Новости за 07.08.2018

HOUSTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says it sued the U.S. government Tuesday over its efforts to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum due to domestic and gang violence in their home countries. The ACLU’s lawsuit asks a judge to invalidate Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ June 11 decision to restrict the kinds of cases […]

TAOS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say the remains of an unidentified young boy have been found at a remote New Mexico compound.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration to go ahead with tariffs on $16 billion in Chinese imports starting Aug. 23.

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police allege that a murder suspect who was released after his case was botched 15 years ago is also being investigated as a suspect in homicides in two other states. James Matthews, 65, is a suspect in two homicides in Michigan, three in Texas and one in New York, police told […]

After waiting until his senior year of high school to start playing football, Seahawks cornerback Akeem King has made up for lost time.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The political arm of the National Rifle Association says it’s running a TV ad in Alaska urging Sen. Lisa Murkowski to confirm President Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee. The ad is part of a national and regional advertising campaign. Others are also trying to influence Murkowski. Health care advocacy group Protect […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ronnie Dunn of powerhouse country duo Brooks & Dunn and singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin will join the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame this year. The organization announced Tuesday its newest inductees. They also include songwriters Byron Hill, Wayne Kirkpatrick and Joe Melson. They will be formally inducted in October. Dunn wrote many […]

ELY, Minn. (AP) — A missing camper has been found safe in the vast wilderness of northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area. St. Louis County sheriff’s authorities received a report Tuesday morning of a lost camper in Friday Bay of Crooked Lake. The sheriff’s office says 46-year-old Daniel Teeter of Maple Valley, Washington, was last […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal officers arrested three people at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in southwest Portland. The arrests came as a group of clergy and others marched to building Tuesday morning and blocked a driveway. The group sought a meeting with the regional ICE director and the release of more than […]

Some of Silicon Valley’s social-media titans acknowledge that their services have become breeding grounds for foreign espionage, white nationalism and conspiracy mongering. Reluctantly, the companies have taken on a 20th-century role: gatekeeping.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A spokesman for a central Iowa nonprofit says the reward fund for a missing University of Iowa student has grown to more than $300,000 and is likely to continue climbing. Greg Willey, spokesman for Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa, says the Mollie Tibbetts reward fund has reached $301,363, which is […]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man told police he doused his disabled wife in gasoline, set her on fire and burned her alive. The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Tuesday that 58-year-old Delano Grangruth is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 61-year-old Kathleen White-Grangruth and burning a building with the intent to commit […]

ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana school superintendent whose hefty pay increase led to the videotaped handcuffing of a complaining teacher has been put on paid administrative leave. South Louisiana news outlets report Jerome Puyau (PEE’-oh) was placed on leave Monday night after the Vermilion Parish School Board voted to investigate a list of complaints […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A police officer who fatally shot a man reported to have been hanging on or jumping on moving cars near a Pennsylvania amusement park has been charged with voluntary manslaughter. Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said Tuesday that 33-year-old South Whitehall Township officer Jonathan Roselle had an “unreasonable” belief that […]

ATLANTA (AP) — The president of Morehouse College is tackling his freshman year in an unusual way. David Thomas was planning to move into a dormitory Tuesday for two days to get a small taste of what life is like as a first-year student of the historically black men’s college in Atlanta. Thomas is the […]

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian politician has called for a referendum on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s government. Masoum Marzouk, a former diplomat, announced a road map this week including the suspension of the constitution and the dissolution of parliament if Egyptians vote against the government. He says if the government does not respond positively to his […]

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Wildfire smoke in southern Oregon is forcing organizations that are dependent on tourist dollars to scramble for other options. The Mail Tribune reports the air quality in Medford and surrounding towns continues to range from “unhealthy for sensitive groups” to “hazardous” levels. The air quality Sunday night in both Medford and […]

The 3 1/2-year-old killer whale was feared to have only days to live when she was last seen on Friday. Her pod hasn’t been seen since then, so efforts to examine, feed and possibly medicate her cannot go forward.

The iconic company's record value on Wall Street isn't synonymous with the corporate values Americans once took for granted.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The family of a man who was fatally shot on a San Francisco bridge early Monday say he was an aspiring rapper visiting from Mesquite, Texas. Darryl Stinnette Sr. says Tuesday that his 31-year-old son Darryl was on a business trip when he was shot while driving on the San Francisco-Oakland […]

This is a small, quiet show that potently traverses realms of materiality and immateriality, connecting ideas about what’s seen and unseen, and what’s in-between.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a Bangladeshi immigrant charged in a failed pipe bombing in the New York subway system told a prison guard after his arrest that “more is coming.” Prosecutors made the allegation in papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Ullah was the only person seriously hurt when the bomb went […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A tobacco industry-funded group is asking the Montana Supreme Court to re-phrase a ballot initiative that would raise tobacco taxes to pay for the state’s Medicaid expansion and other health programs. The lawsuit filed Monday by Montanans Against Higher Taxes says the ballot statement’s wording is incorrect and will cause voter […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first of Christa McAuliffe’s lost lessons finally have been released from space. McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, never got to teach from space. She perished during the 1986 launch of shuttle Challenger, along with her six crewmates. NASA and the science education Challenger Center released […]