Новости за 29.08.2020

Truffula Pink gomphrena has already been hotter than the proverbial $2 pistol, but The Garden Guy is here to tell you it is even better than we thought. It has been the champion of all butterfly plants at my house and if your peak butterfly season is September/October and you find them for sale, BUY THEM!

DEAR ABBY: My husband's best friend lives with us, and I love him like a brother. The problem is, he has no degree and no car and aspires to nothing more than work in fast food part time. We took him in to help him get through a bad divorce, and now it seems like he'll never be able to leave.

DEAR HELOISE: With school starting, my children will be wearing face masks. I have bought reusable cloth masks for them. How often should I wash them?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Because of COVID-19, my daughter is having a very small wedding. The newlyweds are graduate students and will be sharing a house with three other graduate students, so they will only have a bedroom and bathroom to themselves for a couple of years.

Saratoga Springs

Summer fun has come to an end for Tiz the Law. Now, the most powerful 3-year-old colt in the country is resuming the march to his destiny.

It started 71 days ago when the horse with the big white blaze and the haunting white circles around his eyes turned the Belmont Stakes into his own personal playground. That was the first leg of the Triple Crown in the most unusual year ever in the history of thoroughbred racing. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been the most unusual year, period. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country's boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Honking and drumming, tens of thousands of people protested Saturday in Mauritius over the government’s slow response to an oil spill from a grounded Japanese ship and the alarming discovery of dozens of dead dolphins in recent days.

Albany

Any golfer involved Friday in the CDPHP Pro-Am was glad to be at Capital Hills, but Megan Henry may have been more appreciative than the others.

Henry, a graduate student at the University at Albany, flew Aug. 9 from Essex, England, to the Capital Region. She had to quarantine for 14 days before she ventured out in public, which Henry did Wednesday to get in a practice round at Capital Hills.

Her score in the pro-am, a 6-over-par 77, wasn't as signficant as playing a game she loves... Читать дальше...

Normally Teresa Stanfield spends her days in prisons talking with inmates about how she changed the course of her troubled life, and how they can do the same. But the coronavirus has locked her on the outside.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul’s dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that commanded respect. When the former playwright suited up as Black Panther, he brought cool intellectual gravitas to the Marvel superhero whose “Wakanda forever!” salute reverberated worldwide.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters took to the condo lobby of Portland's mayor Friday night as Oregon protests against racial injustice persist.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia has extended its pandemic movement restrictions including a ban on foreign tourists until the end of the year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown with searing intensity before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The angry storm surge has receded and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura was a monster storm that could have, even should have, wreaked much more destruction than it did, except for a few lucky breaks and some smart thinking by Gulf Coast residents, experts say.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said he is stepping down because a chronic health problem has resurfaced. He told reporters Friday that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously laid out a vision for harmony between white and Black people 57 years ago, his son issued a sobering reminder about the persistence of police brutality and racist violence targeting Black Americans.

Boston

Max Scherzer struck out 11 in six innings and Juan Soto and Howie Kendrick hit back-to-back homers in Washington's five-run third, leading the Nationals to a 10-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday.

A day after both teams' games were postponed in the sport's racial justice awakening, they returned for Jackie Robinson Day, lining up along the baselines before the game to listen to a recorded speech from the player who broke baseball's color barrier. Boston's Jackie Bradley Jr. Читать дальше...

New York

Dominic Smith hit the go-ahead home run in his first game since tearfully pleading for help combating racial inequality, Pete Alonso also connected and the New York Mets beat the crosstown Yankees 6-4 in the opener of a doubleheader Friday.

Amed Rosario hit a walkoff, two-run homer to lift the Mets to a 4-3 victory in the nightcap — a bizarre scene in the Bronx, where the Yankees batted first as the visiting team in the makeup of a game postponed last weekend.

The... Читать дальше...

Olympia Fields, Ill.

Rory McIlroy doesn't need fans to keep his head in the game at the BMW Championship. Olympia Fields is so tough it won't allow anything but his full attention on every shot.

McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay made their share of mistakes Friday and shrugged them off because that's bound to happen on the toughest test the PGA Tour has seen this year.

By the end of another steamy afternoon south of Chicago, they were the sole survivors to par.

One week after... Читать дальше...

Jackie Stoelting, an Albany Symetra Tour champion with family ties to the Capital Region, fired a 7-under-par 64 Friday in the first round of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

NEWTON, Miss. (AP) — A suspect in the March shooting deaths of three people, including a Fort Hood soldier, was arrested Friday in Mississippi, according to police in Central Texas.

Two months after Jenny Slate abruptly exited her role as the voice of the animated character Missy on Netflix's "Big Mouth" series — amid a racial reckoning in the entertainment industries — her replacement has been announced.

It's the penultimate episode of the new season of "The Boys," Amazon's superhero action series, and it's time for a costumed champion named Starlight to give one of those rousing speeches that inspires listeners to ignore insurmountable odds and get motivated for the journey ahead.