Новости за 19.09.2019

Vermont is the first Air National Guard base to have F-35 fighter jets. The Free Press was there to record the landing live.

The restaurant spent a decade near the Champlain Valley Exposition grounds but now serves breakfast and lunch to diners at its Five Corners location

North America's bird population is in a swan dive.

The number of birds across the continent has fallen by about 2.9 billion since 1970, experts estimate in a report published Thursday in Science. That's about a 30 percent reduction in their populations, marking what National Audubon Society President David Yarnold is calling a "a full-blown crisis."

Ornithologists' first reliable estimates of bird populations begin in 1970, and stem from volunteer surveys of amateur birdwatchers, The New York Times writes. Читать дальше...

She loves the $99 dollar shoe.

Jason Greenblatt is in Israel for ambassador Friedman’s daughter’s wedding — but he will also meet another couple: Gantz and Netanyahu. Will the two come together for Trump’s peace plan or will they bury it?

There are about 17 million "new American" children in the country, many of whom need support closing the achievement gap

California Horse Racing Board Executive Director Rick Baedeker discusses the recent furor over the 2018 Triple Crown winner’s positive result for scopolamine.

The RTIA, which administers the highly contentious Aarto Act, said the new law will change behaviour of motorists in South Africa

The amusement park is bringing back its coffin challenge, but this time around it's asking couples to put their relationship to the ultimate test.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, trying to seize the agenda on a top consumer issue, announced an ambitious prescription drug plan Thursday that would allow Medicare to negotiate prices for seniors and younger people. (Sept. 19)

Leaders of the party ask the State government to refrain from dabbling in matters of religion

Airbnb plans to file for an initial public offering next year following a 2019 that has been chockfull of initial public offerings.

William Yeatman

The Justice Department today filed its brief in American Institute for International Steel v. United States before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. At issue are President Trump’s steel tariffs. Last month, the Cato Institute filed a brief in support of the appellants, who are businesses that rely on imported steel and have been harmed by the tariffs. 

The government’s response brief, alas, is excellent.

Faced with arguments that the president is unbound... Читать дальше...

The Senate is scheduled to approve the measure next week

NEW YORK — As news of immigrant parents being separated from their children at the border filled headlines last summer, Vivien Tartter became distraught.

AGOO, LA UNION—A decades-old acacia tree in front of the plaza here had been cut while 26 others had been marked for cutting as the national government started clearing the national road in this La Union town of obstructions, local environment officials said. Maximo Soriano, provincial environment and natural resources officer, said his office obtained […]

It would be you and me forever.

The S&P 500 flirted with record territory but lost steam ahead of the closing bell on Thursday, with major indexes ending on either side of unchanged. The S&P 500 ended less than a point lower near 3,006, according to preliminary figures, after seeing a session high of 3,021.99, shy of its all-time closing high of 3,025.86 set on July 26. The Dow fell around 53 points to close near 27,093, while the Nasdaq Composite held on to a gain of around 5 points, or 0.1%, to finish near 8,183.

FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF MONTEREY 90 LAPS; 2.238-MILE ROAD COURSE WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Sunday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PT on NBC #FirestoneGP TIRE TRACKER: FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF MONTEREY Firestone is supplying more than 2,300 race tires for on-track activities at the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey, including the open test, practice, […]