Новости за 22.04.2016

Nordstrom shares fell 2 percent after analysts at Evercore ISI downgraded the stock and slashed their price target.

Kevin Seifert was at the Super Bowl in 2007 to chronicle a meeting of famous Minnesotans.

Christian Siriano is bringing vibrant color and vintage silhouettes to your local mall.

A retired K-9 in Florida is recovering after being bitten by an alligator that so far is eluding capture

Yik Yak

After nearly two years, Yik Yak's cofounders Stephen Brooks Buffington and Tyler Steven Droll have settled a lawsuit with their former Furman University fraternity brother, Douglas Warstler.

Warstler claimed to be the forgotten founder of the anonymous gossip app and said he was cheated out of one-third of the company by Droll and Buffington.

The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed but Yik Yak's founders gave the following statement in a press release:

Source: Southwestern Energy.

Robert Leviton's loudest neighbor is a 12-lane freeway. The busy stretch of highway that runs alongside his townhouse complex is visible from his north-facing windows. The drone of passing motorists is audible throughout. He can even hear a muffled version of it when his windows are shut. "I was a little bit ...

Neel Sethi was plucked out of obscurity to play Mowgli in "The Jungle Book." His feature film debut posed a unique challenge: he acted alongside characters that were mostly created in post-production. 

HBO

In celebration of the new season of "Game of Thrones" airing this weekend, Spotify has a brand new website that can analyze your music tastes and tell you which character you are from the hit HBO show.

Here's how it works.

First, visit this website. Then log into your Spotify account.

Uh, sure.

Prepare yourself emotionally and click continue.

Josh Hutcherson looks cool in a leather jacket before the Tribeca Digital Creators Market: Film Incubator Short & Panel Discussion held during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios on Thursday (April 21) in New York City. The 23-year-old Hunger Games star was there to discuss his film incubator project. PHOTOS: Check out the [...]

The Aiken Department of Public Safety is looking for two people they suspect of stealing from Walmart.

Council Member Jacob Frey said he's interested in exploring the idea of naming the new park near U.S. Bank Stadium for the Minneapolis icon.

A protocol of Friday’s fifth Russian-Kuwait intergovernmental commission stated that Russian Railways company has been in talks on its possible participation in construction of a 106-mile railway in Kuwait.

Malik Jalal is convinced that America is trying to kill him. He’s a Pakistani tribal elder from Waziristan, a dangerous one-time Taliban stronghold on the border with Afghanistan. The region has borne the brunt of the United States’ drone campaign in Pakistan. And six years ago, Jalal began to suspect that he was on the […]

Flickr / Hayden Petrie

When I graduated with a B.A. in English in 2010, I had big dreams ... and absolutely nothing on my resume.

I wanted to be a writer, but didn't have a single published clip to call my own. 

As you can imagine, the next few years weren't very fun. Since 2010, I've:

• been unemployed three times, for a total of 13 months.
• failed to hold a "full-time job" longer than a year.
• quit three jobs, been let go once and gotten myself fired once. Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain has called for a criminal investigation into what led to a massive spill of mine waste that polluted rivers in three Western states last summer.

Union abandoned its efforts after backlash from Canadian government, rival unions and North American aluminum producers

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) set politics aside on Friday, April 22 as top gladiators of both parties stormed the St Paul’s Catholic Church, Benin City, to honour Most Rev Dr Augustine Obiora Akubeze, Archbishop of Benin Catholic Archdiocese on his 10th Episcopal ordination anniversary […]

School board member resigns over anti-Muslim Facebook posts ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school board member resigned Friday after backlash over posts she made on Facebook disparaging Muslims.

Annie Martin
LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- Blake Shelton said his first song with girlfriend Gwen Stefani, "Go Ahead and Break My Heart," reflects their "remarkable" bond.

There's a first time for everything, including a proposal on Naked and Afraid. Matt Wright, 33, was having a rough go of it on the Discovery Channel series, he has lost his fish trap and...

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Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, is in New York on a three-day visit to sign the Paris climate treaty and promote Canada's climate agenda.

Work aside, he found some time to sneak in a little boxing, one of his favorite sports.

He sparred with Yuri Foreman, a professional boxer, at the famous Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, shortly after giving a talk on climate change at NYU, according to The Daily Mail. 

Trudeau made headlines last week for... Читать дальше...