Новости за 11.10.2016

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A narrow ribbon of road linking the Florida Keys with the mainland is the front line in a renewed fight against maggots that can eat livestock and pets alive. Near a Key Largo visitors’ center painted with larger-than-life tropical fish and sea turtles, northbound drivers with animals must stop for […]

BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says authorities received a first tip in early September that the Islamic State group planned attacks on stations or airports in the country, and last week tracked down the bomb plot suspect who was arrested Monday. Jaber Albakr, a 22-year-old Syrian who came to Germany […]

NEW YORK (AP) — THE ISSUE: Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land, but there are other battlegrounds related to civil rights and nondiscrimination protections for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Two polarizing questions: What sort of access should transgender people have to public bathrooms? And are the advances for LGBT rights […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Continuing her policy focus on children and families, Hillary Clinton is pledging more tax relief for families with young kids. The Democratic presidential nominee announced a plan on Tuesday to double the Child Tax Credit and to increase the amount that low-income families could get back in refunds. Clinton said […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say searches have yielded no evidence or suspects that would corroborate an intelligence report of possible car bomb attacks in Bangkok and its outskirts. Police were instructed to step up security in the capital on Monday after deputy police chief Pol. Gen. Srivara Ransibrahmanakul met with the Australian ambassador and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s candidacy has long exposed divisions within the Republican Party. But GOP leaders had hoped to prevent an all-out civil war at least until after the election. They appear to be failing. The top Republican in Congress on Monday effectively abandoned Trump, while the head of the Republican National Committee, or […]

LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters to cruise past a mortuary, grocery and homes in part of this city inundated by the swollen Lumber River. They joined about 200 U.S. Marshals and water rescue teams […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss legal issues raised by a recommendation that prosecutors charge a famously defiant Arizona sheriff with criminal contempt of court for defying orders in a racial profiling case. The hearing Tuesday falls the day before early voting starts in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s bid for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans nervously eyeing the White House race are learning a lesson with Donald Trump that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell painfully learned in 2010 and 2012. Faulty outsider candidates blew several perfectly winnable Senate elections those years. Since then, the crafty Kentuckian has tried to make all the right moves. McConnell, the […]

CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa. (AP) — For Paul Ryan, October is now all about protecting the Republican majority of the House — and his own job as speaker. The Wisconsin Republican can’t ignore Donald Trump, his party’s bull-in-a-china-shop presidential candidate. Nor can he offend Trump’s millions of voters, whom many House GOP candidates need to survive […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Women voters in swing states are expressing deep disgust about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s assertion that an old tape featuring him talking about groping women amounted to “locker room talk” and not sexual assault. But interviews with several dozen on Monday show Trump’s latest actions, including bringing women who have […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Tiny cracks have appeared in evangelical support for Donald Trump over the video of his sexually predatory comments about women. Popular evangelist and author Beth Moore tweeted that she was among many women who had been sexually abused or harassed. Says Moore, “we’re tired of it.” She warns that that behavior […]

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singaporean and Swiss regulators said Tuesday that investigations showed Falcon Private Bank breached money laundering regulations in its dealings with the indebted Malaysian state fund 1MDB. The Monetary Authority of Singapore ordered the private bank to close down in the city-state and pay a fine of 4.3 million Singapore dollars ($3.12 million) […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sports, race, achievement and Hillary Clinton are among the topics President Barack Obama will be discussing in North Carolina, one of the most competitive states in the White House race. Obama is visiting Greensboro on Tuesday to participate in a forum hosted by The Undefeated. The ESPN website explores the intersection of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whoever occupies the White House next, he or she will inherit one of the most complex and brutal crises in the world: the war in Syria. With Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies Russia and Iran dug in, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has articulated a comprehensive or realistic proposal […]

A look at what’s happening all around the majors today: ___ ON THE CUSP A team from the nation’s capital has not won a postseason series since Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators took the 1924 World Series crown. Bryce Harper and the Nationals can end that drought and reach the NL Championship Series with […]

The San Francisco Giants stayed alive in a National League Division Series by beating the visiting Chicago Cubs 6-5 in 13 innings. The Cubs lead the best-of-five NLDS 2-1.

PORT AUSTIN REEF LIGHT, Mich. (AP) — When Lou Schillinger and his volunteer cadre began restoring an 1890s lighthouse more than two miles off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay, they first needed to remove 30 years’ accumulation of gull and pigeon feces whose depth measured in feet rather than inches. That was […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Students and teachers in Chicago were heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation’s third-largest school district averted a threatened strike with a tentative contract agreement reached minutes before a Tuesday deadline. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said at a news conference just before midnight that […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Students and faculty at Brown University have celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day after faculty renamed what used to be called Columbus Day. Dozens gathered at the Providence campus Monday to mark the occasion. The Ivy League University in 2009 changed the name of the holiday that falls on the second Monday of […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Ethiopia, where her meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn is expected to focus on the country’s newly declared state of emergency and other issues including migration. This East African country, one of Africa’s best-performing economies, declared its first state of emergency in […]

A look at what’s happening all around the majors Tuesday: ___ ON THE CUSP A team from the nation’s capital has not won a postseason series since Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators took the 1924 World Series crown. Bryce Harper and the Nationals can end that drought and reach the NL Championship Series with […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drake is canceling the rest of his summer tour because of an ongoing ankle injury. A spokeswoman for the rapper-actor says doctors have advised him to nix the three remaining dates of his Summer Sixteen Tour “to allow him time to recuperate his ankle injury.” The newly canceled stops include Toronto […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Madison Bumgarner’s 24-inning postseason scoreless streak ended in startling fashion Monday night when Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta hit a three-run homer off the San Francisco Giants ace. Arrieta connected in the second inning in Game 3 of the NL Division Series to put the Cubs ahead as they tried to […]

United Indians of All Tribes Foundation celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Seattle.