Новости за 06.09.2019

Attorneys general from nine states have launched antitrust investigations against Facebook amid ongoing charges of privacy invasion, censorship of conservative viewpoints and monopolistic practices. The Washington Examiner reports both Republicans and Democrats are on board the effort led by New York Attorney General Letitia James. AGs from Florida, Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, Ohio, the District of […]

(Daily Mail) Bahamian officials have warned the Hurricane Dorian death toll could be ‘staggering’ with hundreds and possibly thousands still be missing from the Abaco and Grand Bahama northern islands. Up to 70,000 are in need of ‘life-saving assistance’ while militias have been formed to stop looting amid reports people are trying to shoot others […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power after independence from white minority rule in 1980 and presided over a country whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil and allegations of human rights violations, has died in Singapore at the age of 95. Mugabe enjoyed strong support […]

(NBC) The Air Force is investigating after a jet accidentally fired a rocket into the desert about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday. The Air Force said the jet, an A-10C Thunderbolt II, popularly known as the Warthog, “unintentionally released a single M-156 rocket” at about 10:40 a.m. while on a training mission. […]

(AP) An American Airlines mechanic is accused of sabotaging a flight over stalled union contract negotiations. According to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in federal court, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani admitted during an interview Thursday that he tampered with a navigation system on the plane so that he could collect overtime work. The plane, with […]

(BBC NEWS) Scientists have found the first genetic instructions hardwired into human DNA that are linked to being left-handed. The instructions also seem to be heavily involved in the structure and function of the brain – particularly the parts involved in language. The team at the University of Oxford say left-handed people may have better […]

(NDTV) A 74-year-old woman has become the oldest-ever to give birth after she delivered twins at a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur town on Thursday, doctors have said. Mangayamma, who conceived through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) process, delivered twin babies at Ahalya Nursing Home here. A team comprising four doctors performed the caesarean operation.

(ARAB NEWS) Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank on Wednesday to demand legal protection for women after a 21-year-old woman died last month in what rights groups say was a so-called honor killing. A Palestinian Authority investigation is underway into the death of Isra’a Ghrayeb, a make-up artist who activists say was beaten […]

(FOX NEWS) Police are investigating a Christian politician in Finland for an alleged “hate crime” because she shared a Bible verse on Facebook to criticize a national church that participated in LGBT Pride festivities. In the post, congresswoman Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Democrat, criticized the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for participating in the Helsinki […]

(WWNY) Mark Athans and Charity Lenee Parchem said “I do” in August 2017. They vowed to be together until death did them part, but only lasted a few months. Athans told KRIV his adult son ran a background check on Parchem, which turned out to be the thread that unraveled the marriage. Court records showed […]

(WEATHER UNDERGROUND) Hurricane Dorian is lashing the Carolinas with storm surge flooding, rainfall flooding, high winds and tornadoes and will have impacts in southeast Virginia and southeast Massachusetts Friday and Saturday. Dorian’s maximum sustained winds have ticked down slightly, making it a Category 2 hurricane. Regardless of these small intensity changes, the hurricane’s impacts will […]

President Nixon cautioned to beware “that … the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.” The cradle of civilization included Assyria, a major empire located in upper Mesopotamia, which today is the area of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. Assyria was mentioned by name in the Book of Genesis, chapter 2, verse 14: “And […]

The first Palestinian-American elected to Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is blaming Israel for what apparently was an honor killing of a young Palestinian woman. The 21-year-old woman from Bethlehem, Israa Ghraveb, died last week in a hospital bed where she was being treated for a spinal injury she sustained “jumping off the balcony of […]

U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is suing the company that commissioned the “dossier” of unverified claims against President Trump, its founder and others, alleging they interfered with his official work in Washington. The Washington Examiner reports the allegations against Fusion GPS and founder Glenn Simpson include “racketeering” and interfering with Nunes’ probe of the Obama […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential hopeful, thinks the U.S. should fund efforts in third-world countries to decrease the population. His comments came at Wednesday’s seven-hour CNN program featuring Democratic candidates talking about global warming. The question was from Martha Readyoff, a Connecticut woman. “Human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 […]

(Associated Press) A Tennessee woman has died 10 days after she was mauled by a pack of dogs. News outlets report 19-year-old Adrieanna O’Shea succumbed to her injuries Saturday. A Knox County sheriff’s statement says a woman called 911 saying O’Shea was being attacked by her neighbors’ five dogs. O’Shea had been walking up to […]

(CNN) California Governor Gavin Newsom did away Wednesday with a law that made it a crime to refuse to help a police officer. The law dates back nearly 150 years to California’s Wild West days, when cowboys and outlaws roamed the state. The California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872 made it a misdemeanor for “an […]

(KUT News) Infowars founder Alex Jones has lost another legal battle against families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. Jones must now pay all costs associated with an appeal filed against a parent of a Sandy Hook Elementary School victim, says the Texas Court of Appeals. Neil Heslin’s six-year-old […]

(CNN) Lamar Johnson will soon enter his 25th year behind bars. The St. Louis man has spent more than half his life in prison for a murder the city’s chief prosecutor says he did not commit. Johnson, 45, is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole in Missouri. But a report from […]

(WLS-TV) Jussie Smollett’s attorneys say the actor shouldn’t have to pay Chicago $130,000 for the police investigation into what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack because he had no way of knowing how much time officers would spend on the probe. That argument contained in a filing this week by Smollett’s attorneys is […]

(WXYZ) He lost a custody battle, then his son lost his life. He blames the court system. He voiced his strong opinions on social media and the next thing he knew he was locked in jail. “He was so full of life,” said Deborah Vanderhagen of her grandson. “I am trying not to cry.” On […]