Новости за 27.06.2017

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California health officials reported Tuesday that 111 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in the first six months after a 2016 law made the option legal in the nation's most populous state. According to the data generated from forms doctors were required to submit between June 9 and Dec. 31, 2016, a total of 191 people received life-ending drugs after being diagnosed with having less than six months to live and 111 people took them and died. Christian Burkin, spokesman... Читать дальше...

Universal is releasing the Illumination threequel in a record 4,529 screens, while TriStar is looking to earn "Baby Driver" cult movie status Though the studio had a domestic stumble earlier this month with “The Mummy” — the blockbuster has only grossed $68.7 million in the States through three weekends — that film, combined with “The Fate of the Furious,” helped push Universal’s annual overseas gross past the $2 billion mark and past the $3 billion mark globally at a studio-record pace. Sony Pictures... Читать дальше...

Merck & Co. said Tuesday that a new type of cholesterol drug reduced heart attacks, deaths and other complications of heart disease in a huge, late-stage study. Merck’s pill, anacetrapib, might eventually give high-risk heart patients a new option to add to cholesterol treatments that have helped prevent millions of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease. Cheap generics don’t cut those risks enough for many people, while two new cholesterol drugs cost $14,000 a year or more, so insurers have been restricting coverage. Читать дальше...

A university police spokesman says other campuses around the country received similar threats Tuesday. University officials directed thousands of students, faculty and staff to leave campus buildings and parking garages and keep their distance from those places.

Twice a week, The Chronicle features a home on the market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. Rebuilt from the studs, this four-bedroom in Lower Pacific Heights blends high-tech finishes with chic public rooms. Three bedrooms — including the master suite — occupy the top floor, while the lower level has a bedroom suite with a kitchenette and private entrance. The home opens to a sitting room with a tray ceiling, then onto a great room with a chef’s kitchen and raised family area. Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The General Assembly has given its final approval to legislation requiring North Carolina's driver license handbooks and driver's education curriculum in high school to teach new motorists how to act when stopped by police. The bill directs that driver's ed courses beginning next school year describe what people should expect a police officer to do during traffic stops.

ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Oakland University has signed athletic director Jeff Konya to a new five-year contract through 2022. The school announced the move Tuesday. The Golden Grizzlies have won three straight McCafferty Trophies, awarded to the Horizon League's all-sports champion, under Konya's guidance. Konya became Oakland's athletic director in 2014. He was previously the AD at Cal State Bakersfield.

Firefighters battling to contain Marin County wildland blaze Several dozen firefighters are battling a 10-acre blaze that broke out in a remote part of western Marin County Tuesday morning on Marin Municipal Water District land, officials said. At 1:07 p.m., 50 firefighters were on scene attacking the wildland blaze, and another 35 firefighters from two Cal Fire hand crews were on the way to help. No structures are threatened and no injuries have been reported, the Fire Department reported... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Officials are investigating the heat as a possible cause of 12 deaths in metro Phoenix last week as temperatures soared to 119 degrees. Maricopa County Public Health officials reported a spike in heat-related emergency department visits last Tuesday, when temperatures in Phoenix topped out at 119, coming 3 degrees short of the hottest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix. Officials from the Arizona Burn Center said their emergency department visits doubled when the heat wave rolled in last week.

Government employees have inappropriately crossed over into campaign activities, tax dollars may be subsidizing some aspects of campaign events, and as a constant candidate, the president risks alienating Americans who did not vote for him. The White House ensures that political entities pay for campaign events, and White House lawyers provide advice to employees to make sure they do not run afoul of rules preventing overtly political activities on government time, spokeswoman Lindsay Walter said Tuesday. Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's highest court on Tuesday struggled how to balance U.S. Supreme Court rulings requiring equal treatment for married gay couples with a state law that doesn't recognize the parental rights of a lesbian woman who is divorcing her spouse. Early this month, the Idaho Supreme Court denied custody and visitation rights to a gay woman who raised a child with her former partner in a decision that reflected state laws that have not been updated since same-sex marriage was legalized. Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling New York lawmakers back to Albany on Wednesday to try again to reach a deal extending Mayor Bill de Blasio's control of New York City schools — though some legislators are demanding that the Democratic governor add help for the city's troubled subway system to the agenda. A growing list of lawmakers also want to use the special session to pass emergency funding for the city's troubled subway system, after another subway train derailed near Harlem on Tuesday... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The FBI says it has located the car that a missing Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois was last seen getting into earlier this month. The FBI said in a Tuesday statement that it's received "numerous leads" regarding the black Saturn Astra and won't need any further information on the vehicle.

Oscar Mayer is rolling out the WienerDrone, the “first unmanned hot dog-carrying aircraft designed for remote location delivery.” Facebook, founded in 2004, took eight years to hit 1 billion; it hit this new milestone in five. The social network is now emphasizing private sharing in groups, which it said more than 1 billion people use. John Deere has opened a lab in San Francisco, with plans to hire eight to 12 people, Axios reports. Many tractors have actually been self-driving for years, with... Читать дальше...

Since launching in 2011, the San Francisco company has focused only on plant-based products, such as its eggless mayonnaise, cookie dough and other vegan products. Since its founding, Hampton Creek has attracted $120 million in funding. With this new venture, the vegan mayo company is entering a brand-new industry, with many roots in the Bay Area, that is working to provide animal-free meat alternatives for people concerned about the environmental impact, welfare and safety of traditional animal agriculture. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says Senate has chance to pass important health care bill; if it fails, he won't like it "and that's OK"

NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison by a judge who said he used a "pyramid of lies" to boost a business that helped criminals process millions of dollars in illegal bitcoin transactions. U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan in Manhattan noted that Murgio's victims included a federal credit union that served a low-income community in Lakewood, New Jersey. Prosecutors said the 110-member once-healthy credit union was forced into liquidation after 36 years after Murgio... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A record-$8.2 billion package to fund Oregon's K-12 public school system cleared the Legislature in a 31-28 vote after a lengthy debate in the Oregon House. The next budget cycle begins July 1, meaning educators may need to retroactively adjust their budgets for the upcoming school year accordingly.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $125 billion state budget Tuesday, stamping his official approval on a package of bills his office negotiated with Democratic leaders and then ushered through a Democratic-controlled Legislature. Prior to that, the last time a governor did not veto a single item in the state budget was the 1982-83 budget, when Brown was then governor as well. The new budget increases tax credits for the poor, puts billions more toward education and increases payments for... Читать дальше...

Even though the bulk collection of Americans' telephone records has ended, calls and emails are still swept up by U.S. surveillance work targeting foreigners. Programs authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act target foreigners, but communications involving Americans sometimes are vacuumed up as well. Typically, an American's name would not be revealed in intelligence reports about intercepted communications. An intelligence report issued last month said government... Читать дальше...

Lawmakers passed the measure Tuesday, 423-4, roughly a month after President Donald Trump failed to explicitly state his support for Article 5 during a visit to NATO headquarters. The resolution also voices strong support for a decision made at a NATO summit in 2014 calling for each member to spend at least 2 percent of its nation's gross domestic product on defense by 2024.

Deputy White House Press Secretary Chewed Out by Reporter: ‘You’re Inflaming Everybody’ (Video) Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who filled in for Sean Spicer during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, was chewed out by White House reporter Brian Karem for “inflaming everybody” over a recent retracted CNN story about ties between the Trump administration and Russia. After a long-winded answer in which the deputy press secretary went off on CNN and the media for what she called a “constant barrage of fake... Читать дальше...

The "Star Wars" creator does not take kindly to people profiting from his signature TMZ shot footage of the “Star Wars” creator snapping back at autograph seekers in Beverly Hills on Monday night. Someone behind the camera asks for Lucas’ opinion on various issues — director Ron Howard taking over the Han Solo movie, and an impending L.A. City Council vote on a $1.5 billion museum in Lucas’ name — to which he gives short but polite answers. According to Huffington Post, Lucas’ estimate of $200... Читать дальше...

The internet quickly noticed that Carter had once again assembled an all-male group of writers to tell the next installment in the story of supernatural-chasing FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). The original show premiered in 1993 and for nine seasons, followed by two feature films and a spinoff “Lone Gunmen” series. Duchovny and Anderson returned to their roles in Fox’s 2016 revival limited series — which ran for six episodes — to mixed reviews from critics and fans. Читать дальше...