Новости за 28.01.2017

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The movies vying for top honors at the Producers Guild Awards are nearly identical to those up for best picture at the Oscars, with the exception of “Deadpool.” Producers included the superhero romp among its 10 nominees for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, along with “Arrival,” ”Fences,” ”Hidden Figures,” ”Hacksaw […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. Forest Service program that infused rural communities with millions to make up for lost timber revenue is drying up. Oregon faces a 90 percent reduction in the payments that have kept critical services afloat in many areas since environmental rules curtailed logging on federal land. The Salem Statesman Journal […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says it is putting 10 million euros ($10.7 million) into an international fund it launched to finance access to birth control, abortion and sex education for women in developing nations after President Donald Trump cut U.S. funding for such services. Lilianne Ploumen, the minister for foreign trade […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services President Sylvia Matthews Burwell has been named next president of American University in Washington. The school announced this week that the former President Barack Obama administration official will become the first woman to lead the school when she takes over on June 1. Burwell […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bob Evans sat at a picnic table outside friend Katherine Decker’s motorhome in 1986, sobbing that his wife had died when his then-5-year-old daughter, Lisa, was just a baby. “He really did cry. He’d cry and blow his nose and everything when he talked about it,” Decker recalled. “I used to […]

SARAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Aaron Cutchon was laid off from his job at an auto body shop, he could no longer afford to pay for two traffic tickets he got for driving in a carpool lane. His license was suspended, and he had to stop attending classes at a Napa junior college where he […]

The wounded suspect is in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Joe Friday look is out. Tattoos, turbans and beards are in. Police departments, compelled by a hiring crisis and eager for a more diverse applicant pool, are relaxing traditional grooming standards and getting away from rules that used to require a uniformly clean-shaven, 1950s look. More officers are on the […]

VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — An early-morning fire has destroyed a Texas mosque that had been a target of hatred in the past. The Victoria Advocate (http://bit.ly/2k388PZ ) reports that a convenience store clerk spotted smoke and flames billowing from the Islamic Center of Victoria at around 2 a.m. Saturday and called the fire department. Jeff […]

The possibility of having a smelt season on the Cowlitz River is still up in the air, and state Fish and Wildlife released some facts and figures on what to expect in 2017. For those who aren’t familiar the smelt return used to be a highly popular recreational fishery from the 1980s to the early […]

Who gets the money? Q: When I buy a share of stock in a company, does it get the money? And what does owning some shares really get me? A: Shares of stock represent real ownership stakes in companies. If a company has a million shares outstanding and you buy 100 of them, you own […]

On Inauguration Day, the Trump administration suspended a pending rate cut to FHA mortgage insurance that the departing Obama administration announced just a week earlier. Here’s what that means to borrowers.

Bank customers who use Chase but also want to take advantage of financial tools like Mint or TurboTax will soon be able to send their data faster and more securely between the two companies.

Withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership doesn’t help businesses in Washington state. It also marks a fundamental shift in American trade policy that doesn’t guarantee America will be first.

This week’s quotes cover South Korea’s government-industrial complex, Boeing’s bombshell-free earnings news, and U.S. restaurants organizing to oppose a federal crackdown on undocumented workers.

Seattle is getting denser but nowhere near the tightly packed cities of New York, San Francisco or Boston, as these maps show. Also: A Mercer Island seafood seller readies an expansion into other locally produces foods.

n two weeks, President Trump is expected to unveil his budget proposal. The Fed is watching for more government borrowing that doesn’t add to sustainable economic growth.

Two University of Washington professors are taking aim at BS in a provocatively named new course they hope to teach this spring. The professors would like to push the course materials online — teaching it as a MOOC, for example, a freely available course taught over the web.

MOSCOW (AP) — Deputy Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says that Proton-M rockets will be out of service for three and a half months because of engine problems. Rogozin announced the delay on Twitter on Saturday following a visit to the factory where the engines are manufactured. He says employees at the factory had been […]

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Thousands of Mongolians have protested for the second time this winter to call attention to government inaction on air pollution. A protest Saturday drew an estimated 7,000 people, many of them wearing air masks underneath thick winter hats. The protesters braved temperatures that fell below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 […]

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — After reaching Yemen’s shores in a packed migrant boat, the young Ethiopian coffee farmer was plunged into a living hell. The smugglers wanted thousands of dollars in ransom from the migrants, and they used him as an example of what would happen if they didn’t pay. Each day for a month, […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state TV and military media army say government troops have gained control of the main water source for Damascus. The development Saturday could signal the end of a standoff in the Barada Valley that restricted the water flow to nearly 5 million residents for nearly a month. The fighting trapped […]

PARIS (AP) — Hard-left Socialist rebel Benoit Hamon heads into France’s left-wing presidential primary runoff as a surprising favorite to beat pro-business pragmatist Manuel Valls, in a vote that will realign France’s unpredictable presidential campaign. Hamon is the favorite in Sunday’s vote after arriving in pole position in the first round with 36 percent of […]

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Defending overall World Cup champion Lara Gut won her first downhill of the season Saturday while Lindsey Vonn crashed for the second consecutive day. Gut finished 0.05 seconds ahead of Sofia Goggia of Italy and 0.47 seconds in front of Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia. Gut was competing in the final […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Influential Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev says Moscow has high hopes for a scheduled telephone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. “Everything will be positive,” Patrushev said Saturday, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. He is the secretary of Russia’s Security Council. The telephone call between […]