Новости за 14.11.2016

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — The outgoing U.S. climate envoy says China and other countries will stay committed to the Paris Agreement on climate change, regardless of what the next U.S. administration decides. Jonathan Pershing told reporters at U.N. climate talks in Morocco on Monday he doesn’t know what President-elect Donald Trump’s “outlook” on climate policy […]

DETROIT (AP) — A social worker and supervisor have been charged with manslaughter and child abuse in the death of a 3-year-old Detroit boy. Child Protective Services employees 24-year-old Elaina Brown and 47-year-old Kelly Williams have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree child abuse and neglect related to the death of Aaron Minor. Prosecutors announced […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has sidestepped the issue of how social media accounts should be authenticated in criminal cases in a ruling upholding a murder conviction. The court issued a 6-0 decision Monday in the appeal of Derrick Bouknight, who argued prosecutors didn’t prove a Facebook account they used as evidence […]

John Oliver dedicated the entire season finale of HBO's "Last Week Tonight" to the presidential election and dispensed with 2016 in grand fashion.

LADSON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who beat two South Carolina sheriff’s deputies with their own baton died after he was taken into custody with the help of bystanders. Several news outlets quote Charleston County Sheriff’s Major Eric Watson as saying the incident began Sunday afternoon with a barefoot man blocking traffic as […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli antiquities official says Israel is embarking on a major expedition to find more Dead Sea Scrolls. Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority says a government research team will spend the next three years surveying hundreds of desert caves near the Dead Sea, where the world’s oldest biblical manuscripts were […]

Sky watchers were hoping for a luminescent lunar treat, but clouds hampered Seattle's supermoon view.

Duke held onto its comfortable lead in The Associated Press college basketball poll while Cincinnati and California are newcomers in the first regular-season poll. The Blue Devils (2-0) received 58 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Monday, keeping their large lead over Kentucky, which was No. 1 on one ballot. Defending champion Villanova […]

Dale Reed’s American Airlines flight is canceled because of weather, but then reinstated. Should the company cover his hotel costs — or is that a lost cause?

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Proposed changes to Ohio’s laws governing sex offender registration could give judges more discretion within that system and make it easier for people to get off the registry if they’re believed to have a low risk of re-offending. The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/2fPsgSh ) reports the state Criminal Justice Recodification Committee […]

Since last week's presidential election, memes of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have surged in popularity.

High marks for C.J. Prosise, Russell Wilson and Kam Chancellor from Pro Football Focus for Sunday's win at New England.

Sketched Nov. 9, 2016 It’s easy to feel unsettled when people are protesting in the streets. But as the eternal optimist I am, I expect good to come from all the unrest following last Tuesday’s election. When I saw people marching peacefully downtown to express their opposition to president-elect Donald Trump, I felt grateful for […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is visiting Turkmenistan, an energy-rich ex-Soviet Central Asian nation, for the first time. Speaking after Monday’s talks with Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Abbas said they discussed issues related to the Mideast peace settlement. Abbas said the Palestinian delegation will also attend a Mideast peace conference hosted by France. […]

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison for her role in the death of her 7-year-old stepson, who authorities say had been brutally abused and whose remains were found in the family’s pigsty. Heather Jones, 30, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder in the death of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is poised to sell for more than $50 million at Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art. “Girls on the Bridge,” a seminal work from 1902, depicts a cluster of girls huddled on a bridge in a country village. It sold in 1996 for […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of drunken driving has filed a lawsuit against a Houston police officer after police video captured the officer pushing him into a door frame at the city jail, causing a gash on his head. In the lawsuit filed Sunday, Reuben Williams says Officer S. Corral used excessive force as […]

ATLANTA (AP) — The number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent surge in crimes against Muslims, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Civil rights groups had been raising concerns about an anti-Muslim backlash in the U.S. even before the terror attacks in […]

Financial security isn’t a number or a threshold. It has to do with what you spend, and save, relative to your income. Nothing proves that quite like research on millionaires by wealth management firm UBS. Sixty percent of those with more than $5 million defined themselves as wealthy, compared with 28 percent of those worth […]

BYRON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a second murder warrant has been issued in the deaths of two Georgia sheriff’s deputies. J.T. Ricketson of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says 57-year-old Ralph Elrod remains under 24-hour armed guard at a hospital in Macon. Ricketson tells The Macon Telegraph (http://bit.ly/2eXGLWN) a second murder warrant was issued […]

LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that industrial output across the 19-country eurozone ended the third quarter on a weak note but still finished 0.4 percent higher during the period. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, said Monday that output fell by 0.8 percent in September from the month before. The decrease was more or […]

NEW YORK (AP) — John Oliver has used nearly the entire season finale of his HBO show to criticize President-elect Donald Trump. A highly-animated Oliver took issue with news pundits calling for the public to give the Republican a chance. Oliver says that “optimism is nice,” but warned that such attitudes could “feed into the […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman being held in a New York jail is again facing charges she killed her twin sister after their vehicle plunged off a Hawaii cliff in May. State police say 38-year-old Alexandria Duval was arrested Friday after being tracked down at an Albany home. The arrest comes after the Maui […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Top EU diplomats are calling for more robust European defense and a greater European voice in world affairs as Donald Trump — whose isolationist, protectionist promises have worried many on this side of the Atlantic — prepares to assume the U.S. presidency. With many question marks around Trump’s foreign policy plans, EU […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German industrial equipment maker Siemens AG says it has agreed to buy U.S.-based software firm Mentor Graphics Corp. for $4.5 billion. The companies said in a joint statement Monday that Mentor’s board recommended shareholders approve the deal. Siemens said it would pay $37.25 a share in cash, or 21 percent more […]