Новости за 24.09.2016

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Current and former sheriffs of Lowndes County are among those saying the manslaughter trial of a former police officer should be moved. The Commercial Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2cYazA0 ) reports lawyers for Canyon Boykin, indicted this month in the 2015 shooting death of 26-year-old Ricky Ball, wrote in a Monday motion that Boykin […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Aspiring writers are being offered a chance for some quiet work time in the library of Mark Twain’s Connecticut home. The library experience is an add-on to the fifth annual Writers Weekend being held Saturday and Sunday at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford. The annual writers retreat features […]

Current and quick ratios Q: What does comparing a company’s current assets to its current liabilities tell me? A: If you divide a company’s current assets by its current liabilities, you’ll get its “current ratio,” reflecting whether it has sufficient short-term assets (such as cash and expected incoming payments) to cover its short-term obligations (such […]

If your credit history is less than what most lenders deem acceptable for a home loan, then it’s time to explore your options.

With improved trading and tax efficiency and a lower cost structure than traditional funds, investors are increasingly attracted to ETF options over traditional funds. That does not mean they are getting better returns from ETFs, however.

Theo Chocolate, the Seattle chocolate bar maker, is coming out with clusters that it’s calling a “healthier snacking alternative.”

The “secure scheduling” law is the Seattle City Council’s latest foray into progressive lawmaking.

The supply of ships and their capacity is completely out of whack with demand, and the industry is no longer under the delusion that it can grow its way out of trouble.

Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon has no easy task rejuvenating the big-box pioneer. How well his strategy works may say a lot about the future of specialty retailing amid competition from Amazon and shoppers’ abandonment of suburban malls.

Last week at the Oracle World Conference the founder of Oracle challenged Amazon’s lead in cloud computing; Theo Chocolate offers a more healthful chocolate snack.

NEW YORK — More companies don’t want you, or any other investor, to buy their stock. Instead of listing their shares on a stock exchange, businesses are going private or never going public in the first place. Security company ADT, for example, pulled its shares off the market this spring after going private in a […]

Money is pouring back in as low borrowing costs in the U.S. and economic stimulus by central banks from Japan to Europe drive demand.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most telling moments in presidential debates often come out of the blue — an offhand remark or unrehearsed gesture that helps to reveal the essence of a candidate who’s already been poked, prodded and inspected for years. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have competing missions heading into Monday night’s leadoff debate […]

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. official says nearly 2 million people in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are without running water as security conditions deteriorate. Hanaa Singer, UNICEF representative in Syria, says intense attacks after midnight Thursday have damaged the Bab al-Nairab station that supplies some 250,000 people in rebel-held eastern parts of the […]

PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande says he hopes authorities can relocate as many as 9,000 migrants massed in a squalid camp in Calais to reception centers across France in the coming weeks. Hollande, visiting one of France’s 164 such reception centers in the city of Tours on Saturday, reiterated his pledge to shut the […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old Ohio boy fatally shot by a Columbus police officer investigating a report of an armed robbery will be laid to rest this weekend. Attorneys for the family of Tyre (ty-REE’) King say funeral and visitation services will be held Saturday morning at a Columbus church. Police say Officer Bryan […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he’s “greatly honored” to receive the endorsement of defeated rival Ted Cruz, not that Cruz is using that word when acknowledging that he will vote for the Republican presidential nominee. Cruz and Trump had traded harsh words during the primary race and the tones of their statements Friday reflected […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and Republicans are vowing to decisively override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for the kingdom’s alleged backing of the terrorists who killed nearly 3,000 people. Obama rejected the bill Friday, warning of a host of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused in the Manhattan bombing was flagged for an interview with Customs officials after returning from an overseas trip, accused two years ago of stabbing his brother, and had once been angrily described by his father as a terrorist. But none of that was enough to keep Ahmad Khan Rahami […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is saying the country has started its first web-based national general census. The Saturday report says people can visit a dedicated website, www.sarshomari95.ir, to fill out forms in the first phase of the survey. This is the first time that Iran is using the internet to gather data […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African-American history can call home will culminate as President Barack Obama officially opens the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. A shining bronze beacon on the National Mall, only steps away […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group’s elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal. Two years after the IS […]

BOSTON (AP) — Donald Trump says colleges and universities should be using their endowments to make college more affordable but that too many are using “the money to pay their administrators or put donors’ names on buildings or just store the money, keep it and invest it.” But that’s not exactly how endowments work. It’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY “Your Majesty” isn’t in the American political lexicon. But when a president sets a major policy by edict, skirting Congress, it sets off a debate that traces back to the time of kings […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Demonstrators carried signs, chanted and marched in a peaceful protest hours after the family of a black man shot by police released video showing the events leading up to his death. Friday’s march through Charlotte’s business district was the fourth night of demonstrations over the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott earlier […]