Новости за 27.12.2017

The decision comes after several appeals courts ruled that the government was interpreting a century-old law aimed at protecting birds too broadly.

A California couple were charged on Tuesday after they allegedly used a drone to deliver drugs to customers while a 9-year-old girl lived in their drug-littered home, police said. The pair, Benjamin Paul Baldassarre, 39, and Ashley Lauren Carroll, 31, were charged with possession of controlled substances for sale, child endangerment and possession of drug...

AC Milan are considering a loan offer for Arsenal winger Theo Walcott, according to Il Posticipo. The Italian website is reporting that the Rossoneri see the 28 year old as a low cost reinforcement in the January transfer window. The Italian club’s €200m outlay on new players last summer means the club will struggle to stay within UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules but their poor start to the domestic season means they are seeking to strengthen their squad. Il Posticipo reports... Читать дальше...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A man should have been allowed to explore a defense that he was protecting another person before he pleaded guilty in the choking death of a man in an Atlantic City motel room, a state appeals court ruled in overturning his manslaughter conviction. The ruling published Tuesday ordered a new trial for 37-year-old Anwar Belton. Belton has been serving a 12-year sentence for aggravated manslaughter in the death of Victor Castillo of New York in 2010. According to court documents... Читать дальше...

Political scribe: How Cuomo Lost His #MeToo Footing Gov. Cuomo may usually be “an acute forecaster of New York’s political climate,” but Aaron Short at The Daily Beast suggests he’s “seemed less so during the recent #MeToo moment, even as other political heavyweights here have stepped up.” Case in point: his embarrassing turnaround after publicly...

sparkling trails of light drawing out the numbers 2017 in glowing light to welcome in the new year

Rather than cozying up with family on Christmas Eve, Carolina Falkholt, a Swedish street artist, instead chose to paint a four-story penis on the side of a building in New York's Lower East Side.

Instagram’s new “recommended for you” section is now rolling out to all users, according to a report from TechCrunch, which notes that the company has also added a new section to its help site documenting the recommendation feature.

Diane Ravitch, New Republic
In 1979, the psychologist Donald Campbell proposed an axiom. “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making,” he wrote, “the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.” He also wrote: “Achievement tests may well be valuable indicators of general school achievement under conditions of normal teaching aimed at general competence. But... Читать дальше...

Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News
Steve Bannon’s eyes lit up. Several months before he left his job as a senior White House adviser last August, Bannon was talking to President Trump about the brewing political storm over the Justice Department investigation into his campaign’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. Suddenly, Trump had an inspiration. He looked straight at Bannon, jabbed at him with his finger and uttered the phrase that would become the slogan of the White House pushback against the Russia probe... Читать дальше...

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• Sam Darnold said that he'd be "honored to play for any team," when asked how he would look in a Cleveland Browns uniform.
• The comments are garnering extra attention after a report said fellow prospect Josh Rosen would prefer to not play for the Browns.
  
• While we don't yet know if either quarterback will even be in the 2018 draft, most presume they both will be present and apart of the drama in the first round.

USC quarterback... Читать дальше...

The term “gaming disorder” isn’t limited to video games in the entry.

Were traditionally shit

Weve always been shit

We have always been a traditional workhorse club

We also never give up fighting

We never quit

We never walk away when all looks lost

We have survived on the last day of the season twice in the last 4 years

We never give up

We are birmingham city

We fight to the end

We dont act like Villa fans

We dont winge and cry and moan and complain... Читать дальше...

A collision between two sport utility vehicles at a Santa Clara intersection Tuesday afternoon left a woman injured and sent one of vehicle’s careening into the front of a house, police said. The crash occurred about 5:40 p.m. at the intersection of Los Padres Boulevard and Bohannon Drive, according to Lt. Dan Moreno of the Santa Clara Police Department. Moreno said the injured women was in a Honda Pilot SUV that collided with a Acura MDX. He said the crash caused... Читать дальше...

CA Phoenix AZ Zone Forecast for Wednesday, December 27, 2017 _____ 833 FPUS55 KPSR 272005 ZFPPSR Zone Forecast Product for Southwest Arizona/Southeast California National Weather Service Phoenix AZ 104 PM MST Wed Dec 27 2017 This is an automatically generated product that provides average values for large geographical areas and may not be representative of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site specific forecast, please visit weather.gov/phoenix and either (1) Select a location... Читать дальше...

Southern Manitoba's extreme cold warnings, issued by Environment Canada, ended Wednesday but will likely return just ahead of the New Year's weekend.

When Cyclone Winston pummeled through Fiji last year, the largest storm recorded in the southern hemisphere, Sofia Talei's taro and cassava crops were destroyed, leaving her livelihood as a farmer uncertain. "I was so desperate. All the effort we put into it was destroyed after a few hours," Talei, 33, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. But after the storm came an unexpected surprise: a wealth of financial literacy, business, and agricultural training, which led to Talei this year becoming... Читать дальше...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The discovery in China of an underground army of nearly 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiers is considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. More than four decades after they were first seen in modern times, by farmers in Shaanxi province, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has 10 of the majestic figures on display in an exhibit that explores the history of ancient China and the reign of its first emperor, Ying Zheng. Although various assortments of the... Читать дальше...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The discovery in China of an underground army of nearly 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiers is considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. More than four decades after they were first seen in modern times, by farmers in Shaanxi province, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has 10 of the majestic figures on display in an exhibit that explores the history of ancient China and the reign of its first emperor, Ying Zheng. Although various assortments of the... Читать дальше...

South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei has said he will continue to speak publicly on behalf of President Salva Kiir’s government despite being the target of U.S. sanctions. The U.S. State Department issued a statement on September 6, implicating Makuei for his role in threatening the peace, security, or stability of South Sudan. South Sudan's government has been batting rebel groups in a war that has displaced some 4 million people. Makuei, speaking to VOA's South Sudan in Focus for the first time about the sanctions... Читать дальше...

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has announced that they killed 13 militants with the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab in southern Somalia. The airstrike took place on Wednesday in coordination with the Somali government.

Mayor Bill de Blasio had to be pressured to expand his national progressive platform in 2015 — or risk the loss of critical support from advocates — to include Social Security expansion, debt-free college and dealing with mass incarceration, according to newly released emails. Among those who only signed on to the initiative after the...

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite saying that the Syrian government is not doing enough to stop Islamic State militants from moving through its territory, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group does not intend to target militants in those areas, a senior coalition official said on Wednesday. The comments by British Army Major General Felix Gedney indicate that the coalition will rely on the Syrian government to go after Islamic State militants in areas controlled by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Читать дальше...