Новости за 07.12.2016

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Branstad says he's 'honored and humbled' to be nominated as ambassador to China.

Ab-Soul's music video for "D.R.U.G.S." may give you a contact high.  The black-and-white, PANAMÆRA-directed visual finds the...

"In our bull case scenario we think the market could go as high as 2,700," she says.

The lawyer who decked out Donald Trump's private 757 jet predicts the president-elect won't want to give up the luxury touches when he starts flying Air Force One.

After wearing a suit throughout his career as a trial lawyer, Paul Kelly wanted to be buried in something a bit more comfortable. On Wednesday, Chip Kelly was asked if his dad was a longtime fan of the 49ers, or just recently adopted them after he revealed this: A day after returning from his father’s funeral in Portland, Maine, Kelly began his news conference by freely discussing his dad, who died Friday night at 87. Kelly, who is famously private, said he spoke with players such as wide receivers... Читать дальше...

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Starbucks' rewards program is about to get a lot more personal. 

The coffee giant is in the early stages of rolling out a new personalized rewards program that will allow it to push certain products and incentives to customers based on what it already knows about them. Each Starbucks customer will receive completely unique offers via email and the Starbucks app. 

For example, I typically go to Starbucks for an iced coffee as an afternoon pick-me-up. Since I use the app... Читать дальше...

Turning good books into good TV turns out to be a winning strategy. Who knew?

De transseksuele mediapersoonlijkheid Kelly van der Veer (36) heeft haar baan als prostituee gedag gezegd. Ze begint in het voorjaar met een opleiding voor spiritueel consulente, bevestigt ze aan deze site.

At age 15, Adam Khafif founded his streetwear fashion line, Lisn Up Clothing, to take a stand for his Muslim values, going against the trend of glamorizing sex, drugs, and profanity. He's built his business by collaborating with other conscious artists like rapper Lupe Fiasco.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline is fighting North Dakota regulators' efforts to impose a fine of at least $15,000 after working on land where Native American artifacts were found without running it by the commission that oversees pipelines.

The US Senate passed the 21st Century Cures Act that would allocate $6.3 billion to combat the opioid-abuse crisis in several states, fund cancer and biomedical research and address other health initiatives.

A TIME article titled '65 Million Americans Should Threaten to Not Pay Taxes' has created a social media backlash with Trump supporters reacting with 'abuse' to the suggestion that Democrats should withhold taxes until “democracy is restored.”
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Hundreds of textbooks will be pulled from Connecticut school district after complaints they teach children slaves were treated like family.

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Amazon Payments, the e-commerce company's payments service that competes with PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Wallet, already owns a sizeable market share and may be its most "underappreciated" business, according to RBC Capital's managing director Mark Mahaney.

Speaking at Business Insider's Ignition conference on Wednesday, Mahaney said Amazon Payments is showing a lot of potential to "disrupt" the payments space, and perhaps, could become the next big revenue driver for the company. Читать дальше...

A 12-year military procurement odyssey, meant to replace the air force's nearly 50-year-old Buffalo search planes, will finally come to an end on Thursday. The Liberal government has chosen the Airbus C-295 transport as the country's next fixed-wing search-and-rescue plane, according to defence and industry sources

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Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells says the burrito chain's customer service is slipping. 

In a startling admission, Ells said Tuesday that the company internally rates half of its roughly 2,100 restaurants with a "C" grade for service.

He cited flaws like messy soda stations, dirty tables, and slow-moving lines.

"We took our eye off the ball on the customer service side," Ells said, according to the Wall Street Journal. He made the remarks during a presentation at a Barclays investors conference Tuesday. Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has announced his choice of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to be the next U.S. ambassador to China.

NEW YORK — Playworld Systems Inc. is recalling 1,300 slides that are used in school and municipal playgrounds after a defect caused two finger amputations in children.

Donald Trump has picked a prominent critic of the Environmental Protection Agency with close ties to energy companies Wednesday to run that very same agency he has criticized, transition officials told the New York Times.

Secretary of state candidate Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said in an interview Wednesday that the United States cooperating with Russia is a good thing and that China is not America’s friend. “If it’s right for us to join in and cooperate and have a better relationship with Russia in order to defeat radical Islam and to pull China back a bit,” said Rohrabacher, “well that’s a good thing, and that’s what this is all about. Russia is no longer the Soviet Union.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Rob Kardashian's sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe are reportedly opposing Blac Chyna's request to trademark "Angela Renee Kardashian."

A pair of legal complaints filed this week allege that "objector blackmail" is corrupting class-action litigation.

BENGHAZI, Libya — The Islamic State group this week lost the city of Sirte, its only foothold in Libya, essentially ending its ambition to expand its self-styled “caliphate” into the North African nation, at least for now.

The Weinstein Company

This is the time of year when we're bombarded with very serious (and often depressing) movies vying for Academy Awards nominations. 2016 is no different, with Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” Denzel Washington’s “Fences,” and the indie “Manchester by the Sea” taking up a lot of the conversation.

But thankfully, there are still some new movies to leave you happy, and one is the remarkably touching “Lion.”

It follows the incredible true story of Saroo Brierley... Читать дальше...

"He's capable of doing it. He's showing it. He's like the Energizer Bunny, man." —LeBron on Westbrook