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The strikes, which the activists blamed on Russian and Syrian warplanes, came after an advance toward the city by government forces stalled, with the extremists taking back large areas in the surrounding province. Syrian President Bashar Assad meanwhile designated a new prime minister to form a government following April’s parliamentary elections. Activists from the group known as Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, which relies on residents to smuggle news out of Islamic State-held territory... Читать дальше...

DETROIT — Despite adding sophisticated electronic safety features and touch-screens that once were prone to glitches, most automakers improved their reliability scores this year in an annual survey of new-car buyers. The latest survey by the J.D. Power consulting firm determined that quality improved for 21 of 33 auto brands in the survey. “It has become clear that automakers are listening to the customer, identifying pain points and are focused on continuous improvement,” said Renee Stephens... Читать дальше...

Born a slave near the Texas border with Mexico in 1864, Ellis triumphed over the entrenched racism of Gilded Age America by “passing” — or slipping between the gaps of the country’s coercive but ambiguous racial categories — and becoming a rich entrepreneur in New York. Ellis’ facility with the language and an early job with a local merchant allowed him to enter into cross-border trade with Mexico, and by 1888 he was a dealer in “hides, wool, and cotton” in San Antonio. [...] Ellis also had greater... Читать дальше...

At last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry forecast a future where Xboxes and PlayStations are updated almost as frequently as smartphones. The move to release more consoles with varying features may mark the end of the traditional console cycle, the decades-old tradition of new systems coming out every seven years or so. Microsoft offered a glimpse of this potential reality by unveiling the Xbox One S, a slimmer Xbox One set for release in August, with an infrared blaster and support for 4K video. Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on DNA test results showing a Colorado prison inmate is not Prince's son, according to a person who has seen a sealed document: (all times local): The mother of a Colorado prison inmate who claims to be Prince's son says she doesn't believe reports that DNA results show Carlin Q. Williams' claim is false. Williams, a 39-year-old Kansas City man whose long criminal record includes drug and domestic violence charges, is serving nearly eight years in federal prison for... Читать дальше...

A primate-like mutant turns soulful eyes on the viewer — never mind its shoe-sole posterior — in “The Dancer.” A hirsute girl tenderly known as the “The Comforter” cuddles a critter that has the chubby toes of a human infant and a head resembling a cow udder. A long-haired, vaguely female figure leans in, riddled with strange growths (or alien offspring?), in “The Osculating Curve.” “I think what I create is beautiful,” she says over the phone from her home in Melbourne, Australia. At the base... Читать дальше...

An American Canyon teenager is recovering after being bitten by Central and South America's most dangerous snake.

"Vinyl" New York Premiere - ArrivalsNEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 15: (L-R) Mick Jagger, Olivia Wilde and Martin Scorcese attend the New York Premiere of “Vinyl” at Ziegfeld Theatre on January 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images) TV bosses have scrapped plans for a second season of MARTIN SCORSESE and MICK JAGGER’s TV series VINYL after giving it an early renewal. The rock ‘n’ roll drama, starring Bobby Cannavale as a drug-crazed record label boss in 1970s New York, launched on HBO in February... Читать дальше...

Though S.F. has proven to be an inhospitable place for renters the last several years, the circumstances surrounding this eviction are particularly startling.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) — A Texas coroner says a 13-year-old girl accidentally drowned during swim practice at a school district pool. School District spokeswoman Julie Thannum says Elise was found as swim club members finished warming up.

An Allegiant Air official now says there were 202 passengers and seven crew members aboard a flight to Indianapolis that returned to Las Vegas after the pilot reported a tire blow-out during takeoff. [...] Crews says the runway was briefly closed while workers cleaned up rubber debris shed during the landing. An airport official says an Allegiant Air flight to Indianapolis returned to Las Vegas with 213 passengers and crew aboard after the pilot reported a tire blow-out during takeoff. Crews says... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Federal authorities and a congressman said Wednesday they were continuing to investigate whether a Department of Homeland Security employee with a top-secret clearance was planning to attack at the agency's Washington headquarters when he entered the building with a gun and other weapons. According to court documents filed by the federal government, investigators have probable cause to believe Wienke "was conspiring with another to commit workplace violence, and more particularly may have... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A judge has ordered alcohol and drug testing for an American Airlines co-pilot accused of drunkenness at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Authorities say his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit.

NEW YORK (AP) — Diplomats, United Nation leaders and dozens of others gathered in New York to honor slain British Parliament member Jo Cox, joining thousands of others around the world Wednesday in memorial services for her. About 100 people gathered outside the UNICEF building near the United Nations, as memorial services also took place in London, Brussels, Nairobi, Kenya, and other cities. Other dignitaries included U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Elisasson, United Kingdom Ambassador Matthew Rycroft... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Police in north Alabama say a man is facing charges in the shooting death of a teen who was fleeing the scene of an alleged burglary. Police say the case will be presented to a grand jury by the Madison County District Attorney's office.

(AP) — As a special session on taxes nears its end, Louisiana's state senators Wednesday unveiled their approach for spending $258 million raised so far, protecting college campuses but leaving K-12 public schools on the chopping block. The Senate Finance Committee prioritized college campuses, health services and corrections programs over K-12 public schools in its reshuffling of a House version of the budget bill to incorporate the latest round of tax changes. Senators said they were concerned... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A pedestrian walking down a busy commercial strip of a New Orleans suburb in the middle of the afternoon shot a sheriff's deputy multiple times, killing him, after being stopped by the officer Wednesday, an official said. Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's spokesman, announced the officer's death as police flooded a nearby neighborhood, searching for the suspect by helicopter and combing the area with dogs. "The normal operational tour of duty for these guys who work in street... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Three Detroit police officers accused of lying during an internal investigation can't be charged based on those statements, the Michigan Supreme Court said Wednesday, acknowledging that its decision "may be viewed as unpalatable." In 2009, a motorist accused a Detroit officer of assaulting him at a gas station while two officers watched. "Allowing an officer to provide false statements and yet receive full immunity utterly defeats the obvious purpose of the statute and serves no... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Home sales in the San Francisco area tumbled for a second month even as the median sales price in May hit an all-time high of $700,000, a research firm reported Wednesday. "The tight supply of homes on the market continues to constrain sales, while low mortgage rates and job growth help fuel healthy demand," said CoreLogic research analyst Andrew LePage. May also set a new median sales price peak in the San Francisco region, beating April's record $690,000. San Francisco County's... Читать дальше...

The chairman of the U.S. House committee on homeland security says he's concerned about reports that a U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee had a gun and a knife and is being investigated to determine if he was planning to harm someone at the agency's headquarters. Police in the West Virginia hometown of a federal homeland security worker under investigation for why he brought weapons to work are assisting Homeland Security and Secret Service agents in the case. No one answered the door at the Martinsburg... Читать дальше...

Though Bama is just 70 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, ongoing clashes between the militants and troops make travel unsafe and farmers have not planted crops for 18 months, Dr. Christopher Mampula of Doctors Without Borders explained by telephone from Paris. Nigeria's military has greatly curtailed the 7-year-old insurgency that has killed some 20,000 people, but militants still attack villages, deploy suicide bombers and have staged attacks across Nigeria's borders in Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

Rumer Willis, a champion of “Dancing With the Stars” and daughter of Hollywood fixtures Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, is bringing her cabaret act to San Francisco. The 27-year-old singer played Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival of “Chicago” and spent more than two years honing her act on the Los Angeles lounge scene, delivering knockout renditions of songs made famous by the likes of Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday. Later this year, Willis plans to enter the studio with Linda Perry, who has previously... Читать дальше...

The app asks travelers to snap photos of any hotel rooms they stay in. Police are also asked to feed the database with photos from escort advertisements depicting minors in hotel rooms. "In this case, individual citizens who want to help stop sex trafficking but didn't know how, now have a tangible way to contribute," said William Woods, the special agent in charge of the FBI's St. Louis Division. Hackett, Quinn and Ritter founded a resource center on sex trafficking, and in 2014 they started... Читать дальше...

The measures would reverse a rooftop solar rate hike, undo NV Energy's monopoly and exempt more medical equipment from the sales tax. A group that wants to break up NV Energy's monopoly says it submitted signatures by the deadline and is hopeful that enough are valid to qualify the measure for the November ballot. Supporters of the Medical Patient Tax Relief Act, a proposed ballot question that would exempt certain medical equipment from sales tax, said they gathered at least 2,000 more signatures... Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — The head of a United Nations agency on Wednesday condemned the death of a freelance journalist in Texas whose body was found with a gunshot wound in the back yard of a home. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said from Paris that authorities must determine the motive for the killing of Spanish-language journalist Jacinto Torres Hernandez, 57. Family members said at a news conference last week that Torres had worked on stories such as human trafficking that could place him in danger. Читать дальше...