Новости за 07.09.2015

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hearing chants of "run Joe, run," Vice President Joe Biden marched in Pittsburgh's annual Labor Day parade on Monday as speculation swirled about a potential late entry into the Democratic presidential campaign. The vice president donned a black-and-gold United Steelworkers union hat and told hundreds of union members that the gap between the wealthy and poor was hurting the nation. "The tax code's not fair. It's simply not fair," Biden said in a city long associated with organized labor. Читать дальше...

For eight years, Patricia Warren has been shooting formal portraits of people who live in Tenderloin SROs. For seven of those years she has been working with Intersection for the Arts toward a photography exhibit. During that time, she was rejected by Intersection twice, and Intersection itself almost folded once when it ran out of operating cash in 2014. But the timing has worked out beautifully for both, because a wall of Warren’s images is the first thing you see upon entrance... Читать дальше...

Police on Hawaii's Big Island are asking the public for help locating the top section of the spear that's part of the statue of the Hawaiian warrior in Hilo (HEE'-loh). According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Wailoa State Park statue in downtown Hilo was dedicated in 1997.

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Hamden police say a Southern Connecticut State University student was trying to buy drugs when he was robbed by two men near campus early Saturday. Police said the 18-year-old man was on a sidewalk in front of the 190 Pinerock Avenue apartments when he was approached by two men with handguns who stole "a large sum of money" from him. The men ran away after the 12:30 a.m. incident. The student wasn't injured. Police said Sunday they are still looking for the two men. Anyone with... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX - Joe Panik is here, activated from the disabled list after three rehab games with Triple-A Sacramento. He’s not in Monday’s lineup, however. One other new fellow is in new uniform: the manager’s kid, Brett Bochy. To include him on the 40-man roster, the Giants purchased Bochy’s contract from Sacramento and placed Tim Lincecum on the 60-day DL. The Giants will add two more to the roster this week, Matt Cain on Thursday and Jeremy Affeldt on Tuesday, manager Bruce Bochy said. Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Courting unions on Labor Day, President Barack Obama denounced Republicans for a "constant attack on working Americans" and said he was using his executive power to force federal contractors to give paid sick leave to their employees. Obama was met with resounding applause at a major union rally and breakfast in Boston on Monday when he said he had signed the executive order aboard Air Force One as he flew in to mark Labor Day. He said Republicans who claim the mantle of middle-class protectors are talking big... Читать дальше...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich beat Mexican street corn, salt potato pizza and other mobile chefs' delights in the New York State Fair's inaugural food truck competition. The sandwich prepared by PB&J's Lunch Box of Syracuse won the Judge's Choice award at Sunday's competition, which featured 10 other entrants from central New York, the Finger Lakes and Rochester. Rochester-based Smokin Pete's Barbecue won first place in the People's Choice competition for its loaded pulled pork tater tots. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Deer got the munchies at an industrial hemp crop in southern Oregon. The deer got by barbed-wire fencing a couple weeks ago and went through the hemp plants like high-powered mowers, the Grants Pass Daily Courier reported (http://is.gd/AsBsHb). Doyle said the group expects to have other plants go to harvest that will produce hemp seed for sale. Only some of the crop is protected by the very tall fencing needed to thwart deer.

Teenage girls dancing in the annual cultural festival heard voices and rushed toward the area where President Jacob Zuma and Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini were seated during the Saturday ceremony in KwaZulu-Natal province. Nomagugu Ngobese, president of a cultural group that trains the young women, heard reports that priests were summoned on Friday, after some dancers began wailing, apparently possessed. According to Zulu custom, only virgins are allowed to bring reeds to the royal homestead during the four-day ceremony.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A shuttered hotel where the nation's first presidential primary ballots have been traditionally cast will once against host midnight voting in 2016, according to developers working to overhaul and expand the historic resort. The nearly 150-year-old Balsams resort in Dixville Notch closed in September 2011, and its new owners are still waiting for environmental permits to move ahead with extensive restoration plans, which include a new hotel and conference center and a larger ski area. Читать дальше...

Charles Ingoglia, a vice president of the National Council for Behavioral Health, helps coordinate a network of 2,300 not-for-profit clinics nationwide that provide mental health services. According to the American Medical Association, the total number of physicians in the U.S. increased by 45 percent from 1995 to 2013, while the number of adult and child psychiatrists rose by only 12 percent, from 43,640 to 49,079. Dr. Renee Binder, president of the American Psychiatric Association, says the perception... Читать дальше...

The Atlantic looks like it is entering in to a new quieter cycle of storm activity, like in the 1970s and 1980s, two prominent hurricane researchers wrote Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists at Colorado State University, including the professor who pioneered hurricane seasonal prognostication, say they are seeing a localized cooling and salinity level drop in the North Atlantic near Greenland. Warmer saltier produces periods of more and stronger storms followed by cooler less salty... Читать дальше...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. (AP) — They'd barely arrived on campus at St. Bonaventure University, but already the new students were talking about hooking up. Administrators didn't mind. In fact, they'd encouraged — even required — it to comply with a new state law meant to prevent sex assaults on campuses. At colleges elsewhere, students watched skits about sex, saw videos on YouTube, had face-to-face sessions at orientation and clicked through online courses for what has become one of the earliest lessons of college life... Читать дальше...

Bergdahl could face a life sentence if convicted of the charge, which accuses him of endangering fellow soldiers when he "left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations." The Obama administration has been criticized both for agreeing to release five Taliban operatives from the Guantanamo Bay prison and for heralding Bergdahl's return to the U.S. with an announcement in the White House Rose Garden. Recent prosecutions under the misbehavior charge include a Marine lance... Читать дальше...

DENVER (AP) — New research shows floods like the one that ransacked northern Colorado two years ago, killing 10 people, might be more common than previously thought — and that could require more homeowners to get flood insurance and trigger more stringent construction rules. [...] recently completed studies of the Big Thompson River, St. Vrain Creek and other hard-hit waterways show it was mostly a 1-in-100 event, said Kevin Houck, chief of watershed and flood protection for the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Читать дальше...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The focus on a toxic mine spill that fouled rivers in three Western states shifts to Congress this week as lawmakers kick off a series of hearings into how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accidentally unleashed the deluge of poisoned water. Republican committee leaders in the House and Senate said EPA officials were frustrating their attempts to investigate the spill by withholding documents that could explain what went wrong when a cleanup team doing excavation work... Читать дальше...

Consumer Reports recently named this year's winning vehicles, as well as its duds.

(AP) — Since Bonnie Jean Cook's release on a rare grant of clemency, after 27 years in prison, she has been acclimating slowly to modern society with bingo games at her apartment building and outings to browse thrift stores. Cook, convicted of murder in the shooting death of a pregnant woman in 1986 when her name was Bonnie Foreshaw, won early release in 2013 following a lengthy campaign by author Wally Lamb and others who felt she was treated too harshly by the criminal justice system. How people cling to their cellphones... Читать дальше...

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You rode around the neighborhood on your bike with a pack of kids. Not an adult in sight. No cell phone in your pocket. If you needed to call Mom, you found a pay phone or hopped into a friend’s house and dialed on a rotary phone. After a whirl around the neighborhood, a game

San Francisco has already earned the dubious honor of most expensive city in the USA for renters, taking the crown away from Manhattan earlier this year. And according to the latest data from Zumper’s National Rent Report for September, 2015, S.F. has no intention of giving that crown back anytime soon. The report, which charts the

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The unexpected rises of billionaire Donald Trump and socialist Bernie Sanders. Signs of weakness for Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Curiosity about the future of Vice President Joe Biden. It's been a summer of political chaos. Yet in Ohio, the nation's most reliable general election bellwether, voters are taking a more measured view of a race they ultimately may decide. "It's all just chatter," said Judith Anderson, 40, a Democrat from Cincinnati. "We're a ways... Читать дальше...