Новости за 27.10.2016

2 Yazidi women who escaped Islamic State win human rights prize BRUSSELS — Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State and went on to become advocates for others have won the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for human rights. Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the European Parliament’s liberal ALDE group, said Thursday that Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar are inspirational women who have shown incredible bravery and humanity in the face of despicable brutality. The award... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon wants you to order your turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce online this Thanksgiving — its latest effort to make its Prime subscription service a central part of food shopping, much the way it's done for other consumer goods. Amazon started its grocery delivery business around its home town of Seattle, and has since expanded to about 18 cities and regions, including London and New York. Amazon has been continuously adding services to its Prime loyalty program, which offers... Читать дальше...

Fox News Host Says ‘Never’ Fox News host Sean Hannity is probably Donald Trump’s biggest supporter in the mainstream media, but he said he will “never” work in the GOP nominee’s administration because he is “under contract the next four years.” Hannity responded to a user on Twitter who asked whether he’d accept a position in President Trump’s administration if the GOP nominee were to win on Election Day. Despite Trump denying interest in the endeavor, many have speculated that Trump wants to... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Some patients facing a years-long wait for a kidney transplant are jumping ahead in line thanks to a startling experiment: Knowingly transmitting a dangerous virus may sound drastic but two leading transplant centers are betting the strategy will save lives — if new medications that promise to cure hepatitis C allow use of organs that today go to waste. Pilot studies are under way at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University to test transplanting kidneys from deceased... Читать дальше...

Michigan men adopt stray dog, puppies at bachelor party (AP) — A group of men from Michigan have returned from a bachelor party in Tennessee with a stray dog and her litter of puppies in tow. Craddock, who already owned a chocolate Labrador retriever, said he didn't intend to keep any of the puppies for his new household.

Watch a Local News Reporter Dressed as a Corgi Shake His, Uh, Just Watch (Video) Excited reporters go all-in to deliver engaging and informational broadcasts, but their most iconic moments tend to be more about gifs and memes than actual news. Into this reality steps corgi-costumed KTLA reporter Mark Mester, who donned a corgi onesie to visit Huntington Beach and surrounded himself with cute dogs to deliver news of an upcoming Corgi Beach Day. [...] he began his live shot with a barely SFW intro... Читать дальше...

 As a body-mounted GoPro camera recorded his heart-stopping descent down a mountainside in Chamonix, France, wingsuit flyer Eric Dossantos seemed to be just missing the tops of the pines.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan the Municipal Transportation Agency and BART worked out a month ago to bring cell phone service to the Muni Metro subways by tagging onto the BART network, BART has an underground cellular network, the first in the nation shared by competing carriers, is used in its subterranean stretches. While the arrangement will bring mobile phone service to Muni’s nether regions, it will remain a Wi-Fi-free zone.

SEATTLE (AP) — Shares of Amazon.com Inc. fell in after-market trading on Thursday after the online retailer reported third-quarter net income that missed analyst expectations. The average estimate of 15 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 85 cents per share. The online retailer posted revenue of $32.71 billion in the period, which topped Street forecasts.

Starz’s third-quarter 2016 sales figures were right where media analysts anticipated — and even a few mill higher — but the soon-to-be Lionsgate subsidiary’s bottom line didn’t come all that close to profitability forecasts. Wall Street estimated that Starz would report 52 cents in earnings per share (EPS) on $404.47 million in revenue this afternoon, according to a Yahoo Finance consensus. While overall revenue ticked up 1 percent versus the comparable quarter last year, an increase in programming... Читать дальше...

After markets closed on Thursday, the e-commerce, cloud computing and burgeoning content giant reported revenue of $32.7 billion and earnings of 52 cents a share for the three months ended Sept. 30. Amazon does not break out Prime, its $99-a-year subscription service that gives customers access to pretty much the company’s entire ecosystem — which unlike the original Amazon ecosystem, is still expanding. [...] to attract more eyeballs to its burgeoning catalog of original content, the company has unbundled its video from Prime... Читать дальше...

A poster featuring the ex-Stanford student's smirking face was spotted at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo this week.

Raiders will look great in Levi’s, crystal ball says Sorry to ruin the suspense, but the Raiders will wind up playing at Levi’s Stadium. Raiders’ owner Mark Davis is getting Las Vegas’d. Initially Adelson wanted a piece of the Raiders in return for his own $650 million stadium kick-in and his work arm-twisting Nevada to cough up $750 million.  

By focusing on his work in and around the region, the relationships with his clients and Wright’s visits, where he happily fed outrageous quotes to an eager press, Turner gives us a scholarly but flavorful history that’s far more satisfying than the lavish monographs or detailed studies that Wright tends to attract. After a quick nod to hints of a 1900 design for a house in Oakland, apparently never built, the saga begins with Wright’s quixotic effort in 1913 to design a high-rise home for the San Francisco Call at Fourth and Market streets. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A black mother in Mississippi says her 15-year-old son was shaking in fear as he described white schoolmates putting a noose around his neck two weeks ago and pulling it tight. Stacey Payton told The Associated Press on Thursday that her son bears no physical injury, but she believes the incident has permanently changed him. Payton, a college instructor, said her son met her in her office and told her about the noose a couple of hours after it happened in a high school locker room. Mississippi... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Sugar pills worked as well at preventing kids' migraines as two commonly used headache medicines, but had fewer side effects, in a study that may lead doctors to rethink how they treat a common ailment in children and teens. The results "really challenge what is typical practice today by headache specialists," said study author Scott Powers, a psychologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital's headache center. "The fact that it shows that two of the most commonly used medications are... Читать дальше...

A new tolling system goes into effect Friday night along the east-west highway that runs the length of the state from Boston to the New York state border. Tolls will instead be charged as vehicles pass under 16 electronic gantries that have been spaced along the roadway, and demolition of the tollbooths will begin. The Associated Press spoke with Thomas Tinlin, the state's highway director, about the launch of all-electronic tolling in Massachusetts. At 9:45 p.m., we stop manual toll collection and then at 10 p.m.... Читать дальше...

DENVER (AP) — A new federal report says air traffic controllers warned the pilots of a corporate jet to abort their landing at a windy Colorado mountain airport seconds before it crashed in 2014, killing one person. The National Transportation Safety Board report also says the pilots had limited flying time in a Bombardier (bahm-BAHR'-dee-yay) CL 600, the twin-jet aircraft that crashed in flames at the Aspen airport in January 2014.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police are investigating the death of a man inside an apartment northwest of the city's downtown. A 911 caller asked police to check the welfare of a man living in the apartment around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers arrived and found the 49-year-old man dead of what appeared to be a gunshot wound. The name of the victim was not immediately released. The death is being investigated by the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide unit. Officers planned to talk to the man's neighbors.

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office on Thursday filed a notice of appeal over U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker's preliminary injunction preventing the state from suspending payments to Planned Parenthood for any services to Medicaid patients in the state.

(AP) — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's campaign announced Thursday that a positive television ad will soon return to the airways highlighting a program he spearheads to put unemployed inner-city Milwaukee residents back to work. The folks we work with love the Joseph Project, and I love the fact that it provides hope and opportunity for folks in our community who had been left to believe that all that was available to them was minimum wage, temp jobs, government programs, or crime. Feingold, who... Читать дальше...

A crew using bulldozers worked to put out a wildfire that spread gray smoke across the rural community of Brookside about 20 miles northwest of Birmingham on Thursday, and another fire that began Wednesday, damaging several structures, was still burning but under control on the eastern edge of the metro area. In Georgia, a fire that blackened dozens of acres around the city of Rome was still smoldering, and officials said the fire danger rating was at its highest across a wide area that included much of metro Atlanta. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says the West Virginia National Guard will locate some operations at a development being formed out of a reclaimed coal mine in southern West Virginia. Tomblin says an Appalachian Regional Commission grant will enable work to move forward on a master plan for the 12,000-acre site for industrial, commercial and residential development.

Dakota Access pipeline protesters have retreated from a direct confrontation with law enforcement officers and soldiers who are advancing to force them from a camp on private land in the path of pipeline construction. The operation involves dozens of officers in riot gear, many armed with guns and clubs, along with trucks, police cars, military Humvees, buses and aircraft. The operation that commenced at midday involves dozens of officers in riot gear, some of them armed, along with trucks, police cars, military Humvees and buses. Читать дальше...

UPS orders 14 Boeing 747 jumbo jets to carry air freight DALLAS (AP) — The Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel and ushered in the era of jumbo jets back in the 1970s, but these days it is often used to carry packages, not people, and its future is uncertain. The hump-backed behemoth got a boost Thursday, however, when UPS announced it has ordered 14 Boeing 747-8 cargo freighters and took an option for another 14. For United Parcel Service Inc., the planes will help it haul a growing load of air freight around the globe.