Новости за 25.08.2016

Enjoy it while it lasts. Temperatures are expected to cool off again this weekend.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Bengal tiger rescued from what activists have called “the worst zoo in the world” arrived in South Africa for a new home Thursday, after living in a small cage in Gaza alongside another tiger’s stuffed corpse. The nine-year-old male, known as Laziz, arrived by plane. His handlers said he was in […]

The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut is launching Amazon Vehicles, a place on its online store that will house car specs and reviews for shoppers to research car purchases. They can’t buy vehicles there, though.

Readers rave about help on I-90, rant about runners trampling Mount Rainier wildflowers.

A detailed, categorized calendar of events all over Seattle and Western Washington, Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 2016.

Movie review of “Morris from America”: This Sundance Film Festival winner is about a 13-year-old African-American boy (Markees Christmas) who relocates to Heidelberg, Germany, with this father (Craig Robinson). Rating: 2.5 stars out of 4.

Also airing Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016: “Beauty and the Beast” on The CW and “I Love Kellie Pickler” on CMT.

Movie review of “The Tunnel”: The collapse of a mountain tunnel and its entombment of a driver lead to political discord in this part disaster movie, part satire from South Korea. Rating: 3 stars out of 4.

As he stumps for re-election, Gov. Jay Inslee is taking credit for a popular legislative act that has slashed tuition for public-college students. That annoys Republicans, who proposed the idea.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods surged in July, lifted in part by the biggest increase in orders in a key investment category since January. Orders for durable goods jumped 4.4 percent in July, rebounding from a 4.2 percent plunge in June, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The changes in […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense ministry says President Vladimir Putin has announced snap military drills on land and in the Black and Caspian Seas. The ministry said in a statement Thursday that the drills began at 7:00 a.m. (0400 GMT) Moscow time in Russia’s southern, western and central military districts where troops have been put […]

BERLIN (AP) — Three people have been wounded in an armed standoff in eastern Germany between police and members of a group that denies the legitimacy of the modern German state. Police spokeswoman Ulrike Diener says the shootout happened while some 100 officers tried to enforce an eviction order Thursday against a 41-year-old “Reich citizen” […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly fewer people filed for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a sign the American job market remains healthy. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless aid slipped by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 261,000. The less volatile four-week average dropped by 1,250 to 264,000. Overall, the number of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Applications for US unemployment benefits slipped last week, remained below 300K for 77th straight week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to US factories for durable goods up 4.4 percent in July with gains in investment .

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — One of Miami’s notorious “cocaine cowboys” of the drug-scourged 1980s has developed a makeshift park dedicated in part to love locks. Mickey Munday served nearly a decade in prison for running drugs from Colombia to Florida and now lives quietly in North Miami. He’s fixed up an adjacent lot next […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police are charging three people in the death of a 10-year-old girl — a killing called “unspeakable” by the state’s governor. Officer Tanner Tixier said in a news release Wednesday night that charges are being filed against 35-year-old Michelle Martens, 31-year-old Fabian Gonzales, and 31-year-old Jessica Kelley. The release didn’t […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sea Shepherd Australia said Thursday that a legal settlement involving the conservation group’s U.S. founder will not affect its anti-whaling campaign in the Southern Ocean. Spokesman Adam Burling said the Australian arm of the group has been deliberately independent from the U.S. organization since the court case began several years […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — THE ISSUE: In this angry election year, many American voters are deeply skeptical about free trade — or downright hostile to it. The backlash against trade threatens a pillar of U.S. policy since World War II: Through trade pacts and institutions like the World Trade Organization, the United States has sought to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is launching a fresh bid to enlist Russia as a partner in Syria despite more than a month of dashed hopes as the situation on the ground becomes more volatile and uncertain with the introduction of Turkish ground forces. As the military picture grows more chaotic and complicated by […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There’s no “glass ceiling” keeping a woman from the presidential nomination anymore, but most Americans still think Hillary Clinton’s gender will influence the November election. They’re just divided on whether it’s more of a curse than a blessing. According to a new poll from the Associated-Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Hillary Clinton mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin Timberlake and dined with some of California’s richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of her presidential campaign. The Democratic presidential candidate […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Mobile homes will fill front yards across southern Louisiana again, just like after Hurricane Katrina, as federal authorities bring in temporary housing for thousands of people displaced by catastrophic flooding. These houses, though, will be on blocks and strapped down — not on wheels like the travel trailers of a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s key central banks have worked themselves into contortions to try to rev up economic growth, raise inflation and coax consumers and businesses to borrow and spend more. They’ve pumped trillions into financial systems and driven interest rates about as low as they can go — even below zero in Europe […]

Movie review of “Hands of Stone”: The acting in all roles is first rate, but Robert De Niro, as the trainer of Roberto Durán, is the undisputed champion. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.