Новости за 18.03.2017

BEIJING — China urged the United States to remain “coolheaded” over North Korea and not to turn its back on dialogue, as visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressed a “sense of urgency” to curb dangerous levels of tension on the Korean Peninsula. [...] in a joint news conference Saturday with his Chinese counterpart, Tillerson struck a more diplomatic note, choosing to play down differences with Beijing and stress that both countries share the goal of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. “We... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The White House said Saturday that an individual was apprehended after jumping a low metal barrier just outside the White House fence, a week after an intrusion raised questions about lapses in security under the watch of the U.S. Secret Service. The incident comes about a week after a man breached a 5-foot outer perimeter fence and scaled an 8-foot vehicle gate to gain entry to the White House grounds. Video surveillance footage shows Jonathan Tuan Tran, 26, of Milpitas, California, climbing... Читать дальше...

AMC’s “Into the Badlands” introduces a world where guns no longer exist, lending itself to long, elaborate and beautiful martial arts sequences. “It would end the show,” showrunner Al Gough told TheWrap and other reporters on the Dublin, Ireland set of the fantasy drama series. Instead of guns, the heroes and villains of “Into the Badlands” — led by Daniel Wu, Aramis Knight, Emily Beecham and newcomer Nick Frost — use swords, crossbows, sticks and other forms of more primitive weapons.

Mark Hamill Shares First Ever Luke Skywalker Photo from ‘Star Wars’ The photo was taken before he filmed his first scene of the movie, the droid auction, where Luke and his Uncle Owen come to possess C-3PO and R2-D2. Hamill went on to play Skywalker in the sequels, 1980’s “The Empire Strikes Back,” 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” and in the final scene of 2015’s “The Force Awakens.”

With the A’s looking for a new stadium in town, plus the Warriors leaving for San Francisco and the Raiders looking elsewhere, Oakland’s new ad campaign wants to make sure you know which city the A’s call home. “It’s not too suble,” A’s vice president of sales and marketing Jim Leahey said with a smile. “Rooted in Oakland” features commercials shot at Oakland’s City Hall, the Oakland Zoo, Lake Merritt and BART, among other spots, all of them with the light-hearted, entertaining vibe of past ad campaigns from Hub Strategy... Читать дальше...

Mission Community Market has returned, with its new multi-use public space, La Placita.

(AP) — The wife of a former Tennessee schoolteacher accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old student is pleading for her husband to bring the girl home. A statewide Amber Alert from the TBI says Cummins "may have been abusing his role as a teacher to groom this vulnerable young girl for some time in an effort to lure and potentially sexually exploit her."

Joey Wendle, who came up last September and played well for Oakland, told The Chronicle on Saturday that he has been shut down the past week by a sore right shoulder. Wendle said an MRI did not show any structural damage, just inflammation. There is no timetable for Wendle’s return to the field but he said he was feeling much better Saturday after treatment. Wendle has never had a shoulder issue before; he said it began to hurt about two weeks ago and he tried to play through it for a week. The... Читать дальше...

Beauty and the Beast’ Fans React: ‘Yes, Furniture Made Me Cry Tonight Disney’s live-action musical has Twitter user calling it “…the most perfect movie I’ve seen in my life” Moviegoers accepted Disney’s offer to “Be Our Guest” and turned out in droves to see their latest live action musical remake “Beauty and the Beast.” The latest Disney remake has enchanted its way to a $63.7 million opening Friday from 4,210 locations, a new single-day record for a PG-rated film. Additionally, the live action... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Des Moines school bus assistant fired after being accused of abusing a special-needs student says she should get her job back, and an arbitrator agrees. Taylor was fired after surveillance video from the November 2015 bus shows her yelling at the crying student and pushing him against the bus wall, pressing his face into a window, after he repeatedly stood up.

Donald Olsen, arguably the Bay Area’s most famous modernist architect to embrace the “International Style,” only designed about 5o homes in his 50-plus-year career. Many are in the East Bay, where he lived and taught for many years at the UC-Berkeley School of Architecture. But one of Olsen’s few North Bay properties has recently come to

The ever-popular Mamacita abruptly closed after more than a decade of business.

The TV personality and star of "Long Island Medium" on TLC has plenty of believers and says if you're not one of them, that's OK, too. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, Caputo said in a recent telephone interview. What she doesn't understand is how skeptics think people who do believe in psychic readings are wrong: "How can someone tell someone that what they're experiencing isn't real?" Caputo believes that if someone has a session with a medium and then walks away feeling uplifted and empowered, people should respect that. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Feeding peanut butter kibbles to millions of prairie dogs — by flinging the treats from four-wheelers and dropping them from drones — could be the next big thing to help a spunky little weasel that almost went extinct. The up to 2-foot-long weasel feeds almost exclusively on prairie dogs, rodents that live in vast colonies regularly decimated by plague outbreaks. Biologists are increasingly optimistic that feeding plague vaccine to prairie dogs can improve the ferrets' success rate. Starting this fall... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump's promise to build a "big, beautiful wall" at the Mexican border. The notices were made public late Friday by Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security Department agency that will oversee the project and eventually patrol and maintain the wall. Читать дальше...

Ken Cuccinelli, a former Republican Virginia attorney general who supports raising the threshold, says Virginians and especially Republicans in the state have a long history "of only dealing with crime by making anything and everything tougher." Prosecutors often agree to knock a first-time offender's felony larceny charge down to a misdemeanor when the stolen items are worth less than $1,000, but that depends largely on where the person is arrested, since prosecutors have wide discretion, said Michael Sprano... Читать дальше...

The latest Disney remake has enchanted its way to a $63.7 million opening Friday, a new single-day record for a PG-rated film “Beauty and the Beast” is off to the races at the box office, making $63.7 million on Friday from 4,210 screens. “Beauty and the Beast” will also blow by the opening weekend totals scored by its predecessors in Disney’s remake series. Critical reception for “Beauty” hasn’t been as warm as that of other remakes, as it has received a 71 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes compared... Читать дальше...

Michael Pilacik, a STEM supervisor from Paramus High School, said "green" energy was chosen as the theme of the competition, not only to create a tie-in with the holiday, but to allow students to explore their interest in renewable energy. The teams put their engineering skills to the test by using computer-aided drafting (CAD, for short) to create a scheme drawing of a wind turbine. A week before the competition, students got a clue to mull over: "Don't be green with envy when you see what we have planned today... Читать дальше...

Parents who successfully lobbied for the rate increase last year argued that wages were so low that nurses wouldn't take the jobs, forcing them to abandon their own careers and compromising their children's health. Staffing agency and state officials say increasing payments by up to 46 percent has helped with retention of nurses and continuity in care, though filling night and weekend shifts remains difficult. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, in the first month the new rates took effect ... Читать дальше...

(AP) — After a decade of challenges, a state agency in northwest Indiana is thriving and helping other areas in the state pool resources for regional projects that need a boost. The north central, northeast and southwest regions are engaged in economic development activities after winning $42 million of state grants in the Regional Cities Initiative competition. Northwest Indiana RDA President and CEO Bill Hanna said the rail projects, and the transit-oriented development the RDA is working on... Читать дальше...

(AP) — New identification cards in Illinois aim to ease interactions between police and people with disabilities. The "Person with a Disability Wallet Card" is available free from any secretary of state's driver services facility, The Daily Herald (http://bit.ly/2mBk62Q) reported. The cards are given to applicants 16 and older who have been diagnosed with an intellectual, developmental or mental disability, such as autism, epilepsy, anxiety, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Hopefully it will de-escalate any stressful situation... Читать дальше...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A political showdown over proposed new taxes loomed as New Mexico lawmakers sprinted toward the finish of a 60-day legislative session with an agreement in hand to hold spending steady at most state agencies and slightly boost education after two bruising rounds of cuts to public schools. With no cash to spare, lawmakers searched beyond public works projects for ways to stimulate economic growth, approving bills designed to expand high-speed internet access and rooftop solar... Читать дальше...

HILLSDALE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a man struck and injured by a New Jersey Transit train was arrested after he told police that he had a bomb. The 30-year-old Westwood man has been charged with making terroristic threats, use of terroristic threats, interfering with transportation and defiant trespass.

Some of the people being talked about as candidates include the son of a former U.S. Attorney General, a Fox News legal analyst and a prosecutor who had a chance to go after the head of the International Monetary Fund, but declined. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan recently subpoenaed a former Fox News employee to testify before a grand jury examining how 21st Century Fox Inc. handled the harassment scandal. Other politically charged investigations underway in the Manhattan federal prosecutor's... Читать дальше...

The survey includes interviews with 516 African-Americans, 504 Latinos, 277 Asian-Americans and 505 non-Hispanic whites, along with 31 young people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. Forty-nine percent of respondents are part of a custom panel of young adults that uses an address-based sample from a registered voter database of the entire U.S and is recruited by mail and telephone. No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus... Читать дальше...