Новости за 19.04.2018

LONDON — Oil surged on Thursday close to 3.5-year peaks on simmering Mideast tensions and keen US demand, while London stocks rose with drugmaker Shire boosted by a takeover move.

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• Twitter user @anamaciias_ made the claim that French fries taste better dipped in ranch dressing than ketchup.
• Her tweet went viral and sparked controversy on the internet.
• People are deeply divided over her bold statement, and expressed strong but conflicting opinions on what French fries should be dipped in.

Twitter user @anamaciias_ made quite an impression on social media when she made the bold claim that French fries... Читать дальше...

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• CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump's nominee to be his next secretary of state, might not receive a positive recommendation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday.
• Pompeo would still get a vote in the entire Senate, but failing to get the blessing from the committee would be an unprecedented rebuke for a cabinet-level nominee.
• Republicans are concerned that attempts to block Pompeo are particularly damaging... Читать дальше...

GAZA, Palestinian Territories — A Gaza cyclist’s dream of waving the Palestinian flag at the Asian Games has been shattered by an Israeli occupation bullet that caused him to lose his leg after he joined a Gaza border protest.

A chimp and a baboon were rescued from cramped conditions by rescue organization Lwiro Primates in the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 19. Along with the help of Kahuzi Biega National Park, Lwiro Primates freed the illegally held chimp and baboon in a village not far from Lwiro in the province of South Kivu. The animals were given up by a family who wanted to give them a better life, according to a post on the Lwiro Primates Facebook page. The organization said the pair will join a group of... Читать дальше...

Another whistleblower will be going to jail. Thanks to the application of the Espionage Act, former FBI special agent Terry Albury wasn't able to defend his leaking of FBI internal documents to journalists (most likely The Intercept) by claiming he leaked to expose noxious FBI tactics and behavior. Defenses predicated on public interest aren't allowed in Espionage Act trials, meaning Albury's decision to plead guilty is there to limit the number of years he'll spend incarcerated, rather than... Читать дальше...

Last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s net worth ballooned by $35.1 billion. Also last year, the median Amazon employee made $28,446. Do the math, and Bezos made 1.2 million times his typical employee in 2017. That’s not the ratio Amazon reports in its annual proxy filing, released yesterday. There, the company calculates median pay vs. CEO …

Singer-songwriter who grew up in Addison County began working on her folk opera in Vermont a dozen years ago before taking it off-Broadway in 2016

Terry Rozier’s playoff run is off to a hot start. After scoring 23 points in Boston’s 113-107 overtime win against Milwaukee on Sunday, the 24-year-old guard and University of Louisville product received a special message from another former Cardinal, model Christen McAllister. “The bigger the hoop … the bigger the whoosh @gmb_chum12 #Celtics #LouisvilleProud @nba,”...

A dog who was believed to be paralyzed after being thrown from a moving car seems to be defying the odds in the latest update from Second Chance Rescue NYC Dogs. In a video posted to the organization’s Facebook page, the puppy named Banky Brewster can be seen making small movements with her back legs. The post states the pup had a difficult hernia surgery and is undergoing physical therapy to help her walk. Banky was found when she was six-weeks-old after being thrown out of a car, and veterinarians believed the dog was paralyzed. Читать дальше...

Puerto Rico was plunged into an island-wide blackout on April 18 after a power failure occurred in the island’s south. It was the second such outage within two weeks, after a tree fell onto a power line on April 12, crippling electrical services for an estimated 870,000 customers of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. The outages occurred as Puerto Rico was recovering from infrastructure damage caused by Hurricane Maria. Due to the outage, a train in San Juan came to a stop between stations... Читать дальше...

The Syracuse University chapter of the Theta Tau engineering fraternity was suspended on April 18 after a controversial video was released, sparking student protests against the fraternity on the same day. University Chancellor Kent Syverud called the video “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities” in a statement released in a campus-wide email. These videos show students marching across campus holding signs that read “Apathy is Complicity” and... Читать дальше...

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• Rapper Kanye West announced two new albums on Twitter on Thursday.
• One will be a solo album with seven songs that drops June 1, the other a collaborative album with Kid Cudi called "Kids See Ghost" that drops on June 8.
• These will be his first albums since 2016's "The Life of Pablo."

After a hiatus, rapper Kanye West has been busy on Twitter this week dropping life lessons — but he'll be dropping his first albums... Читать дальше...

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• Salting your water won't make it boil any faster, despite how much you add in.
• Lard isn't a trans fat and it has a lot less cholesterol than butter, so don't be afraid of eating it.
• While you might not get drunk from your food, alcohol still isn't cooked completely away by the heat.

Unlike urban legends, cooking myths tend to sound pretty convincing. (Ever heard of any of these about poached eggs?) Many have been written in cookbooks and passed down for generations... Читать дальше...

A timeline of Lance Armstrong's cycling career and legal troubles after his cheating was exposed

Le président polonais Andrzej Duda a rendu hommage, jeudi, aux héros du soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie de 1943. Il en a profité pour rappeler que la Pologne rejette quelque responsabilité que ce soit pour l'Holocauste ainsi que les accusations quant à l'attitude de ses citoyens à l'égard des Juifs sous l'occupation allemande.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought $100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories after admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career. The deal announced Thursday came as the two sides prepared for a trial that was scheduled to start May 7 in Washington. Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service teammate... Читать дальше...

Les cours d'éducation sexuelle obligatoires seront disponibles comme prévu partout au Québec, dans toutes les écoles primaires et secondaires, dès la rentrée de septembre.

A registered nurse in Illinois is accused of using the dark web to hire a hitman to kill her lover’s wife, officials said. Tina E. Jones, 31, of Des Plaines, appeared in court Wednesday on solicitation of murder charges for an alleged attempt to kill her romantic rival, the Chicago Tribune reported. Authorities said they...

A South Toledo man is accused of making threats on social media against federal agencies because he was upset over a parking ticket, according to a Toledo police report.

Five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings has announced plans for her new beach volleyball circuit that will bring a sports and music festival to eight cities. The p1440 series will open in September in San Jose, California, and then over the next four months visit Las Vegas, San Diego and Huntington Beach, California. Four stops in early 2019 are planned, including Chicago; the others were not announced. A three-time Olympic gold medalist, Walsh Jennings broke with the biggest domestic pro tour last year... Читать дальше...

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There's little in this world more tear-jerking and wholesome than a home makeover show. The grateful smiles! The hugs! That exquisite mahogany finish!

Of course, there are some things that happen behind the scenes that aren't televised for a reason. From hidden costs to claims of fabricated storylines, shows like "Love It or List It," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Fixer Upper," and "Property Brothers" sometimes come with surprising caveats.

Although thousands of... Читать дальше...

Suspected armed robbers have attacked First Bank and killed a policeman in Ekiti state. Armed robbers had last week attacked some banks and carted away undisclosed amount in Offa, Kwara state. The corpse of the slain police.