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FARINDOLA, Italy — Hopes faded Tuesday that any more survivors of the devastating avalanche that buried an Italian resort hotel would be found after the death toll more than doubled to 17, with 12 people still unaccounted for. The helicopter was ferrying an injured skier off the slopes of the Campo Felice ski area when it slammed into a mountainside buried in thick fog. Emergency workers at the center where rescue efforts at the avalanche-entombed Hotel Rigopiano are being coordinated rushed to the chopper crash site about 60 miles away. Читать дальше...

THA PYAY TAW, Myanmar — Every day before sunrise, dozens of fishermen, shivering against the cold, shove out onto the Bay of Bengal on makeshift rafts made out of plastic jugs, bamboo and twine, just steps away from the sturdy and much safer wooden boats they had used for years. The ban is one small part of a sweeping and violent counterinsurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, where authorities have been accused of widespread abuses. Desperate to feed their families... Читать дальше...

A giant wave broke through a Pacifica restaurant's windows Saturday morning, flooding the room and causing thousands of dollars in damage.

JERUSALEM — Israel said Tuesday it approved plans to build 2,500 settler homes in the West Bank, signaling a major ramp-up of construction just days after the swearing-in of President Trump, whose election has emboldened the settlement movement. Trump is widely expected to be more sympathetic to Israel’s settlement policies than the fiercely critical Obama administration. Settlement construction was a contentious area of disagreement during the Obama years, when the White House sided with the Palestinians... Читать дальше...

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May must secure the approval of Parliament before she can begin the process of taking Britain out of the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled Tuesday. The ruling, which upholds an earlier decision by the High Court in London, creates another hurdle for May, who has promised to begin a two-year, irreversible process of exit negotiations by the end of March by invoking the EU’s Article 50, the legal mechanism for leaving the bloc. Clearly disappointed that Parliament in Scotland... Читать дальше...

Zuckerberg's denial flies in the face of mounting speculating that he's considering a run for public office. The billionaire Facebook CEO first sparked intrigue when he proposed a company stock reclassification that would let him serve in government without losing his majority voting rights. Besides running Facebook, Zuckerberg has ramped up his philanthropy efforts in the last year through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which he created with his wife Priscilla Chan in late 2015 as a vehicle to give away 99% of his $52 billion fortune. Читать дальше...

Among the many rules imposed by the Islamic State when it seized the northern Iraqi city was a ban on breeding or flying the birds, which many Iraqis keep as pets or raise for food. The extremists feared young men practicing the hobby would neglect their religious studies or spy on female neighbors from the rooftops. Many Mosul residents slaughtered their flocks or confined them to cages, fearing detention or death if they were found out — but 17-year-old Mustafa Othman couldn’t bring himself to do it. Читать дальше...

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (AP) — Transit police say they've arrested a New Jersey woman who owes more than $50,000 in unpaid tolls and fees. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police say Bertha Moreno was driving a jitney bus Monday when an officer recognized its registration as a suspected toll evader. Earlier this month a trucking company owner was charged with racking up more than $1 million in unpaid tolls and fees.

Ship traffic, January 25 Ship traffic Arcadia SFO BSL Limassol Horizon Pacific Saga Frigg YM Ultimate Aquarius Ocean Port Unknown BSL Limassol Cap Palmerston CMA CGM Columba Fuqing, China Horizon Pacific Mol Glide SFO Source: S.F. Marine Exchange

Nominees for the 89th annual Academy Awards List of nominees for the 89th annual Academy Awards Best picture: “Arrival,” “Fences,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Hell or High Water,” “Hidden Figures,” “La La Land,” “Lion,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonlight.” Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”; Denzel Washington, “Fences”; Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”; Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”; Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge.” Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”; Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”; Dev Patel, “Lion”; Michael Shannon... Читать дальше...

After win totals have plummeted the past three seasons, the 49ers have decided their season-ticket prices won’t rise for the next two seasons: The decision comes on the heels of a 2-14 season after which the 49ers fired head coach Chip Kelly and general manager Trent Baalke. The 49ers have a 15-33 record since Levi’s Stadium opened in 2014 and late-season home games have featured large swaths of empty seats the past two seasons. Despite the freefall, the 49ers have the NFL’s second-most salary... Читать дальше...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Tom Hanks fan in southern Poland says her town that once produced small Fiat cars is offering one to the actor. Polish ATV rider Rafal Sonik, winner of the 2015 Dakar Rally winner on quad, made a large donation to the collection, allowing much of the funds to go to a local children's hospital.

Several state officials watching the address rushed to his side to catch him, and medical professionals serving in the Legislature helped render aid. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men after skin cancer, and the third-leading cause of cancer deaths in men behind lung and colon/rectal cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer usually grows slowly, most men with it are older than 65, and most won't die of the disease. On Tuesday, he released a more detailed proposal for a $45.8 billion budget ... Читать дальше...

Portland clinic's HIV health care transferred to nonprofit PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Health care funding for HIV positive patients at a city-run clinic in Portland, Maine, has been transferred to a private nonprofit, but fewer than half of the clinic's patients have followed the funding to the new provider.

The nationalities of the 60 weren't specified, but Afghans and Sudanese were the most numerous migrants in the now-closed camp, which also harbored Syrians, Eritreans and others, most driven from their homelands because of war, daily violence or grinding poverty. Migrant rights groups have long criticized France for dragging its heels in dealing with asylum demands. France's Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate campaigning for president, has been refused entry when she tried to visit a migrant camp outside Dunkirk, in northern France. Читать дальше...

For the first time, more than a dozen rebel representatives were invited to attend the two-day talks in Astana, sitting in the same room briefly across from government officials, their sworn enemies who refer to them as terrorists. Shedding their military fatigues, rebel fighters, most of them officers who defected from the Syrian army, mingled with diplomats and international journalists, haggled in closed-door meetings and huddled over maps with a Russian presidential envoy to discuss the outlines of a cease-fire and humanitarian corridors. Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — An American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an Arizona moving company owner, provided the guns that two friends used to open fire outside the anti-Islam event in suburban Dallas and hosted the two Islamic State followers at his home to discuss the upcoming attack, authorities have said. Kareem watched... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Police say a western Pennsylvania man beat his live-in girlfriend "beyond recognition" by rolling a 250-pound wood-burning stove over her and hitting her with the butt of a BB gun. Police found him later Sunday in the woods with the help of police dogs and he was arraigned Monday on attempted homicide, aggravated assault and other charges.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two former aides to Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are asking a judge to postpone their sentencing next month following their convictions in a plot to cause traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge. Kelly's attorney says she hasn't had enough time to review a pre-sentencing report.

The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced early Tuesday morning, and it’s a good list, predictable in the best way. For the most part, the finest performances and films were acknowledged, and few nominations stand out as peculiar, which makes this a good year (so far) for the Academy; it’s not always like this. Denzel Washington (lead actor; “Fences”), Ruth Negga (lead actress; “Loving”), Viola Davis (supporting actress; “Fences”), Naomie Harris (supporting actress; “Moonlight”)... Читать дальше...

‘Dirty Dancing’ back on big screen for 30th anniversary Which film was the first to sell more than 1 million units on home video? Considering that “Star Wars” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — among many others — were released earlier, the answer, “Dirty Dancing,” might surprise you. [...] the 1987 film — back on big screens around the country for its 30th anniversary — immediately hit a nerve, became an instant classic and made the little-known Patrick Swayze a star.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won't rehear a panel's decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the government customer emails stored overseas. Judge Dennis Jacobs noted in his dissent, which was joined by three other judges, that the information sought by prosecutors in a 2013 narcotics trafficking investigation was easily accessible in the United States at a computer terminal even though it was stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland. The government... Читать дальше...

(AP) — After years of drought and barren slopes, skiers and boarders have a bonanza of snow at resorts from the Sierra Nevada to the mountain ranges of Southern California following a barrage of storms. Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierra reports Tuesday that January has shattered its record for most monthly snowfall.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho House Revenue and Taxation Committee voted Tuesday to bring the state's tax code in line with federal rules, despite facing objections from two lawmakers who argued the state should not be recognizing same-sex marriages. The Idaho Legislature usually syncs the state's tax code with the federal version each year to make it easier for residents and businesses to do their taxes, as well as avoid having to keep separate accounting books to track the different rules. In 2014... Читать дальше...

Lessons in storytelling with Ira Glass Between his early career at NPR and hosting Chicago WBEZ’s “This American Life” since its inception in 1995, Glass is synonymous with thoughtful radio journalism. Glass takes a unique approach to building a story onstage, be it in a literal sense — when he started performing live, he would mix and produce a radio story in front of the audience — or through other similarly creative means. Blurring the lines between traditional journalism, multimedia and personal narrative... Читать дальше...