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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A gunman who killed a University of Utah student during a carjacking attempt also shot at a friend of the victim who witnessed the slaying that sparked a massive manhunt before the man was spotted by an alert librarian and arrested, police said Wednesday. Suspect Austin Boutain, 24, who has also been linked to a killing in Colorado, told police he shot Chinese computer-science student ChenWei Guo and then fired two rounds at the woman as she ran away so there would be no witnesses... Читать дальше...

Three teenagers were killed when their car drove off a rural highway in the hills above Woodside overnight Tuesday, authorities said. The crash occurred on State Route 35, south of Bear Gulch Road, in unincorporated San Mateo County. The victims were in a Hyundai traveling southbound when the car left the west side of the road, crashed into a tree and came to a stop about 50 feet down an embankment, according to the California Highway Patrol. The teens were identified... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Uzbek immigrant accused of mowing people down along a bike path went on the deadly rental-truck rampage "in the name of ISIS" and planned it for weeks, closely following the extremist group's online instructions, police said Wednesday. Investigators, meanwhile, questioned Sayfullo Saipov in his hospital bed, working to extract information about the attack that killed eight people Tuesday near the World Trade Center memorial. Saipov, 29, was shot by a police officer after jumping from his Home Depot pickup. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the victims of the New York City bicycle path attack (all times local): 4:35 p.m. The Argentine consul in New York says relatives of three of the deceased from the South American country will travel Thursday and Friday to New York. Consul Mateo Estreme did not specify Wednesday whose relatives are coming but says the consulate is working to give families access to the morgue, among other things. He says he will work with families so the process of returning bodies to Argentina happens at the end of this week. Читать дальше...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Running back Marshawn Lynch returned to practice with the Raiders on Wednesday, having served his one-game suspension by the NFL. Lynch sat out Oakland’s 34-14 loss at Buffalo as discipline for making contact with an official in the Raiders’ win over the Chiefs on Oct. 19. He was reinstated from the suspended list Monday and joined the team Tuesday in Sarasota, where the Raiders are staying this week before playing Sunday at Miami. Several Raiders... Читать дальше...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Jurors in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend have been instructed on the law by a judge, and are set to hear closing arguments from attorneys Thursday. The instructions contained modified definitions of official bribery stemming from a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned the conviction Virginia's former governor. The Democratic senator... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Russian use of Facebook, Twitter and Google to try to influence the 2016 U.S. election (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A member of the House intelligence committee is challenging Facebook on its diversity. Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell says members of the Congressional Black Caucus visited Facebook's California headquarters last month. She suggests it will be hard for the company to monitor for ads from Russia that try to stoke racial tensions if employees at the company aren't diverse. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores are trying to step up their game online and in person for the critical holiday season, from dangling more discounts to livening up their stores. And Amazon, which is expanding into more areas, has opened its online store of Black Friday discounts. Department store chain Kohl's is hoping to woo new customers by emphasizing the exact amount people can save by stacking coupons and other deals. It's also opening at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, an hour earlier than last year. "Retail is changing. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday and signaled another rate increase remains on track for mid-December. But hanging over the meeting was the anticipation of a much bigger change: the nomination of a Fed chair. The Fed’s current chief, Janet Yellen, is expected to remain in that post until her term expires in February. On Wednesday, President Trump called Yellen “excellent.” Nevertheless, he is expected to nominate Jerome Powell... Читать дальше...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minority, disabled and gay students say they're having a tougher time surviving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus than most students, according to a survey the university released Wednesday. The survey found about 80 percent of student respondents said they often felt welcome and respected at UW-Madison. However, only 65 percent of students of color, 67 percent of disabled students, 69 percent of LGBT students and 50 percent of transgender and non-binary students ... Читать дальше...

TX Fort Worth TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, November 1, 2017 _____ 039 FPUS54 KFWD 012027 ZFPFWD Zone Forecast Product National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 327 PM CDT Wed Nov 1 2017 TXZ119-020915- Dallas- Including the city of Dallas 327 PM CDT Wed Nov 1 2017 .TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid 60s. South winds around 10 mph. .THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer with highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. .THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has approved a measure to increase the gross production tax on oil and gas to 7 percent for some wells after defeating a proposal to impose the maximum 7 percent rate on all wells. The House approved the measure Wednesday on a 64-31 vote. The Republican-controlled chamber tabled attempts by Democrats to raise the gross production tax for all wells as high as 7 percent. The House also defeated a Democratic proposal to raise the rate to 4 percent for all wells currently taxed at less than 4 percent.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California officials say they're ordering a comprehensive safety review at the tallest dam in the U.S. to pinpoint needed upgrades after a dramatic spillway collapse earlier this year. State Department of Water Resources Deputy Director Joel Ledesma said Wednesday the review of the Oroville Dam will involve federal, state and private experts. Officials ordered nearly 200,000 people evacuated when Oroville Dam's main spillway collapsed in February. Authorities now say they have... Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House has approved a bill banning abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome. The bill before lawmakers on Wednesday would subject doctors who perform abortions in such cases to criminal penalties and the potential loss of their medical licenses. It now goes to the state Senate. Also Wednesday, House hearings began again on the so-called Heartbeat Bill that would ban abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat. Advocates want the bill to spark a legal challenge to Roe v. Читать дальше...

Forget Hawaiian-style, the latest target of mass internet ire is strawberry pizza.

Forget Hawaiian-style, the latest target of mass internet ire is strawberry pizza.

From the triumphant melody of “A Whole New World” to the hyperactive razzmatazz of “Friend Like Me,” the chest-thumping majesty of “Prince Ali” to the jazzy derring-do of “One Jump Ahead,” the music of the 1992 Disney animated film “Aladdin” helped define the older half of the Millennial generation years before prodigious cell phone use and late entry into adulthood would. For the Broadway tour of the stage adaptation, which begins a two-month run this week at SHN’s Orpheum Theatre... Читать дальше...

Megyn Kelly’s gone all-in on sexual harassment coverage lately — and it’s working for her. The host of the “Today” show’s third hour has seen her Nielsen ratings grow double digits over the past two weeks, when Kelly continued to book guests with allegations of inappropriate behavior in Hollywood and the media. For the week of October 23, “Megyn Kelly Today” rose 10 percent versus the average from its five previous weekdays — the hour’s 2.338 million total viewers was its largest audience since premiere week. Читать дальше...

There are some musicians out there who are constantly creating and crafting some of the best music album after album — and still it feels like hardly anybody ever talks about them enough. At least that seems to be the case with Chelsea Wolfe, an incredible musician and vocalist who thrills in exploring a certain sort of metal that leaves room for both the intimidating, thundering bass and her gliding vocals. Wolfe released her fifth studio album, “Hiss Spun,” in September and once... Читать дальше...

In their chamber opera “Death With Interruptions,” composer Kurt Rohde and librettist Thomas Laqueur (working from a novel by the Portuguese Nobelist José Saramago) tell the surreal tale of a love affair between Death and a cellist. It’s an elusive work, full of striking individual moments, but the story itself can be hard to make out. When it had its world premiere two years ago, it was accompanied by Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet in a thematically apt pairing. The current... Читать дальше...

People all over the world watched as images emerged from a terror attack in Manhattan committed by a man who used a rented truck to kill eight cyclists and pedestrians and injure 11 others. Devastating photos document the tragedy’s aftermath: stretchers wheeled onto ambulances, bodies under sheets, a crushed school bus, and mangled and abandoned bicycles strewn along the path where the attack occurred. One image from Tuesday’s violence shocked some viewers in San Francisco with its eerie familiarity... Читать дальше...

“Intercontinental Collaborations #7” transcends boundaries, spanning genres, continents and social issues this weekend as Jess Curtis/Gravity dance company’s seventh biennial performance. “Intercontinental Collaborations #7,” on Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 2-5, at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco, is a series of pieces by artists from around the world. The work has been curated to address issues of physical diversity. Pre-show touch tours for visually impaired audiences are slated for 7 p.m.... Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Members of a new legislative panel agreed Wednesday how $9 billion in state taxpayer money is distributed annually to North Carolina's public schools is outdated and too complicated, but some warned against simpler plans that remove performance standards. Directed by colleagues to propose a new funding formula, the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform met for the first time. One leader of the group warned it could take them beyond their current October 2018... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Russian use of Facebook, Twitter and Google to try to influence the 2016 U.S. election (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Documents released by House lawmakers show that Russian-linked organizations buying Facebook ads weren't always successful in getting their message seen. One pro-Bernie Sanders ad from a group purportedly called the "United Muslims of America" was narrowly targeted — to those who already follow that group, as well as their friends. Consequently, the ad got just 11 views, and no one clicked it. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the truck attack on a bike path near the World Trade Center (all times local): 4:05 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump has spoken with the New York City mayor and the New York governor following the deadly truck attack on a bike path near the World Trade Center. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders also says Trump's calls for increasing extreme vetting of immigrants are "something that frankly the president has been talking about for a long time."... Читать дальше...