Новости за 19.05.2016

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Not every eighth grade football player can match Jesus Machado's graduation gift - a verbal scholarship offer from the University of Alabama.

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Airlines have had enough of the recent chaos at airports caused by understaffed Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.

American Airlines' chief operating officer, Robert Isom, said that executives from all the major US carriers met with the head of the TSA and the US Department of Homeland Security last week to air their grievances over the situation.

Isom wrote about the meeting in a letter to employees, dated May 18.

"Two words: TSA lines," Isom wrote in the letter. Читать дальше...

Nigerian Wellington Jighere defeated Britain’s Lewis Mackay at the Scrabble world championship in November. His strategy–to use shorter words–sounds like Scrabble sacrilege. Here’s how the game unfolded. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal

Stephen Feller
GREAT NECK, N.Y., May 19 (UPI) -- Most people who fracture their hip have osteoporosis, but a survey suggests many fracture patients are not told by their doctors they may have the condition.

The Giants won their seventh straight game Wednesday night by beating the Padres 2-1, and Johnny Cueto followed Madison Bumgarner’s complete game Tuesday with one of his own. “I’m happy to do the same thing,” said Cueto, who spun a four-hitter and received all the support he needed from Hunter Pence’s two-run homer. Six of the consecutive wins have come on their two-city trip, and if they beat the Padres in Thursday’s capper, they’d complete a seven-game road sweep. Cueto’s lone blemish came... Читать дальше...

Three retired four-star generals, including former Army Chief of Staff Raymond T. Odierno, took aim at a lagging economy and political dysfunction during a discussion of the biggest threats to the U.S. military.

Police are struggling to restore calm to Vyeboom, west of Vuwani township, as villagers continue to protest against plans to incorporate them into a new municipality.

General Motors

Self-driving car startup Cruise has settled a lawsuit against its former cofounder Jeremy Guillory.

The lawsuit came about after General Motors announced that it was buying the self-driving car company for a reported $1 billion earlier this year. The settlement of the suit comes almost a week after GM completed the Cruise acquisition. 

As part of the settlement, Cruise and its founder Kyle Vogt now acknowledge that Guillory was a cofounder of the company. 

Any doctor who performs an abortion in Oklahoma could be charged with a felony and punished with up to three years in prison under a bill that the Legislature passed Thursday. The measure is the first of its kind in the nation, according to abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights. The bill also would restrict any ...

University of Wisconsin sophomore Kelsey Jenkins, senior Taylor-Paige Stewart and junior Chloe Miller were named to the NFCA Great Lakes All-Region second team.

The back injury puts an end to one of tennis's most remarkable streaks by Roger Federer, reports the New York Times.

– The All Progressives Congress (APC) Kaduna state chapter says it will take disciplinary measures against Senator Shehu Sani which may lead to his expulsion from the party – The party spokesman Salisu Wusono, says it is disappointing for a senator who passed the 2016 budget that has no provision for subsidy to turn around […]

Leaving a lasting impression on someone you’ve just met isn't easy, but it isn't impossible.

The 27-year-old is revealing the disturbing details of his journey into the heartland of terror — and warning others not to follow in his footsteps.

Daniel Uria
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- A California mom took to making elaborately designed meals to encourage her children to eat fruits and vegetables.

Or are you 'resisting the future'?

Oklahoma’s legislature passed a first-in-the-nation law Thursday that would make it a felony for abortion providers to perform or induce the procedure.

BOSTON (AP) — Boston's top tourism official withheld required city permits and approvals from a music festival production company that hired nonunion workers, federal investigators said in announcing his arrest Thursday on federal extortion charges.

Ça déchire vraiment.

Si vous avez déjà eu la chance de regarder Buffy contre les vampires, alors vous vous souvenez probablement de l'adorable Andrew Wells.

Vous savez, le frère de Tucker, il faisait partie du Trio, invoquait souvent des démons, des trucs normaux quoi.

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Tom Lenk, l'acteur qui jouait Andrew, reproduit maintenant les styles vus sur le tapis rouge sur son Instagram.

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Nizaam Carr has done “exceptionally well” at No 6, and that is where his immediate future will be at the Stormers, and possibly also the Springboks.

The Democratic Alliance has provided video footage highlighting their claim that two of the so called white shirts were in fact Julius Malema’s personal bodyguards posing as members of parliamentary protection services.

Annie Martin
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian discusses the effect Kylie Jenner and Tyga's relationship had on Blac Chyna on Sunday's episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

The Qatar international says he has joined “one of the best teams in Spain”, while club president Jose Manuel Llaneza has backed the 19-year-old to challenge for the first team