Новости за 16.05.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Some Starbucks customers are posting on social media that they were getting their drinks for free because of a payment system outage. Starbucks Corp. spokesman Reggie Borges says a “limited number” of stores in the U.S. and Canada were temporarily offline as a result of an overnight technology update. As of […]

When the Carolina Hurricanes traded a third-round pick to Chicago for the rights to Scott Darling, the NHL’s goaltender carousel started spinning. After Carolina signed Darling to a $16.6 million, four-year deal, the Dallas Stars sent a fourth-round pick to Los Angeles for the rights to Ben Bishop and signed the 6-foot-7 former Lightning starter […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe the next round is on him: A New York City bartender who hit a $7 million lottery says he has “no clue” what he’ll do with his winnings. The New York Lottery said Tuesday that Michael Moriarty gets to keep around $4 million after required withholdings. The 56-year-old says he’ll […]

A state Senate committee will hold a work session to investigate whether Sound Transit misled legislators or the public in the run-up to last fall’s vote on ST3.

MIAMI (AP) — Who in the world would be so fearless as to invite Taylor Swift to her college graduation party? Ashley Silvers of Miami, that’s who. The 22-year-old with a new degree in public relations and advertising mailed an invite to the megastar that thanked Swift for being a positive influence. Then she went […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A list kept by the Chicago Police Department of people deemed most likely to commit gun crimes or be a victim of gun violence includes many people who have never been charged with a violent crimes or possession of a gun, according to a newspaper analysis. The Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/2psbIJw ) analyzed […]

Democrats need a comeback strategy, and the American working class needs an ally. The solution to both problems can be the same: a muscular agenda to lift up people without four-year college degrees.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been two-stepping with the truth. Starting with press secretary Sean Spicer insisting inaccurately that President Donald Trump drew record-setting inauguration crowds, top presidential advisers have provided information that is provably false or contradicted by others in the White House, including Trump himself. The pattern continued this week, with […]

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival hasn’t even opened yet, but it’s already had its first elaborate promotional stunt. Actor T.J. Miller parasailed into the festival on Tuesday, wearing a yellow suit as he careened above the Mediterranean and the French Riviera resort town that gives the event its name. His flight was […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peyton Manning will take the stage to host the ESPY Awards. The retired two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback will preside over the July 12 show honoring the past year’s best athletes and sports moments. The show will air live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Manning says the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel was briefly illuminated with projected messages including “pay Trump bribes here” and “emoluments welcome.” Robin Bell, a Washington-based artist and filmmaker, says he used a video projector to splash the words across an entrance to the hotel on Monday night in protest of what he called Trump’s […]

ATLANTA (AP) — National Democrats are taking the first, modest steps toward their promised 50-state strategy, lending help to state and local parties as they try to harness opposition to President Donald Trump and the Republican monopoly in Washington. Dubbing the effort “Resistance Summer,” the Democratic National Committee plans to distribute about $1 million — […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Nevada woman who alerted authorities after the father of two missing Idaho girls showed up on her ranch says the man was cold, barefoot and looking for help for the kids he said he left behind in the mountains. Vera Baumann said she had seen news reports and suspected the […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A third person has been charged in the alleged mistreatment of three Pennsylvania children who police say were starved and locked inside a room like caged animals. Police allege that 31-year-old Harrisburg resident Erin Eickstadt forced a boy to eat his feces, locked the children in an unheated bedroom and forced […]

Renewable energy is growing and getting cheaper. But the broader sector of clean tech is concentrating in a few metros, just as venture capital is slowing down.

INDEPENDECE, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James peeled off his practice jersey to reveal a T-shirt featuring a leprechaun on the front. His clothing choice was fitting in all ways — the Celtics are up next. James has a long playoff history with the Celtics. He’ll meet them again Wednesday when the Cavaliers open the Eastern […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. John Cornyn has told the Trump administration he isn’t interested in serving as FBI director, the second member of Congress to take himself out of the running this week. Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general and judge on the state supreme court, was interviewed for the position after President Donald […]

PARIS (AP) — Two-time champion Maria Sharapova has missed out on a wild-card entry for the French Open because of her doping ban. Announcing the decision on a live Facebook broadcast on Tuesday, French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli said he told Sharapova in person. “I decided not to give Maria Sharapova a wild card. […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan Kesler knows that he has managed to rattle Predators center Ryan Johansen and the veteran Anaheim Ducks center doesn’t plan on easing up. At all. “It doesn’t matter if I did or didn’t get in his head for me,” Kesler said Tuesday, a few hours before Game 3. “If I […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Civil rights groups are seeking the removal of a Kentucky judge who won’t hear adoption cases involving gay adults. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups complained to Kentucky’s judicial disciplinary commission about W. Mitchell Nance, a family court judge in Barren and Metcalfe counties. Nance announced he would recuse […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — American industry expanded production last month at the fastest pace in more than three years as manufacturers and mines recovered from a March downturn. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that U.S. industrial production at factories, mines and utilities shot up 1 percent in April from March, biggest gain since February 2014. Factory […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US industrial production rises 1 percent in April, fastest pace in more than three years.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman is accused of stealing thousands of dollars raised to pay funeral expenses for a friend’s daughter. Thirty-three-year-old Stephanie Lea Blaine of Sioux Falls is charged with grand theft, a felony that carries a maximum five years in prison. Court documents say Blaine raised about $3,900 online […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities say a Panamanian detainee at a south Georgia immigration detention center appears to have killed himself. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a news release that 27-year-old Jean Jimenez-Joseph was found unresponsive with a sheet around his neck in his cell at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin early Monday […]