Новости за 19.09.2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to avert a government shutdown, Republican leaders are hoping to contain conservatives' demands for a politically risky showdown with President Barack Obama by striking a quick blow against abortion and Planned Parenthood. The vote followed a no-holds-barred debate that included a graphic, poster-size photo of a scarred, aborted fetus and underscored how abortion has resurfaced as a white-hot political issue. The issue's re-emergence followed the release of secretly recorded... Читать дальше...

(ATTN: ADDS S. Korean political parties' comments in last 4 paras) BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Yonhap) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday called for all nations involved in the talks on North Korea's nuclear program to implement U.N. resolutions

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play again…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play again…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play again…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play again…

Illinois launches Chinese broadcasts of football games (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play against Kent State. [...] they're a small piece of the University of Illinois' effort to reach a large segment of their student population and perhaps help crack a problem at colleges around the country: how to get students back into football stadiums on Saturdays. Student... Читать дальше...

Because it seems like all summer long we've either been in the middle of a crazy heat wave or between them, we spent a lot of time eating ice cream and gelato this week in order to make an ice cream map. Occupational hazards? Maybe so.  In other news, S. Irene Virbila checks in on a new bar from...

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois - Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play against Kent State.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Standing in a small, sterile booth high above the turf at Memorial Stadium, David He's voice reaches a near-shout any time Illinois' football team makes a big play again…

While Oscar Pistorius’s release from the Kgosi Mampuru 11 Prison is imminent, there is no news yet...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — When two rival motorcycle gangs clashed outside a Texas restaurant, nine bikers ended up dead, their bodies sprawled on the pavement, surrounded by blood and shell cas…

[...] evidence reviewed by The Associated Press now confirms that the gunfire included rounds fired by police that hit bikers, though it isn't clear whether those rifle shots caused any of the fatalities. The trove of evidence — expected to be presented to a grand jury — includes dashboard video of people fleeing the scene while shots ring out, audio of police threatening to shoot people if they rise from the ground and photos of bodies lying in pools of blood in the restaurant parking lot. Many witnesses... Читать дальше...

Warren Buffett keeps an investment "war chest". We suggest what to sell to create your own. And highlight the bargain investments to buy

Associated Press Bicycles are taking over the urban jungle of Detroit, turning Motor City into Bike City. Let Yahoo Travel inspire you every day. Hang out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.  Check out our original adventure travel series A Broad Abroad.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The number of homeless students attending public school in Pennsylvania increased by 18 percent between the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years — an increase more than double the national average of 8 percent, according to statistics reported by the U.S. Department of Education. And while that one-year increase seems dramatic, even more troubling is the 94 percent increase in homeless students in the state since the start of the economic recession in the 2007-08 school year. Translated into numbers... Читать дальше...

[...] Griffin would reply, you did. In October 2004, the Dover Area School Board, citing a need to make students "aware of gaps/problems" in Darwin's theory of evolution, voted to add the mention of intelligent design to the ninth-grade biology curriculum. The judge wrote that intelligent design could not separate itself from its religious origins, and mentioning it in a public school science class was unconstitutional. He could be a science teacher in Dover or somewhere else, "turning students... Читать дальше...

Pesident Raúl Castro van Cuba heeft met de Amerikaanse president Barack Obama gesproken over de hernieuwde diplomatieke betrekkingen tussen hun twee landen. In een telefonisch onderhoud vrijdagavond (lokale tijd) spraken de twee ook over plannen om die relatie verder te verbeteren en over het bezoek van de paus aan Cuba zaterdag.

What if 007 were just an 'ordinary person' - like Andrew Parker from MI5 claims his spies are?

What if 007 were just an 'ordinary person' - like Andrew Parker from MI5 claims his spies are?

Alan Purwin: In the Sept. 18 California section, the obituary of helicopter pilot and entrepreneur Alan Purwin, who died in a Colombian plane crash Sept. 11, said the plane took off from San Francisco de Antioquia. The plane took off from Santa Fe de Antioquia. Also, Carlos Berl, the other man...

The seventh annual Swale Film Festival is about to launch.

Thistle Hill Academy in Minster has welcomed its first intake of children.