Новости за 01.05.2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its plans to scrap standards on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, which help set gas mileage rules. The suit takes aim at a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to roll back and revise emissions standards for vehicles manufactured between 2022 and 2025. Those standards would have translated to vehicles getting 36 miles of real-world driving per gallon (58 kilometers per gallon) by 2025, about... Читать дальше...

A delegation of leading Republican members of Congress are urging newly installed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cut all U.S. taxpayer funding to the Palestinian government over its continued use of American dollars to pay the salaries of terrorists and their families, according to communications between these lawmakers and the State Department.

Cairo is planning to strike at Daesh (ISIS) militants concentrated in Egypt's sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel from the southwest.

US Army

It goes without saying that the US Army is continuously testing and adding new weapons to its arsenal.

For example, the Army recently began to replace the M9 and M11 pistols with the M17 and M18, but has only delivered them to soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. Therefore, the pistols are not yet standard issue. 

While the Army continues to stay ahead of the game, it undoubtedly has a multitude of weapons for its soldiers. 

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• Ryan Stamper, a former football player at Florida, had trouble finding a job after graduating because he never had time to gain any work experience or develop interviewing skills while playing football. 
• His experience shows how playing Division I sports can be such a big commitment that athletes often can not fully reap the benefits of being students. 
• Stamper is now an assistant for his old coach Urban Meyer at Florida who has started a program... Читать дальше...

Former Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Carlos Gray was discovered shot to death in his home near Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday night.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said that he expects the White House to announce the date and location of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the coming days.

AS Roma Liverpool ESPNDeportes, ESPN3 6:45 PM UTC Leg 2Aggregate: 2 - 5 Game Details Live football odds with bet365. Bet Now » PickCenter GameCast Lineups and Stats Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists... Читать дальше...

Charlie graces our podcast with his presence

D.C. United didn’t show up for the last 80 minutes, but Filibuster is here for the full 90. Jason, Adam, and Ben break down (8:15) United’s worst performance of the year against the Philadelphia Union, and go through our own parade of horribles. We discuss the center backs, the fullbacks, and central midfield, before breaking down the striker battle and examining the high press.

In the second segment we welcome Charles Boehm to the show to get a 30,000 foot view of the team. Читать дальше...

Events in the news through the eyes of Darrin Bell, Lisa Benson and Joe Heller.

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• Money is a common source of stress and arguments for many couples.
• In a marriage, couples sometimes think that they need to share everything — including bank accounts.
• However, having separate finances allows you to be in control of your spending, reduces the stress of having a joint bank account, and allows you to have fun with your money.

When I first got married, I thought my spouse and I were supposed to be attached at the hip in all things. Читать дальше...

Air strikes killed at least 23 civilians including 10 children in a village held by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. "We don't know for the moment if the US-led international coalition or Iraqi forces carried out the strike" on the village of Al-Qasr in Hasakeh province, the Observatory said. The US-led coalition, which is backing a Kurdish-Arab alliance fighting IS near Syria's eastern border with Iraq, denied it carried out the strikes. Читать дальше...

Motorists are seeing red after the cost of a litre of gas in Montreal jumped by double digits overnight.

Biff Tannen wrote:

I do too, Cas did the right thing and i feel a bit for the way they have come out of all this.Not only did he scupper their SL title chances but he cost them thousands of pounds in the process. In the meantime Zak has a year of down time knowing he already has a top club lined up for 2019 and beyond, probably spending the time jollying it up with his pals.yeah, some punishment that.

The RFL should force ZH to pay a percentage of the Cas transfer fee they paid... Читать дальше...

Mexican comedy star Eugenio Derbez wants to upend cultural clichés. He joined TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell to discuss his upcoming comedy “Overboard,” a remake of the classic 1987 romantic comedy about a spoiled millionaire who suffers amnesia after falling off a ship and is forced to live in squalor. But while the original film starred Goldie Hawn as the billionaire, with Kurt Russell as the mistreated carpenter who takes her in after her memory loss, the new “Overboard” switches the genders. Derbez... Читать дальше...

Facebook Inc plans to add a dating service, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, marking the first time the world’s largest social media network has actively tried to help people form romantic relationships. Zuckerberg told software developers at Facebook’s annual F8 conference that a dating service would be a natural fit for a company that specializes in connecting people online.  “There are 200 million people on Facebook that list themselves as single, so clearly there’s something to do here,” Zuckerberg said. Читать дальше...

Real Madrid are just a step away from playing their fourth Champions League final in five years when they face Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. The first leg ended 2-1 in favour of Los Blancos at the Allianz Arena.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — President Trump’s hardball approach to China on trade issues may be risky, but it’s necessary, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Post on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference here, Ross acknowledged that Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum could make for...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who admitted taking part in a conspiracy to support the Islamic State group has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Samuel Rahamin Topaz also will be on lifetime supervised release under the sentence imposed Tuesday. The 24-year-old Fort Lee resident had pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to provide services and personnel to the Islamic State group. Federal prosecutors say Topaz admitted he planned to travel overseas to join the group and saved money for that purpose. Читать дальше...

Chiney Ogwumike: Connecticut WNBA player makes strong move as full-time ESPN analyst

In their 2002 book The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres warned, “Those who are racially marginalized are like the miner’s canary: Their distress is the first sign of a danger that threatens us all.”