Новости за 17.05.2016

PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Felder finished a set of shoulder presses followed by squats with kettle bells and walked across the EXOS weight room, his chest heaving as he spoke to no one in particular.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — An attorney for a woman accused in a string of armed jewelry store robberies across the South says some of the charges against her should be dismissed because they don't qualify as a "crime of…

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly higher Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

BEIRUT (AP) — Russia has built a military encampment inside a zone that holds the UNESCO world heritage site in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra, where Islamic State militants were driven out recently by pro-government forces.

ISTANBUL (AP) — A significant majority in Turkey's parliament voted on Tuesday in favor of a divisive, government-backed constitutional amendment that would strip legislators of their immunity from prosecution, increasing the chances that it becomes law.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former NFL tackle and congressman Jon Runyan has been hired as vice president of policy and rules administration, the league said on Tuesday.

DENVER (AP) — A baby sitter is accused of using two children she was watching to help her rob a bank — a heist allegedly planned to help her pay back money stolen from her employers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday, pinning most of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton futures No. 2 closed $4.85 to $6.05 cents a bale higher Tuesday.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Yemeni foreign minister on Tuesday announced the suspension of peace talks held in Kuwait with Shiite rebels after weeks of no progress, saying the rebels refuse to accept the legitimacy of the country's internationally-recognized president.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were solidly lower in Tuesday afternoon trading, erasing gains from a rally a day earlier. Utilities and consumer goods companies fell the most. Consolidated Edison declined 2.5 percent and Kraft Heinz dropped 3.7 percent. The…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Militant attacks on oil installations and the threat of a nationwide strike drove Nigeria's petroleum production and its naira currency to new lows Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six decades after the Supreme Court outlawed separating students by race, stubborn disparities persist in how the country educates its poor and minority children.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials offered details Tuesday about their official two-year review of the police department in North Charleston, where a former officer faces state and federal charges in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Walter…

NEW YORK (AP) — New and expectant parents flocked to a Manhattan pier to scope out the latest gear and services at the New York Baby Show, where companies large and small from around the world peddle everything from teethers…

BOSTON (AP) — The state's highest court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and sided with environmental groups that sued Massachusetts for failing to adopt strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A cargo ship captain who worked for the company that owned the freighter El Faro, which sank last year in a hurricane, said he was asked to resign or be fired after reporting safety concerns about…

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says it has agreed with the Nielsen company to become one of the first television networks to regularly incorporate measurements of people watching TV outside of their homes in places like bars or health clubs…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer whom the department was trying to fire after he fatally shot an unarmed 22-year-old woman in 2012 has decided to resign from the force rather than fight to retain his job.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Canadian officials said Tuesday they are taking a second look at their plan to allow people to return home to Fort McMurray after a raging wildfire spread north toward oil sands plants.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, all legal under 2012 tax reforms.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vintners in southern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota are reeling from a weekend cold snap that ruined huge swaths of their grapes.

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