Новости за 19.06.2015

BOSTON (AP) — Two men pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiring to support the Islamic State group in a plot to kill a conservative blogger who has angered Muslims. Both were indicted Thursday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization by plotting with Boston terror suspect Usaamah Rahim, 26, to behead blogger Pamela Geller. In the phone conversation, authorities say, Rahim told Wright he had changed his mind about killing Geller and now wanted to kill police officers.

For about 40 years Bryan and his wife, Mary Jon Bryan, amassed more Old West artifacts than they could squeeze into their homes in River Oaks, West Texas and Colorado — rare documents, weapons, saddles and spurs, uniforms, fine art, religious art and books. The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1J6nvQDZ ) reports the new Bryan Museum, which opened Friday, holds that vast array of 70,000 objects. Reputed to be the largest and most significant of its kind, the collection traces the development of... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to Las Vegas on Friday, echoing front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton as he called for an expansion of President Obama's executive actions to shield some immigrants from deportation. Like Clinton, he said that the response to more gridlock should be presidential action to exempt from deportation parents of U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and people brought to the U.S. illegally as young children... Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a journalist in the southeastern state of Tabasco. The Tabasco prosecutor's office says Ismael Diaz Lopez was stabbed to death Thursday in Teapa, south of the state capital of Villahermosa.

Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting trial were wrapping up their case Friday against James Holmes after eight weeks of testimony in which they sought to show that the former neuroscience student meticulously planned and carried out the 2012 massacre. The five-member prosecution team has relied on Holmes’ own videotaped statements to a state-appointed psychiatrist to undermine Holmes’ claim that he was so mentally ill he didn’t know right from wrong during the attack. Weapons dealers and... Читать дальше...

Or will they select works founded in an unfamiliar artistic philosophy? What she offered here was an inventive, fast-moving quintet. There’s perhaps a bit too much floor work for this taste; dancers spread supine cease to be interesting after a while, but Foley possesses a flair for phrasing that boasts both shape and contrast. Lopes informs us that the piece is inspired by the mathematical concept of the Markov chain and that algorithm has dictated part of the composition. What the untutored... Читать дальше...

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said Friday that in his view, the time to raise short-term interest rates is getting “closer and closer,” adding that if the Fed raises rates sooner rather than later, “we can do it gradually.” Based on his forecast, he would envision two increases of one-quarter percentage point each in the federal funds rate this year, emphasizing that the Fed’s actual course will “depend on the data.” Williams is one of 10 voting members of the Fed’s rate-setting Open Market Committee this year. Читать дальше...

Downtown Oakland filled up to overflowing with thousands and thousands of jubilant, joyous, jumping-up-and-down Warriors fans, many of whom decided that a Friday at the office could be sacrificed in order to go nuts over the first basketball title in 40 years. The limousines and double-decker buses began crawling — and the blue-and-gold confetti began fluttering — on Broadway at 10 a.m. The players rode on the top deck of the buses and were greeted with wild, raucous screams. The politicians, civic leaders... Читать дальше...

The figures contained in the department’s annual global terrorism report say that nearly 33,000 people were killed in almost 13,500 terrorist attacks around the world in 2014. There were 20 attacks that killed more than 100 people each in 2014, compared with just two in 2013, according to the figures that were compiled for the State Department by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. Among the 20 mass casualty attacks in 2014... Читать дальше...

Yet less than 48 hours after nine people were shot to death in a South Carolina church, the nation's political leaders, from President Barack Obama to those Republicans who seek to replace him, as well as those in Congress, either did not call for a closer look at gun violence in America or said they didn't see one coming soon. Courting evangelical voters in Washington, a succession of Republican presidential hopefuls stood to express their horror at Wednesday's attack, yet none suggested gun control be addressed. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has refused to place new spending restrictions on Louisiana's TOPS free college tuition program. Rather than automatic increases whenever tuition costs rise, increases to TOPS payments in later years would have needed separate legislative approval.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal jury convicted an Oklahoma man on Friday of illicit sexual conduct with children at a Kenyan orphanage that specializes in caring for neglected children. Matthew Lane Durham, 20, of Edmond, was found guilty of multiple federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and faces decades in prison at sentencing. Convictions for engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places can draw prison terms of up to 30 years and a $250,000 fine, though... Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The son of an inmate who died at the Utah state prison has sued corrections officials and health care providers, accusing them of violating his father's civil rights by failing to give him dialysis for two days. The lawsuit was filed against the state prison warden, the clinical services director at the prison and the director of the offsite dialysis clinic that's part of the University of Utah health care system "Defendants exhibited a shocking degree of deliberate indifference... Читать дальше...

The chief prosecutor in Charleston County wants to talk to the families and review the evidence before making any decision on whether to seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing nine people at a Bible study inside a Charleston church. The crime fits at least one of the reasons prosecutors can seek the death penalty in South Carolina — multiple people were killed in the same act. Wilson's office also is prosecuting a white North Charleston police officer charged with murder in the... Читать дальше...

LONDON — A man is in critical condition in a London hospital after he was found stowed away in the undercarriage of a plane that had just completed a 10-hour flight, and police are investigating whether a man found dead on a west London rooftop had fallen from the same plane. Authorities at Heathrow Airport found the man in the undercarriage of a British Airways plane after it landed Thursday morning on a flight from Johannesburg. Experts believe roughly three-quarters of stowaways do not survive... Читать дальше...

ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teacher accused of secretly recording his kindergarten students using the bathroom has pleaded not guilty to nearly 150 additional charges. The Ashland County prosecutor's office says 32-year old Elliot Gornall pleaded not guilty Friday to the new charges, including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and pandering obscenity involving a minor.

The outdoor musical extravaganzas of composer John Luther Adams have become a welcome tradition for Ojai North, Cal Performances’ annual northward transplant of the venerable Southern California music festival. Like its predecessors, “Inuksuit” and “Strange and Sacred Noise” (which opened the 2012 and 2013 festivals respectively), this hour-long event took place in the Faculty Glade on the UC Berkeley campus, just next to Hertz Hall where most of the more traditional indoor concerts will take place. Читать дальше...

Google traditionally has resisted efforts to erase online content from its Internet search engine, but decided to make an exception with the unauthorized sharing of nude photos because those images are often posted by an ex-spouse, jilted romantic partners or extortionists demanding ransom to take down the pictures.

CVS drugstores that quit tobacco sales *dmlast year are now getting health and beauty makeovers to attract customers who want more than a prescription refill. The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain said this week that it is adding fresh foods, healthy snacks and expanded beauty options at many locations. The push from CVS reflects similar expansions into selling healthier products and more beauty items by rivals Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Rite Aid Corp. Drugstores have been focusing... Читать дальше...

"Crushing ivory in Times Square — literally at the crossroads of the world — says in the clearest of terms that the U.S. is serious about closing its illegal ivory markets and stopping the demand," said John Calvelli, the society's executive vice president for public affairs. U.S. and state government officials, conservationists, animal-welfare advocates and tourists gathered to watch as hundreds of ivory trinkets were turned into a powder that fed into a trough, waiting to be trucked away. Officials... Читать дальше...

Barack Obama launched his 20th trip to the Bay Area as president Friday, landing at SFO at 1256 to begin a tour that includes a speech to 280 mayors meeting in San Francisco and a pair of fundraisers. Obama was expected to address the tragic massacre of nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., and try to recruit those attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting to support his attempt to ease income inquality — an effort the Republican-dominated Congress has blocked. The speech marks a rare open event by Obama... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Democrat Jack Conway vowed Friday to boost spending on early childhood education as Kentucky's gubernatorial candidates made early pitches to a gathering of county officials. The candidates offered contrasting messages in speeches to the influential group of judge-executives and magistrates from across Kentucky. Both had cheering sections in the first joint appearance of their campaign to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. Conway later told reporters that his focus would... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday proposed tough standards to reduce pollution from carbon-emitting trucks and vans, the latest move by President Obama to address global warming. The new fuel efficiency rules from the Environmental Protection Agency are designed to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 24 percent over the next 12 years while reducing oil consumption by up to 1.8 billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the rule. Medium and heavy-duty vehicles account... Читать дальше...

SC teacher charged with sexual assault of minor resigns Police say Guy was charged with third-degree criminal sexual assault with a minor on Wednesday.