Новости за 19.04.2018

A recent shift in nuclear weapons policies in the United States and Russia, involving upgrades, modernisation and growing arsenals is as dangerous as North Korea's nuclear threat, campaigners warned Thursday.

The Mariners are coming out of this series above .500 no matter what(!)

Cormier's new gig at Gilroy High School won't interfere with his professional fighting career.

A former Ralph Lauren senior manager convicted of racking up thousands of bogus charges on her corporate credit card in an embezzlement scheme was sentenced to 20 days in the slammer. Alexandra Bocon, 33, copped to third-degree larceny in a plea deal in January in Manhattan Supreme Court that gave her prison time plus 5...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy whose polygamous family is featured on a reality TV show has died following a fire in a southeastern Utah home. The Deseret News reports Adonija Foster died of smoke inhalation Saturday after a fire ignited in the room where he was sleeping. Members of the toddler's family star in TLC's "Three Wives, One Husband," which shows the lives of members of a community belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The San Juan... Читать дальше...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-led Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill aiming to require certain able-bodied TennCare recipients to spend 20 hours a week working, volunteering or attending schools. Gov. Bill Haslam has said previously that he would sign the bill. TennCare is the state's Medicaid program. The Senate voted on Thursday 23-2 to pass the measure. There was an attempt to pass an amendment that would have expanded TennCare to add about 200,000 more recipients, but that was shot down. Читать дальше...

Remember Mason Ramsey, the 11-year-old yodeler who was discovered in an Illinois Walmart? Well, now thanks to artist Dano Brown, the "Walmart yodeling kid" has become an action figure. You won't find this "Walmart Legend" being sold at the chain though, because it's not mass produced. It's a one-of-a-kind piece of art. There is just this one single Mason Ramsey action figure available and you can go to eBay to bid on it (currently at $410).

If these one-up action figures are your thing, be sure... Читать дальше...

Around 3PM ET on April 17th, Switter — a social media space for sex workers — went offline. Its disappearance, however temporary, indicated the FOSTA-driven loss of yet another haven for sex workers, this time in the form of content distribution network Cloudflare. According to Switter founder Assembly Four, the company received an email from Cloudflare’s legal department indicating that it would be terminating its service due to terms of service violations.

Shares of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics fell more than 40 percent during trading hours on Thursday after the company announced a new public offering. The Thursday drop erased gains the company had enjoyed earlier in the week when shares were up more than 36 percent over the course of five days. Helios & Matheson shares are now down more than 27 percent in the last five days and down more than 63 percent in the year to date. Also Read: How 'Silicon Valley' Helps Explain MoviePass The company... Читать дальше...

The European Investment Bank (EIB), and African Development Bank, (AfDB) Thursday, in Abuja, said it has plans to support private sector investment in Nigeria with the establishment of Development Bank of Nigeria. While European Investment Bank is contributing 20m USD in the new financing institution, ADB will contribute  50 million USD in equity participation. The EIB... View Article

FORDLAND, Mo. (AP) — Southwest Missouri officials are investigating after a worker was killed when a TV tower collapsed. Rob Talburt, assistant fire chief for the Logan-Rogersville Fire Protection District, says the 1,980-foot tower near Fordland collapsed Thursday morning while six people were performing routine maintenance. He says the workers were about 105 feet in the air when the tower went down and the worker who was killed was trapped. Three of the workers suffered non-left-threatening injuries. Читать дальше...

OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Attacks on employees and inmates are on the rise at a Minnesota prison that houses the state's most violent offenders. Inmates at Oak Park Heights assaulted 10 employees in a single weekend last month. That number is more injuries than in the previous five years combined. Assaults against the prison's staffers rose 81 percent from 2013 to 2017, increasing from 21 attacks to 38, according to state corrections records. Assaults against inmates increased 38 percent, with 69 cases last year, the St. Читать дальше...

Large British businesses and multinational corporations have in the past claimed the Labour Party’s policies would be more dangerous to the country than Brexit.

This is going to be tons of fun when it comes around.

Notre Dame and Alabama played football a couple of years ago, at least to the extent the Tide dragging the Irish all over the field in the 2012 season’s BCS Championship was “football.” (In the NCAA’s eyes, losing to Alabama was actually the only thing Notre Dame did that entire season.) But the schools haven’t put each other on their regular season schedules since the 1987 season, when the Irish won a 37-6 game in South Bend.

It’s going to happen again in a decade ... Читать дальше...

Russian aluminum giant Rusal is stockpiling large quantities of aluminum at one of its plants in Siberia because U.S. sanctions imposed this month have prevented it from selling the metal to customers, five sources close to the company said. With the firm's own storage space filling up with unsold aluminum, Rusal executives in Sayanogorsk, in southern Siberia, have had to rent out additional space to accommodate the surplus stock, one of the sources told Reuters. "Aluminum sales have broken down. Читать дальше...

Leaders from around the world are gathered in London for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Questions linger over the Commonwealth’s future: what is it for, and what role should the former imperial power Britain play?  In her opening address to the summit, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth - the head of the Commonwealth – made it clear she wants its leadership to stay in the family. “It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations. Читать дальше...

If you think students are done protesting gun violence, get ready for the National School Walkout. On Friday morning, students from more than 2,500 schools across the country will stream out of class to demand lawmakers take action. While the theme is familiar, this event is different. Here’s what you need to know about Friday’s student-led movement: Why is this happening Friday? April 20 is the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, where 12 students and […]

Russian aluminum giant Rusal is stockpiling large quantities of aluminum at one of its plants in Siberia because U.S. sanctions imposed this month have prevented it from selling the metal to customers, five sources close to the company said. With the firm's own storage space filling up with unsold aluminum, Rusal executives in Sayanogorsk, in southern Siberia, have had to rent out additional space to accommodate the surplus stock, one of the sources told Reuters. "Aluminum sales have broken down. Читать дальше...

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• The Mexican peso was down nearly 1.50% on Thursday afternoon.
• The dive came after a poll showed strong support for presidential candidate and staunch leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
• Obrador has a 22 point lead in the July presidential race, according to a poll.

The Mexican peso dove Thursday amid ongoing political uncertainty and as North American trade partners met to negotiate a new NAFTA deal.

The peso was down 1.42% versus the dollar at 12:41 p.m. ET... Читать дальше...