Новости за 25.04.2017

On this complex issue, real liberals give wide latitude to other opinions.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Officials in a Massachusetts city are trying to ban employees from using public funds to fly on United Airlines after a passenger was dragged off a flight in Chicago. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/2pipih0 ) the Cambridge City Council passed a proposal Monday asking the city manager to ban official city […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana senators are moving ahead with a bill to end executions in the state, a rare proposal in a Republican-controlled region that tends to favor capital punishment. A Senate judicial committee Tuesday voted 6-1 to have the full Senate consider the proposal, which would eliminate the death penalty as punishment […]

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, now covers nearly 2 million people in Washington state. Clearly not a failure.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A former federal security officer has pleaded guilty to killing two strangers and wounding two others during a shooting rampage in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. Sixty-four-year-old Euladio Tordil pleaded guilty to two counts each of murder and attempted murder on Tuesday. He still faces trial in a neighboring Maryland county […]

More big businesses joined the earnings parade Tuesday, saying their profits were even larger in the first three months of the year than analysts were expecting, including Caterpillar and McDonald’s. The encouraging reports pushed U.S. indexes to their second straight day of big gains, placing them either close to or firmly in record territory. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) — It felt like a summer week on the Fox broadcasting network — and that’s not a good thing. Bereft of hits and in the traditional April lull before the last big month of the traditional TV season, Fox averaged a paltry 2.2 million viewers last week. Its most popular show, “Empire,” […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A Chinese court has sentenced an American woman to 3 ½ years in prison on spying charges, in a case that has drawn criticism from the United Nations and human rights advocates. Phan Phan-Gillis was sentenced Tuesday after more than two years in detention, raising the possibility that she may be deported […]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Jurors in Virginia have failed to reach a verdict in a civil case that stems from a police-involved shooting. The Virginian-Pilot reports (http://bit.ly/2oJbvNr) that a federal judge in Norfolk declared a mistrial on Tuesday. Jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked after 14 hours of deliberation. Marius Mitchell had sued former Norfolk […]

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A police officer who searched for a 3-year-old boy reported missing by his father became emotional Tuesday at the father’s murder trial as she testified about her canine partner alerting her to the child’s body in a creek. Constance Nicholson, an officer with the Delaware River Port Authority, recounted how hopeful […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The chairman and CEO of Dubai’s long-haul carrier Emirates said Tuesday he “can’t dig into somebody’s mind” to understand why the U.S. instituted a ban on laptops and other personal electronics in carry-on luggage from 10 cities in Muslim-majority countries. However, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said he […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits are climbing for companies, and so are their stock prices. More big businesses joined the earnings parade Tuesday, saying they earned even more in the first three months of the year than analysts were expecting, including Caterpillar and McDonald’s. The gains put U.S. indexes on track to add to their […]

MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — The younger sister of a man who fatally shot a Pennsylvania State Police trooper in a 2014 ambush says he was her “protector” against their abusive parents. Tiffany Frein (freen) took the witness stand Tuesday in the penalty phase of her brother’s capital murder trial. Eric Frein faces a potential death […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence slipped in April but remains at high levels. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence index registered 120.3 this month, down from 124.9 in March, which was the highest reading in 16 years. Americans’ assessment of current conditions and their expectations for the future both […]

NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue’s first-quarter profit sank 59 percent from a year ago as fuel costs and other expenses rose and the airline made less revenue from every seat flown. But the airline’s earnings still beat Wall Street expectations and its shares rose more than 4 percent Tuesday morning. The carrier said revenue for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court says that Indian tribes’ immunity from lawsuits does not always extend to their employees in incidents that occur far from Indian reservations. The justices ruled Tuesday in a case that involved a limo driver who rear-ended a car on a Connecticut interstate. The court revived a state court […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Drake will host the NBA’s first-ever awards show this June. The Canadian rapper will preside over the June 26 ceremony in New York, which will be televised live on TNT. The Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man Award, Most Improved Player and Coach of the Year […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. sales of new homes shot up in March to the fastest pace in 8 months, as more Americans are upgrading their houses in a positive sign for the broader economy. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new-home sales rose 5.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 621,000, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US new home sales increase 5.8 percent in March, strongest pace in 8 months.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has sprinkled some new ingredients into its search engine in an effort to prevent bogus information and offensive suggestions from souring its results. The changes have been in the works for four months, but Google hadn’t publicly discussed most of them until now. The announcement in a blog post Tuesday […]

BARRE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say the main parachute being used by an experienced skydiver wasn’t attached to him when his body was found in a New York field. The Orleans County sheriff’s office says 30-year-old Erick Miller went skydiving with another person Saturday evening and jumped from a plane as it flew over the […]

The author of ‘The Malaysian Kitchen’ was first fascinated with food as a child in Kuala Lumpur.

Child wonders whether inviting mother to ceremony would go wrong.

“ARTRUMPS” at Seattle’s Bonfire Gallery is an angry, messy jumble and a fascinating case study for how art can fuel varied expressions of shared political sentiments, writes critic Gayle Clemans. It has works by 34 artists, poets and art collectives.

With just two days remaining until the NFL Draft, here's a roundup of what some of the mock drafts are thinking the Seahawks will do as well as some of our thoughts on those choices.