Новости за 31.05.2017

Under the new version, diet drinks would not be taxed, in addition to other changes. A final vote by the full council will likely be scheduled for Monday.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s stock car racing governor says he’s undeterred by a minor crash he suffered during his first race of the season at the Thunder Road speedway over the holiday weekend. Republican Gov. Phil Scott was in second place as the Memorial Day Classic was nearing its end when his car had […]

Paul Allen’s 100-ton Stratolaunch airplane finally rolled out of its hangar Wednesday in Mojave, Calif. It won’t launch a rocket into space any sooner than 2019, and faces skepticism about Vulcan Aerospace’s business plan for delivering satellites to orbit.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A longshot California proposal to replace insurance companies with government-funded health care for all could be paid for with a sales tax hike and a new tax on business revenue that together would generate $106 billion annually, according to a report released Wednesday. The report was made public by the influential […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Covfefe (cuv-fey-fey) noun: A sure sign that President Donald Trump has regained control of his Twitter account. For more than a week, the tweets from @realDonaldTrump were, well, boring. Throughout his first big foreign trip last week, Trump’s tweets had the vibe of a garden-variety politician: statements of solidarity with world leaders, […]

SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) — New England’s largest — and one of its last — coal-fired power plants is shutting down permanently. The owner of the Brayton Point Power Station says it will cease operating Wednesday. The plant has generated electricity since the 1960s along Mount Hope Bay in Somerset, Massachusetts, near the Rhode Island border. […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit. On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule that’s already traveled there. The milestone comes just two months after the launch of its first reused rocket booster. […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican businessman offended by President Donald Trump’s insults to his countrymen is seizing on a possible oversight in the magnate’s branding plans. Corporate lawyer Antonio Battaglia is introducing “Trump” brand toilet paper, marketed under the slogans “Softness without borders” and “This is the wall that, yes, we will pay for.” […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to significantly reduce the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States, even as his bid to temporarily suspend admissions is stalled in the courts. The latest effort comes through Trump’s federal budget proposal, which calls for a 25 percent cut in funds for resettling refugees […]

This year’s count of people experiencing homelessness found about 900 more unsheltered people than in 2016.

The thief hit while two people went into the Puyallup River to try to help a 46-year-old man who had fallen into the water while fishing.

BOSTON (AP) — A childhood friend of the man accused of killing a 2-year-old girl whose body washed up on a Boston Harbor island in 2015 says the defendant believed he could drive demons out of a person’s home. Michael Sprinsky testified Wednesday in Michael McCarthy’s murder trial. He says McCarthy was interested in the […]

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — United Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus at U.N. headquarters in New York amid faltering reunification talks, officials said Wednesday. Cyprus government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said that the meeting Sunday evening will aim to carry out a review of the state of play in negotiations […]

For Americans, renting a car and hitting the highway in Europe can be fun, or terrifying, or expensive, or all of the above. Here are some tips to make it more memorable than maddening.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says courts cannot routinely shackle defendants during proceedings and must instead decide on a case-by-case basis whether the restraints are necessary. A divided 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a California-based federal court’s practice of shackling almost all defendants during […]

MILAN (AP) — Riccardo Chailly celebrates 40 years at La Scala next season, which he will open by conducting the Italian opera “Andrea Chenier” starring soprano Anna Netrebko for the traditional Dec. 7 gala season premiere. The 2017-18 season of 15 operas, including eight new productions, highlights the Italian opera, in particular the genres of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy kept growing in April through late May, with more regions citing worker shortages across a widening range of occupations, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. In its latest survey of economic conditions nationwide, the Fed found that most of its 12 regions viewed economic growth as moderate to modest rates. Two […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says Connecticut is working to insure that Aetna will remain a major employer in the state. Aetna Chief Executive Mark Bertolini said Wednesday that the company is in negotiations with several states about moving its headquarters, with the goal of broadening access to innovation and talent. He […]

ESPN has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with Lee Corso, the 81-year-old star of “College GameDay.” Corso joined ESPN in 1987 and has been part of the popular college football Saturday pregame show ever since. His head-gear game predictions, off-the-cuff analysis and signature line — “Not so fast, my friend” — have endeared him […]

A conservation group says the seizure of seven tons of pangolin scales in Hong Kong this week indicates that the heavily poached creature "could soon vanish for good" if urgent steps are not taken to protect it.

Put off by what they see as exorbitant pay for Mylan executives, some big pension funds are attempting to block the re-election of a number of board members, including Chairman and former CEO Robert Coury, who received $100 million last year. They say huge paychecks were awarded to executives as backlash from consumers and the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gal Gadot has been wielding Wonder Woman’s golden lasso for more than a year, but the actress still doesn’t see herself as a superhero. Gadot says in a recent interview that even though she’s seen the “Wonder Woman” movie in theaters Friday, it hasn’t totally sunk in that she’s portraying the […]

How much do liberals love the First Amendment? Enough to join in the fight for an ‘alt-right,’ pro-Trump rally? The Oregon chapter of the ACLU in Portland suddenly finds itself testing how much its supporters really believe in free speech.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s semi-official ILNA news agency is reporting that the country’s space organization is cancelling a project to explore sending humans into space. Iran sent a monkey into space in January 2013 and it had announced a goal of sending a person by 2018. But Wednesday’s report quotes Mohammad Homayoun Sadr, deputy […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been arrested at the Trump International Hotel in Washington after police say they found a rifle and handgun in his car. Police said in an email that 43-year-old Bryan Moles of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, was arrested early Wednesday at the hotel in downtown Washington. A report states that police […]