Новости за 01.02.2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A flurry of newly released emails from scientists and top officials at the federal agency responsible for weather forecasting clearly illustrates the consternation and outright alarm caused by President Donald Trump’s false claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is unveiling a tax plan that would target the wealthy — increasing rates on capital gains and corporate gains as well as introducing a new 5% surtax on incomes above $5 million.

ATLANTA (AP) — Less than a month after being sworn in as Georgia's new U.S. senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler faces a 2020 election battle that's already shaping up to be so contentious that odds are it won't be over until 2021.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's military museum covers 250 years of artifacts and stories of brave soldiers fighting for their country, from men with muskets facing the British before the U.S. was even a country to troops who fought the war or terror in Afghanistan.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government on Saturday offered relief to taxpayers and vowed to spend billions to double farmers’ incomes and upgrade infrastructure, health care and industry to boost the country's lowest economic growth in a decade.

LONDON (AP) — If you thought the drawn-out battle over the U.K.'s departure from the European Union was painful, wait until you see what comes next.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 19-year-old French citizen who was gravely injured when flames tore through a high-rise apartment tower this week died Friday evening at a hospital, authorities said.

Tucson, Ariz.

Aari McDonald scored 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting and No. 16 Arizona beat No. 8 UCLA 92-66 on Friday night.

Sam Thomas added 20 points as the Wildcats (17-3, 6-3 Pac-12) got off to a hot start, took a big lead and never allowed the Bruins back into the game.

McDonald, a junior guard from Fresno, Calif., has scored in double figures in all 57 games of her college career, the longest active streak in the nation. She has 10 20-point games this season.

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Los Angeles

Red roses adorned the courtside seats where Kobe and Gianna Bryant sat at the last Los Angeles Lakers game they attended. On the overhead video board, photos of Bryant in action for the Lakers alternated with those of the other seven people who were killed alongside him and his 13-year-old daughter in a helicopter crash.

Friday night at Staples Center was unlike any other.

Later on, there would be a basketball game between the Portland Trail Blazers and Lakers, their first since Bryant's death on Sunday. Читать дальше...

Troy

In recent weeks, RPI coach Dave Smith has been using the term "mature" when discussing the top teams in ECAC hockey.

In a key conference game against Dartmouth, the maturing Engineers shook off a potential demoralizing goal in the last second of the first period and put on a dazzling display of hockey on both ends of the ice in a decisive second period against a Big Green team that started the game one point ahead of RPI in the standings.

The Engineers scored three goals in a span of 1 minute... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning "Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday at age 92.

Facebook informó el viernes que está trabajando para limitar la propagación de información falsa y contenido potencialmente dañino sobre el coronavirus, en momentos en que afirmaciones falsas sobre el brote circulan en internet.

Birmingham, Ala.

A historically black college in Alabama is unveiling a new home for murals that depict a famous revolt by African captives aboard a slave-trading ship more than 180 years ago.

Talladega College on Friday was scheduled to dedicate a new museum that will hold paintings which illustrate the story of the Amistad mutiny.

Commissioned by the college in 1938 and painted by artist Hale Woodruff, the murals hung in the campus library for nearly seven decades until... Читать дальше...

Harvard scored six goals in the second period and went on to beat Union 8-5 in an ECAC college hockey game Friday night at Messa Rink.

The Saints earned their third straight victory to improve to 10-9 overall, 6-4 in the MAAC. They're 1-9 on the road heading into Sunday's game at Saint Peter's.

NEW YORK (AP) — Citing a recent Associated Press investigation, the foreman of the jury that sent a Minnesota teen away for life in the 2002 death of an 11-year-old girl said Friday he regrets voting to convict.

Mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey is 33. Actor Stuart Whitman is 92. Singer Bob Shane is 86. Singer Don Everly is 83. Actor Garrett Morris is 83. Singer Del McCoury is 81. TV personality Joy Philbin is 79. Commentator Fred Barnes is 77. Musician Mike Campbell is 70. Musician Sonny Landreth is 69. Singer Exene Cervenka is 64. Actor Linus Roache is 56. Musician Dwayne Dupuy is 55. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 55. Lisa Marie Presley is 52. Musician Patrick Wilson is 51. Actor Michael C. Hall is 49. Musician Ron Welty is 49. Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu.

With little fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a historic blow to the bloc.

The U.K.'s departure became official at 11 p.m. (2300GMT), midnight in Brussels, where the EU is headquartered. Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gathered outside Britain’s Parliament to welcome the moment they'd longed for since Britain’s 52%-48% vote in June... Читать дальше...

Los Angeles

Fred Silverman, the only TV executive who steered programming for each of the Big Three broadcast networks and who brought "All in the Family," "Roots," "Hawaii Five-O" and other hit series and miniseries to television during his more than three-decade career, died Thursday. He was 82.

Silverman, who had been battling cancer, died at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.

Silverman's gift for picking shows that resonated with viewers prompted Time... Читать дальше...

Stand-up comedian Louie Anderson holds out the tantalizing prospect of another stage show.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Law enforcement agents opened fire on an SUV driver who smashed through two security checkpoints at Mar-a-Lago on Friday in what authorities described as the actions of “an obviously impaired" driver but not an intentional attack on President Donald Trump's resort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan said Friday they have cleared the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile River.

PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors in metro Phoenix will not charge an officer who shot a 14-year-old boy holding a replica gun and running away during a call about a vehicle break-in.

LONDON (AP) — Dating apps including Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder leak personal information to advertising tech companies in possible violation of European data privacy laws, a Norwegian consumer group said in a report Tuesday.

DETROIT (AP) — Authorities searched Friday for a Michigan prison inmate who was recently transferred to Ohio to face drug charges but was improperly released after posting bond.