Новости за 31.01.2017

(AP) — LSU officials are considering a plan to demolish the crumbling and architecturally mismatched Middleton Library in order to return the campus' iconic Quadrangle to its original state by creating a courtyard park. News outlets report that members of the LSU Board of Supervisors voiced their excitement Friday after receiving a presentation regarding the 10-year plan to redesign the Baton Rouge campus.

Frank Ocean, ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Moonlight’ Top 2017 GLAAD Award Nominations Only one major movie studio was recognized for depicting LGBTQ people An ambiguous R&B superstar, a major Oscar player and a fan-favorite dystopian series lead the 2017 GLAAD Media Award nominees, released Thursday by the LGBTQ group. Recognizing and honoring media for “their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community and the issues that affect their lives,” the 28th annual ceremony counts 156 nominees across categories in film... Читать дальше...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The shares of top Indian IT companies sank Tuesday in response to news of proposed U.S. legislation that would require salaries for H-1B visa holders to be doubled. The High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced last week in the House of Representatives by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California's Silicon Valley area, aims to end what it calls the "abuse" of the work visa program, which it says has "has allowed replacement of American workers by outsourcing... Читать дальше...

Officials at the research school say they tapped Mario Gonzales' expertise in everything from immigration and border issues to indigenous people and Hispanics in the Southwest as they work to define the direction of the new program.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico has less than a day left to veto or allow passage of a budget solvency package approved last week by the Legislature. The new budget changes target $46 million in local school district reserves to beef up the state general fund, along with transfers from dozens of accounts.

Jefferson County Public Schools said in a statement that the survey will be conducted from Feb. 1 to March 24 and will gather information on a variety of topics including academic indicators, school community, safety and job satisfaction.

(AP) — President Donald Trump's order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries is playing well in Trump Country, those places that propelled him to the White House. Thousands have demonstrated at U.S. airports since Trump issued an order Friday blocking people from seven countries in the Middle East and Africa from entering the U.S. and suspending refugee immigration for four months. Washington's state attorney general filed a lawsuit over the order, and a... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain has emerged as President Donald Trump's top Republican nemesis on Capitol Hill. Since Trump's inauguration, McCain has broken with the president on his immigration order, warned him against any rapprochement with Moscow, lectured him on the illegality of torture, and supplied only a tepid endorsement of Rex Tillerson, Trump's secretary of state nominee. McCain, 80, cruised to a sixth Senate term in November, defeating a Democratic challenger who hounded the senator... Читать дальше...

[...] as lawmakers struggled to gather details for constituents about the temporary halt to all refugee admissions, as well as immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, at least one prominent GOP senator was told that the State Department had been instructed not to communicate with Congress. [...] my staff was told the State Department as of today was ordered not to talk to Congress about this issue, said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. [...] the administration's decision to make a major foreign... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are muscling more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees to the cusp of Senate confirmation over Democratic objections, with committees poised to advance his picks to head agencies in the thick of partisan battles over health care, legal protections, education and the economy. Senate panels were expected Tuesday to advance Trump's picks of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to be health secretary; Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to be attorney general; wealthy conservative activist... Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — Cannes Film Festival organizers have announced that flamboyant Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar will be jury president at this year's festival as it celebrates its 70th anniversary. Actors that have starred in his unique universe of black humor, pop culture and sex include Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Antonio Banderas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are racing to respond to the wave of liberal outrage triggered by President Donald Trump, jumping into protests, organizing rallies and vowing to block more of the new president's nominees — including, possibly, his pick for the Supreme Court. Following a second weekend of protests, a growing number of liberal leaders are demanding a filibuster of Trump's pick for the high court, setting the party on a path of fierce opposition to Trump and potential confrontation with their own elected officials. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of widespread criticism, President Donald Trump has staunchly defended his order temporarily banning refugees and nearly all citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. According to a federal law enforcement official briefed on the implementation of the order, nearly 400 green-card holders actually were delayed after arriving at U.S. airports after the travel ban was signed. The chaos and protests at airports around the country began before that happened and were related to the travel ban... Читать дальше...

Trump has empowered a small group of advisers, some of whom have no experience in government, to tackle a broad range of issues — including national security, the immigration policy, U.S. relations with Mexico and plans to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. The inner circle includes loyal campaign aides, his son-in-law (Jared Kushner) and the advisers who ran Trump's populist, outsider bid for office. Every major decision at the new White House has involved Bannon, a media executive... Читать дальше...

Prisons and jails in other states also have served "the loaf" to unruly inmates, typically for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, but its use is on the decline following years of lawsuits around the country, some equating it to cruel and unusual punishment. [...] the New York Department of Corrections agreed to eliminate its "special management meal" in 2015 as part of a settlement of a broader ACLU lawsuit over prison conditions. Virginia prison officials still use what they call "diet... Читать дальше...

Spicer's comments came after career diplomats circulated several drafts of a memo arguing that the executive order Trump signed last week will not make the U.S. safe, runs counter to American values and will fuel anti-American sentiment around the world. "A policy which closes our doors to over 200 million legitimate travelers in the hopes of preventing a small number of travelers who intend to harm Americans from using the visa system to enter the United States will not achieve its aim of making... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A former treasurer of a fraternity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will serve one year behind bars for embezzling more than $130,000 from the organization. Prosecutors say that Estes was a treasurer for the Alpha Tau Gamma fraternity in Amherst from 2012 to 2014.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A political group that backs House Republican leaders is using a $1.3 million television ad campaign to press two dozen representatives to back GOP efforts to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The ads in GOP markets say the local lawmaker "has a plan to fix" Obama's law and asks viewers to urge the representative "to keep fighting for patient-centered health care." Democrats say that GOP proposals would provide less coverage than Obama's system, force higher... Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co.'s third-quarter profit more than doubled from a year earlier on healthy sales of Pokemon game software, the company said Tuesday. Nintendo's bottom line also was helped by a relatively weak yen, which lifts the overseas revenue for Japanese companies like Nintendo that do much of their business abroad. Nintendo has a lot riding on the Switch, the new game system that combines a portable hand-held device with a dock to use at home, and comes with detachable controllers.

Former Warriors forward Stephen Jackson admitted in a recent podcast that he occasionally smoked marijuana before games. [...] me and (teammate) Baron (Davis) are coming out the locker room just screaming, excited with our last pink slip saying we could smoke for the rest of the season, and Don Nelson hauls ass down there giving us high-fives, like, 'Yeah, we can smoke now!’ It was cool, the fact that he knows what’s going on off the court with his players, which was great, man. The highlight came in 2007... Читать дальше...

“The Late Late Show” host’s video calls out Trump’s controversial executive order by detailing how easily he breezed through Airport security “The Late Late Show” host James Corden marked the show’s return from a week long hiatus with a video criticizing Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting citizens of several majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. In the video, posted to “The Late Late Show” official YouTube account that also served as the opening to tonight’s episode, Corden arrives at Los Angeles International Airport... Читать дальше...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington became the first state to sue the Trump administration with a filing Monday over the president's executive order restricting refugees and immigration. Since Donald Trump was elected president, Democratic state attorneys general have been forming a coordinated wall of legal resistance over immigration, environmental protections, health care and other major issues. Schneiderman has given model legislation to local governments in New York showing them how to become sanctuary... Читать дальше...

Deserted sister doubly angry after brother abandons wife Recently my brother did the same thing to his wife of many years. Am I wrong for feeling this way? Must my loyalty to my family override my principles? Not knowing how close your relationship is with your brother, I can’t decide for you whether blood is thicker than water. [...] I can certainly understand your distaste at the idea of befriending the woman he cheated with. Dear Abby: I have been carpooling with another mom for about a year. Читать дальше...

The combination of a sizzling economy and a shortage of housing has left hundreds of thousands of acres of Bay Area open space — from ranches in Antioch to scenic landscapes in San Mateo — in danger of being developed, according to a report being released Tuesday by a land conservation group. The study, called At Risk, found that 293,100 acres of farmland and natural areas could be paved over in the next 30 years if suburban sprawl is not stopped. [...] the open space under threat in the Bay Area has been reduced by 29,700 acres since 2012... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A boy sentenced to more than four years in a juvenile detention center for planning to kill a fellow fifth-grader in 2013 has been expelled from his high school in northeast Washington for safety reasons. Court documents say he was expelled from a Deer Park high school for a plan involving multiple acts with at least one other student that could be considered unsafe.