Новости за 15.07.2016

(AP) — Wichita police are hosting a free community cookout that aims to open a dialogue amid racial tensions across the country. After a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest earlier this week, Police Chief Gordon Ramsay met with local activist leaders to discuss replacing another protest planned for Sunday with the cookout.

(AP) — When Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser retires from the court at the end of July, he'll leave behind a legacy of 18 years on the court, heated exchanges with liberal-leaning justices and, now, a library. Prosser has been widely regarded as part of the officially nonpartisan court's conservative-leaning majority and has been involved in heated exchanges with liberal-leaning justices Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley in recent years. In 2011, Prosser placed his hands around... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has bragged he could get a billion-dollar campaign loan simply by walking into a bank. Though independent appraisals of Trump's net worth have concluded his claimed $10 billion net worth is exaggerated, he will soon be the wealthiest person to receive a major party's nomination and has made his fortune a campaign issue. In 1990, during an ultimately unsuccessful bid for Congress, Pence used campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses... Читать дальше...

To be sure, Congress can claim some accomplishments this year, including a rescue package for Puerto Rico, labeling requirements for genetically modified food, and legislation to tackle the opioid epidemic, although Democrats say the anti-drug bill won't do anything because it lacks funding. [...] Congress' annual appropriations process of passing the 12 annual spending bills that are needed to pay for agency budgets has gone off the rails amid a variety of disputes, pointing to the likelihood of... Читать дальше...

Through our persistent phone calls, we discovered that American Airlines never transferred my luggage to the Finnair contractor in Miami. Finnair was the last segment of our flight, so it is responsible. American Airlines should have transferred your luggage to Finnair. [...] you’re correct, Finnair was responsible for delivering your luggage to you in Paris, and it didn’t — not until the next day. Compensating passengers for incidentals while they wait for their luggage is something of a gray area. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A team of 8th graders from a public middle school in Washington state has won the International Rocketry Challenge in London. Five students from Odle Middle School in Bellevue beat out teams from Japan, the United Kingdom and France to win Friday's competition at the Farnborough International Airshow.

(AP) — A former Vanderbilt football player was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison after he was convicted of taking part in the gang rape of an unconscious female student. The Associated Press does not generally identify victims of sexual assault. The victim said she learned of what happened to her when detectives showed her the graphic images retrieved from the phones. The sentencing comes amid widespread furor over a Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced to six months in jail for a similar crime... Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump revealed a new campaign logo that's giving some people the giggles. The logo was released Friday as Trump announced his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again!" finishes off the logo. Others made the connection to T.P. being a common abbreviation for toilet paper. The overall effect with the typography and image is pretty obvious, said Cyrus Highsmith, an internationally celebrated designer.

GOP convention is expected to draw mass protests, firearms Despite Cleveland’s temporary bans on items as innocuous as tennis balls and bicycle locks downtown, Ohio law will allow demonstrators with radically different viewpoints to openly carry handguns and rifles as they encounter one another outside the convention. The concern is that Trump’s presidential run this year has brought especially passionate opposition from left-wing groups and noticeably vocal support from far-right groups. FBI... Читать дальше...

(To test this theory during one visit, I borrowed a chair from a farmer, and you really can see for miles!) This polder land — flat land reclaimed from the sea — is the source of several Dutch symbols, beginning with the wooden shoes that allowed farmers to walk across soggy fields. Once, while climbing into a working windmill during a strong wind, I felt the wonder and excitement that industrious people must have felt a thousand years ago when the technology to harness wind and water power with mills helped Europe come out of the Dark Ages. Читать дальше...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The University of Maryland's police chief apologized and said an officer has been "severely disciplined" for using pepper spray on a student at an off-campus graduation party attended primarily by African-American students. The party was peaceful and officers were wrong in taking an aggressive approach in breaking it up for overcrowding, police chief David Mitchell said in a statement Thursday. "The antagonistic approach of the police in this initial encounter, and the demand for a break-up of the party... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A law designed to extend federal and state reviews of cold cases of racially motivated killings during the civil rights era is one step closer to being renewed. A unanimous Senate voted Thursday evening to permanently renew a 2007 law that calls for a full accounting of race-based murders, many of which had been closed for decades. The Senate measure would also update the 2007 law and encourage investigations of more recent racially motivated crimes, which Burr said could offer... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A 21-year-old western Michigan man faces additional charges in connection with the shooting of three people outside a high school basketball game in February. The Muskegon Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/29P66zK ) that Clarence McCaleb was arraigned Friday on six charges, including three for assault with intent to commit murder.

At the 124 Spider's introduction, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles officials were quick to praise the Miata's inherent goodness, but took pains to point out FCA set out to reinterpret the sports car. While the 124 Spider shares the Miata's 90.9-inch wheelbase, the 159.6-inch long Fiat is 5.5 inches longer, has more trunk room, an acoustic glass windshield and thicker rear window (like the Miata, not glass) and a thicker fabric top that made for easy conversation levels when buttoned up. Fiat focused on cutting noise... Читать дальше...

Bentley's office announced Friday that it is hiring Ross Garber, who represented the governors of South Carolina and Connecticut during impeachment proceedings. Twenty-three House members signed impeachment articles accusing the governor of corruption and neglect of duty after Bentley admitted making inappropriate remarks to a former aide.

(AP) — A former Oklahoma sheriff who was friends with a reserve deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man last year pleaded no contest Friday to failing to release key information about how the officer was trained. A special grand jury indicted Glanz last September, saying that in the days after Eric Harris was shot dead on a Tulsa street, the sheriff should have shared a 2009 memo that raised questions about reserve deputy Robert Bates' qualifications. According to a special grand jury empaneled... Читать дальше...

Jeep's all-new Renegade model, introduced last year as the iconic brand's first subcompact crossover, has been designed to appeal to a wide range of consumers, including off-road aficionados (like me). To keep making the vehicles that we purists consider to be the real Jeeps, Chrysler needed to come up with more models that could beef up overall sales and make the brand profitable. Jeep said the Renegade also comes with "the segment's first disconnecting rear axle and power take-off unit," designed... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Senate Democrats is pushing for the renewal of a decades-old law that allows the United States to hit companies with economic sanctions for doing business with Iran. In exchange for Tehran rolling back its nuclear program, the U.S. and other world powers agreed to suspend wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions that had choked the Iranian economy. Separately, a bipartisan group of senators announced two days ago a more aggressive approach, introducing new legislation... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona police announced Friday the discovery of improvised bombs and several pounds of explosives in the home and car of a man who traveled to a quiet Nevada town and set off bombs that killed him and showered the community with shrapnel and debris. The material was found in Kingman, Arizona, by officers searching the 40-foot motorhome, storage shed and car of the 59-year-old suspect, Glenn Franklin Jones, said Kingman Deputy Police Chief Rusty Cooper. Officers were still searching... Читать дальше...

Since Maduro took office in 2013, he has named a number of active and retired generals to run the economy. “We’re going to defeat this economic war because there’s political will, from the people’s power and the armed forces,” said Gen. Pedro Alvarez while carrying out the inspection near the capital. The doubling-down on the armed forces would appear to make political sense for Maduro, who lacks the military background of his predecessor and mentor, the late Hugo Chavez. With Maduro’s popularity... Читать дальше...

Some delegates hope the choice of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will help unite Republicans and fire up the party base to support Trump. Tom Rath, a New Hampshire delegate and longtime adviser to GOP campaigns, called Pence a "solid pick" who "should be reassuring to a lot of people in the party." Late Thursday, Trump allied with party leaders to head off an attempt to let delegates vote for the candidate of their choice, rather than the candidate who won them. Pence has a strong reputation among fellow Republicans as a social conservative. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — It was not one particular shooting that moved Sen. Tim Scott to come to the Senate floor, speaking in strikingly personal terms about being a black man in America. Rather, it was the fact that they just kept coming: the police shooting in Baton Rouge, La.; another in Falcon Heights, Minn.; and then the shooting in Dallas that left five police officers dead. Scott — whose hometown is North Charleston, S.C. — felt the unwanted glare of the national spotlight last year after a white police... Читать дальше...

Just three months before the earliest voting begins in this state that awards 29 electoral votes — more than 10 percent of the 270 necessary to claim the White House — it appears Trump's Florida campaign is not running on all cylinders. In nearby Tampa in contrast, the Florida headquarters for Hillary Clinton buzzes with several dozen 20-somethings — paid campaign employees — manning phones and laptops, surrounded by maps and white boards covered in notes, names and numbers. Overall, out of 41... Читать дальше...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The striking down of El Salvador’s amnesty law is giving hope to thousands that justice for human rights abuses committed during the Central American country’s 12-year civil war could now be within reach. Others, though, fear the Supreme Court’s scrapping of the law that protected the military, paramilitary groups and guerrilla fighters — some of whom are in the current government — could tear open old wounds in the still polarized country. Even President Salvador Sanchez Ceren... Читать дальше...

“The Box,” a new play about solitary confinement now at Z Space, was written by Sarah Shourd, who is primarily a journalist and activist, and her story often feels like it wants to be an investigative report instead of a play. [...] Shourd’s already written much nonfiction about solitary confinement. All these characters are fictional, based on Shourd’s own experience as well as interviews she conducted with other survivors, their families and prison workers. When you’re in the the lobby, you... Читать дальше...