Новости за 05.04.2017

CHICAGO (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in the likely gang-related fatal shooting of four men in and around a South Side Chicago restaurant, police announced Wednesday. Following the deaths, Johnson promised a heavy and aggressive police presence in South Shore, saying coordinated police operations would target the people who are driving the violence. According to police, Stokes and Davis were found dead inside the Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant, Dillon Jackson was found... Читать дальше...

Pehlu Khan murió el martes a consecuencia de las heridas sufridas cuando él y otros 14 hombres recibieron una brutal golpiza el sábado en la noche en el estado de Rajastán. Los hombres habían comprado las vacas en una feria de ganado y las llevaban a su casa, en el vecino estado de Haryana.

Presented as a wedding gift from James Stewart Angus to his daughter Betsy in 1908, the 63-foot by 137-foot parcel at Filbert and Divisadero has remained in the same family for generations. For the first time, it is now being offered for sale, along with the three distinctly different homes that have been built on

Even those proudest to be an American can probably agree on this: Our country has produced some truly vile foods.

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The Eight-Station Index, a measure of precipitation in the northern Sierra that helps determine the status of Northern California's water supply, currently stands at 83.5 inches.

"Real estate porn" isn't a new concept; Americans have been lusting after beautiful homes as long as they've been around.

(AP) — A new report suggests that people living in urban minority neighborhoods could be paying as much as 30 percent more for car insurance, but an industry group says the report's findings are flawed. Marta Tellado, president and CEO of Consumer Reports, said discriminatory insurance pricing can be a drain on household budgets, limit employment opportunities and limit growth in communities. The exact factors used to set rates vary somewhat because of state laws, but Lynch said some common things insurers may look at include... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser and the latest target for Donald Trump's embattled defenders, firmly denies that she or other Obama officials used secret intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes. The White House has seized on the idea that the Obama administration improperly surveilled the Republican during and after the November election — an accusation Democrats say is just another red herring thrown out to distract attention... Читать дальше...

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called on Russia to endorse a planned United Nations Security Council resolution condemning a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. The U.N. Security Council is to convene for an emergency meeting over a suspected deadly chemical attack in a town in northern Syria earlier this week, where at least 72 people were reported killed, including 11 children. Hs remarks came as a Syrian monitoring group said the death toll from the attack on a northern town... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump disparaged his predecessor's economic stimulus spending as a windfall for social programs and said he's unaware of anything built from the money steered to infrastructure. The Brooklyn Bridge and a new landmark Manhattan train station were among New York City's recipients of millions of stimulus dollars for construction and repairs. When it passed in the depths of the severe recession, he praised Obama as a "strong guy" who did a "terrific job," adding, "this is what we need." TRUMP... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seattle police, considered by critics as resorting too readily to force, reached an agreement with the federal government on training officers to better handle people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse. "There's no question that some of these consent decrees are arduous and complicated, but they will (force cities to) provide the kind of resources the department very often needs," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, whose... Читать дальше...

ChemChina, also known as China National Chemical Corp., agreed to sell businesses that make an herbicide, an insecticide and a fungicide whose combined market shares with Syngenta would cause "significant competitive harm," an FTC statement said Tuesday. Chinese companies are engaged in a multibillion-dollar global buying spree to acquire technology and brands to improve their competitive edge as explosive growth in their home economy slows. [...] the global industry that supplies farm chemicals... Читать дальше...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister is fending off criticism over tax concessions for investors in booming urban property markets after a central banker warned soaring house prices could threaten the economy.

Late Tuesday, they failed in a Capitol basement office meeting to shake hands on a White House proposal to let states seek federal waivers to drop coverage mandates that President Barack Obama's health care law slapped on the insurance industry. There was no evidence that the proposals won over any of the GOP opponents who humiliated President Donald Trump and House leaders on March 24, forcing them to cancel a planned vote on a Republican health care bill that was destined to lose. Congress leaves town in days for a two-week recess... Читать дальше...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor says she is investigating a bus driver for reckless driving, bodily harm and manslaughter after his vehicle skidded off a road in central Sweden last weekend, killing three high school students.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nominee to head the powerful Food and Drug Administration is set to appear before a Senate committee to answer questions about his extensive financial ties to medical companies he could wind up regulating. [...] he's no stranger to the FDA — he served as a deputy commissioner under President George W. Bush — and has generally supported its overall mission of ensuring that prescription drugs and medical devices are safe and effective.

The statement from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson totaled 23 words: North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. While Tillerson's statement was unusually short and vague, experts in South Korea and Japan saw it as a sign of consistency on how the United States under President Donald Trump will deal with North Korea as it speeds up its nuclear weapon and missile developments. North Korea with its missile launches probably wants to create attention and use it as leverage for concessions... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian monitoring group says the death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern town the previous day has now increased to 72 as activists reported renewed airstrikes on the town hit in the harrowing assault.

Welcoming ceremonies for the second-ever visit to Finland by a Chinese leader were hosted Wednesday by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto at the presidential palace in downtown Helsinki. Xi, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, noted on arrival that Finland opened political ties with China in 1950 and was the first Western country to sign a governmental bilateral trade agreement with Beijing.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Burlington School District says the teachers' union and members of the school district board are planning to meet next week with a mediator over the stalled contract negotiations. The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/2oXk9HR ) that the two sides have significant differences in proposed salaries and health care packages for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts in July. The school board declared an impasse on March 17. The two sides plan to meet on April 11. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is claiming he has the votes necessary to thwart a planned Democratic filibuster of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, as a showdown draws near that could change the Senate, and the court, for generations. Democrats tried mightily to keep the focus on Republicans' plans to change Senate rules, rather than on their own plans to obstruct a nominee who would likely have gotten onto the court easily with no filibuster in earlier and less contentious political times. Читать дальше...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Petroleum have signed a deal with Cyprus to carry out exploratory drilling off the east Mediterranean island's southern coast.

Iranian state radio said the epicenter of the quake appeared to be the Sefid Sang district, a remote mountainous area home to 5,000 people some 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Mashhad. The semi-official Fars news agency said five people were injured and that mobile phone service and landline telephone lines had been affected.

On his fourth weekend in office, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined him there, and the two heads of state huddled on the restaurant's patio before making headlines with a televised joint response to a North Korean missile test. VIP visits to presidential homes are a tradition dating to shortly before World War II, when Franklin D. Roosevelt began inviting dignitaries to his Hyde Park estate north of New York City, according to the U.S. State Department's historical website. Breaking with presidential precedent... Читать дальше...