Новости за 17.07.2018

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Another New Jersey casino has gone online. The Ocean Resort casino was cleared for full internet gambling operations on Sunday. The state Division of Gaming Enforcement completed testing and evaluating its systems and approved it to offer online gambling. Its site, www.oceanonlinecasino.com , becomes New Jersey’s 27th legal internet gambling […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigrant children are complaining of being hungry, cold and afraid of the guards at U.S. holding centers where they were placed after crossing the Mexican border. The accounts form part of a voluminous court filing in Los Angeles in a case over whether the Trump administration is complying with a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A new documentary on Robin Williams tells the late comedian’s story mostly using his voice. “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind” uses a wealth of archival footage to put viewers inside his thought process. Director Marina Zenovich notes that Williams had a routine in the 1970s that invited people into his […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wanted to make an important point. And then the lights went out. Trump was saying Tuesday that he has “full faith” in the U.S. intelligence agencies in the aftermath of his Helsinki news conference when the lights in the White House Cabinet Room dimmed and briefly went out, leaving […]

U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday as retailers, technology and household goods companies all made solid gains and helped the market shake off a weak start. Netflix slumped after investors were disappointed with the streaming video company’s subscriber growth. On Tuesday: The S&P 500 index climbed 11.12 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,809.55. The Dow Jones Industrial […]

DENVER (AP) — The state of Colorado is denying half the workers’ compensation death benefits to a woman whose husband died while working on a ski lift because he had marijuana in his system. KMGH-TV reports Erika Lee’s husband, Adam Lee, was crushed to death in December underneath a ski escalator in Loveland. Erika says […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for his role in a fatal shooting inside the bar credited with originating Buffalo-style chicken wings. Gregory Ramos, of Buffalo, declined to speak at Tuesday’s sentencing in state Supreme Court. The shooting victim’s mother told the judge […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican congressional candidate Anthony Pappas says he knows he has almost no chance of beating rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But the St. John’s University professor is grateful that the publicity surrounding her is also bringing attention to his campaign, which is focused on reforming the judiciary after his own bitter […]

Seattle Chamber Music Society commissioned a new work by prominent film composer James Newton Howard — and it's a winner.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Maryland state senator to three and a half years in prison in a bribery case. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett ordered the sentence Tuesday for Nathaniel Oaks. The sentence for the 71-year-old Baltimore Democrat will be followed by three years of supervised release. Bennett ordered […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Medicaid expansion proposal has received enough signatures and will be on the November ballot. Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney on Tuesday said more than 56,000 valid signatures have been counted. The signatures include at least 6 percent of the registered voters in at least 18 of Idaho’s 35 legislative […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A woman who was sentenced as a juvenile to life in prison without parole for capital murder has been released from prison after her sentence was shortened following U.S. and state Supreme Court rulings finding such sentences to be unconstitutional. Laquanda “Faye” Jacobs was released on Tuesday after serving 26 […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal immigration authorities say a suspected serial rapist charged with posing as a Northern California ride-hailing driver to prey on his victims was living in the country illegally. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Tuesday it plans to deport Orlando Vilchez Lazo to his native Peru if he’s released […]

The White Sox pitcher, who suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in April, is working toward a comeback. Says his wife Lexie: “I have no doubt he’s going to do it.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a Senate battle brewing over Democrats’ requests for documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s career. No. 2 Senate Republican leader John Cornyn told reporters Tuesday about “rumblings” that Democrats want “every scrap of paper” from Kavanaugh’s career. The Texan says Republicans won’t let Democrats prolong the process with “unreasonable” demands […]

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Columbia Legal Services and King County's Department of Public Defense among more than 120 groups that oppose building the facility.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An economic impact study estimates that attendance at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival increased dramatically over the previous year. The study from Y2 Analytics released Tuesday says that nearly 125,000 people attended some part of the 11-day event last year, a growth of more than 70 percent over the estimated […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Papa John’s founder John Schnatter says the pizza chain doesn’t know how to handle a “crisis based on misinformation” and that he made a “mistake” in agreeing to step down as chairman. Schnatter says the board requested that he step down as chairman without “any investigation” and he should not have […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is calling on rival parties in Cyprus “to show real political will and responsibility and make the necessary compromises” to reunify the divided Mediterranean island. The council said after a closed-door briefing Tuesday by U.N. envoy Elizabeth Spehar that the parties should “engage meaningfully” with the United […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland State University professor has won a $3.3 million federal grant to measure whether a mindfulness program backed by actress Goldie Hawn works to get preschoolers ready for kindergarten. Hawn, an Academy Award winner who has embraced meditation, developed the mindfulness program called MindUp that she says promotes brain health […]

The proggy local quartet will play its final show this December at the Showbox.

MIAMI (AP) — Officials say three people died after two planes crashed above the Florida Everglades. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told the Miami Herald that a midair collision occurred Tuesday afternoon. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue was responding to an area several miles west of Miccosukee Resort & Gaming, near the border of the Everglades. Gimenez says […]

HAVANA — A Mexican airline says crew error is to blame for the deadly crash of a passenger jet in Cuba in May. Global Air says in a statement Monday that the pilots of the Boeing 737 took off at too steep an angle before the aircraft crashed near the runway of the international airport […]

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Many Pendleton residents are questioning what it was they saw in the skies over the town. The East Oregonian reports residents spotted a small white object Wednesday floating above the south area of Pendleton for the better part of an hour. Some thought the object was a kite or plastic shopping […]

HELSINKI (AP) — The writer and political activist who was forcibly removed from a room where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were about to give a joint news conference says he wasn’t trying to protest. Sam Husseini, a contributor to The Nation magazine, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he […]