Новости за 07.06.2017

The woman who accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and violating her more than a decade ago stood by her story at his sex-crimes trial Wednesday, withstanding hours of often tedious cross-examination that didn’t produce the stumbles the TV star might have hoped for. [...] she explained away the numerous phone calls they had afterward by saying she was merely returning Cosby’s messages about the women’s basketball squad at Temple University, where he was a powerful member of the board of trustees and she was director of team operations. Читать дальше...

It's fox season in the North Bay!

TIVERTON, R.I. (AP) — Residents of a small Rhode Island community say their neighborhood has been beset by a terrible stench after one of their neighbors paved a road with unwashed clamshells. WJAR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2r6UPA5 ) a property owner in Tiverton put down the shells on an access road last week.

A’s schedule weirdness: traditional double-header, pitchers hitting The A’s play their series finale Wednesday afternoon with the chance to win their fourth straight homestand. A win over Toronto would conclude a three-game sweep - their first of the season -- and leave them at 4-2 in six games at home. The first in St. Petersburg, Fla., will include a rare double-header Saturday, and then a two-game interleague series in Miami in which A’s pitchers can step to the batter’s box and take some hacks. Читать дальше...

[...] the oldest fossils of our species, found in Ethiopia, dated back just 195,000 years. “We did not evolve from a single cradle of mankind somewhere in East Africa,” said Phillipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Liepzig, Germany, and a co-author of two new studies on the fossils, published in the journal Nature. Today, the closest living relatives to H. sapiens are chimpanzees and bonobos, with whom we share a common ancestor that lived over 6 million years ago. Читать дальше...

Valeria Khadija Collina said her son Youssef Zaghba, an Italian national of Moroccan descent, told her he wanted to go to Syria to start a family in a religious Islamic climate — not to fight. Police have named Zaghba as one of the three attackers who drove a rented van into pedestrians on London Bridge before fleeing into a busy market place and stabbing those who crossed their path. The other two attackers were identified as Khurum Butt, a 27-year-old whose extremist views had been reported to police... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A nursing student who celebrated a makeshift graduation on a New York City subway train after a train breakdown made him miss the actual ceremony is getting a personalized graduation. Hunter College president Jennifer Raab and nursing school dean Gail McCain will hold a ceremony on Thursday to give Jerich Alcantara his diploma.

Can Warriors start fast against Cavaliers? Game 3, NBA Finals Mike Brown (interim), 1st season with Warriors (0-0 with Warriors and 347-216 overall); Tyronn Lue, 2nd season with Cavaliers (78-45 with Cavaliers and overall) On air: TV on ABC; Radio on ESPN and 95.7 The Game Warriors: PG Stephen Curry (28.8 ppg, 6.3 apg), SG Klay Thompson (14.4 ppg, 2.1 apg), SF Kevin Durant (26.9 ppg, 8.3 rpg), PF Draymond Green (13.4 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 6.7 apg), C Zaza Pachulia (5.9 ppg, 4.2 rpg) Cavaliers: PG Kyrie Irving (24.1 ppg... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Tennessee campaign finance officials have imposed a nearly $465,000 fine on a former lawmaker who was expelled from the General Assembly last year amid a series of sexual harassment allegations. A state audit alleged hundreds of campaign finance violations that included spending money from his re-election account on personal expenses and using campaign funds to loan money to a GOP ally, a professional gambler and his wife.

(AP) — Fire crews braced for windy conditions in western Nevada again Wednesday after battling a series of wildfires the day before that threatened dozens of homes, downed power lines, shut down a highway and prompted voluntary evacuations along the California-Nevada line. East Fork Chief Tod Carlini said fire crews had to contend with gusty winds fueling the flames before they got the upper hand with the help of a helicopter dumping water. The National Weather Service in Reno issued a red-flag... Читать дальше...

The jurisdiction issue surfaced in March 2016 when Osage County District Judge Stuart Tate ruled exclusive federal jurisdiction in the case, citing the Major Crimes Act and Indian Crimes Assimilation Act. Holt's body was found burned with multiple shotgun wounds in a shallow grave on Osage tribal land near Hominy in September 2015. [...] they might not receive additional jail time because the maximum sentence for murder in tribal court is one year, and they'd likely receive credit for the two years they've already served.

PENNSVILE, N.J. (AP) — Engineers are still inspecting the area where a construction fire closed both spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, halting traffic between New Jersey and Delaware. Delaware River and Bay Authority spokesman Jim Salmon says sparks from welding ignited construction material underneath the bridge around 10 a.m. Wednesday, forcing officials to close the twin spans.

(AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said Wednesday he is calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to work on abortion policies, including looking at a St. Louis ordinance that bans discrimination based on abortions and pregnancies. The Republican governor also said he wants lawmakers to consider new abortion regulations, including annual inspections of clinics. While largely symbolic, the St. Louis ordinance bans employers from firing, refusing to hire or disciplining women because they have an abortion... Читать дальше...

Republican lawmakers have been discussing tolling as an option to help bring in more money for Wisconsin's transportation budget. Assembly Republicans unveiled an alternative K-12 school funding plan on Tuesday, which Walker and Senate Republican leaders oppose. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' spokeswoman says he didn't attend a meeting with Gov. Scott Walker on the state budget because he's in Washington. Walker met Wednesday in his office with Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke. Читать дальше...

The top Republican in the Senate says the "impressive credentials" of President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director make him more than ready for the "sober task" of leading the FBI. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement Wednesday that the job of FBI director is difficult, but he's confident that Christopher Wray "is more than qualified and quite capable of shouldering this important responsibility." The American Civil Liberties Union says it has concerns about President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director. Читать дальше...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Members of an independent federal oversight panel will hold a public hearing Wednesday in New Mexico on risks associated with ramping up plutonium work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where problems have resulted in safety concerns and costly fines. The board, which advises the president and the U.S. Energy Department, raised concerns earlier this year after a fire at the lab's plutonium facility, where the cores used to trigger explosions in nuclear weapons are developed.

(AP) — Louisiana's public colleges and universities should have limited authority to ask prospective students about their criminal histories to determine admission, legislators have decided. Schools still could ask about convictions for stalking, rape and sexual battery during the admissions process. After granting admission, colleges also would be able to ask about criminal convictions for a variety of reasons, including to determine if they'll limit participation in campus programs, financial aid and housing.

DETROIT (AP) — A judge says a Detroit-area doctor and his wife can be released from jail while they face charges of assisting in female genital mutilation. The government says Dr. Attar allowed another doctor to use his clinic to perform genital mutilation on two Minnesota girls in February.

The ruling was cheered by a Republican state senator who said it was ridiculous lawmakers could be prosecuted for accepting a bottle of water from a lobbyist. A law that specifically restricts what a lobbyist can and cannot do regarding a legislative member of government is a suppression on their freedom of association with those individuals, Bertelsman wrote. George Troutman, chairman of the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission, said it's hard to argue against a lawmaker accepting a cup of coffee... Читать дальше...

Other Democrats say they want to see the outcome of the investigation before rendering a decision on whether to impeach Trump. Since Comey's firing, the Justice Department has appointed a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to oversee the Russia investigation.

(AP) — The University of Michigan can ban guns on its campuses, the state appeals court said, rejecting arguments that the school is stepping on turf controlled by the Legislature. All University of Michigan properties are gun-free for students, non-police staff and the general public, unless a waiver for "extraordinary circumstances" is granted by the public safety department. In December, a different three-judge panel at the appeals court said public schools can ban guns carried by visitors.

Law enforcement officials are expected to testify about how the trio broke out of an Orange County jail last year by climbing behind walls to the roof and rappelling down using bed linens. Duong later returned to Orange County, freed a taxi driver allegedly taken hostage and turned himself in.

(AP) — Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that he remains confident that progress was being made on reaching a budget deal with his fellow Republicans, even as Assembly leaders forged ahead with alternative roads, education and tax plans opposed by the Senate. Assembly Republicans unveiled their own education plan on Tuesday and began holding news conferences across the state to tout their approach on Wednesday. Vos said he wanted time to explain the proposal to voters, and fellow Republicans, and... Читать дальше...

[...] there it is — a Japanese prime minister calling the “comfort women” and their kidnappings and abuse “necessary.” Japanese nationalists, many of them young, disrupting a protest by octogenarian women who were victims by hurling vile insults as police hold them back. The film plays exclusively at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for four screenings, beginning 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8. First off, these women don’t like to be called “comfort women.” Grandma Gil in South Korea, where grandmothers... Читать дальше...

Among the treasures in the Anne T. Kent California Room at the Marin County Civic Center is a brochure titled “San Rafael Illustrated & Described,” from 1884. Drawn by Chris Jorgensen of the San Francisco Art School, that piece of promotional ephemera has been kept in a locked case since 1935, but out it came last fall, into the hands of Novato photographer Michelle Sarjeant Kaufman. Kaufman, who specializes in historic then-and-now pictures, was dispatched to find every location in the brochure... Читать дальше...