Новости за 18.05.2016

Geoff Ziezulewicz
MOSCOW, May 18 (UPI) -- Russia is tendering bids for the development of the Turner-2 machine gun, which will feature interchangeable barrels, according to a government notification.

Minister for Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane says short-term acid mine drainage interventions the government has started in the past five years have yielded results.

Five of Southern California's top junior baseball players have been selected to play in the Under Armour All-America game on July 23 at Chicago's Wrigley Field.

A 15-year-old high school student in Alameda collapsed during preseason football conditioning drills Tuesday and later died, officials said Wednesday. The Encinal High School student collapsed around 6 p.m. on the football field and was later pronounced dead at Highland Hospital, said Susan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Alameda Unified School District. The school will be providing counseling throughout the week for students and staff.

Management remuneration has been strongly criticised by investors after emissions scandal

With more information than ever at our fingertips, why has it become harder to fathom your neighbor’s point of view? Facebook contributes to an online echo chamber—but could also be part of a solution.

The brothers Matt French, left, and Mike French, in Pioneertown, Calif. They bought and renovated the nearby Pioneertown Motel, a single-story inn with 20 rooms.

Another new Blink-182 song is here. There's just one catch -- it makes “Happy Holidays, You Bastard” sound like an epic. ...

American Giant

American Giant is on a mission to bring manufacturing back to the US, one clothing item at a time.

The apparel company that created what New York Times technology columnist Farhad Manjoo once dubbed the "greatest hoodie ever made" has now created a T-shirt. 

In calling it a premium T-shirt, American Giant is asking customers to expect a lot from it. 

The company told Business Insider it is looking to deliver on that promise by using a unique cotton blend that took over a year to develop. Читать дальше...

One of the NHL's premier marskmen has been hitting his target throughout the postseason.

At the age of 25, Jasmine Twitty was appointed to the Easley municipal bench in upstate South Carolina.

Telemundo and the Jenni Rivera estate are joining forces to produce a number of projects based on the late Mexican regional singer's life....

A mother’s desperate 911 call reporting one of her sons waving a gun on the family’s front porch ended with two of her sons and her husband shot by at least one police officer Tuesday night in Pittsburg. Officers were dispatched to the home on the 1500 block of Kingsly Drive at 9 p.m. after the mother called police saying her 20-year-old son was acting irrational and had pointed a gun at his father through the house’s security screen door several times, said Capt. Ron Raman, a spokesman for the Pittsburg Police Department. Читать дальше...

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Genetically modified crops have a controversial history, especially when it comes to deciding whether or not the foods are safe — for the environment and for our health.

The crops, which have been around since the 1980s, have been studied at length, and a new report out Tuesday from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that GMO crops aren't posing any greater risk to the environment compared with regular crops. It also found "no evidence"... Читать дальше...

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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis may have just made one of our favorite music videos of the summer. Not only did the duo enlist the help of Idris Elba for "Dance Off," but...

German Ambassador to Russia Ruediger von Fritsch named Western anti-Russian sanctions as "the tools of politics rather than punishment".

The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday said it was experiencing a critical technical issue that sent trading to other exchange venues in a subset of ticker symbols.

A close aide to President Enrique Peña Nieto met twice in 2015 with a government contractor who sold houses to the first lady and the finance minister while the government was conducting an inquiry into the purchases.

A father of two was stabbed in a home invasion after men allegedly targeted the wrong house looking for drugs.