Новости за 17.04.2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The journalist arrested at a Tax Day protest at President Donald Trump's signature Las Vegas hotel has been released from jail. Las Vegas police said Solomon was uncooperative and refused to provide his personal identification information at the scene. The police department said in a statement that it is committed to transparency and creating and maintaining public trust.

Showers and gray skies on Easter Sunday didn’t keep the people of San Francisco from spilling into the streets to celebrate at an eclectic mix of events ranging from the classic to the wildly irreverent. [...] at Glide in the Tenderloin neighborhood, festivities began early with a 7 a.m. sunrise celebration and Easter breakfast, followed later by a dinner of fried chicken and mashed potatoes served to many homeless and marginalized families. Under a gray sky in Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow... Читать дальше...

PNL's publicist, Hannah Haines, explained in a statement, "After months of applying, the immigration office still has not granted one of the brothers, Tarik, a visa."

Left-hander Brandon Finnegan became the fourth Cincinnati starting pitcher to go on the disabled list and is expected to miss at least a month because of a strained left shoulder. Finnegan lasted just one inning of the Reds’ 7-5 win over the Brewers on Saturday and joined right-hander Rookie Davis on the 10-day disabled list Sunday. Cincinnati optioned rookie outfielder Jesse Winker to Louisville and recalled Tim Adleman and rookie Sal Romano from the Triple-A farm team. Romano started and left... Читать дальше...

Through cast changes, the “Fast and Furious” movies wound up with side movies and character development not unlike Marvel’s masterful storytelling web Before Marvel Studios spent years developing its “cinematic universe” of movies, another franchise did the same thing (by accident): “The Fast and the Furious.” The Marvel Cinematic Universe turned a very comic book idea — one of multiple storylines and multiple characters coming together into a single team-up storyline — into a movie idea. With... Читать дальше...

Panama soccer player shot dead leaving home Police in Panama say national-team soccer player Amilcar Henriquez, who played against the United States in a World Cup qualifier last month, was shot dead while leaving his home. A tactical masterclass from Jose Mourinho ensured the path to the English Premier League title no longer will be a procession for his former club, Chelsea. Only four points separate Chelsea and second-placed Tottenham with six games left after United’s 2-0 win opened up the title race. Читать дальше...

(AP) — College students and faculty in western Illinois will get more travel abroad opportunities because of a U.S. Department of Education grant. In a Friday news release, Western Illinois University officials said the grant of over $400,000 will benefit their school and also Spoon River College in Canton.

Profit-hungry smugglers are taking advantage of calm seas off Libya to launch unseaworthy boats, crowded with migrants, toward Italy. After some 6,000 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean in dozens of operations on Friday and Saturday, hundreds more were plucked to safety Sunday from dinghies and fishing boats. The humanitarian group MOAS tweeted Sunday that it had helped several hundred migrants in nine rubber dinghies and two wooden boats over a 24-hour period. An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted Aya Hijazi... Читать дальше...

United Airlines, which is reviewing its policies after the violent removal of a passenger from a flight last week, says it will no longer allow employees to take the place of civilian passengers who have already boarded overbooked flights. “We issued an updated policy to make sure crews traveling on our aircraft are booked at least 60 minutes prior to departure,” a spokeswoman, Maggie Schmerin, wrote in an email Sunday. United is reviewing the circumstances that led to the forcible removal of Dr. Читать дальше...

Ogwumike scored 19 points as her Russian Premier League team Dynamo Kursk beat Turkish club Fenerbahce 77-63 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, to win the EuroLeague women championship Sunday. “I’m incredibly proud of my team’s efforts,” said Ogwumike, who also won a WNBA championship in October with the Los Angeles Sparks. When you are the champion, the next year, the appearance fees, the contracts, everything (is more lucrative). ... The defending champions are Lemi Hale (men) and Atsede Baysa (women), both of Ethiopia.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a historic referendum Sunday that will greatly expand the powers of his office, although opposition parties questioned the outcome and said they would challenge the results. The 18 constitutional amendments that will come into effect after the next election, scheduled for 2019, will abolish the office of the prime minister and hand sweeping executive powers to the president. In his first remarks from Istanbul, Erdogan struck a conciliatory tone... Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. — When Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his first-in-the-nation proposal to make state college tuition free for middle-class students, he stood next to Bernie Sanders. [...] some observers say Cuomo is already acting like it, increasingly positioning himself with party leaders, aiming his message at middle-class angst and touting measures such as free tuition as an example of the kind of big ideas he can accomplish. [...] it doesn’t cover any other major costs of college, such as room and board... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — As Republicans struggle to craft a sweeping tax package — a process already rife with political land mines — they are preparing to add another volatile element to the mix: a provision that would end a six-decade-old ban on churches and other tax-exempt organizations supporting political candidates. “Republicans are going to have enough problems getting tax reform done,” said Jim Manley, a longtime aide to former Senate minority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. White House spokeswoman Natalie Strom said Trump still supports repeal... Читать дальше...

Ten years after a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech before killing himself, survivors and families of the slain returned to the campus Sunday to honor the lives that were lost. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, widely known as Virginia Tech, held a series of events Sunday to mark the anniversary of the deadly campus shooting on April 16, 2007. Kaine, who was governor at the time of the shooting, said he still vividly remembers the horrors of that day... Читать дальше...

What felt like an onslaught of rain this weekend in the Bay Area turned out to be less than an inch. Another 0.18 inches fell in the East Bay, enough to snarl traffic and cancel an Oakland Athletics game against the Houston Astros. The showers will continue until the middle of the week, with the weather system drying out around Wednesday, said National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers set a Friday deadline to reach an agreement on the state's next two-year budget, as well as the Republican majority's top priority — raising taxes to pay for improvements to the state's crumbling infrastructure. Lawmakers also want to curtail the sale of cold beer by convenience stores, an unexpected issue that cropped up after Ricker's gas stations used a legal loophole to make beer sales previously reserved only for liquor stores and restaurants. [...] House... Читать дальше...

GUATEMALA CITY — The former governor of Mexico’s Veracruz state who is accused of running a corruption ring that allegedly pilfered millions of dollars from state coffers was detained in Guatemala after six months as a fugitive and high-profile symbol of government graft in his country. A statement from Mexico’s federal attorney general’s office said Duarte was detained Saturday with the cooperation of Guatemalan police and the country’s Interpol office in Panajachel, a picturesque tourist town on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala’s highlands. Читать дальше...

Both in his impromptu homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Square and later in his formal “Urbi et Orbi” Easter message delivered from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis reflected on a litany of suffering in the world, including wars, oppressive regimes, human trafficking, corruption, famine and domestic violence. About 60,000 people, including multinational throngs of pilgrims and tourists, endured tight antiterrorism security checks — and, later, a brief downpour — to hear Francis and receive his blessing. Читать дальше...