Новости за 29.07.2020

I have never had a baby. But now I understand.

I have spent the last several months of my life looking after a small, constantly needy child — actually, it has only been a few hours, but it feels like several months.

It is a healthy 6 1/2 pounder, and I have been tending to its every need, worrying about it, checking on it every few minutes to make sure it is doing fine. I don't want its temperature to rise above 200 degrees.

I am speaking here about a beef brisket. I thought that was obvious. Читать дальше...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The fate of St. Louis’ elected prosecutor may rest with which side city voters fall in two competing national debates: criminal justice reform versus the push to crack down on crime.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan, a Vietnam prisoner of war who entered politics and was thrust into the state’s top office when his predecessor suffered a deadly stroke, died Wednesday at age 74.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A freight train traveling on a bridge that spans a lake in a Phoenix suburb derailed Wednesday, setting the bridge ablaze and partially collapsing the structure, officials said.

Siena's Manny Camper has officially withdrawn from the 2020 NBA draft and decided to return to the Saints for his senior season, Camper announced Wednesday on Twitter.

ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis will lie in repose at the Georgia capitol in his hometown of Atlanta in one of the last memorial services for the late Democratic congressman before he is buried.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After driving for Lyft for six years, Joni Bicknese decided to invest in a minivan at the beginning of 2020, reasoning that she could make more money if she could transport more riders. Then came what she calls Nashville’s quadruple-whammy: a tornado, coronavirus closures, protests that rocked downtown, then more closures.

Boston

J.D. Davis banged a two-run homer off the Pesky Pole, and left-hander David Peterson pitched 52/3 innings to win his major league debut and lead the New York Mets to an 8-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.

The Mets swept the two-game series and sent the Red Sox to their fourth consecutive loss. The teams now move to New York for another two games at Citi Field.

Peterson allowed two runs on seven hits and two walks, striking out three on the day he was... Читать дальше...

"Watchmen," cloaked in superhero mythology and grounded in real-world racism, received a leading 26 nominations Tuesday for the prime-time Emmy Awards.

Miami

Major League Baseball suspended the Miami Marlins' season through Sunday, and the Philadelphia Phillies will remain idled by the coronavirus pandemic until Friday, while the rest of baseball forges ahead with trepidation.

"There's real fear, there's real anxiety for me, for all my teammates," Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun said Tuesday. "I think we've found it very difficult to focus on baseball at all the last couple of days."

In the wake an outbreak that infected half the Marlins' team... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winners including Pharrell Williams, the Beastie Boys and Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor have a chance of winning their first-ever honors at the Emmy Awards, where Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s show-stopping halftime show performance also earned multiple nominations.

A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of delayed payments in some states.

Former Sen. Elizabeth H. Dole is 84. Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker is 88. Actor Robert Fuller is 87. Actor David Warner is 79. Actress Roz Kelly is 78. Actor Mike Starr is 70. Documentarian Ken Burns is 67. Style guru Tim Gunn is 67. Rock singer-musician Geddy Lee (Rush) is 67. Singer Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 67. Actor Kevin Chapman is 58. Actress Alexandra Paul is 57. Actor Dean Haglund is 55. Singer Martina McBride is 54. Musician Chris Gorman is 53. Actor Rodney Allen Rippy is 52. Читать дальше...

BEIJING (AP) — China reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the country continues to battle an outbreak in Xinjiang.

Brady and Brees aren't the B words dominating the opening of NFL training camps.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After asking for coronavirus-related deadline extensions in April, the Trump administration now appears to be abandoning that request by asking Congress for extra funding to wrap up the 2020 census “as quickly, and safely as possible" in a move that could help ensure the number-crunching for redrawing congressional districts takes place on President Donald Trump's watch.

New York

Broadway theaters and museums that tourists would flock to are still closed. The United States has banned travel from China, Brazil and much of Europe. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a quarantine for visitors from 31 of the country's states.

Four months after New York City shut down to combat the coronavirus, its vital tourism industry remains essentially paralyzed even as the city struggles to kick-start its moribund economy.

The enormous challenge the city faces... Читать дальше...

The Northeastern New York Section of the PGA has seen its junior tour series expand from 112 members last year to 143 this year. Average tournament participation in one-day tournaments has increased by 25 more players, said Executive Director Tracie Warner.

On Sunday, the Ballston Spa native was named a Performer of the Week in the Independent Collegiate Baseball League. On Monday, he struggled at the plate and behind it in Albany’s 7-4 victory over the Glens Falls Independents in the first game of a doubleheader at East Field.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s extreme poverty has plunged due to a monthly federal handout during the coronavirus pandemic, but threatens to bounce back once the government ceases the stopgap welfare program, a report said Tuesday.

Taylor Zakhar Perez usually only gets a taste of fame at Home Depot.

He's been spotted four times, in four different Home Depot stores around Los Angeles: once at customer service, twice in various aisles and again as he was walking out.

Each time, employees or shoppers have recognized him from a 2015 episode of Freeform's "Young and Hungry." (Why so many fans of the show frequent the hardware store is unclear. As for Zakhar Perez: "I'm a handy guy," he said in a Zoom interview.)

DEAR ABBY: Three months ago, my husband ran into a second cousin he hadn't seen in 40 years. They were close for a short time during high school and saw each other a couple times after that.