Новости за 01.03.2017

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago hasn’t logged any snow on the ground in January or February for the first time in the 146 years that the National Weather Service has been keeping track. Traces have fallen, but not enough to record. The weather service takes measurements at 6 a.m. at O’Hare International Airport, which means small […]

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A century-old statue of a Confederate soldier that stands outside a Maryland courthouse will be moved to private property. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett said in a news release Tuesday that the county will cover the cost to relocate the bronze statue from the courthouse in Rockville to White’s Ferry, a […]

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to Egypt and Tunisia this week to discuss migration and development in the North Africa nations. Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday that Berlin is interested in helping Egypt strengthen its coastguard and clamp down on illegal trafficking across the Mediterranean, which leads to thousands of […]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A lawyer says experts believe her client is ready to be released from a Virginia psychiatric hospital where he was sent after decapitating his 5-year-old son and saying he was trying to save the boy from the Antichrist. Joseph Henry Hagerman III’s attorney Annette Miller tells The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/2lyrz32) a […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Results from a monthly survey of business supply managers suggest that manufacturing is boosting economic conditions in nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a report issued Wednesday. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index report said the overall economic index for the region rose to 60.5 in February from 54.7 in January. […]

"The Best State Report" by U.S. News and World Report ranks Washington state as the fifth-best in the nation for how well states are serving their citizens. The ranking compared health care, education, infrastructure, crime and more.

NEW YORK (AP) — The new CEO of Exxon Mobil says the company will increase production and has a mix of projects that will let Exxon respond to any level of oil and gas prices. Darren Woods also said Tuesday at a meeting with investors that Exxon is committed to increase its dividend and will […]

NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s Corp. says trading of its stock has been halted as it prepares to share its growth plans during its investor day in Chicago. The world’s biggest burger chain has said it will give attendees a chance to walk through what it says its “experience of the future” will look like. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin has found a new way to mock Donald Trump. Baldwin is teaming with author Kurt Andersen on the satirical book “You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump,” Penguin Press announced Wednesday. The book is scheduled […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Supermarket layouts are carefully calibrated to tempt people into impulsive purchases, and now food makers are trying to adapt their strategies as people do more of their shopping online. Part of the worry for companies is that shoppers won’t get to see their products as they would at a store, where […]

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee says he and team owner Jim Irsay are nearly doubling the reward for information leading to an arrest in the killing of two northern Indiana girls. McAfee and Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter appear in a video posted on McAfee’s Twitter account Wednesday in […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas justice of the peace has been barred for life from serving as judge in Nevada for ordering a defense attorney handcuffed when she would not stop speaking in court in an effort to keep a client out of jail. The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday posted a […]

The vibrant city comes alive with the return of sunshine, blue skies and lush gardens.

A price war among online brokerages is getting even more heated, to the benefit of individual investors. TD Ameritrade said late Tuesday it would cut its commission for online stock and ETF trades to $6.95 from $9.99 on the heels of similar cuts by rivals. Earlier that day, Fidelity announced a cut to $4.95, and […]

PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of shooting a Kansas convenience store clerk and kidnapping two hikers in New Mexico while on the run after his girlfriend was killed and a jogger was shot in Mississippi. The sheriff in Ellsworth County, Kansas, tells television station KSNW that 28-year-old Alex Bridges Deaton […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Melons going splat in slow motion. Drawn-as-you-go animation about machines. A behind-the-scenes look at winery operations. Not the usual viral videos, but small business owners have realized offering something to watch and having a sense of humor about themselves can help grab customers’ attention. In more than a hundred videos he’s […]

In the quest for change, practice makes perfect … sense.

The decision to hire an attorney is similar to other major life decisions or investments.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Archdiocese of New York is seeking a $100 million short-term mortgage on property it owns near St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The money is for victims of clergy sexual abuse. A spokesman for the Roman Catholic archdiocese says the mortgage would be for one year to start paying 144 people who had […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal scientists forecast that Oklahoma will continue to have the nation’s biggest man-made earthquake problem but it probably won’t be as shaky as recent years. In its annual national earthquake outlook, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Wednesday that a large portion of Oklahoma and parts of central California have the highest risk […]

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Japan’s emperor and empress, on a landmark visit to Vietnam, are expected to express their sympathies when they meet with Vietnamese women abandoned by their Japanese soldier husbands after World War II. Hatsuhisa Takashima, Emperor Akihito’s press secretary, says 16 surviving wives and their children were invited to meet with the […]

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Luxembourg authorities say they have fended off a cyberattack that sought to swamp official servers with connection requests, and there was no data breach. Gilles Feith, the chief of the CTIE government IT center, said Wednesday that it was the first time the Luxembourg official sites had been targeted to such an […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian man on Wednesday confessed in court to killing an outspoken government critic over an unpaid loan, but the victim’s family said he’s a scapegoat in a political assassination. Migrant worker Oeut Ang said he fired shots that killed Kem Ley last July because he was upset over the […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says that a suicide car bomber attacked at the gates of a police station in the western part of the capital Kabul. Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Wednesday that a gun battle between police and an unknown number of armed attackers was ongoing. Meanwhile […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear took a populist tenor in the Democrats’ formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, accusing him of planning to “rip affordable health insurance” from Americans and being “Wall Street’s champion.” Seated at a diner in Lexington, Kentucky, Beshear assailed Trump for “ignoring serious threats to […]