Новости за 16.01.2018

DETROIT (AP) — Japanese vehicle brands are exploring new design ideas — and figuring out what sets them apart from their U.S. and European rivals — with new prototype vehicles. Nissan, Infiniti and Lexus are all unveiling new concept cars at the Detroit auto show, which opens to the public Saturday. Concepts are used to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House doctor says Trump is ‘very healthy,’ did ‘exceedingly well’ on cognitive screening.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania man accused of having punched a police horse in the face after being ejected from an Eagles game because he was intoxicated and didn’t have a ticket has been charged with assault. Philadelphia police said Tuesday that 22-year-old Taylor Hendricks of Whitehall approached a mounted police officer and started punching […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental groups trying to keep a crude oil pipeline from crossing Louisiana have filed a public records lawsuit against the company planning to build it. The suit contends that by expropriating land and acting as a common carrier, Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC is acting as a government body and therefore must […]

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Police in Washington, D.C.’s suburbs say two would-be carjackers fled from their intended victims when a splash of hot cocoa and a dash of resourcefulness entered the mix. Prince William County police say in a statement that a 50-year-old woman exited a 7-Eleven convenience store Saturday night with some purchased items […]

VAIL, Colo. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near Vail Ski Resort. Police say a person reported seeing the man’s body in Gore Creek from a ski lift Tuesday morning. Police and firefighters removed the body but didn’t find any identifying information. Police say the man appears […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for a woman partially paralyzed by a collapsed bus shelter at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport say she will receive a $115 million settlement from the city and its insurer. Jurors in August found the city liable for injuries to 26-year-old Tierney Darden and awarded her $148 million. Darden’s lawyers announced Tuesday […]

The influenza A strain called H3N2 is making people so ill in California that thousands have shown up at hospitals, and some places are treating them in “surge tents” intended for major disasters.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Here’s a look at some of the details from the $168 billion state budget proposal released by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday: ___ TAXES: The spending plan is short on details, but Cuomo says he wants lawmakers to consider big changes to the state’s tax system to soften the blow […]

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a Houston police officer 27 years ago. The high court, without comment, declined Tuesday to review arguments from lawyers for prisoner Carl Wayne Buntion that an appeal for him unfairly was rejected in the state […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has collared 50 moose as part of an ongoing study about the animal’s mortality in the state. The study is to determine if winter ticks are the primary cause of increased moose mortality and decreased productivity, and how weather, forest-cutting, and moose density interact to influence tick numbers on […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The suspect being tried in the slayings of two Northern California sheriff’s deputies called one slain officer’s partner a “coward” and repeatedly and profanely interrupted the start of his murder trial Tuesday. Prosecutor Rod Norgaard was describing in his opening statement how Deputy Scott Brown retreated under heavy fire that killed […]

Liberals can’t work up much outrage because the encounter was by all accounts consensual. And few social conservatives are interested in criticizing the president, since they’ve talked themselves into a posture of hardheaded moral realism.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney who works in the office of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens reached out to a suburban St. Louis attorney on a fact-finding mission hours before news of the governor’s extramarital affair broke, according to an audio recording of the conversation. Attorney Al Watkins provided The Associated Press with audio of […]

AMESBURY, Mass. (AP) — Sarah Chapman wanted to close the gap between girls and boys who can write computer code and, with the help of her community, she is well on her way. “The kids my daughter’s age have grown up with smartphones, computers and tablets around them,” Chapman said. “They are really savvy technology-wise. […]

Roosevelt High School graduate Brittain Ashford is one of four performers in “Ghost Quartet,” a spooky, neo-folkie chamber musical (about “love, death and whiskey”) playing at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway Jan. 19-28.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican governor says he will shut down the state’s expanded Medicaid program if the courts stop his plan for some people to work to keep their health benefits. Friday, the federal government approved Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients. Bevin also issued an executive […]

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — The tiny home movement has really taken off, except that no one on Cape Cod or the Islands has been able to legally live in one. Even on Nantucket, which passed a bylaw allowing tiny homes in 2016, none have been permitted because state building codes still make them illegal, said […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Tuesday that he hoped two Reuters journalists will be freed in conjunction with his visit to Myanmar next week as a member of an international advisory panel seeking to resolve the crisis in the country. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 […]

NEW BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — For five years the remains of the tree sat decaying on the ground in the forest off Bridge Road. Now, a former selectman is breathing new life into the wood from the tree that was the state’s Champion White Oak, a local icon felled by an arsonist in 2012. “I […]

DETROIT, Ore. (AP) — A $100 million-plus project to improve conditions for endangered fish could mean emptying Detroit Lake for one or two years. The Salem Statesman Journal reports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a 300-foot (91-meter) tower and floating screen at Detroit Dam to improve water temperature and fish […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s ruling temporarily blocking its decision to end protections for nearly 800,000 young immigrants. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing Tuesday that they were appealing to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The DOJ in a […]

Activist Maru Mora-Villalpando, an undocumented immigrant, says federal immigration officials are using an “intimidation tactic” by putting her into deportation proceedings.

SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — California officials say the death of a 19-year-old prison inmate was a homicide. Salinas Valley State Prison officials said Tuesday that they are holding 26-year-old Alberto Cortez and 25-year-old Jaime Romero in isolation while they investigate the slaying. Correctional officers found Jose Alcantar-Ortega lying on his cell floor Friday. He died […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska state House leaders followed policies in responding to allegations of inappropriate behavior by former state Rep. Dean Westlake, the Legislature’s human resources manager said. Skiff Lobaugh addressed the House Rules Committee late Monday, when the committee approved the release of Lobaugh’s investigation into allegations of unwanted touching or comments by […]