Новости за 22.02.2017

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A federal inmate in West Virginia has admitted he threatened to blow up government buildings in several major U.S. cities. The Exponent Telegram (http://bit.ly/2mceqxa ) reports 37-year-old Jeremy Edward Smith pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Clarksburg to making the threats in a 2015 letter he wrote while in solitary […]

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — After their rape and torture by Islamic State extremists for months or years, Yazidi women face ongoing suffering from psychological trauma even if they do manage to escape. Until now, a lack of psychiatrists and other mental health specialists in northern Iraq meant that many Yazidi women — a minority singled […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Hill Republicans say the White House is planning to submit President Donald Trump’s budget plan to Congress in mid-March. GOP aides say the plan is due on March 14. They’re expecting Trump’s blueprint to contain fewer details than is typical since it’s a new administration and Office of Management and Budget […]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio jail officer accused of facilitating drug trafficking by trying to sell phones to inmates has pleaded guilty to a federal charge. Investigators alleged that former Montgomery County Jail corrections officer Michael Rose Jr. arranged to provide cellphones to multiple inmates in exchange for thousands of dollars. The 29-year-old […]

When homeowners consider their place’s curb appeal – how attractive it looks from the street – they often think about exterior paint colors and landscaping. But more and more, they’re leveraging wooden touches to connect their home to its place in the Northwest. This is particularly true among houses built from the 1950s through the […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Family members of an inmate who hanged himself in New Orleans’ new jail last year say they’re filing a lawsuit over his death. Relatives of 61-year-old Cleveland Tumblin didn’t immediately release details of the complaint. But they scheduled a news conference outside the city’s federal courthouse for Wednesday morning with prisoner […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided with California-based Life Technologies Corp. in a patent infringement case that limits the international reach of U.S. patent laws. The justices ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the company’s shipment of a single part of a patented invention for assembly in another country did not violate patent laws. […]

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Police say one of the two teenage girls killed last week in northern Indiana recorded the voice of a suspect in their deaths. Indiana State Police played a clip of a man’s voice saying “down the hill” during a Wednesday news conference. Capt. David Bursten says the audio came from 14-year-old […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Some Philadelphia supermarkets and beverage distributors say they’re gearing up for layoffs because the city’s new soda tax has cut beverage sales by 30 percent to 50 percent, worse than the city predicted. An owner of six supermarkets tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2loWwJi ) he expects to cut 300 jobs, and a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post is featuring a new motto on the paper’s website: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The words now appear underneath the name of the paper on its website. They were not, however, in a similar place in the paper’s print edition Wednesday. Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos used the phrase […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The flu season has slammed many small businesses, weakening already thin staffing levels and forcing some owners to scramble to cover shifts or get the work done. All but five of the 26 staffers at BusBank, a transportation booking service, have been sick at some point this season. On the worst […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas men are due to be sentenced for their roles in a hate crime attack on three Somali men. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten will sentence Armando Sotelo and Omar Cantero Martinez at a hearing later Wednesday. Prosecutors say the two yelled racial and anti-Somali slurs at the men, […]

LONDON (AP) — The dresses tell the story of a life cut short: first the frilly debutante frocks Princess Diana wore before she married Prince Charles, then the elaborate gowns that stunned the world, and finally the power suits she favored shortly before her death. It’s been 20 years since Diana died in a Paris […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s music industry will salute chart-topping talent and departed icons at Wednesday’s Brit Awards, where nominees include Drake, Beyonce and David Bowie. Bowie, who died in January 2016, is nominated in the album of the year category for valedictory release “Blackstar” and male British artist category at the U.K. equivalent of the […]

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man accidentally lit his hooded sweatshirt on fire while smoking outside a Pennsylvania mall and badly burned himself. Palmer Township police say it happened Tuesday evening outside the Palmer Park Mall near Easton. They say the man was either walking or hanging around outside the mall when his […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military is building a replica of Berlin’s Reichstag building as a playground for teenagers to attack at a patriotic theme park. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who made the announcement Wednesday, said the replica at the Patriot Park just outside Moscow will be smaller than life size. Speaking to Russian […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The players’ association has agreed to Major League Baseball’s proposal to have intentional walks without pitches this year. While the union has resisted many of MLB’s proposed innovations, players are willing to accept the intentional walk change. “As part of a broader discussion with other moving pieces, the answer is yes,” […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Women who have had abortions could sue doctors under a bill now moving through the Florida House. A House panel narrowly approved a bill Wednesday that would allow women to sue physicians for physical or emotional injuries stemming from abortions. The legislation (HB 19) would create a longer time period for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new court hearing for a black Texas prison inmate who claims improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence. The justices voted 6-2 in favor of inmate Duane Buck. Buck had tried for years to get federal courts to look at his claim that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a Michigan girl with cerebral palsy who wants to sue school officials over their refusal to let her bring a service dog to class. The justices ruled unanimously that federal disability laws might allow Ehlena Fry to pursue her case in court without first having […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal has dropped crimes against humanity charges against a former lower-ranking Khmer Rouge official, saying she was not high enough in the regime’s leadership hierarchy. Prosecutors in 2015 had charged Im Chaem, a district chief during the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-79 reign, with crimes against humanity including murder, […]

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — It’s been less than two weeks since Perwin Ali Baku escaped the Islamic State group, after more than two years in captivity, bought and sold from fighter to fighter and carted from Iraq to Syria and then back again. When a door slams, the 23-year-old Yazidi woman flashes back to her […]

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Pep Guardiola and Leonardo Jardim were up and down from their seats in the dugout, trying to get messages to their players but ultimately powerless to exert any control in a chaotic game that was unfolding before them. In the end, they were just swept along by it like everyone else. […]

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss robotics and engineering company ABB says it has unearthed a “sophisticated criminal scheme” involving alleged embezzlement and misappropriation of funds at its South Korean unit, saying the impact could total $100 million. The Zurich-based company says in a statement that the treasurer of the South Korean subsidiary, who went missing on […]

PARIS (AP) — Surprise new costs for the long-troubled Airbus A400M military jet sent the European planemaker’s profits plunging last year despite a rise in commercial aircraft deliveries. Airbus CEO Tom Enders acknowledged that “the jury is still out on the long-term success” of the A400M, but insisted that “it’s absolutely necessary” to maintain it […]