Новости за 01.12.2020

A Minnesota pastor who cofounded a Christian church with his wife has been charged with molesting a 17-year-old girl, according to reports.

Hans Meister's kin is preparing to file a petition in Brooklyn supreme court seeking to compel the FDNY to acknowledge Meister died as a direct result of stamping out a five-alarm warehouse fire on Oct. 8, 1943

Amy Chan, author of new book "Breakup Bootcamp," hosts groups online, where she coaches single women for $800 a head.

China is refusing to apologize over a doctored image shared by its foreign policy spokesman showing an Australian soldier killing an Afghan child. In demanding an apology, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Beijing should be “utterly ashamed” over the “repugnant” image. But China only shot back. “The accusations made are simply to serve two...

A 70-year-old Swedish mom has been arrested for keeping her 41-year-old son locked up inside their filthy apartment for nearly three decades — leaving him covered in sores and barely able to walk, officials said Tuesday. The son had allegedly been held captive for 28 years when he was found by a relative Sunday in...

Tesla’s stock is up nearly sixfold this year, and that makes Elon Musk nervous. The electric automaker’s CEO has told employees that the company must focus on its profit margins lest investors turn their backs on the shares. “Investors are giving us a lot of credit for future profits,” Musk said in an email obtained...

The mayor of El Paso, Texas blamed the city’s recent coronavirus outbreak on “COVID fatigue” and people shopping at big box stores. In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, Mayor Dee Margo said a “deep dive” into contact tracing data from Nov. 10 to 16 revealed that 55 percent of the positive results...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weakened environmental enforcement. In 2020, destruction of the world’s largest rainforest rose 9.5% from a year earlier to 11,088 square kilometers (2.7 million acres), according to data...

Nadhim Zahawi, the U.K.’s vaccine minister, said on Monday that bars, cinemas and sports venues may compel people to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination before entering. Zahawi clarified that getting a vaccine ought to be voluntary, but businesses might be able to use a contact tracing phone app that could include a person’s vaccine status. “I think you’d probably...

A member of Hungary’s anti-gay government regime has resigned after being caught at an orgy in the basement of a Belgian gay bar, held in violation of coronavirus precautions. József Szájer on Sunday resigned his post as a Member of the European Parliament representing Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s Fidesz party, Politico’s European news site...

Recently Aaron Boone defended Gary Sanchez, citing that the catcher has “been unfairly criticized.” Which is really quite a trick when you think about it because the harshest criticism of Sanchez in 2020 came from the Yankee manager. That is Boone, by the way. Boone has shown in his three seasons that he would sooner...

A LaGuardia Airport worker is headed to jail for secretly recording women in one of the airport’s bathrooms — later telling cops he “was trying to video pretty girls.” Samuel Rodriguez was sentenced Monday in a Queens court to six months behind bars for turning a single-stall bathroom “into his own personal peep show,” Queens...

The tourism industry -- normally brimming this time of year with thousands of pilgrims flocking to the the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace -- has been crippled by the virus.

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Joe Biden pitched a project to “Hamilton’’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on Tuesday — the story of his Treasury-secretary pick, Janet Yellen. “We might have to ask Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical about the first secretary of the Treasury, [Alexander] Hamilton, to write another musical about the first woman secretary of the Treasury, Yellen,’’ the...

Screenshots of Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) Twitter dated Sunday show the “Squad” member had retweeted a post containing an anti-semitic slogan for the elimination of the State of Israel, but the retweet is now gone from her page. Originally posted by user @RashaMK, the tweet included an illustration of two women, one holding up a...

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would alter the 2020 presidential election outcome. In an interview with the Associated Press, the nation’s top law enforcement officer said that US attorneys and FBI agents have been looking into specific complaints and other information...

A dump truck flipped over on the Bruckner Expressway, spilling asphalt onto the highway and blocking traffic. The truck overturned on the westbound side of I-278 Castle Hill Avenue just after 1 p.m., according to 511. The right and center lanes were blocked for at least 35 minutes, according to the site. It wasn’t immediately known...

Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole are giving their relationship another go.

Life isn’t all roses for car owners in Portland. The Oregon city topped a list of major metropolitan areas with the worst auto theft rates compiled by AutoInsuranceEZ.com. The report used data from the 2017-2019 FBI Uniform Crime Reports and ranked the top 15 metro areas with populations of a million or more, excluding Denver due to a lack...

A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable students, a not-for-profit company that administers standardized testing said Tuesday. Overall, NWEA’s fall assessments showed elementary and middle school students have fallen measurably behind in...

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Until death did they part. A Michigan couple who spent nearly a half-century together have tragically died of COVID-19 on the same day — and at the same time. Jackson natives Leslie and Patricia McWaters succumbed to the disease at a hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 4:23 p.m., ending their 47-year marriage. They were...

A swingers convention in New Orleans turned into a coronavirus superspreader event after at least 41 attendees tested positive for the virus, according to an organizer. In a blog post, Naughty Events owner Bob Hannaford wrote that November’s five-day Naughty in N’awlins revelry at first seemed like a safe success thanks to a plethora of...

If you’ve been looking to upgrade your listening experience, then you definitely want to check out Amazon’s latest Edifier markdown. For the flash sale, Amazon is taking 15 percent off the Edifier R1280T bookshelf speakers. This Edifier deal is the latest of recent speaker markdowns that have dropped over the past several weeks — including the Sonos...