Новости за 06.07.2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of the nation’s most celebrated gay bars may soon go out of business after a new landlord more than doubled the rent. At 50 years old, the Stud is the longest-running gay bar in San Francisco. It’s known throughout the country as one of the bohemian, gender-bending, anything-goes institutions that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate lawmakers say they’ve reached an agreement on an aviation bill that would boost airport security, reduce screening lines and require airlines to refund fees to passengers whose bags are lost or delayed. The bill also extends the Federal Aviation Administration’s programs and policies through Sept. 30, 2017. The FAA’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has blocked a measure that would bar federal funds from sanctuary cities, a contentious election-year vote on immigration. The vote was 53 to 44, shy of the 60 votes required to move to a final vote on the legislation. The bill would withhold some money from jurisdictions that resist turning […]

KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) — A group that has raised millions of dollars for Mount Rushmore National Memorial has lost its contract to manage the park’s parking operations. The National Park Service says it’s awarded a 10-year contract to Colorado-based Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc. to operate the parking garage, as well as food, beverage, merchandise […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jurors in an Ohio federal court say DuPont acted with malice by dumping chemical-tainted water from its West Virginia plant into the Ohio River. The same jury on Wednesday said a chemical used by DuPont at the plant caused a man to get cancer and awarded him $5.1 million in compensatory […]

The Japanese international scored two goals in her return to the club as Seattle beat Boston 2-0 on Saturday night.

DENVER (AP) — William Armstrong, the Colorado media executive who became a major conservative voice in the U.S. Senate during the Reagan administration, has died. He was he was 79. Colorado Christian University, where he served as president, says Armstrong died Tuesday after a five-year battle with cancer. Armstrong spent much of his congressional career […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Wal-Mart will now let you pay with your phone at all 4,600 stores nationwide. With Walmart Pay, the cashier scans a QR code on the phone screen to complete the payment. It differs from Apple, Samsung and Android Pay, which that involves taping your phone next to a payment machine with a […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Six people, known as the Beatrice Six, who were wrongfully convicted in the 1985 rape and killing of a southeast Nebraska woman, will receive a share of $28.1 million, a federal jury ruled Wednesday. The verdict against Gage County and former county law enforcement officials who carried out the investigation against […]

The typical house in Seattle now costs 74 percent more than it did in 2011.

Hatchery chinook success in the Strait of Juan de Fuca was good in a couple areas, and catches were also good in the San Juan Islands. “Looks like Port Angeles had some pretty fair fishing, but we also had some windy weather Friday to Monday,” said Larry Bennett, the head state Fish and Wildlife sample […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Only 160 miles (250 kilometers) north of Warsaw, where NATO begins a two-day summit Friday, lies the Russian region of Kaliningrad, the most militarized plot of land in Europe — and one of the catalysts for a planned build-up of forces by the Western military alliance on its eastern flank. Though […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Family member: Alton Sterling ‘killed without regard for the lives that he had raised.’

LONDON (AP) — Bigger is funnier for Rebel Wilson. The 36-year-old Australian actress says in a recent interview with Britain’s Telegraph newspaper that gaining weight has helped her career in comedy. She says she sees her size as an advantage, “whereas so many women see it as a disadvantage.” Wilson’s career took off following a […]

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Head of Baton Rouge NAACP calls for police chief to be fired or resign after fatal shooting.

ATLANTA (AP) — Sexual abuse by doctors against patients is surprisingly widespread, yet the fragmented medical oversight system shrouds offenders’ actions in secrecy and allows many to continue to treat patients, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found. The AJC obtained and analyzed more than 100,000 disciplinary orders against doctors since 1999. Among those, […]

CANNES, France (AP) — In “Captain Fantastic,” Viggo Mortensen plays one of the all-time great movie dads. Holed away in a remote Pacific Northwest teepee, he’s raising six children like a bookish, yoga-practicing Swiss Family Robinson. The children, well-behaved and smart, are equally adept at skinning a deer and reading “The Brothers Karamazov” by the […]

PARIS (AP) — A French court has convicted seven young men who returned from weeks among the ranks of Islamic State extremists in Syria, including the brother of one of the suicide attackers who targeted Paris in November. The defendants, aged 24 to 27, were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms ranging from six to nine […]

GATES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities are continuing to investigate a 30-person brawl at a western New York Wal-Mart that led to four arrests. Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode says the fight started around 7 p.m. Sunday after two 17-year-olds made fun of a dress worn by a 24-year-old woman. He says the altercation quickly escalated […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The white man accused of killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church wants the federal charges against him dismissed. Attorneys for Dylann Roof argued in court papers filed Tuesday that the nearly three-dozen charges against Dylann Roof should be thrown out in part because they infringe on a case […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny. The agency’s yearlong investigation found that she did not, as she claimed, turn over all her work-related messages for release. It found that her private email server did carry classified emails, also contrary to her past […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats and Republicans seem as destined for an election-season clash over guns as they did when Democrats staged a sit-in on the chamber’s floor two weeks ago. Nearly a month after the Orlando mass-shooting catapulted the issue back onto the nation’s radar, the two parties were meeting separately Wednesday to map […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — The bloody weekend attack by Bangladeshi militants that left more than two dozen dead was also an attack on the country’s vital garment industry. Clothing manufacturing, the Southeast Asian nation’s top export industry, had been recovering after a disastrous factory collapse three years ago shook up the industry, forcing workshops producing […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI’s recommendation against criminal charges in the Hillary Clinton email matter drew immediate comparisons to last year’s high-profile case in which the agency took the opposite position and pursued the prosecution of then-CIA Director David Petraeus. The Petraeus case, long seen by some as a potentially analogous investigation into the mishandling […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African judge has started reading out Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa began with the background to her decision of Pistorius’ sentence. The double-amputee Olympian faces a possible 15-year jail term for shooting Steenkamp in 2013, although Masipa can give a reduced sentence […]