Новости за 25.12.2018

BUCHAREST, Romania — Aurel Vulcu was on the streets of Bucharest in December 1989 when he and other fighters for democracy overturned the brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say an inmate at a North Carolina jail has died after experiencing breathing issues.

The debate over taxing e-cigarette products could pick up in the new year as public health officials look for innovative ways to curb the teen vaping epidemic.

Well, now the Washington Redskins players know how to escape the asylum.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A publication tied to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business forecasts the state's economy will expand in 2019 by a healthy 3.2 percent.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma tribal leaders and members of Congress are applauding the final passage of bill that will end a blood-quantum requirement they have long considered discriminatory.

BABBITT, Minn. (AP) - The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office says authorities have found the body of a missing woman in a northern Minnesota lake, but rescue workers are still seeking her companion.

GOULDSBORO, Maine (AP) - A Maine sheriff says two people died in a Christmas morning crash on Route 1.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman who lost her home in California's most destructive wildfire ever says she and her husband are humbled to have received pardons from Gov. Jerry Brown for old drug crimes.

President Trump may have mastered the "Art of the Deal" in real estate negotiations, but his controversial trade policy with China is stalled over lack of progress in the reduction of tariff trade barriers. The good news unbeknownst to many, is that U.S. businesses can now obtain fair treatment and ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Two people are dead and one was critically injured in a Christmas Eve crash in Lawrenceville.

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Residents in one Georgia county will soon see improvements to its transit system.

NEW YORK — Giannis Antetokounmpo was so eager to make a rim-rocking Christmas debut that he overshot the basket on his first attempt, a dunk from one side that ended with the ball all the way in the opposite corner.

For almost two years now, President Trump has seemed clear-eyed about the threat posed by those who proudly call themselves jihadis.

It had to happen. The United States of America has been the most desirable piece of real estate to inhabit for more than 200 years.

Critics of President Trump often grumble that he lacks a coherent foreign policy vision, but as 2018 comes to a close, we're seeing a Trump Doctrine take shape. It's a set of policies that promote freedom around the world buttressed by real commitments to state sovereignty, economic security and energy ...

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The courage and the patience that so many justice reform advocates have shown in the effort to reform the federal criminal justice system has been rewarded as the U.S. Senate and House have passed and President Donald Trump has signed ...

The European Union is failing. Across the continent ordinary folks are rebelling against elites — those modern-day aristocrats who attended the most prestigious universities and have dominated the continent's center-left parties and governments since World War II.

In 1960, a young novelist named Harper Lee published "To Kill a Mockingbird," a story of racial injustice narrated by a female participant in the drama and set in the early-20th-century South. The timing of "Mockingbird" was fortuitous: It came along just as the modern civil rights movement was gaining ...

Bill of Rights Day, which we marked Dec. 15, reminded me just how far this country has departed from its first principles. The 2015 gay marriage ruling completes a rewrite of the First Amendment, which reads (and used to mean), "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ...

The extent to which corporate America has become focused on greed is laid bare by the imbroglio involving former CBS entertainment kingpin Leslie Moonves. Mr. Moonves stands accused by multiple women who have been employed by the network of having used them solely to provide sexual gratification.

WHY RELIGION? A PERSONAL STORY

By Elaine Pagels

Ecco (HarperCollins), $27.99, 235 pages

Scholar, author, historian, heretic, MacArthur genius and more, Elaine Pagels is a hard person to describe in a word. At this moment, "hero" fits best, namely an individual who faces ordeals of indescribable agony and prevails ...

Amazon, the world's biggest retailer, founded and helmed by the world's richest man, recently subjected scores of American municipalities to a humiliating dog and pony show. The Seattle-based tech behemoth announced it was planning to build a second headquarters somewhere in North America, promising some 50,000 new jobs to wherever ...

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Decatur's new city manager begins Jan. 1

Decatur's commission approved Andrea Arnold's contract, which runs through Jan. 1, 2021, and includes an annual base salary of $170,000.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Arnold becomes Decatur's third city manager since 1972. She was selected from a pool of ...

Overseeing the first major government shutdown on his watch, President Trump said Tuesday that he has no sense for when the departments that were shuttered will reopen — and said Democrats' treatment of him has been "a disgrace."