Новости за 04.04.2017

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now halfway between Pluto and its next much, much smaller stop. New Horizons — which reached the milestone this week — is bound for an even more remote object called 2014 MU69. Like Pluto, the object orbits in our solar system’s twilight zone known as […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former president of retail chain Kmart has been named president and CEO of Pier 1 Imports. Fort Worth-based Pier 1 on Monday announced the appointment of Alasdair James. James, who has served as Kmart president since 2014, begins his new duties May 1 with the home furnishings company. James […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s largest oceanographic research vessel has returned to its homeport after the longest deployment of any ship in the agency’s history. NOAA Ship Robert H. Brown spent almost 800 days at sea during the 3½-year deployment. NOAA says the ship traveled almost 130,000 miles conducting scientific research and servicing buoys […]

LAMAR, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina police officer has been fired after being charged with drunken driving while on the job and driving his patrol car. Lamar Police Chief Jason Chaney tells news outlets a disciplinary board voted Monday to fire 50-year-old Jerry “Jay” Russell from the force. Chaney says Darlington County deputies pulled […]

Republicans are bragging a lot about Gorsuch’s qualifications, which are legitimate. But this debate isn’t really about qualifications. If it were, Gorsuch wouldn’t have been nominated, because Garland would be on the court.

NEW YORK — A third Fox News Channel employee has joined two colleagues in their lawsuit that says they were subjected to racial discrimination by a since-fired executive. Monica Douglas said former controller Judith Slater, who was fired on Feb. 28, frequently expressed an unwillingness to be near black people. Douglas is black, as are […]

On Monday, Comedy Central said that it had picked up a new weekly late-night series, called “The President Show,” created by and starring Anthony Atamanuik, a noted Trump impersonator.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ralph Lauren Corp. says it will shut down its prominent Polo store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, less than three years after opening it. The closure is part of the New York fashion company’s plan to save $140 million annually. It didn’t say when the Fifth Avenue store will close. Its […]

SALMON AND STEELHEAD Cowlitz River – 138 bank anglers kept 3 adult spring Chinook and 10 steelhead.  86 boat anglers kept 2 adult spring Chinook, 34 steelhead and released 2 steelhead. Last week, Tacoma Power employees recovered 206 winter-run steelhead adults and 11 spring Chinook adults in five days of operations at the Cowlitz Salmon […]

BERLIN (AP) — It was a literal Brexit — Britain’s geographical separation from mainland Europe — which newly published research reveals to have been caused by a period of slow erosion, then a cataclysmic split. Using unprecedented undersea measurements, scientists have reconstructed the geological process that carved the strait separating Britain from the European mainland, […]

Over a two-year period more Americans died of opiate addiction than died in the entire Vietnam War.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee is adding a new wrinkle this year in an attempt to stop a streak of ties for the championship. This year, the top spellers will sit for a written tiebreaker test before they begin spelling words in the primetime finale. The results will be revealed only if […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The Missoula City Commission has voted to pull $2.6 million of the city’s money from Wells Fargo accounts because the bank is invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline and because employees opened fraudulent customer accounts to generate fees and bonuses. The resolution that passed on 12-0 Monday says the city is […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia transportation officials hope to finish rebuilding a key interstate bridge by mid-June after a large fire caused its collapse last week. Authorities have said the fire was started by a man under the bridge in an area north of downtown Atlanta. The collapse on Thursday forced the closure of a portion […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has cleared the nomination of Jay Clayton, the Wall Street attorney chosen by President Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. The vote was 15-8 Tuesday by the Senate Banking Committee, as three Democrats joined the panel’s Republicans in approving Clayton. The confirmation of Clayton to head […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old Florida man attack a 66-year-old tourist with Parkinson’s disease who was mistakenly trying to get into the wrong vehicle in a shopping plaza parking lot. An Orange County Sherriff’s arrest report says Kevin Mena pushed the man from behind when he saw him pulling on the door […]

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead after a small plane crashed in Florida. Marion County Fire Rescue spokesman James Lucas tells the Ocala Star-Banner (http://bit.ly/2n7vBnR) the crash happened Tuesday morning near Ocala. He says the person was dead when they arrived at the scene. Lucas says severe weather resulting in some […]

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Another coaching change awaits the Florida Panthers. The Panthers have decided interim coach Tom Rowe’s stint will end when their season does Sunday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. Rowe may still stay with the organization, said the person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — More than seven in 10 people in one of the nation’s largest tobacco-producing states support a statewide smoking ban in most public places. It’s the highest level of support ever recorded in polling by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky since the group first asked the question in 2011. Anti-smoking advocates […]

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (AP) — An official says two people have died after being hit by a train in West Virginia. Sgt. Brian Humphries with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets a man and a woman were struck before daybreak on Tuesday morning as they walked along a trestle over the Coal River. […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The 2017 NCAA Tournament started with its shortest player coming through in the clutch and it ended with a less-than-classic championship game. North Carolina’s 71-65 victory over Gonzaga in front of more than 76,000 fans ended the three-week tournament, one that provided thrills just as it always does. Here are some […]

GAUHATI, India (AP) — India says China shouldn’t interfere in its internal affairs, as a dispute deepens between the countries over the Dalai Lama’s visit to India’s northeast. The Tibetan spiritual leader arrives Tuesday for a weeklong visit to the state of Arunachal Pradesh. China claims the partly ethnically Tibetan Himalayan state as its own […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists are saying there have been several people killed in a suspected chemical attack in a town in the northern Idlib province. The Idlib Media Center says dozens of people died of suffocation while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group put the death toll at 35 on […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials made a new offer to conservative House Republicans late Monday on the GOP’s failed health care bill, hoping to resuscitate a measure that crashed spectacularly less than two weeks ago. Vice President Mike Pence and two top White House officials made the offer in a closed-door meeting with members […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is telling skeptical members of Congress that it has fixed problems with its suicide hotline that were highlighted in a critical recent internal watchdog report. A March 20 audit by the VA inspector general had found that nearly a third of calls to the Veterans Crisis Line […]