Новости за 01.11.2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — One group of Americans will likely see huge changes to their tax bills after this year’s presidential election: the wealthiest 1 percent. They will see a big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins, or enjoy a huge tax cut if Donald Trump wins. For everyone else? Both candidates are proposing very small […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Attorneys will make their closing arguments in the defamation trial against Rolling Stone magazine over its botched story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia. Closing arguments are expected Tuesday before jurors begin deliberating. University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo is seeking $7.5 million from the magazine over its […]

LONDON (AP) — Oil giant BP says earnings fell 48 percent in the third quarter as the company continued to adjust to lower oil and gas prices. Underlying replacement cost profit fell to $933 million from $1.8 billion in the same period last year. The figure, which excludes non-operating items and fluctuations in the value […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is kicking off a week of campaigning for Democrat Hillary Clinton with a stop in battleground Ohio. Obama will speak at a rally for Clinton in Columbus on Tuesday. The state is one of just a handful of states currently rated by The Associated Press as toss-ups in the […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Sara Morales became an American citizen in 2010 and has voted in every election since. This year, the Phoenix resident will be casting a ballot for Hillary Clinton, joining the tens of thousands of Latinos who Democrats hope will swing the traditionally conservative state in their direction. The prospect of Arizona voting […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department. The arrests of […]

HELENA, Ala. (AP) — For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising the specter of another round of gas shortages and price increases. The disruption occurred when a track hoe — a machine used to remove dirt — struck the pipeline, ignited gasoline […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Stocks indexes in Asia were mostly higher Tuesday after surveys showed China’s factory activity rose to a two-year high last month, suggesting the world’s No. 2 economy is stabilizing. KEEPING SCORE: Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 1.2 percent to 23,205.85 and the Shanghai Composite index added 0.7 percent to 3,120.52. […]

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese freelance journalist covering the fighting in Iraq has been detained by Kurdish authorities. Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday in Tokyo that “we are aware that he is currently being detained” and that Japan is trying to determine why. Japan’s Kyodo News agency says that journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka (koh-soo-keh […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transit workers in Philadelphia are hitting the picket lines Tuesday and commuters are scrambling to make alternate plans after the city’s main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed to reach a contract agreement. The union went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, shutting down Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many countries are pledging support for the International Criminal Court following the announced withdrawal by three African countries but Kenya, which remains under investigation by the war crimes tribunal, was sharply critical and questioned its long-term survival. In speeches Monday following the presentation of the court’s annual report to the General […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Deforestation caused by the expansion of Mexican avocado orchards is much higher than previously thought, authorities said Monday. Talia Coria, an official in the attorney general’s office for environmental protection, said almost 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of forest land are converted to agricultural uses each year in the western state of […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Josh Tomlin looked forward to Halloween and dressing up with his daughters, 2-year-old Makenzie Jae and 1-year-old Myla Kate. “I might be daddy piggy,” he said. With Cleveland anticipating the city’s first World Series championship since 1948 — and its first title clincher at home since 1920 — the Indians’ Game 6 […]

Americans are becoming java junkies at an earlier age, and young adults are increasing their daily consumption at a fast enough pace to make up for declines by older folks. The result: Demand in the U.S. is set for an all-time high,

Poor school attendance is closely related to dropout rates and the achievement gap.

Amanda Knox’s antidote for her social-media trolls is vulnerability, with a dash of fictional superhero Jessica Jones.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is defending the ordered deportation of a South Korean man who was flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3. ICE spokeswoman Rose M. Richeson cited Adam Crapser’s criminal history as justification for deportation. That includes convictions for […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two former executives of a Singapore company that supplies ships have been extradited in a wide-spanning bribery scandal involving its CEO nicknamed “Fat Leonard” and high-ranking US Navy officials. Former Glenn Defense Marine Asia executives Neil Peterson and Linda Raja appeared Monday in federal court in San Diego and were ordered […]

Cody Lee Miller was originally charged with felonies after he climbed to the top of a tree March 22 and remained there for about 25 hours.

One of eight children in Washington hospitalized this fall with a mysterious, polio-like illness has died, state health officials said Monday.

My office has proposed in the city budget to use $160 million to build 1,000 affordable rental homes.

It’s also about domestic energy National security has been ignored in the Indian protests over the oil pipeline [“Money streaming into North Dakota anti-pipeline protest,” Page One, Oct. 31]. Nowhere has the concern for oil and all energy independence for our nation been even mentioned. The security of our country should take precedence over any […]

Amazon Web Services, as the tech giant’s cloud computing division is known, has vowed to fulfill at least half of the energy needs of its big data centers with renewable energy by 2017.

WSU DL Robert Barber's case has attracted the attention of state Senator Michael Baumgartner, who spoke out against WSU's student conduct process Monday and vowed to lead a move for change.