Новости за 11.01.2019

VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — A former Texas congressman who resigned last year amid sexual harassment allegations has quit his $160,000-a-year lobbyist position for a port authority. The Victoria Advocate reports that the Calhoun Port Authority announced former Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold's resignation Thursday. The port's board declined to comment further. Farenthold's resignation letter says he left the lucrative position lobbying for a port in his ex-district "to pursue other interests and opportunities."... Читать дальше...

This weekend, a new science fiction thriller starring Keanu Reeves opens on more than 2,000 movie screens nationwide. This won’t seem unusual to moviegoers old enough to remember the 1990s and the 2000s, when science fiction thrillers starring Keanu Reeves regularly showed up in wide release. But it will seem unusual to anyone who sees Replicas, and wonders how a D-grade picture scored both Reeves and a broad theatrical distribution deal, even in the cinematic dead zone of January.

A 34-year-old Kingston man has been charged with a number of child pornography offences after a seven-week investigation. Police say the investigation began on Nov. 22, when an ongoing monitoring operation detected a computer that was matched to a Kingston IP address connected to a file-sharing network. Suspected child pornography digital files were captured from […]

An artificial intelligence solution (AI) can accurately identify precancerous changes that could require medical attention in images from a woman’s cervix. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Global Good developed the computer algorithm, which is called automated visual evaluation.

SIMON Cowell and Sharon Osbourne have been dubbed “cruel” after a resurfaced X Factor audition clip saw them tell one hopeful that she can only go through to boot camp if she goes on a diet. Their fellow judge Louis Walsh also appeared in the clip where he described the contestant’s chances as “mission impossible.” […]

Enes Kanter loves his cheat days — but maybe a tad too much.

Dwyane Wade speaks about the need for the Heat to be better in the second half of the season. … Click to Continue »

Tatis will be a fun one to watch in 2019.

You’ll have many choices — and some restrictions.

Canada has granted asylum to a Saudi teenager who fled to Thailand because she feared her family would kill her. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed his country would be taking in Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun. Earlier a Thai immigration official told news agency Reuters that the 18-year-old would be heading to Canada on Friday (January 11) evening. Her case came to attention this week when she barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room to resist being sent home to Saudi Arabia. She... Читать дальше...

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A year after arning the school’s first-ever berth into the NCAA women’s tournament, the Redhawks are 0-15. Here is what happened.

Clarke University's women's basketball team raced to a 10-0 start Thursday night in a Heart of America Athletic Conference home tilt with Culver-Stockton College, but for the most part, the rest of the evening belonged to the visiting Wildcats.  Culver-Stockton erased the 10-point deficit with a 19-2 scoring spurt and went on to claim a 69-54 win.

From the beginning, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted you to know they’re smarter than you. This wasn’t merely an arrogant boast--it was framed as a kindness, a willingness to help smarten you up in return for you helping make them obscenely wealthy.

NewsGuard was founded by veteran journalist Steven Brill and Louis Gordon Crovitz, former executive vice president of the Dow Jones. Its advisory board lists people including Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security under George W. Bush, and Ret. General Michael Hayden, ex-chief of both the NSA and CIA.

Dayne St. Clair joins a club with only one keeper on the roster.

Beto O'Rourke will sit down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey, as calls for the former congressman to run for president in 2020 intensify.

Procedures to be faster, more transparent

The US Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $1.3 million upgrade and sustainment contract for its Litening advanced targeting pod.

Russia's anti-doping agency welcomes lab data progress

MOSCOW (AP) - The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency has welcomed an apparent breakthrough in a standoff over data sealed in a Moscow laboratory that could implicate numerous Russian athletes in past drug cases.

Alabama’s Crimson Tide weren’t the only ones shocked after Monday’s blowout loss to the Clemson Tigers, according to police in Florida. An ex-con who became enraged after an unpaid $10 wager was arrested after using a Taser to stun a woman whose husband refused to pay up, the Gainesville Sun reports. Police said the victim’s...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee restaurateur and mayoral candidate has been accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit brought by a server at one of his eateries. News outlets report Knoxville mayoral candidate Mike Chase is the defendant in the lawsuit that Ana Tipton-Budzynski filed Wednesday. Tipton-Budzynski's suit says the 72-year-old made persistent, sexually explicit comments to her as she served him and two of his friends at Copper Cellar West last month. The suit also says Tipton-Budzynski's... Читать дальше...