Новости за 01.03.2017

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The Washington Redskins have placed the franchise tag on Kirk Cousins for the second year in a row, and if everything works out, he is going to make a ton of money over the next couple of years.

With the exclusive franchise tag, Cousins cannot negotiate with other teams, but he will get a healthy 20% raise over his 2016 salary and will make $23.9 million in 2017.

According to Albert Breer of The MMQB, Cousins is expected to sign the franchise tender. His willingness... Читать дальше...

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The financial world can be complicated and there is always more to learn.

Not only is there a staggering amount of information, but the laws and regulations change regularly.

Over the years, I've had thousands of conversations and email exchanges on various personal finance matters.

Here I've included some of the misconceptions I've heard along the way. Beware of these. They can put your finances at risk.

1. Our will and trust covers our retirement... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, February 28 at 9:10 pm Eastern. The speech will closely resemble the State of the Union address, since the president will deliver it to an audience that includes the vice president, members of the Senate, the House, the Cabinet, and probably the Supreme Court.

Delivering her first address as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed underlined that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are essential for a safe and secure future that brings prosperity, opportunity and human rights for all.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill allowing Xcel Energy to build a natural gas power plant in Becker to make up for some of the capacity it loses when it retires two of its…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gary from Chicago," the everyman catapulted to fame when he walked into the Oscars and onto the world's biggest stage, had just been released from prison days earlier.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gary from Chicago," the everyman catapulted to fame when he walked into the Oscars and onto the world's biggest stage, had just been released from prison days earlier.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gary from Chicago," the everyman catapulted to fame when he walked into the Oscars and onto the world's biggest stage, had just been released from prison days earlier.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gary from Chicago," the everyman catapulted to fame when he walked into the Oscars and onto the world's biggest stage, had just been released from prison days earlier.

The number of vehicles wrecked at Daytona was 29 percent more than last year and among the highest total in the last 10 years.

Weight Watchers shares soar 19% after company's quarterly earnings

George Lopez is going bad in Season 2 of his TV Land comedy “Lopez,” with TheWrap scoring an exclusive first look at the season’s key art (below). With the tagline “One Bad Hombre,” Lopez is clearly referencing the phrase so famously used by Donald Trump on the presidential campaign trail… and turning it on its head. [...] Read: TV Land's Keith Cox Named President of Development at Paramount Network

Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı François Hollande'ın konuşma yaptığı sırada, keskin nişancı bir polisin silahının yanlışlıkla ateş aldığı bildirildi. Olayda 2 kişi yaralandı.Devamı için tıklayınız

NEW YORK (AP) — People fed up with paying for cable the traditional way will soon be able to subscribe to it from YouTube. The Google-owned site known for cat videos and do-it-yourself makeup tutorials is the latest company to offer a version of cable that looks and feels more like Netflix.

"Get Out" Universal Pictures

Unless you own the rights to Marvel characters or you're a streaming giant with endless capital, the best way to make a buck in Hollywood these days is finding a niche but passionate audience for a particular subject, and make the content on the cheap.

Jason Blum and his company Blumhouse Productions have done just that, and now they're reaping the rewards.

Known for creating some of the most memorable horror franchises of the last decade like "Paranormal... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gary from Chicago," the everyman catapulted to fame when he walked into the Oscars and onto the world's biggest stage, had just been released from prison days earlier. Coe's public defender says in a Facebook post that he had served 20 years for petty theft when he was released, and had a 1975 conviction for attempted rape when he was a teenager.

NEW YORK — Major League Soccer is increasing each team’s roster size from 28 to 30 by creating two spots for homegrown players that have come up through a team’s youth system. Teams may spend up to $200,000 of their targeted allocation money to sign homegrown players to their first professional contracts, the league said

For guidance on how the EU might deal with Britain when it leaves the club, look no further than Switzerland.

Trump's budget and tax strategy will likely cause the deficit to spike, but that may be the only way to get growth to climb

Target shares experienced the same pain Wal-Mart felt when it said it would invest billions in the business.

On Monday night, PricewaterhouseCoopers released a statement claiming to take "full responsibility" for Sunday evening's Oscar screw-up in which a staffer gave the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who falsely announced that "La La Land" had won…

The Trump speech itself will begin 6 p.m. Pacific Time (9 p.m. for you East Coast folk), and the network make the discussion of the occasion an all-day affair, most of which will be broadcast live from the capital. Given Trump’s very busy first month in office, we can take a very educated guess that he’ll most likely be talking about his travel ban, repealing the Affordable Care Act, the infamous Mexico-U.S. border wall and how he plans to continue making America great again amongst other things. Читать дальше...

Good news for cord cutters, YouTube is getting into live TV.

On Tuesday, the company announced its launching a new live and on-demand internet TV streaming service called YouTube TV.

Mother of slain Indian man told him to leave US if in danger HYDERABAD, India — The mother of an Indian engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in an American bar said she asked her son to come back to India if he felt threatened in the United States, but he said he was not in any danger. Hundreds of grieving relatives and friends tearfully mourned the 32-year-old who came to the U.S. in 2005 to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Texas at El Paso. A statement... Читать дальше...

(AP) - Houston police say two officers have been taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries after what authorities say was an officer-involved shooting.