Новости за 07.03.2018

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The budget for the Arkansas state treasurer's office has stalled in the Legislature over a dispute about efforts to allow taxpayers with 529 college savings plans to withdraw funds for education expenses at public, private and religious K-12 schools. The Arkansas House on Wednesday voted 74-15 in favor of the treasurer's budget, one vote shy of the 75 votes needed to advance the measure. It's the second day in a row the proposal has failed before the House. The budget bill... Читать дальше...

Bratislava (dpa) - Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is facing a no-confidence vote as the fallout from the murder of an investigative journalist threatens to roil the country‘s politics.Multiple opposition parties filed a motion on Wednesday for a no-confidence vote, a move that came as President Andrej Kiska accused the government of ignoring for years reports from the country‘s SIS secret service about the influence of Italian Mafia organizations in the country.Earlier in the week, the politically-unaffiliated... Читать дальше...

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The ★ Oscars 2018 ★ went down in Los Angeles, California. It was the Academy Awards 90th-anniversary and the event was filled with memorable moments. Checkout 15 most interesting moments of this historic and exciting ceremony.

Kopech hasn't allowed a run going into his third spring start Thursday, but White Sox want more consistency in changeup, slider and fastball command.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was indicted Wednesday on 17 counts of murder and 17 more of attempted murder, the state attorney's office said. On February 14 Cruz entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, just north of Miami, and opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle, killing 14 students and three staff members. A Broward County grand jury charged Cruz -- who has confessed to the killings -- with 17 counts of first degree premeditated murder and 17 counts of first degree attempted murder. Читать дальше...

En Saskatchewan, la Couronne a décidé de ne pas porter en appel le verdict de non-culpabilité de Gerald Stanley, qui était accusé du meurtre au deuxième degré de Colten Boushie, un Autochtone de 22 ans.

HOUSTON (Sputnik) - Brazil respects international decisions but will not take US Sanctions into account when considering possible new projects with Russia, Brazil’s Secretary Of Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels Marcio Felix Carvalho told Sputnik on the sidelines of the CERAWeek conference on Wednesday.

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• Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding platforms have become a popular way to launch products online.
• Author Will Russell makes a living helping people fund campaigns on these crowdfunding sites.
• Russell says that an effective campaign comes down to a great idea and simple math.

Gone are the days when an entrepreneur can have an idea, quickly launch a crowdfunding campaign, sit back and watch the funding flood in.

Celebrities: They're just like us! For some reason, we peasants desperately cling to this idea that people who live in Bel Air mansions driving Aston Martins and glugging Veuve Clicquot are just like all of us run-of-the-mill nine-to-fivers.I mean, there are entire magazine columns and bits dedicated to that very sentiment. They're stuffed to the brim with creepy paparazzi images of Jennifer Lawrence trying to live her life and buy some Starbucks and Lupita Nyong'o attempting to buy groceries in peace. Читать дальше...

Paris Jackson has a message for her fans: She loves you, but some of you are getting under her skin a little bit.

The Washington Post, a vanity paper owned by Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world whose Amazon juggernaut dominates the capitalist landscape, has a deep thought.

Berlin (dpa) - A group of lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party met with a high-ranking Syrian government official Wednesday, continuing a trip to Damascus to highlight the need to get Syrian refugees in Germany back to their home country.A trio of politicians met with Syrian Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar on Tuesday, according to a Facebook post by Christian Blex, an AfD representative in the parliament of the state of North Rhine Westphalia. Читать дальше...

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• Busabout, a travel company, is hiring four people to embark on a three-month, all-expenses-paid trip throughout Europe.
• The company needs one Instagrammer, one YouTuber, one blogger, and one person for Snapchat or Instagram Stories.
•  The itinerary includes stops in Rome, Amsterdam, Slovenia, and Croatia. 

Do you ever find yourself scrolling through Instagram, dreaming about the action-packed life of a travel blogger? The desire... Читать дальше...

Penguins captain is the NHL's most appreciated player; Connor McDavid gets high marks.

The B.C. Prosecution Service has hired Leonard Doust as a special prosecutor in relation to an investigation into former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold.

Do you love “SNL” enough to create a cardboard model of NYC and act out the opening sequence with an assortment of action figures? Oh, cause Sterling K. Brown does. The Emmy winner is responsible for a good chunk of the tears “This Is Us” fans shed every week. So, NBC decided to cut him a break with a chance to make you giggle while hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. And it looks like Brown is already off to a great start in a promo that dropped Wednesday. In the clip, appropriately titled “Sterling K.

Aigle (dpa) - Der Radsport-Weltverband UCI will den Dopingverdächtigungen gegen den früheren Tour-de-France-Sieger Bradley Wiggins genauer auf den Grund gehen. UCI-Präsident David Lappartient forderte am Mittwoch, dass sich die unabhängige Anti-Doping-Kommission (CADF) mit dem Fall um Wiggins und dessen damaliges britisches Team Sky beschäftigt. «Ich möchte, dass sie untersuchen, ob es einen Verstoß gegen die Anti-Doping-Regeln gibt», sagte der 44 Jahre alte Franzose dem britischen TV-Sender BBC.In... Читать дальше...

A Florida businessman who attempted to flee to Ecuador after pleading guilty to a $179 million fraud scheme was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday. In a Chicago courtroom, US District Judge Charles Kocoras called convicted conman Nikesh Patel, 34, a “diabolical genius” for the scale and brazenness of the fraud he perpetrated. The...

Japanese veteran Ichiro Suzuki has rejoined the Seattle Mariners on a one-year deal, marking an emotional return to the franchise where he launched his Major League Baseball career.

“Robots are going to take over our jobs because that’s what corporations want. They want the work, without the personality.”

Officials with the Oklahoma Education Association have moved up a deadline for lawmakers to fund teacher pay raises and education needs, saying that they are "putting lawmakers on notice."

POLICIJA ISTRAŽUJE SLUČAJ - Tommy Lee (55), osnivač kultnog američkog benda Mötley Crüe, u objavi na Instagramu, koju je vrlo brzo i obrisao, optužio je 21-godišnjeg sina Brandona Thomasa za nasilje, prenosi The Mirror.

FEW people beyond Texas’s seventh district had heard of Laura Moser before her own party tried to discredit her. Late last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) took the rare step of publishing embarrassing opposition research on the journalist and activist who wants to take on John Culberson, a Republican, in the mid-terms in November. Its effort may have backfired spectacularly: in the primary on March 6th Ms Moser came a close second to Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, a lawyer. Читать дальше...