Новости за 16.10.2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Workers for the Philadelphia-area transit system have voted to authorize a strike next month if agreement isn’t reached on a new contract. Officials of the Transport Workers Union Local 234 said members overwhelmingly gave strike authorization Sunday. A union representative said leadership and members made it clear there would be “no extension.” […]

Michigan moved up to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll, right behind No. 2 Ohio State, to give the Big Ten rivals their best combined ranking since the 2006 season, when they played the only 1-vs.-2 game in the series. Alabama remained No. 1 on Sunday with a season-high 60 first-place votes. […]

DALLAS (AP) — Gasoline prices have leveled off after coasting downhill with the slump in oil. Facing a glut of crude, OPEC members will meet next month in Vienna and try to write the details of a plan to reduce oil production. Columbia University energy analyst Jamie Webster talked with The Associated Press about prospects […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A bad cable delayed a rocket launch from Virginia on Sunday by a NASA shipper eager to make a strong comeback. Orbital ATK was poised to fly its Antares rocket with a load of supplies for the International Space Station, after being grounded for two years. But seven hours before […]

FAIRVIEW BEACH, Va. (AP) — Police say two Georgia men were killed when their speedboat crashed on the Potomac River about 60 miles south of the nation’s capital. Maryland Department of Natural Resources police say the accident happened around noon Saturday in front of a restaurant near Fairview Beach, Virginia. The boat involved in the […]

DENVER (AP) — Congress’ inaction on the $7.25 hourly minimum wage is again playing out on state ballots, with voters in four states considering an increase and another considering wages for the youngest workers, even though the states already exceed the federal. In some cases voters are also deciding whether to add sick-leave policies to […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House — and may be on her way to an even more decisive victory over Donald Trump. “He is on track […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina estimates that flooding from Hurricane Matthew has caused $1.5 billion in damage to 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings. The estimate released late Saturday is part of a growing picture of the storm’s financial impact on the state. John Dorman, an assistant state emergency management director, says computer modeling […]

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Pumpkins were going ballistic at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. Teams from as far away as Virginia came to the race track to use trebuchets, catapults and air guns to launch the fall fruit, some of which made a gourd-geous arc across the New Hampshire sky. While the pumpkins […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police searched Sunday for at least two suspects as they tried to determine the motive for a shooting that left three people dead and 12 wounded, two gravely, at a restaurant operating out of a converted home. A preliminary investigation determined an argument preceded the gunfire early Saturday during […]

The Carolina Panthers will have their franchise quarterback in the lineup as they try to rebound from a miserable 1-4 start. Cam Newton is active and will start on Sunday as the defending NFC Champions visit New Orleans. Newton missed last week with a concussion and watched from the sideline as the Panthers fell at […]

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — I love to hike but I hate to backtrack. I think most hikers consider it onerous to retrace their steps, and naturally so. When I’m getting around solely by leg and lung power I want gratification for every calorie burned, and trodding on my own bootprints in the trail dust […]

Little attention has been paid in this presidential campaign to the lives of the poorest Americans, even though more of us live in deep poverty than you might imagine.

CAMP MINDEN, La. (AP) — If the air is calm Monday morning, the Louisiana National Guard will use a robot to open a bunker door at Camp Minden and set up remote ignition of 820 pounds of an unstable, fast-burning chemical compound stored there. It’s by far the smallest amount of “clean-burning igniter” remaining after […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Federal authorities say an Ohio man has been indicted on more criminal charges for using a social media site to incite violence against U.S. military members on behalf of the Islamic State group. Twenty-five-year-old Terrence McNeil, of Akron, was originally indicted in December on three counts each of solicitation of a crime […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish officials say they have evacuated about 40 people from a refugee center in southern Stockholm after a fire engulfed the building. Kurt Jansson, who headed the fire operations, said the alarm came in the early hours of Sunday, adding that police were investigating the incident. Investigators are treating the matter as […]

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Two firearms dealers who ran a store in the Florida Keys have been sentenced to prison for illegally possessing a gun disguised as a walking cane. Court documents show that 52-year-old Thomas Joseph Willi and 37-year-old Jarvis Nelson Osorio will each serve more than two years in prison. Their store […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise State University’s president says a homecoming float dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement has been vandalized. Bob Kustra released a statement early Sunday morning condemning both the vandals and the attempt to silence constitutionally protected free speech. Kustra added that the school’s security team is investigating the issue, but […]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A 19-year-old student at the University of Connecticut has been run over and killed by a vehicle for the campus fire department. A Connecticut State Police report says it happened around 1:15 a.m. Sunday after student Jeffny Pally was sitting against the bay door of the campus public safety complex in […]

Federal regulators recently announced new rules governing the prepaid debit card industry. It’s a big change more than two years in the making that’s expected to bring some basic account protections to its customers, who are often financially disadvantaged. Here are some things you should know: WHAT ARE PREPAID CARDS: Prepaid accounts are among the […]

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait’s Cabinet has resigned and its parliament has been dissolved over a “lack of cooperation,” setting the stage for early elections. Kuwait’s state-run television and news agency made the announcement Sunday after an emergency government meeting. Kuwait, a major oil producer and a stalwart U.S. ally, held its last parliamentary election […]

BERLIN (AP) — A 20-kilogram (44-pound) minute hand has fallen off a clock on a Hamburg church tower, plunging 40 meters (130 feet) onto the sidewalk below. Hamburg’s fire service said Sunday that the hand fell off the city’s St. Katharinen church overnight from Friday to Saturday, news agency dpa reported. No one was hurt. […]

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A lawsuit by a former Penn State coach whose testimony helped convict fellow assistant Jerry Sandusky of being a sexually violent predator goes to trial Monday over allegations that the university defamed him and wrongly refused to renew his contract. Mike McQueary, now 42, played quarterback at Penn State before becoming […]

LONDON (AP) — In the crucial days before Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson embraced Britain’s “leave campaign,” he wrote a newspaper column explaining why Britain should remain inside the European Union — but those forceful words were never published before Britain’s June 23 vote. The Sunday Times has now published Johnson’s pro-EU column, which outlines his […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces have captured the symbolically significant town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group, the factions said Sunday morning. A commander of the Syrian opposition Hamza Brigade said Islamic State fighters put up “minimal” resistance to defend the northern Syrian town before withdrawing in the direction of the much […]