Новости за 22.03.2016

Service between the Pittsburg/Bay Point and North Concord stations had been suspended while maintenance crews tried to determine the cause of a mysterious glitch that damaged the electrical system on scores of train cars operating over that stretch of track last Wednesday. During the shutdown, all riders were shuttled between the two stations on a bus bridge while BART crews attempted to put cars back into service by scavenging parts from other cars to replace the damaged components. BART has not determined what is causing the damage... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A 15-year-old boy was killed when he was struck in the head while playing a game of "dodging arrows" at a friend's house, and criminal charges could be possible, authorities said Monday. Caleb Fairchild, an eighth-grader, was playing the bow-and-arrow game Saturday evening when he was hit by an arrow in in Chapmanville, about 45 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said. No parents were around when Caleb and two other kids were playing in a front yard, said State Police Sgt. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan hammered the Obama administration on Monday for the nuclear deal with Iran, telling America's leading pro-Israel group that the agreement legitimized Iran's nuclear program instead of dismantling it. The Wisconsin Republican also announced in a speech at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that his first overseas trip as House speaker will be a return visit to Israel. Ryan and other Republicans remain frustrated... Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS - Stephen Curry looked fresh as he launched jumpers during Monday morning’s shootaround at the Target Center. Curry and the Warriors are trying to bounce back from their worst offensive game of the season, Saturday night’s 87-79 loss in San Antonio. The Warriors were held to a season-low point total, in part because Curry scored only 14 points on 4-of-18 shooting, including 1-of-12 on three-pointers. [...] Curry refused to acknowledge weariness played any role in his sub-par outing. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Former President Bill Clinton told a crowd in Spokane that his wife, Hillary Clinton, would expand access to college education if she was elected president. At Spokane Falls Community College, Bill Clinton said Hillary Clinton doesn't believe college should be free for everyone but she would widen grant programs, raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for college and make college loans a lot more like mortgages, bundled together and payable over a specified period of time at low interest.

Baker told reporters Monday that the federal government should require more opioid education as part of the curriculum in dental, medical and nursing schools. Baker says there's still debate about the best way to fight opioid addiction and federal research organizations like the National Institutes of Health could help states and medical providers "get a lot smarter about what works on treatment."

[...] new research shows that Apple's security isn't as impenetrable as both the company and its critics claim. [...] perhaps more significantly, the discovery is a blow to government arguments that Apple's encryption technology makes it impossible for law enforcement to access information stored on devices connected to criminal investigations. Some government and law enforcement officials argue that companies that use encryption in their products and services should be required to include a so-called... Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An effort by liberal groups to pressure Republicans to allow Senate consideration of President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee got off to a modest start Monday as small groups of demonstrators rallied outside lawmakers' offices around the country. Five days after Obama tabbed federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the vacant seat, about 25 people appeared outside the Columbus, Ohio, office of GOP Sen. Rob Portman, who is backing Republican leaders' insistence... Читать дальше...

Anyone checking out Google on Monday glimpsed a dense artwork packed with African American imagery, the search engine’s name spelled by a rope of braided black hair. The company’s latest home page doodle came courtesy of Akilah Johnson, a Washington, D.C., high school sophomore. On Monday, Johnson beat out more than 100,000 other young artists to win this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, a competition to design the sometimes playful, sometimes provocative images that often grace the company’s Web page. Читать дальше...

ABC announced Monday that it is planning a seven-episode miniseries looking at the early years of the battle for gay rights in San Francisco called “When We Rise,” written and created by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black (“Milk”). The series, which will be filmed partially in San Francisco, will focus on figures such as Cleve Jones, founder of the Names Project; women’s rights leader Roma Guy; African American community organizer Ken Jones; and transgender activist Cecilia Chung. “When We Rise”... Читать дальше...

Bernie Sanders ventured to the northern reaches of Arizona on Thursday night, far away from the southern metropolises that house most of the state's voters but onto the land of a key voting bloc in Tuesday's Democratic primary — Native Americans PHOENIX (AP) — Bernie Sanders ventured to the northern reaches of Arizona on Thursday night, far away from the southern metropolises that house most of the state's voters but onto the land of a key voting bloc in Tuesday's Democratic primary — Native Americans. Читать дальше...

A mall Easter bunny and a father who got into a scuffle in New Jersey have both been charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct. Jersey City police announced the charges Monday, one day after videos of the brawl were posted on social media. The video posted on Twitter on Sunday evening shows a chaotic scene at the Newport Centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, near an area set up to take photos with the Easter bunny.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A coalition of liberal groups staged rallies around the country on Monday targeting Republican senators who oppose confirmation hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Within hours of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death Feb. 13, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said there would be no Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for any Obama nominee and no confirmation vote by the Senate. With the Senate on a two-week break, liberal groups focused on... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Donald Trump's ambitious plan to build a giant wall on the border hits close to home for people like Berenice Andrews. The front door of her family's home is just feet away from a fence separating the U.S. and Mexico. There are already about 650 miles of fencing, including the steel fence that divides the sister cities of Nogales in Arizona and Mexico and ranges from 18 feet to 26 feet tall. The Associated Press interviewed people who live on the border to get their perspective on Trump's border wall plan... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a conservative challenge to the marijuana legalization laws adopted in Colorado and elsewhere that permit adults to buy, sell or use an ounce of the drug. By a 6-2 vote, the justices turned away a lawsuit brought by Nebraska and Oklahoma, whose state attorneys complained that illegal marijuana was pouring into their states as a result of Colorado’s liberalized laws. Since California’s voters in 1996 authorized medical use of marijuana, 22 other states have adopted similar measures. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge brokered a last-minute deal on Monday to dismiss criminal charges against a woman for jailhouse confrontations with guards during the three years she spent awaiting trial on Rikers Island, much of it in solitary confinement, before being acquitted by a jury and freed last spring. Hailey, who was diagnosed with borderline character disorder, mood disorder and anti-social personality disorder while locked up, had faced up to seven years in prison for allegedly breaking a chair... Читать дальше...

GERMANY-BERLIN-FILM-FESTIVALBERLIN, Feb. 11, 2016– U.S. actor George Clooney poses during a photocall to promote the movie ‘Hail, Caesar!’ at the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 11, 2016. (Xinhua/Zhang Fan via Getty Images) GEORGE CLOONEY has heaped praise on U.S. presidential candidate HILLARY CLINTON in a new campaign email. The “Gravity” star has been vocal about his disdain for Hillary’s main opponent, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, branding... Читать дальше...

At one point, we wanted to get to the highest point on the island and drove and drove, and the land rose and then the road seemed to evaporate into a grassy field, but we kept driving as if it was still there. Lincoln kept driving, the brittle grass brushing the sides of the vehicle. [...] I shouted, “Lincoln, stop the car,” within a few feet of a cliff. Each night we went to a bamboo beach bar and drank too many rum punches, which turned to sugar in our systems and kept us awake through the night. Читать дальше...