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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature may create a new investigative unit to focus on harassment complaints and hire a panel of outside experts to recommend discipline. Those are pieces of a draft policy presented Friday by two lawmakers tasked with revamping the Capitol's sexual misconduct policies. It still needs approval from several committees. The legislature has been grappling with how to improve its sexual misconduct policies after several lawmakers were accused of groping and other inappropriate acts. Читать дальше...

DERBY, England (AP) — A signed pair of running shoes worn by eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has been stolen from an address in Linton, Derbyshire. The white, blue and red spikes were used by the Jamaican great in a 100 meters heat at the 2012 Games, Derbyshire Police said. "The spikes are part of an extensive collection that I have built-up over the last 10 years," the victim said. "There are only four or five pairs of spikes that have been signed from the London 2012 Olympics, they... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Yelp is shutting down accounts used by a Boston teacher to post rave restaurant reviews written by her third-grade students. The assignment was designed to teach students at the Boston Teachers Union School about opinion writing. They described their favorite restaurants glowingly, with effusive praise such as, "Prepare for your taste buds to explode!" Teacher Taryn Snyder tells the Boston Globe that the students loved publishing their work on the website and have grown as writers from the experience. Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Carlotta formed in the Pacific Ocean near Mexico's Acapulco on Friday while the former Hurricane Bud weakened to a tropical depression after passing over the Baja Peninsula. Carlotta, the third named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, was forecast to make landfall Saturday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It said that Carlotta had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), and its center was located about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south-southeast of Acapulco. Читать дальше...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The king of Spain, Louisiana's governor and the mayor of New Orleans are celebrating historical ties during the city's tricentennial. King Felipe (feh-LEE-peh) VI says the city's cultural heritage and immense archives deserve to be better known and studied. Gov. John Bel Edwards mentioned three Spanish governors of Louisiana during a ceremony Friday in 165-year-old Gallier Hall , which was renovated for the anniversary. Mayor LaToya Cantrell said New Orleans would not be where it is without Spain... Читать дальше...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general says the state is pocketing $3 million from Citibank as part of a $100 million settlement over alleged interest rate manipulation. Bill Schuette says Friday in a news release that Citibank agreed to the settlement with 41 other state attorneys general. The bank is accused of manipulating the U.S. Dollar London Interbank Offered Rate, a benchmark interest rate that affects multi-trillion-dollar financial instruments. Schuette is a Republican running for Michigan governor. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Permian Basin in West Texas is expected to become the third-largest oil producing region in the world. The Houston Chronicle reports that research shows the Permian is on track to produce more oil within five years than any OPEC nation except Saudi Arabia. Crude volumes from the region are projected to more than double by 2023. Most of the oil is headed to refineries and ports near Houston and Corpus Christi. U.S. crude exports are expected to spike to nearly 5 million barrels a day by 2023. Читать дальше...

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In the wake of a nationwide #MeToo reckoning, Netflix headquarters has reportedly released a new set of behavioral guidelines for film crews.

Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, the co-writers of Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” criticized the creative process behind the DC Extended Universe in a recent interview with “Fat Man on Batman” podcast host Kevin Smith. While many of Marvel’s superhero movies have high scores on Rotten Tomatoes, only one DCEU movie — “Wonder Woman” — has a Rotten Tomatoes score above 60 percent. When Smith asked the writers how they would “fix the DC Universe,” Markus said that DC executives are too focused... Читать дальше...

Attention, AMC; if you’re looking to replace Chris Hardwick on “Talking Dead,” Kathy Griffin has a candidate for you: Herself. Griffin offered herself up for the gig on Friday, after Hardwick’s ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra, penned an essay accusing an unnamed ex-boyfriend of “long-term abuse” and career blacklisting. “I’m available to be the new host of ‘the talking dead,'” Griffin tweeted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Justice Department's inspector general report (all times local): 2:35 p.m. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pledging to "confront any problems" and "deal with them" in a "proper, fair and appropriate way" in the wake of an inspector general report that criticizes the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe. Sessions said Friday "we're not going to be defensive" about the report's findings, but work to "reaffirm and recommit ourselves to the highest ideals" of the FBI. Читать дальше...

This story about Kyra Sedgwick first appeared in the Miniseries/Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.” But to Sedgwick... Читать дальше...

Netflix premiered 10 new episodes of “The Ranch” on Friday, and one of the women who accused the show’s star, Danny Masterson, of rape has now spoken out to criticize the move. “We get it, Netflix,” Chrissie Carnell Bixler said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “You don’t believe us. You rub salt in our wounds. Is Danny Masterson still co-executive producer of The Ranch? You knew you had to fire him, but you do a bunch of reshoots so you can finish our rapist’s storyline up and give him a respectable send off. Читать дальше...

Q: My wife Sarah and I went to Detroit Metro Airport with two tickets to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, that we bought from Aeromexico. The flight was operated by Delta Air Lines. We checked our bags, received boarding passes and went to the gate. But when we tried to board the flight, they turned my wife away without giving us a reason. Delta rebooked us on a later flight. At the gate for the later flight, a Delta representative turned me away. Читать дальше...

Rising Australian comedian Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered on Tuesday night in Melbourne, according to CNN. The 22-year-old was walking home from a performance that night through a popular park but never made it home, according to multiple reports. The BBC reported that 19-year-old Jaymes Todd was charged with her rape and murder after handing himself over to police. According to law enforcement, the two did not know each other. The Age newspaper reported that she sent a Facebook message to a friend just a few meters from her home... Читать дальше...

Drake’s not the only one “upset” these days. In his latest music video, for the song “I’m Upset,” the rapper brought together much of the cast from “Degrassi,” the Canadian teen drama on which he starred as Jimmy Brooks. A few cast members were absent — Ryan Cooley, Mike Lobel and Daniel Clark, with the latter saying that he didn’t even know the video was in the works. Also Read: 'Degrassi' Reunion: Drake Brings Back Like All His Old Classmates for 'I'm Upset' Music Video “No one ever reached... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is almost certainly correct that better relations between the United States and Russia would be a good thing, but his belief that Russia should be immediately reinstated into the club of the world's major industrial democracies has confounded U.S. allies. And, his repeated blaming of his predecessor for Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in Ukraine is at odds with the facts. Trump's comments about Russia on Friday are likely to further... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump brought the world's two biggest economies to the brink of a trade war Friday by announcing a 25 percent tariff on up to $50 billion in Chinese imports to take effect July 6. Beijing quickly responded that it would retaliate with penalties of the same scale on American goods. In announcing the U.S. tariffs, Trump said he was fulfilling a campaign pledge to crack down on what he contends are China's unfair trade practices and its efforts to undermine U.S. technology and intellectual property. Читать дальше...

After all these years, San Francisco Symphony audiences have come to recognize the Michael Tilson Thomas semi-staged opera as its own kind of music-theatrical genre. It’s a strange and original artistic hybrid, in which the conventional balances among orchestra, vocal soloists, stage action and visual design get shifted around. And for the most part — in pieces by Britten, Beethoven, Wagner or Rimsky-Korsakov — it tends to work. The sorcery kicked into gear yet again in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday... Читать дальше...

Kyle MacLachlan, star of “Twin Peaks,” stops by StudioWrap for an interview and photo session. Read original story ‘Twin Peaks’ Star Kyle MacLachlan Portraits (Exclusive Photos) At TheWrap

MINNEAPOLIS — Deep in the heart of Trump country, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is being met with protests by farmers and ethanol producers concerned that he is undermining the industry with his strong support of oil and gas. Their unhappiness is being broadcast on billboards, at rallies and in meetings the EPA chief is holding during a tour of heartland states, and comes as Pruitt battles a series of allegations of ethical misconduct back in Washington. ... Читать дальше...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Two Michigan State University board trustees are calling for interim school President John Engler to resign, joining a chorus of sexual assault victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar and top legislators who say the campus community cannot heal until Engler steps down. “Unfortunately, and with great regret, John Engler’s tenure as interim president has continued the bleeding rather than stem it,” Brian Mosallam said in a statement Friday. “His... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a woman's sentencing in the killing of a Chinese student (all times local): 11:10 a.m. An Arizona woman who fatally shot a Chinese university student in a road rage incident in metro Phoenix has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility of early release. A judge sentenced Holly Davis on Friday after previously accepting her guilty plea to second-degree murder in the Jan. 16, 2016, killing of Yue Jiang (yeh jang) in Tempe following a car crash. Davis cried... Читать дальше...