Новости за 09.07.2016

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — In another nod to primary rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is proposing to increase federal money for community health centers and outlining steps to expand access to health care across the nation. Clinton’s campaign says the proposal is part of her plan to provide universal health care coverage in the United […]

The yield on the two-year note, the coupon security most sensitive to Fed policy expectations, rose after the Labor Department said the U.S. created 287,000 jobs in June, compared with the 180,000 median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

So-called “rainbow drinks” that aren’t on the Starbucks menu but are popular on social media this summer leave some customers and baristas confused. Also: Hope Solo lists Kirkland home for sale, Microsoft’s intern email-fail, and Nordstrom goes the extra few yards for customers.

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Police say a Georgia man friends describe as “gentle” and a “teddy bear” called 911 to lure an officer into an ambush that left both wounded. Officer Randall Hancock and 22-year-old Stephen Paul Beck are expected to survive the Friday morning gunfire outside an apartment complex in Valdosta. The shootout happened […]

There are few sports that owe their origins to the ancient equivalent of a Bond movie — but modern pentathlon is one of them. It was created by French baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, and combines all of the aspects of traditional combat. The basic premise is of a […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run media says the first plane in months carrying Russian tourists to Turkey has arrived in the southern beach resort of Antalya as tense relations between the two countries ease. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency says airport officials greeted the passengers with flowers and a cocktail party after the Rossiya Airlines flight from […]

LONDON (AP) — Two Conservative women running to become Britain’s next leader are facing a question that wouldn’t be raised if there were male candidates for the job: Does being a mother make you better qualified to be prime minister? A political maelstrom erupted Saturday after contender Andrea Leadsom suggested in an interview that her […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman says she doesn’t want the death of her son’s father, a black man killed by white police officers, to “be a race thing.” Quinyetta McMillon wouldn’t say, however, whether she believes police would have treated Alton Sterling the same way had he been white. McMillon told The […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Local officials say tens of thousands of people are attending the state funeral for Pakistan’s legendary philanthropist, Abdul Sattar Edhi, in Karachi. Local government official Nasir Habib says thousands more couldn’t get to the stadium where the funeral was held Saturday with a military guard of honor. The 88-year-old charity worker […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says 30 people have been killed in rocket fire overnight in Aleppo, the country’s largest city and the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in Syria’s civil war, now in its sixth year. SANA says rebel groups targeted residential neighborhoods in the government-held area of the divided city, […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, after the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests aren’t in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and national security calculations,” foreign […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama turned his focus Saturday to the fight against extremist groups in Afghanistan and the Middle East, as the U.S. urged NATO leaders gathered in Warsaw to expand their support for the wars. Violence in the U.S. has led Obama to cut his Europe trip short, and he now […]

The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t backing down, despite concerns about a backlash after the killings of five police officers by a black sniper in Dallas. Organizers quickly repudiated violence against police, but also said they understand the frustration that led to Thursday’s shootings. “Black Lives Matter doesn’t condone shooting law enforcement,” said actor and […]

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Calling Inika McPherson the most unlikely of Olympians wouldn’t be much of a stretch. She’s 5-foot-4 and competes in the high jump — a discipline usually dominated by taller women. McPherson is also only a few months removed from a 21-month suspension after testing positive for cocaine. And yet, the 29-year-old […]

In the foreword to a book celebrating the 150-year anniversary of the oldest championship in golf, Arnold Palmer refers to the event as “The Open Championship.” In his autobiography, Palmer refers to the major he won twice as the “British Open.” So which is it? That depends on the source. And it depends on the […]

When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology’s use as a crime-fighting weapon. In what appears to be an unprecedented tactic, police rigged a bomb-disposal robot to kill an armed suspect in the fatal shootings of five officers in Dallas. While there doesn’t […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan’s capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, a doctor at the hospital said Saturday. The doctor said a total count of the dead was not available because soldiers were not allowing doctors to examine the bodies, but […]

BERLIN (AP) — The European Union is already operating at several different speeds, even before Britain’s vote to leave raised new questions about whether the bloc should be more integrated or give more power back to its member countries. That reflects differing levels of ambition and national sensitivities in what started as a club of […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The drowning of a sailor who was repeatedly pushed underwater by an instructor during Navy SEAL basic training raises a host of questions, beginning perhaps with this: Why would a highly elite unit made up of some of the toughest, fittest warriors ever to wear a uniform take someone with an […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man accused of a spate of deadly attacks on San Diego homeless men who were asleep and in some cases set on fire committed a nearly identical crime six years ago. Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, now jailed on suspicion of murder, admitted lighting a sleeping man on fire in a […]

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Friends and family of a black Army veteran accused of shooting at passing cars and police on a Tennessee highway are struggling to accept that he became violent in response to police killings of African-Americans. One woman died and three others were wounded, including an officer, as police traded gunfire early […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has known some crises in its time: the constitution that never was, impossible budget deals, debt devastating the Greek economy and threatening the euro currency, strife as nations failed to manage the continent’s refugee emergency together. But Brexit — a British exit from the 28-nation union — is the […]

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media. Micah Xavier Johnson, who fatally shot five officers and wounded seven more before police killed him with a remote-controlled bomb […]

DALLAS (AP) — A 37-year-old Texas woman threw herself over her four sons when a gunman opened fire on a downtown Dallas protest march, leaving her with a shattered leg and one of the boys spattered in blood, her family says. Shetamia Taylor generally shied away from marches and rallies, but she took her sons […]

A Washington State Patrol trooper said the truck and trailer was heading westbound on Highway 522 when it went off the overpass and landed on the roadway below.