Новости за 14.11.2016

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The New York Knicks are not off to a good start in the third year of Phil Jackson's tenure as team president.

The Knicks, who haven't made the playoffs in the last three seasons, are 3-6 with the worst defense in the NBA, despite a flashy offseason that included trading for Derrick Rose and signing Joakim Noah and Courtney Lee for a combined $122 million.

However, Jackson apparently has no plans of abandoning the ship. In an interview with ESPN's Jackie MacMullan... Читать дальше...

During her stand-up set Saturday at a Boston fundraiser, Wanda Sykes discussed her distaste for Donald Trump and was met with boos from the...

What do Unreal, Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce and The L Word all have in common? Cynthia Summers. The life of a costume designer is foreign to most of us...so when...

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Ben Hooper
STIRLING, Australia, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A South Australia cyclist out riding with his team captured video of the group's impromptu "training partner" -- a kangaroo hopping down the middle of the road.

All the action you might have missed.

A growing threat of a trade war with China has exacerbated problems for Apple, one of the company's biggest critics said.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal trial on the legality of a North Carolina law limiting which restrooms transgender people can use in schools and government buildings has been pushed back until at least late next summer.

By Lincoln Feast WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand emergency services and defense personnel began evacuating hundreds of tourists and residents from the South Island town of Kaikoura on Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake hit the region, killing two people. The 7.8-magnitude tremor, which struck just after midnight on Sunday, destroyed historic farm homesteads, sent glass and masonry toppling from high rises in the capital Wellington and cut road and rail links throughout the northeast of the South Island. Читать дальше...

Karen Butler
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Veteran broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill died Monday at age 61.

Even people with no history of heart disease should consider taking statins, says a new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation.

Rams defensive end Robert Quinn returned from New York with the team on Sunday. Between then and Monday, something happened. “Quinn admitted himself to the hospital this morning with a non-football related illness,” the team announced in a statement. “He is in stable condition. Rams Head Coach Jeff Fisher will provide an update during his weekly…

White people elected Trump. And white people must fight the worst effects of his administration.

String quintets performed and Bette Midler sang. Studio moguls recalled TV’s lucrative happy days, and Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts talked about what a mensch director-producer Garry Marshall was. Vin Scully came out of retirement to praise Marshall’s athletic ability and love for sports.

Grant Cardone

People constantly ask me, “How do you get everything done?”

Easy: I write down the parts of my life that I want to be great in, and then I become obsessed with making time for them rather than making excuses.

Case in point: I am committed to making time for my family. To pull this off, I have to be smart about it. I get my young children up each morning and we go for a drive to the local coffee shop, where the three of us hang out together. After fifteen to thirty minutes of quality time... Читать дальше...

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The Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta — or “Delta Force” or CAG (for Combat Applications Group) or whatever its latest code name might be — is one of the best door kicking-units in the world.

From raining hell on al Qaeda in the early days of the war in Afghanistan to going after the “deck of cards” in Iraq, the super-secretive counterterrorism unit knows how to dispatch America’s top targets.

But during the wars after 9/11, Delta’s brethren... Читать дальше...

Amanda Blanc has been spreading kindness this election season with yard signs that include a short yet important message. 

NEW YORK (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Liborfraudeur en voormalig handelaar van Rabobank Paul Robson, die de Amerikaanse justitie hielp bij de veroordeling van twee oud-collega's, hoeft niet de bak in voor zijn rol in het Liborschandaal. Dat heeft een rechtbank in New York maandag bepaald.

Correction: It's Lompoc, not Etiwanda, facing a 190-mile road trip on Friday night for a Southern Section Division 4 quarterfinal playoff game.

In an emotional letter, Manning talks about how the struggle with her gender led to one largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history.

President-elect Donald Trump could appoint a woman and an openly gay man to important positions on his leadership team.