Новости за 25.06.2018

Bay Area lawmakers decried conditions inside Texas detention facilities they visited Saturday, while local politicians and residents demonstrated in the streets of San Francisco against President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting undocumented migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. “No country with a love of children would do this to kids,” Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, told The Chronicle. She and two dozen other Democratic members of Congress... Читать дальше...

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Monday in Lake County, which has been hit hard by a relentless inferno that grew by 500 acres overnight and destroyed 22 structures as crews struggled to get a handle on the wildfire, officials said. The Pawnee Fire went from 450 acres Saturday night to 8,200 acres by Monday morning, according to Cal Fire. The emergency declaration mobilizes the state’s Office of Emergency Services and other agencies to provide help to the county. Читать дальше...

I had a birthday last week. It was no ordinary birthday, nor was it one of those decade birthdays that cause so much angst, like your 40th, 60th or 80th. This was much worse, at least for any Baby Boomer and fan of the Beatles. (If you’re neither, you might not understand this column.) Yes, I turned 64. How did that happen? It seems like only yesterday I was singing along with Paul McCartney, wondering how anyone could be that old. “Will you still need me... Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A black man who was killed by Minneapolis police over the weekend was shot multiple times and died as a result of those gunshot wounds, according to a report released Monday by a medical examiner. Thurman Blevins Jr., 31, of Minneapolis, was shot and killed Saturday after a foot chase with police through a north Minneapolis alley. Authorities said he was armed, and the head of the police union said Blevins had pulled out his gun before two officers fired their weapons. Some people... Читать дальше...

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were: 9-9-5-7 (nine, nine, five, seven)

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were: 4-7-4 (four, seven, four)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Advocates for domestic violence victims are praising a new Tennessee law that seeks to stop an often-used tactic that batterers use after their victims have fled to safety: filing frivolous lawsuits designed to bankrupt or inflict more harm on the people they have already abused. Those who work with battered women say forcing victims to spend money on lawyers and show up to fight multiple frivolous legal challenges is common. In fact, there's even a term some use for it: Stalking by way of the courts. Читать дальше...

SWISSVALE, Pa. (AP) — Classmates, teachers, family and neighbors of Antwon Rose Jr. described him Monday as a caring and charismatic young man who deserves to be remembered as more than just the latest hashtag given unarmed black men killed by police. The funeral for Rose, 17, was held in a school auditorium six days after he was fatally shot by a police officer as he fled a traffic stop in a town near Pittsburgh. He would have been a senior. The funeral program included a poem Rose wrote just weeks before he was killed. Читать дальше...

RENO, Nevada (AP) — While hundreds of protesters rallied outside, Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration's immigration policies Monday in a speech, calling on Congress to act and asserting that many children were brought to the border by violent gang members. Speaking at a school-safety conference in Nevada, Sessions said the crisis at the border is a "difficult and frustrating situation" that requires Congress to act. "Children have indeed borne much of the burden of our... Читать дальше...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi state Auditor Stacey Pickering is resigning his statewide elected post to become head of the state's Veterans Affairs Board. Pickering, 49, says he accepted the new post Monday and will make the transition around July 15. The Laurel Republican replaces former director Randy Reeves, who was appointed by President Donald Trump as undersecretary for memorial affairs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in 2017. Gov. Phil Bryant will appoint a replacement who will... Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a two-week sprint, South Carolina's runoff elections are almost here. Voters will have two statewide races on the Republican ballot. Gov. Henry McMaster and businessman John Warren face off as McMaster tries to win a full term. Attorney General Alan Wilson faces state Rep. Todd Atwater. Both Democrats and Republicans will choose nominees to replace U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy in the Upstate 4th Congressional District. Conventional wisdom says runoffs typically see significantly fewer voters than primaries. Читать дальше...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — A major Massachusetts transportation project is under way. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, a Democrat, for a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for the $2.3 billion Green Line extension project. It's designed to extend the public transit line about 4.7 miles through east Cambridge into Somerville and Medford. Chao used the event to announce the release of a $225 million federal grant agreement... Читать дальше...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Renovations have started on a building that will become apartments for women undergoing treatment for substance abuse in West Virginia. Marshall University says in a news release its health provider group, Marshall Health, and the Huntington City Mission have begun construction on the 15,000-square-foot building next to the mission. Each of the 18 apartments will consist of up to three bedrooms, a bathroom, a living room and kitchenette. They will enable women suffering from substance abuse to live with their children. Читать дальше...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers not only passed a tax deal to avert immediate and deep budget cuts, they backed an agreement in the latest special session that gives the state more financial certainty than it's had in years. After a decade of short-term, patchwork budget fixes through former Gov. Bobby Jindal's tenure and in the first year of Gov. John Bel Edwards' term, lawmakers agreed to a seven-year tax. That's practically a lifetime in the Louisiana Capitol, extending through this... Читать дальше...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A study released Monday suggested a number of changes to the death penalty system in Pennsylvania, including setting up a publicly funded agency to provide legal representation in capital cases. The long-awaited report by the Task Force and Advisory Committee on Capital Punishment said the state should make its lethal injection protocol public and use "an appropriate and effective drug" to execute people humanely. The report said one of its subcommittees recommended the state... Читать дальше...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local): 12:05 p.m. A temporary tent shelter set up in far west Texas for immigrant children is close to its 360-person capacity. Reporters were allowed Monday to briefly visit the shelter at the Tornillo border crossing, where more than 320 children ages 13 to 17 are being held. About half are from Guatemala, and 23 of the children had been separated from adults who accompanied them across the U.S.-Mexico... Читать дальше...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — State-owned utility Santee Cooper is asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to resolve a dispute with electric cooperatives. Santee Cooper asked the Supreme Court on Monday to determine whether the electric cooperatives must pay their share for a failed nuclear project. SCE&G and Santee Cooper abandoned plans to build two nuclear reactors in Fairfield County last July, after spending $9 billion. Santee Cooper's share is about $4 billion. The electric cooperatives have sued... Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Environmental groups filed two more lawsuits Monday challenging the Interior Department's decision to reinstate the federal mineral rights leases for the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. One of the lawsuits was filed by three national groups: The Wilderness Society, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Izaak Walton League of America. The other was filed by the Minneapolis-based Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness. They follow a similar... Читать дальше...

A kayaker who paddled among a dozen young great white sharks, some as long as 13 feet, off Aptos beach Saturday says she wasn't scared of the white-belled fish with mouths full of daggers.

For the third consecutive year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will invite a large, diverse and international group of film professionals to join the organization and vote for the Oscars, the Academy announced on Monday. The record-breaking list of 928 who will be invited to join includes Emilia Clarke, Ann Dowd, Miles Teller and Jada Pinkett Smith. It follows the invitation of a record 683 new members in 2016, and then a new-record 774 members in 2017. In April and May, each of... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House. The president and first lady Melania Trump greeted Abdullah and his wife, Queen Rania, on Monday afternoon. The couples will be meeting in the Oval Office before Trump, Abdullah and their aides sit down for talks. The White House had said the allies would be discussing "terrorism, the threat from Iran and the crisis in Syria, and working towards a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians." Presidential... Читать дальше...

Life in the East Bay, which is complicated enough, is going to get more complicated with the addition of a new telephone area code. 341 is coming. The California Public Utilities Commission acknowledged the obvious Thursday — the East Bay is overrun with people who cannot put their phones down. It will soon run out of phone numbers within its existing 510 area code. The new area code of 341 will be “overlaid” in the 510 area, which means that next-door... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court kept Texas' voting maps largely intact Monday, dealing an election-year blow to Democrats by reversing earlier findings that intentional racial discrimination continues to stain several statehouse and congressional districts. The 5-4 decision comes nine months after Democrats had celebrated lower court rulings that invalidated parts of Texas' electoral maps and a revised voter ID law. But the voter ID law was also restored in April, and Texas Republicans... Читать дальше...

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on an appearance in Reno by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and protests outside (all times local): 10:45 a.m. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended Trump administration immigration policies during a speech at a conference in Nevada while hundreds of protesters rallied outside. Sessions told a convention sponsored by the National Association of School Resource Officers in Reno on Monday that the controversy over immigration is a "difficult and frustrating situation"... Читать дальше...