Новости за 17.04.2018

What if he doesn’t really intend to implement his crazy ideas?

Trevor Bauer has a gripe with Rob Manfred. Namely, his decision, after consultation with the MLBPA and all clubs, to implement rules limiting mound visits to six per game (plus an extra visit for each extra inning), reducing between-inning breaks to 2:05 for locally televised games and 2:25 for nationally televised games (with the time limit also applying to pitching changes), and improving review times by providing clubs with better replays and better communication means.

Cambridge police are pushing back on excessive force accusations after the incident.

Israel Adesanya is making a decent salary despite this just being his second UFC fight.

JOHANNESBURG - The passing of the Mother of the Nation, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, delved into our inner-consciences and the grief was, and continues to be, palpable in South Africa.

Her passing revealed our nakedness and our profound inability to survive our apartheid past as a wounded nation.

As you certainly know by now, Logan Forsythe was put on the 10-day DL, so the Dodgers called up infielder Breyvic Valera (#33) from Triple-A Oklahoma City over the weekend. Since then he has appeared in two games with the club as a pinch hitter -- walking once and lining out to right field. Per a Dodgers press release:
Valera, 26, has appeared in seven games with the OKC Dodgers this season and has gone 6-for-19 (.316) with six runs, two doubles and six RBI along with a .417 on-base percentage. Читать дальше...

The highest-rated show on Fox News is Sean Hannity's hour at 8 p.m. Since the 2016 election, he has been the most shameless lickspittle of President Trump in major media, a man whose life's work became slavishly praising the president, excusing his mistakes, and ferociously attacking his enemies. He could give the worshipful state press in any totalitarian regime a run for their money.

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A new cancer treatment can help some lung cancer tumors “[melt] away,” seriously prolonging patients’ lives, according to a series of breakthrough studies revealed this week. The findings, presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, are some of the biggest victories yet for immunotherapy, which has been...

A protester throws a rock at members of the Imbonerakure, the youth wing of the ruling party, in a demonstration against President Nkurunziza serving a third term in 2015.

After 700 years of rumors, it turns out Marco Polo probably wasn't lost after all.

Port Askaig: 8 Year (Scottish Islay Single Malt Whisky: 8 Year: 45.8% ABV)

A new Jordan Peeled-backed PSA uses former president Barack Obama and AI to warn against the proliferation of fake news. 

While Fox News tries to downplay the Sean Hannity/Michael Cohen relationship by barely mentioning it during their broadcasts, MSNBC and CNN are asking many pertinent questions, especially when it comes to transparency.

Johnson has disagreed with COPA's recommendations and findings five times in the last two years. Twice, a police board member has sided with him.

Des enquêteurs de l'Organisation internationale pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC) sont entrés à Douma, a annoncé mardi après-midi l'agence officielle syrienne SANA, sans donner plus de détails.

10% of the season is gone, and the bench players have emerged as the most valuable Rays in 2018. What will they do with more playing time?

In December 2016 — in the wake of sexual assault allegations against prominent men like Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, and then-President-elect Donald Trump — tech writer April Glaser posited a simple solution for combating sexual assault: create a tool that would combine identity verification, encryption, anonymization, and messaging to enable sexual assault victims to report their assaults and connect with other victims who had reported the same perpetrator.

Actresses Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond will join the previously announced Stephanie J. Block as the legendary singer at three stages in her life.

Three baboons escaped a Texas biomedical research facility over the weekend, getting a brief taste of freedom from a life as subjects of medical experiments.

FiveThirtyEight, the political and sports forecasting blog of Nate Silver will leave it’s home at ESPN and for ABC, it was announced on Tuesday.

Do you like it or hate it?
Really doesn't bother me, just got back from spain and going out there was a woman was in her 40s pretty much in tears the whole way who had to be reassured by the trolley dolly that she would be ok. Coming back we hit a bit of turbulence and a lady let out a massive scream like we were about to crash. A few on the plane pissed themselves laughing.

Had a few ropey landings but its all part of the fun.

Was recently on a flight when there was someone... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Asia Argento said he raped her during the Cannes Film Festival. Mira Sorvino said he chased her around a hotel room at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rose McGowan's encounter happened at the Sundance Film Festival. Just as Harvey Weinstein did at the Oscars, the disgraced movie mogul lorded over the festival world, which provided the glitzy, champagne-flowing setting for many of his alleged crimes. And in the aftermath of Hollywood's sexual harassment scandals, film festivals have done some soul searching. Читать дальше...

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• Starbucks is closing all its US stores on the afternoon of May 29.
• The closure comes after footage of the arrest of two black men who tried to use the bathroom in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral, sparking boycott threats.
• Nearly 175,000 Starbucks employees will participate in the training, which will cover issues such as "implicit bias" and "conscious inclusion."

Starbucks is closing all its stores nationwide on May 29 after... Читать дальше...