Новости за 08.04.2017

As state lawmakers continue to dicker over charter-school funding, let’s at least do away with the canard that less-unfair funding means a “windfall” for these public schools. To the contrary: The freeze on charter per-pupil funds since 2009 has meant a windfall for regular school systems, which still saw their state aid grow each year....

(ATTN: UPDATES with meeting held, quotes) By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, April 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday after summit talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that "tremendous progress" was made in U.S. relations with China

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Senate has approved changes to sweeping criminal justice legislation passed last year, following public outcry about crime.

Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New England newspapers:

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Police are looking for a man who raped a male student in a locker room at Pasadena City College.

The folk icon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday.

Republicans are making a last-minute investment into a House special election in Kansas that should be a slam dunk for the GOP.

During a meeting with county sheriffs in February, President Trump was puzzled by criticism of civil-asset forfeiture, which all the cops in the room viewed as an indispensable and unobjectionable law-enforcement tool. “Do you even understand the other side of it?” the president asked. “No,” one sheriff said, and that was that. Trump might get...

ABD’nin, Suriye’yi vurması küresel piyasalarda çalkantıya sebep oldu. Açılışta hızlı düşüş gün içinde yerini toparlanmaya bıraktı. En yüksek değer kaybı Rusya’da yaşandı. BİST ayakta kalırken, altın rekor...Devamı için tıklayınız

Roughly one in three students at the school report having had a mental illness diagnosis.

Liberals, NDP (and a potential spoiler in the Greens) are set for a campaign that at least promises to be different in strategy

Serbian President-elect Aleksandar Vucic likes to use the past to explain the future. In 1947, as Josip Broz Tito was consolidating Yugoslavia, he built a railway through Bosnia that linked Serbs, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks, friend and foe after World War II. “Tito wasn’t stupid,” Vucic told Reuters. “People had to work together, build together, then travel together, live together. That’s what we need — connecting.” Together again Yugoslavia broke up in war 26 years ago, spawning seven states. Читать дальше...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, joins CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett and Political Director Steve Chaggaris for "The Takeout".

Momentum from Brad Gushue’s first national men’s title has carried over to this week’s world championship

The United States launched a direct attack against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday by firing a barrage of cruise missiles at an air base.

Cabinet’s most right-wing minister touts ‘economic peace’ as way for US president to advance regional ties.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Quincy Latimore homered and had two hits, driving in two, and A.J. Ladwig allowed just one hit over six innings as the Lakeland Flying Tigers topped the Tampa Yankees 5-0 on Friday.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Quincy Latimore homered and had two hits, driving in two, and A.J. Ladwig allowed just one hit over six innings as the Lakeland Flying Tigers topped the Tampa Yankees 5-0 on Friday.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Quincy Latimore homered and had two hits, driving in two, and A.J. Ladwig allowed just one hit over six innings as the Lakeland Flying Tigers topped the Tampa Yankees 5-0 on Friday.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Quincy Latimore homered and had two hits, driving in two, and A.J. Ladwig allowed just one hit over six innings as the Lakeland Flying Tigers topped the Tampa Yankees 5-0 on Friday.

The vintage English punk band is on the road celebrating the 40th anniversary of its debut album, “Damned, Damned, Damned.” Music Director Alasdair Neale leads the orchestra in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. www.marinsymphony.org The Swedish trumpet virtuoso, accompanied by pianist Roland Pontinen, performs music by Antheil, Stenhammar, Gershwin and more. 7:30 p.m. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F. www.performances.org

Daniel McCarthy

Politics,

"The president has lost his base, or is in grave danger of doing so." 

Before he gets more deeply involved in Syria’s civil war, Donald Trump will have to win one at home. The Republican Party was already divided after failing to repeal Obamacare. Now the conflict has spread to the White House, where Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner are at daggers drawn. Even Trump’s most loyal grassroots and media supporters are in an uproar over the president’s evolving foreign policy... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared an end to the state's water emergency following a five-year drought that reduced rivers to trickles, farmland to dust and forests to graveyards of dead trees.