Новости за 21.03.2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court ruling that delays a key element of President Barack Obama's strategy to fight climate change will likely push a final decision on the issue to the next president, the Senate's Republican leader said Monday as he urged the nation's 50 governors to continue a "wait-and-see" approach on Obama's plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky advised the governors to defy Obama's effort to limit carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants by refusing to... Читать дальше...

Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles - March 11, 2016LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 11: Kendall Jenner is seen at LAX on March 11, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by GVK/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Model KENDALL JENNER has dismissed reports she “punched” a paparazzo in Paris earlier this month. Kim Kardashian’s younger sister hit headlines after she was photographed seemingly lashing out at a photographer while she was leaving L’Arc nightclub with her close pal and fellow runway regular, Gigi Hadid.... Читать дальше...

Gov. Rick Snyder said Monday he wants Flint and the entire state to have more stringent lead-level regulations than what federal rules require, in the wake of the city’s water contamination. In the long term Michigan will comply with a “much higher standard,” according to a state document laying out the next steps in Flint in four areas — water supply and infrastructure, health and human services, education, and economic development. Under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules, a water system... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities in Las Vegas say a performer known for her impersonation as "Mini Kim Kardashian" died at her apartment during the weekend. The coroner didn't make an immediate ruling on a cause and manner of death, pending laboratory results.

ATHENS — Greece detained hundreds of refugees and migrants on its islands Monday, as officials in Athens and the European Union conceded a much-heralded agreement to send thousands of asylum-seekers back to Turkey is facing delays. Migrants who arrived after the deal took effect Sunday were being led to previously open refugee camps on the islands of Lesbos and Chios and held in detention, authorities on the islands said. Most were fleeing civil war in Syria and other conflicts, traveling first... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM — They landed in Israel late at night — a man in a dark suit and traditional headdress, wheeling a suitcase; a mother, veiled, in a long black robe and holding a sleeping toddler; and a rabbi carrying a Torah scroll believed to be more than 500 years old. Photographs taken at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv by a representative of the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental body that deals with Jewish immigration, documented the arrival late Sunday of the last of the Yemeni Jews who wanted to go to Israel. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A space station supply ship is set to blast off Tuesday night with a commercial-quality 3-D printer for astronaut as well as public use — for a price — and the makings for a large-scale fire. NASA project manager Gary Ruff said this blaze will be second in size only to the 1997 fire on the Russian Mir space station, which was caused by a defective oxygen-generating canister. Orbital ATK's capsule, named Cygnus after the swan constellation, holds nearly 8,000 pounds of station supplies for NASA. Читать дальше...

A photo posted by Hina Yakitori (@hinayakitori) on Mar 10, 2016 at 8:34pm PST Jonathan Moon knows what you’re thinking. “Everybody thinks I’m an idiot,” admits the owner of Blackwater Station (formerly Grange Hall) and the soon to open Hina Yakitori (previously Kushido and Modu test kitchen) in Oakland’s Temescal district. “This is how stupid I am. I own two restaurants and [Hina] will be my fifth opening in the same locations in two years.” Related Links Angel Cakes: Cupcake shop rises in former... Читать дальше...

Widows in India break taboo and celebrate festival of color In most of India, widows like Samaddar have no place in this joyful celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. Samaddar and more than 1,000 other widows gathered in the courtyard of one of the city’s oldest temples — devoted to Krishna, the most playful of the Hindu gods. Hindu priests chanted religious verses as hundreds of widows splashed colored powders and played with water pistols filled with colored water. “Their participation... Читать дальше...

The Taube Theater at the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera, which has become the new home for a variety of San Francisco Opera activities, is an interesting mix of spaciousness and intimacy — and sometimes both at once. Sunday’s Schwabacher Debut Recital by the gifted young baritone Efraín Solís, for example, unfolded beneath the hall’s barnlike high ceiling, but relied on the acoustical wizardry of Meyer Sound’s Constellation to make the singer’s artistry sound up close and personal. Solís, in fact... Читать дальше...

If you don't know what that means then you: a aren't a 14-year-old girl. b love to hate those tiny pictures that people text you all the time. Or c are nowhere near a smartphone or online chat. The Face was chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its 2015 "word" of the year, based on its popularity and reflecting the rise of emojis to help charitable causes, promote businesses and generally assist oh-so-many-more of us in further expressing ourselves on social media and in texts. Emoji overseers approved... Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities are focusing a new search on a man known to have traveled with key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was captured last week in Brussels, officials said Monday. Federal prosecutors appealed to the public for information about 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, who allegedly traveled to Hungary with Abdeslam before the Nov. 13 carnage, and has been traced to safe houses under a false name. Laachraoui was checked by guards at the Austria-Hungary border on Sept. 9... Читать дальше...

School bus driver hurt in dump truck crash in Wisconsin The crash knocked over a utility pole, causing some downed wires and a power outage in the Newton area.

Driver faces sentencing in death of New York college student Investigators say the 65-year-old Gorman had been drinking before his Kia slammed into the Skidmore College students as they walked along a dark road near their Saratoga Springs campus the night of Oct. 31.

Johns Hopkins University security researchers discovered a method to decode encrypted photos or videos sent using Apple’s iMessage, according to The Washington Post. On Monday, Apple released an update to its operating system for smartphones and tablets, iOS, which fixed this particular vulnerability. The company also unveiled a new, smaller iPhone at a press event at its headquarters. By targeting holdouts who have been using older, smaller iPhones, which are more likely to be running older software than newly purchased phones... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Black faculty members at the University of Missouri say the school needs to reconsider retention tactics if it hopes to recruit and keep faculty of color. Black faculty often spend more time mentoring non-white students and faculty, making arguments for promotion, and participating on boards and committees, challenges that have been enough for some to leave.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1SdnDj6 ) reports that 60-year-old Leslie Shook retired after 20 years of providing the voice of cockpit warnings heard by F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter pilots around the world. Shook's insistent and stern instructions provide dozens of voice commands to help military aircraft pilots avoid disaster.

(AP) — LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons, who led the Tigers in scoring, rebounds and assists this season, says he is leaving the Tigers to turn pro. Simmons, who made his announcement in an interview published Monday by ESPN, says he will soon hire an agent and enter the NBA draft, for which Simmons has been widely projected as a top overall pick. After making the NCAA Tournament the season before Simmons arrived, the Tigers finished this season 19-14, missing the tourney after failing to reach 20 victories for the first time in three years. Читать дальше...

Castro restated his government's long-stated position that it simply places different emphasis on a wide range of human rights, assuring its people free health care and education while restricting activities by people it considers to be U.S. agents acting to destabilize the government. President Obama says he believes the Cuban trade embargo is going to end, and while he can't predict when that will be, he believes it will happen at some point because the embargo has not served the interest of the... Читать дальше...

Cruz has been helped by the support of Mitt Romney, the GOP's last presidential nominee who holds clout among the state's predominantly Mormon voters. [...] Ohio Gov. John Kasich is fighting back in Utah, hoping his more pragmatic approach and longtime governing experience will net him delegates there. According to Utah state regulations, if no candidate wins more than half of the caucus votes, each of the three candidates will be awarded delegates proportionally. Ultimately, both Cruz and Kasich increasingly share a mutual goal ... Читать дальше...

A prosecutor says the low-speed chase should never have happened in the first place because the sheriff could have given the mayor the ticket at any time since he knew who he was. Local news outlets report that the charges against Mayor Kenny Wright were dropped on Monday at the request of special prosecutor Verbena Askew.

Transit officials said they haven’t pinpointed a “root cause” for a track power-surge problem that took out 50 BART cars last week north of the North Concord Station, causing them to cease train service between North Concord and Pittsburg-Bay Point to avoid damage to other trains. The electrical spikes have been damaging the cars’ propulsion system, specifically causing a semiconductor device called a thyristor to fail. Since Wednesday night, BART has provided bus service between the two stations. Читать дальше...

Mitt Romney has said he's voting for Cruz in Utah and on Monday Utah Republicans received a pre-recorded call from the GOP's first Mormon presidential nominee. Lawmakers who attended a meeting with Donald Trump in Washington say that the Republican front-runner fielded dozens of questions and talked strategy in a session that's likely to be followed by several more. Donald Trump appears to have just offered a job to an onlooker at his press conference at his under-construction Washington hotel. Читать дальше...

In his opening statement Monday, defense attorney Seymour Amster began focusing on DNA that didn't match Lonnie Franklin Jr. A prosecutor told jurors last month that Franklin's DNA was connected to a number of victims and that all the cases were either linked through DNA or firearms evidence. The defense attorney in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer trial in Los Angeles repeatedly shouted at the judge on the day he was set to deliver his opening statement. The attorney for a man charged with killing... Читать дальше...

(AP) — After almost two years of controversy, a veterans' memorial that bears a religious symbol has been moved from the Boone County Courthouse grounds to a private cemetery. The memorial became the focus of controversy in June 2014 when the Americans United for Separation of Church and State threatened to take legal action against governments that allow religious symbols on public land.