lanzini, Obiang, Noble, Ogbonna, Masuaku, Antonio. Subs: Hart, Collins, Rice, Ayew, Carroll, Sakho, Chicharito Arsenal Cech, Bellerin, Koscielny, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Wilshere, Iwobi, Ozil, Sanchez; Giroud. Subs: Ospina, Chambers, Kolasinac, Coquelin, Elneny, Welbeck, Lacazette... Читать дальше...

The Ramblers have battled a slew of injuries but have gotten off to the Loyola's best start since 1965.

Auburn tailback Kamryn Pettway's fractured shoulder blade injury will keep him from being able to play in 2018 Peach Bowl.

The LPGA made it official Wednesday: Its tour event at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City will return in April, as The Chronicle reported last month. Next year’s full schedule was released, with the Lake Merced tournment set for April 26-29. The new sponsor will be L&P Cosmetic, a Korean skin-care company. The event’s official name will be announced early in 2018. Lake Merced hosted the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic for three years (2014-16). But then the title sponsor ... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks extended gains Wednesday as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for a third time this year as widely expected. The central bank also raised its 2018 U.S. gross domestic product growth forecast to 2.5% from 2.1% and indicated that it will likely increase rates three times in 2018. The S&P 500 rose 6 points, or 0.2%, to 2,670 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 132 points, or 0.5%, to 24,637. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 29 points, or 0.4%, to 6,890.

Former vice president Joe Biden shared an emotional moment with Meghan McCain on “The View” Wednesday. McCain told Biden that she couldn’t get through the part of his book, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,” which covered his son, Beau Biden’s, struggle with brain cancer. McCain’s father, Sen. John McCain, was diagnosed with the same form of brain cancer six months ago. “I think about Beau almost every day and I was told — sorry — that this doesn’t get easier but that you... Читать дальше...

If they hold all their own seats (which won’t be easy), they need to pick up two more.

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• The Fed just announced that it intends to raise the benchmark Fed funds rate to a range between 1.25% and 1.5%.
• The FOMC also released its quarterly "dot plot," showing where Fed members expect rates to go in the next few years.
• The median member predicts rates will be between 2 and 2.25% by the end of next year.

The Federal Reserve just announced, as widely expected, that it intends to raise the benchmark Fed funds rate to a... Читать дальше...

Did the Obama administration lie about key aspects of the Uranium One deal approval process? In a letter to Congress, a leading nuclear official appears to suggest so.  Daily Caller reports: The current chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said that one of her Obama-appointed predecessors’ responses to Congress on a key aspect of […]

From SABR member Peter Gorton at MLBlogs.com on December 12, 2017:

I was asked to look up the career of John Donaldson for a book project called “Swinging for the Fences: Black Baseball in Minnesota.”

When I first started I had never heard of him, even though he had starred on the diamond of my hometown some 75-years before.

As the years have passed nearly everyone I asked about him did not recognize his name. There were a few who had heard the name John Donaldson; my goal was to ensure there would be more. Читать дальше...

Ash Sharp Editor      We’ve all been there. We’re a little wasted. We’ve just seen a guy who advocates for late-term abortion beat a horse riding Christian into a pulp at the ballot box. We might have taken a few Vicodin. Get a little… frisky.       And then you find yourself tweeting … Continue reading HACK or HACKED? Anderson Cooper Gets Snooty with Trump!

Get ready for a wild couple of weeks

The Filibuster trio is back together, and not a moment too soon. Jason, Adam, and Ben discuss MLS Cup, the final game of the 2017 season, and we talk about Toronto FC’s formation switch and the great game of Michael Bradley. We wonder if Seattle Sounders could have done anything sooner and better, and whether or not this TFC team had the best season in MLS history.

In the second segment we get one of Adam’s Fun Time News Roundup Times!, in which... Читать дальше...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is closing its early-American art galleries for two months to redesign the space for the first time since opening in 2011. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the museum announced the temporary closure on Tuesday. Executive Director Rod Bigelow says the Colonial to Early 19th Century and Late 19th Century galleries will be inaccessible to guests from Jan. 9 to March 16 as the museum "continues to rethink... Читать дальше...

Jose Mourinho has given the England full-back a first league start in eight months, while the youngster plays in midfield

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina retirement community has apologized for distributing a calendar that featured a racially tinged caricature of a slave. WWAY-TV in Wilmington reports the Bradley Creek Health Center at Carolina Bay circulated a community calendar Dec. 1 with a Christmas greeting card from the 1920s. The calendar featured the image of a black woman portrayed as a "mammy," a slave who took care of white children. Dictionary.com notes the term is "disparaging and offensive." Officials... Читать дальше...

Berlin (dpa) - Nach dem Insolvenzantrag der Fluglinie Niki hat der Mutterkonzern Air Berlin scharfe Kritik an der EU-Kommission geübt. «Die Position der Europäischen Kommission ist nicht nachvollziehbar», sagte der Air-Berlin-Generalbevollmächtigte Frank Kebekus einer Mitteilung zufolge am Mittwochabend. «Das Scheitern des Niki-Verkaufs und die Insolvenz der Niki Luftfahrt GmbH sind höchst ärgerlich und wären vermeidbar gewesen.» Lufthansa habe als einziger Bieter Lösungen für komplexe Themen aufgezeigt. Читать дальше...

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Amir calls for protecting Jerusalem’s identity – Erdogan slams ‘terror state’ Israel ISTANBUL: Islamic leaders yesterday urged the world to recognize occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned the United States no longer had any role to play in the peace process. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened […]

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Istanbul/Ramallah - A summit of Islamic nations declared East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state on Wednesday, in a counter move to the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Arsene Wenger makes a total of four changes to his starting line-up on Wednesday, including a rare Premier League start for the midfielder

This installment of High School Huddle looks at some early-season basketball highlights from the Saskatoon Secondary Schools Athletic Directorate.

DIAMOND, Mo. (AP) — Residents in southwest Missouri built two snowmen in a symbol of unity after a local school district's snowman constructed of hay bales burned down. The Joplin Globe reports that the Diamond School District's Frosty the Snowman burned Friday night. Diamond High School Principal Don Epps says firefighters quickly put out the fire, but the loss of hay was valued at about $500. Epps says residents were upset by the alleged vandalism and decided to put up two snowmen in response, to show the community's unity. Читать дальше...

Just about ten years ago (December 18, 2007), among FenwayNation's top stories was the newly-released Mitchell Report—which linked some former Red Sox players with PEDS. Among the ex-Carmine Hosers named were: Roger Clemens, Mo Vaughn, Eric Gagne and José Canseco. The lawyer for Clemens commented thusly about the report, "There has never been one shred of tangible evidence that he ever used these substances and yet he is being slandered today." Another story from that day's edition asked if the Yankees... Читать дальше...

Doctors at the Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, New York, diagnosed cancer in a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy using a computed tomography scan this week.

It will be another thirty days – at least – before we find out if the man accused in September’s knife and U-Haul attack is fit to stand trial, due to a bed shortage at Alberta Hospital.

It breaks my heart to say it, but we’ve reached the last episode of Mr. Robot season 3. That also means it’s the finale of our Digital After Show, hosted by Nilay Patel, Russell Brandom, and me, Megan Farokhmanesh. But before we say our goodbyes, tune in tonight at 11PM ET to watch us talk with some very special guests: BD Wong and Michael Cristofer, who play Whiterose and Phillip Price, respectively.