Новости за 27.01.2016

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland fired six officers for their roles in a 137-shot barrage of gunfire that killed two unarmed people in 2012 after a high-speed chase, but the potential consequences of that day for police still aren’t fully resolved. Cleveland’s largest police union says it already filed grievances to appeal the firings announced Tuesday. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is keeping a key interest rate unchanged while pledging to closely monitor developments in the global economy and financial markets. The Fed says in its policy statement that economic growth has slowed since it raised rates from record lows in December. The changes in its statement signaled that the […]

FAIRFIELD, Ala. (AP) — An Associated Press analysis shows that the closing of more than 150 Wal-Mart stores nationwide will create three food deserts in Alabama, Kansas and Arkansas. Stores slated to shut down Thursday will leave residents in parts of Fairfield, Alabama; Coal Hill, Arkansas; and Wichita, Kansas, without a supermarket. The federal government […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed keeps key interest rate unchanged while pledging to closely monitor global economy, markets.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Officials say the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids is expected to reopen this spring after being closed in October to allow crews to install new permanent interactive exhibits and conduct renovations. Those involved in the project provided updates Wednesday on the work, which includes construction of the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on a man accused of planning to attack a Masonic temple in Milwaukee (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Wisconsin’s top federal defender says the defense for a Milwaukee man accused of plotting to attack a Masonic temple will examine the conduct of FBI informants ahead of his arrest. Daniel Stiller […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says the number of besieged areas in Syria’s conflict has risen to 18, up from 15 earlier this month. As the U.N. hopes to get Syrian parties to begin peace talks on Friday, the U.N. humanitarian chief and the head of the World Food Program on Wednesday called […]

An eyewitness to the deadly shooting at the Seattle homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” said the gunmen were after drugs and money.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — It’s a half hour after practice, and not all of the Buffalo Sabres are off the ice. When coach Dan Bylsma’s formal session ends, forward Ryan O’Reilly takes over by working a handful of teammates through a series of drills. “There’s always a bunch of guys that want to do extra […]

The tech and retail giant has just released a sneak peek of its first Super Bowl ad ever. It’s a zany commercial featuring Amazon’s Echo device, a cylindrical computing assistant that doubles as a speaker.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments from the 2016 race for president, one week out from the Iowa caucuses. All times local. 7:20 a.m. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is accusing FOX News anchorwoman Megyn Kelly of being “completely obsessed” with his candidate, and says most people tuned in to the […]

MADRID (AP) — The ball is back in the Spanish king’s court. King Felipe VI started a second round of talks with Spain’s political leaders Wednesday, renewing his tense search for a candidate to form a government following inconclusive elections last month. The monarch was forced to resume his search after acting conservative Prime Minister […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan researchers say the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus is not considered a threat in the African country where it was first discovered in a monkey in 1947. Julius Lutwama, a virologist with the Uganda Virus Research Institute who has long investigated Zika, said Wednesday there has never been a known outbreak in […]

ROME (AP) — The Latest on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Europe (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Italy’s culture minister says the decision to cover up naked Roman statues in an apparent bid to not offend the visiting Iranian president was “incomprehensible.” Culture Minister Dario Franceschini told reporters Wednesday that neither he nor Italian […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp which has become the most powerful symbol of the human suffering inflicted by Nazi Germany during World War II. Events Wednesday at the former death camp in southern Poland came as […]

CHIOS, Greece (AP) — The seas are rough and cold. The wind is bitter. The overcrowded smugglers’ boats are far from seaworthy, with many unable even to make it across a few miles of water — and the bodies of those who drown as the boats sink are fished out of the churning seas day […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Meet the female Jason Bourne. Not that she’s a spy, or a fictitious character of any kind, but Johanna Konta does have a multiple identity and a few passports. The 24-year-old tennis player who was born in Australia to Hungarian parents and moved to England as a teen, however, considers herself […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A blockbuster Australian Open semifinal between No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Roger Federer will be the latest installment in the tennis rivalry that has come to define recent seasons. It will be a rematch of last year’s final at the U.S. Open and at Wimbledon, both of which Djokovic […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission are conducting a tour along the Gulf Coast to consider the feasibility of bringing passenger rail back to the Gulf Coast, more than a decade after Hurricane Katrina damaged the tracks. The Southern Rail Commission announced recently that the so-called “Inspection Train” will include 14 […]

Anthem’s fourth-quarter earnings tumbled 64 percent as some of the Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer’s expenses climbed in a performance that fell well short of Wall Street’s profit expectations. The Indianapolis company said Wednesday that it earned $180.9 million in the final quarter of 2015, down from $506.7 million in the previous year’s quarter. Adjusted […]

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A top policy-making body of Vietnam’s Communist Party was meeting Wednesday for the last stage of a power transition to elect the party chief and other members of the country’s collective leadership for the next five years. The election, however, holds no surprises: General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, 71 (pronounced Noo-yen […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A plan to shield lower Manhattan from major floods has stacked up over $600 million in backing, but it’s still hundreds of millions of dollars and several years away from being finished. The city’s proposal to build a 5-mile-long barrier of berms, walls and floodgates around Manhattan’s lower tip was hatched […]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Officials say the hunt for the Malaysian airliner has been set back when two of the three search ships sustaining damage to vital equipment. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is coordinating the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said Wednesday that a piece of underwater communications equipment fitted to the […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officers in Connecticut last year fired stun guns at blacks and Hispanics at a higher rate than at white suspects, and warned but didn’t fire at white suspects at a higher rate than they did blacks or Hispanics, according to preliminary data from the nation’s first statewide accounting of the weapons’ […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Data in Conn., 1st state to require police to report stun gun use, suggest racial disparities.