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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's inability to overhaul the nation's immigration system will stand as the most glaring failure in his effort to enact a vision of social change. Advocates and allies will credit him with embracing a newly aggressive assertion of executive power that, despite last week's Supreme Court deadlock and political opposition, remains a legal pathway for the next president. The decision left in place an injunction freezing his 2014 executive action, which had expanded... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Nine naval officers and enlisted sailors have been disciplined for their actions in connection with an incident in January that led to 10 U.S. sailors being taken captive by the Iranian government, the Pentagon said Thursday. While Iran was within its right to investigate why the boats were near the island, the review says, the Iranians violated international law in how they treated the sailors, who were held for a day, senior Pentagon officials said. [...] of the incident, Republicans... Читать дальше...

The rebound in Britain’s main stock market to where it was before the vote to leave the European Union does not mean all is now fine for the country’s economy. The index is dominated by multinationals that do not reflect the national economy, which the Bank of England’s chief said Thursday would need more monetary stimulus after last week’s vote plunged Britain into an existential crisis and opened up new uncertainties for businesses. The economic outlook has deteriorated and some monetary policy... Читать дальше...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Legislature passes partial budget amid historic standoff; averts shutdown of schools.

The former London mayor dropped his campaign to become Conservative Party leader and prime minister after Justice Secretary Michael Gove abruptly withdrew his support for Johnson and announced he would run himself. Johnson, a prominent campaigner for Britain’s withdrawal from the 28-nation European Union, told a news conference where he was expected to announce his candidacy that the next Conservative leader would need to unite the party and ensure Britain’s standing in the world. The decision by Johnson... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama signs rescue package to help Puerto Rico manage $70 billion debt, create oversight board.

WASHINGTON (AP) — US confirms first self-driving car death involving Tesla S driver using autopilot.

While the Assembly, Senate and governor have agreed to the bulk of the spending plan for the next fiscal year, a handful of minor provisions remain sticking points. The move came just after legislators approved a massive investment in the nation's largest population of mentally ill homeless people with a $2 billion bond to build permanent, supportive housing. Democratic lawmakers say homelessness is a public health crisis affecting tens of thousands more people than those who will be helped with the bond. Читать дальше...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a Louisiana landowner's attempt to keep the federal government from listing some of his timberland as essential for the future of an endangered frog.

Despite being unsure of their surroundings, the sailors did not adjust their on-board navigation displays to enlarge the purple dot; if they had, they would have seen that it was labeled Farsi Island, a well-known base for the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. "No crewmembers on either (boat) utilized a paper navigational chart in order to plot their exact location or to identify the island they had seen, even though the charts were available" on their boats, known as Riverine Command Boats, the investigation report said. Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — In a real-life political drama mixing Shakespearean tragedy with "House of Cards," Britain's victorious anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson saw his chances of leading his country evaporate Thursday after the defection of a key ally. The former London mayor dropped his campaign to become Conservative Party leader and prime minister after Justice Secretary Michael Gove abruptly withdrew his support for Johnson and announced he would run himself. Johnson, a prominent campaigner for Britain's... Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 117-year-old woman in Mexico City finally received her birth certificate, and died a few hours later. Trinidad Alvarez Lira had waited years for proof that she had been born in 1898. She hadn't received all the government old age benefits she was entitled to because she had no proof of her age. The city Department of Social Development said Thursday they had finally granted her birth certificate earlier this week, but she died of a heart attack on Wednesday. Apparently Alvarez Lira didn't have time to cash a single check.

(AP) — Kicking off a national tour on opioid addiction, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack brought together the governors of Tennessee and Virginia on Thursday to talk about stemming Appalachia's drug abuse epidemic. The town hall reinforced President Barack Obama's call for Congress to pump $1.1 billion more into substance abuse treatment. Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam see solutions in a mix of treatment, prescription monitoring, drug courts, education and new economic opportunities. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon says Planned Parenthood can continue receiving funding for women's health services for a while, despite a Missouri budget provision attempting to stop it. The federal government says states cannot block abortion providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion services.

The Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/29dIGnJ ) that the Garfield County Coroner's Office says commercial rafters on Saturday found the body of 49-year-old Jonathan Carl Rounsaville of Glenwood Springs. Coroner Robert Glassmire says there were no signs of trauma on the body or any indication of foul play.

Authorities say the husband gunned down his wife outside a drug store and killed their children at an apartment before shooting himself Wednesday. The Clark County coroner's office said the youngest child, 9-year-old Anhurak Jason Dej-Oudom, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Police say there were previous domestic violence reports involving a family of five who died Wednesday in a murder-suicide at two locations in Las Vegas. Police Lt. Dan McGrath says authorities received at least two previous... Читать дальше...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Five finalists have been chosen to submit designs for a new bus terminal in midtown Manhattan. The finalists are Arcadis New York, part of a Netherlands-based firm; a group headed by New York- and Shanghai-based Archilier Architecture; a joint venture between STV and AECOM, companies that have worked on projects such as AirTrain JFK and the Second Avenue Subway; a team led by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects of New Haven, Connecticut, and international design firm Perkins Eastman.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortions in Texas plummeted 15 percent during the first year after the Republican-controlled state passed tough restrictions that the U.S. Supreme Court has now struck down — the best indication yet of just how hard it had become to get an abortion in America's second-largest state. The health department released the statistics Thursday, after lengthy delays that the agency blamed on finalizing the data.

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The two countries agreed to split the two-year term after neither received the two-thirds majority needed to win the seat outright and were deadlocked 95 to 95. The General Assembly formalized the agreement Thursday by voting Italy into the seat for a one-year term in 2017.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours after the Supreme Court sent his immigration policy into legal limbo, President Barack Obama huddled around a long conference table in the Roosevelt Room with disappointed activists. [...] with that, Obama delivered his version of a concession speech on a fight that has frustrated him like few others, roiled the campaign to replace him and is certain to test his successor. Despite two campaigns full of promises and multiple strategies, Obama imposed only incremental, largely temporary changes on the immigration system.

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — The opposition Mongolian People’s Party won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections in the landlocked nation, where a fall in commodity prices has sent the economy into a sharp decline. The MPP is the former communist party that ruled Mongolia for 70 years before the country’s transition to democracy and a free market economy after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Rising unemployment, billions of dollars in government debt and disillusionment with the political... Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For over 100 years, Texas had just four head coaches lead one of the most successful college baseball programs in the country. [...] the Longhorns turn the program over to David Pierce, a self-described "slow-talking Texan" who doesn't yet have 200 total wins in a career spent mostly as an assistant and just five seasons as a head coach. The former Texas high school coach and player called landing the Longhorns' job at age 53 "a special day, a special journey." Texas reassigned former coach Augie Garrido ... Читать дальше...

Over the course of 80 minutes of music, delicate jests and pointed satire punctuate some of the composer’s most fervent explorations of death and redemption. The Second Symphony, dubbed “Resurrection” (though not by the composer himself), frames a massive drama that spans five movements. Death is the focus of the first, one of the composer’s most fiery, funereal creations, while the vocal conclusion — beginning with a radiant solo for mezzo-soprano and leading into the triumphal choral hymn that gives the symphony its sobriquet ... Читать дальше...

KABUL — Taliban militants launched a twin suicide attack on Thursday, targeting a convoy of buses carrying Afghan police cadets outside of the capital and killing 37 people, mostly policemen, and wounding 40, an Afghan official said. The first suicide attacker struck two buses carrying trainee policemen, and a second attacker targeted those who rushed to the scene to help and also hit a third bus, Rahmati said. Later Thursday, an attack on a convoy carrying security forces in eastern Ghazni province killed two and wounded four troops... Читать дальше...