Новости за 05.07.2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States warned Wednesday that North Korea was "quickly closing off" the prospect of a diplomatic resolution to its provocations, as the Trump administration launched a government-wide effort to identify options for confronting Pyongyang following its unprecedented intercontinental ballistic missile launch. Trump, who departed for Europe early Wednesday, is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany. [...] far... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO — Gov. Bruce Rauner implored lawmakers Wednesday not to override his veto of a proposal to end Illinois’ unprecedented budget impasse, calling the plan that includes a large income tax increase a “disaster” that will not solve the state’s many financial problems. [...] in the long run it will make our problems worse, not better. Rauner, a former venture capitalist whose massive personal wealth has largely funded the state Republican Party, refused to elaborate on his tactics. Lawmakers have been in session for two straight weeks... Читать дальше...

Invite all three to her destination wedding on the Greek island of Kalokairi, and continue the sleuthing till the ceremony starts. Joel Schlader directs the jukebox musical, which features the invigorating songs of Abba, including “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “Dancing Queen.” [...] at Woodminster, audiences always witness another dramatic event, in the form of a twilit sky viewed from near the top of the East Bay hills.

With most plays, to say their characters are simple, their plots predictable and their messages didactic would amount to a strong criticism. With “Walls,” which marks the Tony-winning company’s 58th season, the target is the authors and enforcers of our inhumane immigration policies. The worthy implication here is that any support of our immigration policies — which incriminate the innocent, encourage deadly border crossings and split families apart, among manifold other evils — is inherently hypocritical... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — A judge says she's leaning toward an injunction that would stop $2.5 million in state aid for Michigan private schools. Opponents are challenging the appropriation to private schools for fire drills, inspections and other state requirements.

NEW YORK — A New York City police officer was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside a mobile command post by an ex-convict who had ranted online about his treatment in prison and about officers getting away with killing people, authorities said. Miosotis Familia, a 12-year member of the force, was writing in her notebook in the front seat of the RV-like vehicle when the killer strode up to it in a Bronx neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. and fired one round through the passenger-side window, striking her in the head, authorities said. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Florida school district is challenging a sweeping new education law that steers more money to privately run charter schools. The Sun Sentinel reported Wednesday that the Broward County School Board voted to sue over the measure pushed by House Speaker Richard Corcoran and signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott despite an outcry from school boards and school superintendents across the state. Part of the lawsuit will take aim at a measure that forces school districts to share locally-collected property taxes with charter schools... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — National Public Radio marked the Fourth of July by tweeting the entire Declaration of Independence, but it seems some Twitter users didn’t recognize what they were reading. The broadcaster tweeted out the words in 113 consecutive posts, in 140-character increments, of the declaration line-by-line Tuesday. Some of the founders’ criticisms of King George III were met with angry responses from supporters of President Trump, who seemed to believe the tweets were a reference to his presidency. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — It was the beginning of the night shift last Wednesday at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, a secure facility that manufactures money, when a white male coin maker strode across the factory floor to the workstation of an African American colleague. The episodewas confirmed by a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department with a statement saying that the agency has “absolutely zero tolerance” for such hateful displays and that authorities were investigating. Nooses, long a powerful symbol... Читать дальше...

DAR PAING, Myanmar — Ever since she was born in a squalid displaced camp for Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority that authorities won’t let anyone leave, Rosmaida Bibi has struggled to do something most of the world’s children do effortlessly: grow. Half a decade after a brutal wave of anti-Muslim violence exploded in this predominantly Buddhist nation in June 2012, forcing more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims into a series of camps in western Myanmar, this is what the government’s policy of persecution... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The pay gap between male and female White House staffers has more than tripled in the first year of the Trump administration, according to an analysis by economist Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute. According to the Pew Research center, the Trump White House gender gap is wider than the national gender pay gap stood in 1980. Other news outlets have reported smaller Trump White House pay gaps. Averages are often skewed by outliers at the high and low ends of the income spectrum... Читать дальше...

Hundreds of flying ants swarmed around various courts at the All England Club, distracting players during their matches, as the temperature warmed up considerably, from the low 70s (20s Celsius) to nearly 85 degrees (nearly 30 Celsius). Steve Johnson, an American seeded 26th, was startled when one of the critters buzzed its way into his right ear at the precise moment that he came up with a forehand winner during what would become a 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Radu Albot of Moldova. Local media... Читать дальше...

Maine State Police say they arrested the driver of a stolen vehicle who identified himself as Santa Claus following a nearly 50-mile (80-kilometer) chase Tuesday. Police said the chase started in Clinton after they tried to pull the driver over for a traffic violation. Christos Kassaras, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, drove on busted tires another 15 miles (24 kilometers) before troopers caught and arrested him.

The Pentagon has spent tens of billions to develop what it calls a limited defense against missiles capable of reaching U.S. soil. [...] it's unclear whether it has developed the technology and expertise to sufficiently shield such a warhead from the extreme heat experienced when it re-enters Earth's atmosphere enroute to a target. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, said Wednesday, "We've still not seen a number of things that would indicate a full-up threat," including a demonstrated ability to mate a nuclear warhead to an ICBM. Читать дальше...

Funny and disturbing in the best way, the comedy-drama “Austin Found” captures something beyond its story of a woman’s obsession with making her little daughter a beauty pageant winner. The tone is arch and satirical, but it’s also serious, a mix that’s exactly right for a movie saying two true things simultaneously: Linda Cardellini — wow, is she good here: scary, weirdly sympathetic, pathetic, powerful — is Leanne, a Texas wife and mother whose dream is to turn her daughter into a tiny beauty queen. Читать дальше...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that his panel will hold the hearing next week for Wray, a white-collar defense lawyer with a strong law enforcement background. Wray rose to head the Justice Department's criminal division in the Bush administration and oversaw investigations into corporate fraud.

Holt has joined a chorus of outrage against lunchroom practices that can humiliate children as public school districts across the United States rethink how they cope with unpaid student lunch debts. The U.S. Agriculture Department is requiring districts to adopt policies this month for addressing meal debts and to inform parents at the start of the academic year. The agency is not specifically barring most of the embarrassing tactics, such as serving cheap sandwiches in place of hot meals or sending... Читать дальше...

CBS is weighing in on the contract negotiations that led “Hawaii Five-0” cast members Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly) and Grace Park (Kono Kalakaua) to exit ahead of Season 8. The network added, “While we could not reach an agreement, we part ways with tremendous respect for their talents on screen, as well as their roles as ambassadors for the show off screen, and with hopes to work with them again in the near future.” CBS announced last week that “Hawaii Five-0” mainstays Kim and Park will not return... Читать дальше...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Until he stepped aside from his real estate business to become a senior White House aide, developer Jared Kushner was a major player in the gentrification of Jersey City, where former railroad yards and waste sites are being transformed into luxury housing. Since the presidential election, Jersey City has turned sharply against Kushner. Opposition to Trump runs deep here, and the city has been taking out some of that hostility on the Kushner Cos., withdrawing political support... Читать дальше...

The violence this year was largely confined to the south and west sides, including districts where the department has installed what it calls strategic support centers and predictive technology. The weekend had been relatively calm by early Tuesday afternoon when police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced the arrests of 58 people on drug and gun charges “to keep residents and visitors safe in every neighborhood.” [...] within hours, violence erupted in nearly every police district south of North Avenue... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A fire chief says a fire that caused extensive damage to a northeastern Indiana library was intentionally set. The fire that began about 2:30 a.m. Sunday at the Eckhart Public Library caused extensive damage to its first floor and smoke and heat damage to the basement and second floor.

Following an alarming number of rapes and sexual assaults at Sweden's largest music festival, Bravalla, a comedian named Emma Knyckare is organizing a "man-free" music festival to take place in summer 2018.

(AP) — University of Wyoming faculty members are hoping to get salary raises approved — something that hasn't happened since 2008. Before 2008, the salary system was updated every two years, senate President Rachel Stevens said. [...] staff wages have not changed.

After CBS announced last week that “Hawaii Five-0” mainstays Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park are exiting ahead of Season 8, Kim took to social media on Tuesday to explain the move. Kim, who played Chin Ho Kelly on the procedural since its launch in September 2010, said he is deeply thankful to our crew, writers and everyone associated with the show — and especially the cast, who have been nothing but supportive through this entire process. “As an Asian-American actor, I know firsthand how difficult it is to find opportunities at all... Читать дальше...