Новости за 18.07.2019

• Mainland High School in Volusia County, Florida, gave 336 students fake Advanced Placement exams because the district didn't have funds to pay for the real thing.
• Exams for the AP Seminar course cost $142 each, and the district couldn't pay $58,788 to cover all of the exams. 
• Instead, 336 of the students were given last year's exam, while 78 students were given the official 2019 exam, costing the district only $11,000. 
• Students didn't know the exam was fake until after real AP scores were posted online... Читать дальше...

Before the House voted to condemn Donald Trump’s racist tweets on Tuesday, Republican Doug Collins of Georgia issued a formal objection to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s speech, based on the rules of decorum in Jefferson’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice, which prohibit hissing, coughing, and spitting in the chamber, as well as calling the president racist. Collins […]

A Washington County man wanted for rape and sexual abuse of a teenage girl dating back to 2017 was arrested Monday in Beaverton.

The New York City Housing Authority has offered to pay one family $10,000 in damages following a 7 On Your Side investigation into that family's accusations that city employees trashed almost all of their belongings.

Tyler, The Creator goes into detail about his legacy, past and present.
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/tyler-the-creator-reflects-on-his-old-music-yelling-on-songs-and-crafting-igor-news.86017.html

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Hassan's Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) will not contest polls from Vellore Lok Sabha, scheduled to be held on August 5.Earlier, the EC announced the date of the bye-polls and the time for filing nominations for the candidates.The notification for the August 5 election will be issued on July 11. The nomination process will begin the same day and the last date for filing papers is July 18.The results for the same will be declared on August 9.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has... Читать дальше...

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Might Nathan Eovaldi soon be returning to the Boston Red Sox? The hard-throwing right-hander has been out since late April... Read More »

Someone stole a bald eagle from the Quogue Wildlife Refuge on Long Island, NY. Now police are searching for the suspect who was captured on surveillance camera leaving the refuge.

New mini-exhibits at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture feature lunar rocks from the Apollo 12 moon mission.

Warning of national security and privacy risks, Chuck Schumer asked for the viral age-defying photo program to be investigated over its links to the Russian government.

Graham: "This is their home as much as mine."

The post Senate Republicans on “send her back” chants at Trump rally: Pass; Update: Remember “send him back”? appeared first on Hot Air.

When making decisions that are important to the species' survival, zebrafish choose mating over fleeing from a threat. This decision, different compared to that of some other species, appears to be controlled by specific brain regions that respond to pheromone cues.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he stopped the North Carolina rally crowd from chanting “send her back” during a rant about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). But CNN immediately called him out for the false claim. “I didn’t like that they did it and I started speaking very quickly,” Trump told the press. “Excuse me. […]

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Mix up the flavor of dragon fruit with our Raspberry Dragon Margarita. Check out the recipe on this episode of Cocktail of the Week.

Makes: 4-6 margaritas

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup raspberries
• 12 ounces red dragon fruit, frozen and cubed
• 3 ounces tequila
• 1 ounces orange liqueur
• 3 tablespoons agave
• 2 cups ice
• lime, for garnish (optional)
• white dragon fruit, for garnish (optional)... Читать дальше...

First, the bad news. New Zealand's debt mountain is still growing. The big, scary grand total — $571.04 billion in gross debt, or $115,000 a head — is about 16 per cent higher than it was three years ...

1. Ideasroom Who really won the US-Soviet space race? Neil Armstrong may have been the first  Newsroom
2. Moon buggies and bags of poo: what humans left on the moon  The Guardian
3. The Soviets tried to beat Apollo 11, crashed a spacecraft on the Moon instead  The Straits Times
4. Moon landing shock: How Soviet Luna 15 spacecraft beat Apollo 11 to the Moon by two days  Express.co.uk
5. View full coverage on Google News

If the Fox Sports Latin America broadcast team called stock car races for an English-speaking audience, NASCAR’s problems might seem less severe.

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World time trial champion Rohan Dennis' decision to abandon the Tour de France with no explanation is "confusing" and "disappointing", say Bahrain-Merida.

***Warning: The images and details in this story may be upsetting for some readers.*** PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A cat named Pickles is recovering after someone tied firecrackers to her left paw with rubber bands. According to Humane Animal Rescue, she was brought in by good Samaritans over the weekend. Her leg was severely infected and infested with maggots. “There wasn’t really any paw left. What was still there was barely hanging on by the rubber bands,” said Jamie Wilson, Director […]

President Donald Trump over the last week has made overtly racist attacks on four Democratic women of color, which has led to speculation that the president believes using racism is the key to winning reelection in 2020. However, Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, who is currently working for Trump primary challenger Bill Weld, says it would […]

Nintendo a few days ago unveiled its second Switch console, the Switch Lite that’s all about handheld gameplay, featuring no support whatsoever for TVs. Soon after that, the company quietly confirmed that a hardware refresh of the regular Switch will be released in the coming weeks. The first and only new feature of the 2019 refresh is improved battery life. Other internal components may have also been upgraded to facilitate the battery life gains, but we have no idea what there are. The hardware refresh is obviously minor... Читать дальше...

POVREDA PRAVILA POSTUPKA - Upravni sud u Splitu u četvrtak je, nakon usvojene tužbe Ljiljane Zmijanović, poništio odluku o izboru Nelle Slavice za ravnateljicu Nacionalnog parka Krka, doznaje se u medijima.

WASHINGTON — U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week after three weeks of holding steady, tipped higher by expectations that the Federal Reserve could reduce interest rates soon. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the benchmark 30-year mortgage increased to 3.81% from 3.75% last week. Those are historically low levels for