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WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for half a decade after abandoning his Afghanistan post, is expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, two individuals with knowledge of the case said. Bergdahl’s decision to plead guilty rather than face trial marks another twist in an eight-year drama that caused the nation to wrestle with difficult questions of loyalty, negotiating with hostage takers and America’s commitment not to leave its troops behind. Читать дальше...

BANGKOK — More Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar streamed toward the border Friday, despite government assurances that it was stopping the massive exodus of refugees to Bangladesh. A video obtained by The Associated Press that villagers said was shot Thursday in northern Rakhine state shows dozens of Rohingya attempting to swim across the currents of a muddy river, from where it is a more than 12-mile walk through jungles to the border. Many more people, from young children to old men... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California next year, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and leafy — it’s government jobs. The state is on a hiring binge to fill what eventually will be hundreds of new government positions by 2019 intended to bring order to the legal pot economy, from keeping watch on what’s seeping into streams... Читать дальше...

Ship traffic Due to arrive today SHIP FROM PORT ... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Hurricanes Harvey and Irma walloped the labor market last month, causing the nation to lose jobs for the first time in seven years, the Labor Department said Friday. Total nonfarm employment declined by 33,000 net jobs in September compared with an upwardly revised gain of 169,000 the previous month. The Labor Department said 1.5 million workers — the most in 20 years — were not at their jobs during the survey week last month because of bad weather. Restaurants and bars took the biggest hit. Читать дальше...

An angry, cursing face. A head of broccoli. A “Citizen Kane”-style sled. A black mountain climber. A genderless person, available in a range of races and ages. Apple’s new emoji are here. Announced on World Emoji Day (yes, apparently, that exists) in July, hundreds of new emoji will be available next week on iPhone and iPad with iOS 11.1, Apple said Friday. Emoji, colorful and playful pictograms that are available on a range of devices, have altered... Читать дальше...

Number of the day $5 million That’s how much State Street, the financial firm that commissioned the popular “Fearless Girl” statue in New York’s financial district, agreed to put into a settlement fund, mostly to resolve claims that it discriminated against 305 top female employees by paying them less than men in the same positions. Labor Department officials also allege that the company discriminated against 15 of its black vice... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks faded a bit from their record highs on Friday after telecom and energy stocks sank. The loss for the Standard & Poor's 500 index was small, but it was the first in nearly two weeks. Much of the day's action was centered on the government's jobs report, which is usually the most anticipated economic data of each month, but it was a muddled one. Economists cautioned not to read too much into the hiring numbers, which were far weaker than expected, because they were distorted... Читать дальше...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police have identified a man suspected in a crime spree that ended when he was shot by a sheriff's deputy in Tucson. The suspect is 24-year-old Elijah Jamal Lawrence. The Pima County Sheriff's Department deputy who shot him is Sgt. Kevin Kubitskey, who is on standard administrative leave. Kubitskey is an 18-year veteran of the department. Authorities said they were called to an area near Interstate 10 about 2 p.m. Wednesday about an armed robbery and carjacking. The suspect then ditched the car and stole another one. Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia soldier remembered by his family for his constant smile and his dedication to military service was one of four U.S. troops killed in an ambush in Niger, federal officials said Friday. Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29, of Lyons, died Wednesday in the attack, the Department of Defense said in a news release. He was assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. U.S. officials say they believe extremists linked to the Islamic State group were responsible... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT — Syrian government forces pushed into one of the last remaining urban strongholds of the Islamic State in the country’s east Friday, after days of fierce fighting and intense Russian air strikes that involved cruise missiles from the Mediterranean, activists and officials said. The push into the town of Mayadeen came as al Qaeda-linked fighters attacked a key central Syrian village at the crossroads between areas under government control and those controlled by insurgents, activists said. Читать дальше...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A third man involved in an armored truck robbery in St. Louis that netted more than $2 million has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Twenty-six-year-old Jerry Bean, of St. Louis, was sentenced Friday for his role in the April 2016 robbery of a Dunbar Armored truck, one of the biggest heists ever in St. Louis. Prosecutors say an employee of the company, Shayne Jones, stopped for gas while driving the truck and acted like he was lost. When he got out of the truck, two armed men... Читать дальше...

Comedian Jessica Williams, who has recently made the leap from fake satirical journalism to acting, has landed a dream role. Pottermore, the “Harry Potter” site that releases announcements from inside the Potterverse and reveals more details about JK Rowling’s massively popular books, announced that the former “Daily Show” correspondent has been cast in the “Fantastic Beasts” sequel. Her role hasn’t been revealed. Williams, who is a huge fan of the “Harry Potter” series, reacted to the announcement on Twitter... Читать дальше...

The fallout from Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct allegations continue to mount. The Democratic National Committee on Friday called the accusations against Weinstein, a longtime backer of the party and its candidates “deeply troubling.” The DNC also announced it will donate any money it received from the movie mogul to three charities — about $30,000 in total. “The Democratic party condemns all forms of sexual harassment and assault,” Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt in millions of dollars. The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit Oct. 5$20,334,857Statutory debt limit--Suspended--Total public debt outstanding Oct. 5$20,371,173Operating balance Oct. 5$171,576Interest fiscal year 2017 thru Aug$274,563Interest same period pvs fiscal year$257,688Deficit fiscal year 2017 thru Aug-$673,711Deficit same period pvs fiscal year-$619,092Receipts fiscal year 2017... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Agnes Varda, the 89-year-old Belgian-born filmmaking legend, emerges from her hotel room having dressed up for an evening event at Lincoln Center. She holds out the large silver heart-shaped medallion strung around her neck. "I have a big heart," she says with a smile. A truer thing has never been said. Since her 1962 New Wave breakthrough, the real-time masterwork "Cléo From 5 to 7," and running up until her latest, the richly ennobling road trip documentary "Faces Places," Varda's... Читать дальше...

Early in “This Bitter Earth,” the sound of a glass bottle shattering interrupts a silly, drunken, late-night walk home. It’s not that ominous at first, but as lovers Jesse (H. Adam Harris) and Neil (Michael Hanna) periodically repeat the scene over the course of Harrison David Rivers’ play, it becomes clear that that sound — that out-of-nowhere but decisive sound — will restructure everything, into the time before the glass bottle and the time after it. With that realization comes dread... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to Hamburg, Pennsylvania, next week to make his case for an overhaul of the nation's tax code. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday the plan "is really a jobs bill." Trump's trip Wednesday to the town northwest of Philadelphia is aimed at building his case that tax cuts would help drive the economy. Trump has promised Americans "the largest tax cut in our country's history." But for the poorest Americans households, Trump's... Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former bookkeeper for a New Jersey cellular services company is accused of stealing about $1.6 million from his employer using a PayPal account. The U.S. Attorney's office in Philadelphia says Peter Goodchild, of Philadelphia, faces charges of embezzlement as well as money laundering, identity theft and filing false income tax returns. The indictment says Goodchild was working at QwikSource in Florsham Park when he set up a PayPal account in his employer's name. He's accused... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not every day — or every year or every decade — you see Republicans raising questions about whether Democrats were tough enough on gun control when they were in power. Such is the case now as political debate stirs over a regulatory decision approving the use of "bump stocks" like those possessed by the Las Vegas gunman. Some Republicans are gingerly asking whether the Obama administration was on the ball when it approved the device in 2010. Gingerly, perhaps, because both... Читать дальше...

BARCELONA, Spain — As separatists in Catalonia jockeyed Friday to elude court rulings and find ways to deliver on their promise to declare independence, business giants hit back with plans to relocate their headquarters elsewhere in Spain amid the increasing political uncertainty. Caixabank, Spain’s third lender in global assets, said Friday that it was moving from Barcelona to the eastern city of Valencia, “given the current situation in Catalonia.” It said it wants to remain in... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is planning to sue the Trump administration for allowing more employers to opt out of providing birth control coverage by claiming religious or moral objections. The Democrat on Friday called the actions "a direct attack on women's health and the right to access affordable and reliable contraception." Healey said the decision is unconstitutional because it allows employers to impose their religious beliefs on their workers. She said it also... Читать дальше...

It’s been a long and lonely year for the Berkeley Symphony, as Music Director Joana Carneiro absented herself for the arduous and glorious task of giving birth to triplets. But she was back on the stage of Zellerbach Hall on Thursday night to open the orchestra’s new season, and the exuberant results served as a reminder of just how badly she’d been missed. The concert featured a characteristically canny bit of programming, combining standard and standard-ish repertoire (Beethoven... Читать дальше...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — An appeals court in El Salvador has upheld a 30-year homicide sentence for a woman who insists she suffered a miscarriage, and did not carry out an abortion. The ruling has sparked condemnation from women's rights activists like Sara Garcia, who said "once again this judicial system is creating unequal conditions for women." Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz was convicted in July of aggravated homicide. Hernandez says she had been raped and didn't realize she was pregnant. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Friday: OpenHighLowSettleChg.COTTON 250,000 lbs.; cents per lb.Oct69.47+.57Dec68.2569.1967.8068.84+.57Mar67.7368.5067.3068.29+.61May68.5369.1768.0268.97+.57Jul68.9869.6368.5469.41+.50Oct68.02+.42Dec67.9368.4767.6268.46+.58Mar68.51+.58May68.58+.61Jul68.70+.66Oct67.56+.66Dec66.91+.66Mar66.97+.66May66.97+.66Jul66.97+.66Est. sales 17,041. Thu.'s sales 17,732Thu.'s open int 230,331