Новости за 13.06.2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional sources say President Donald Trump has told Republican senators that the House health care bill is “mean” and that the Senate version should be “more generous.” The remarks were a surprising critique of a Republican-written House measure whose passage Trump fought for and embraced. They also seem to undercut efforts by […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former teacher’s assistant has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography after admitting he placed a pen camera in the bathroom of a southwest Missouri elementary school. Federal prosecutors say 20-year-old Dalton Cole Sherman, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty Tuesday. Sherman admitted he put the small camera in the bathroom of DA […]

SAVANNA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma police officer has been arrested on felony warrants alleging sexual battery, forcible sodomy and accepting a bribe. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says 40-year-old former Savanna officer Jerry “Jay” Gragg was arrested Tuesday in McAlester. The Bureau of Investigation says Gragg denies the allegations. The bureau says […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The twin towers and another skyscraper at the World Trade Center were destroyed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because fires that started from planes crashing into the buildings weakened their structural integrity, despite internet stories that insist they came down from controlled demolitions. An article on the website antinews.in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Online lender and financial startup SoFi has taken the first step toward competing with the nation’s biggest banks on their home turf: the checking account. Last week, the San Francisco provider of student and personal loans submitted an application for federal deposit insurance, a protection normally only available to conventional banks. […]

A halfhearted effort to stop the bill won’t protect millions of Americans from losing their insurance and, ultimately, from being denied medical care.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Horror author Stephen King says his frequent criticism of President Donald Trump has gotten him blocked on Twitter. The author of “Firestarter” and “It” tweeted Tuesday the Republican president has blocked him on the social media website. He says, “I may have to kill myself.” King lives in Bangor, Maine, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New York, California and nine other states are suing the Trump administration over its failure to finalize energy-use limits for portable air conditioners and other products. The states filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco. The Obama administration signed off on […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge has ordered a Chicago man held without bail in the stabbing death of a 12-year-old girl. Assistant State’s Attorney Guy Lisuzzo said Tuesday that Alexis Stubbs can be heard on voicemail screaming “daddy don’t” while she was stabbed late Sunday. John Singleton is charged with first-degree murder in […]

Dubbed “Foods and Wines from Spain,” its products come from the small and medium-size companies that make up a significant portion of the southern European country’s economy and that are driving an export-led recovery from the depths of the financial crisis.

The Redhawks play at Washington State on Nov. 15 and Washington on Nov. 24 before hosting California on Dec. 19.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is betting that the lottery is the ticket to shoring up one of the state’s most vexing money problems: ever-growing obligations to the pensions for public employees. The idea of linking the lottery to pensions has been around for years, but legislation backed by the Republican governor was introduced this […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new lawsuit invokes the plight of a baby born dependent on opioid drugs, as three Tennessee prosecutors and the baby’s guardian accuse several drug manufacturers of unleashing an epidemic through deceptive marketing about the risks of addiction to painkillers. “Baby Doe spent his first days in the neonatal intensive care […]

In a story June 12, The Associated Press reported that researchers at American University’s Kogod School of Business surveyed women business owners about their use of the Section 179 tax deduction. The survey was done jointly with the advocacy group Women Impacting Public Policy.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly three dozen people are charged with being part of a methamphetamine ring run by South Carolina prison inmates who used smuggled cellphones, state prosecutors said Tuesday. The state grand jury indictments announced by Attorney General Alan Wilson accuse 34 people of operating multiple, connected drug-trafficking operations across the state. Charges range […]

The state’s largest school district on Tuesday confirmed that a third-party investigator could not substantiate allegations of improper recruitment of student athletes to play football at Garfield High School.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas police chief says an officer he suspended following a videotaped arrest of a woman and her daughters made multiple errors in responding to a call that a neighbor allegedly assaulted the woman’s son. Fort Worth Chief Joel Fitzgerald said Tuesday during an appeal hearing for officer William Martin […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Senate’s showdown vote over President Donald Trump’s proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia (all times EDT): 2:55 p.m. The Senate narrowly voted to back President Donald Trump’s plan to sell more than $500 million in precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia. Senators rejected a bid to derail the deal, […]

With Safeco naming-rights deal coming to an end, what should the Mariners' home be called next? We asked, and you answered.

PARIS (AP) — A European court ordered Britain on Tuesday to maintain a terminally-ill baby on life support for six more days after his parents, desperate to take their son to the U.S. for experimental treatment, lost their appeals before U.K. courts. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British government should provide […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers tested using small drones to carry heart defibrillators to homes where people had cardiac arrests. The drones arrived about 5 minutes after launching — almost 17 minutes faster than ambulances. That’s a big deal for a condition where minutes mean life or death. The next step is to test the idea […]

DETROIT (AP) — A wet spring season has experts predicting that summer water levels for the Great Lakes could be higher than normal and above last year’s mark through early fall. The Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District announced Monday in its six-month water level forecast […]

LEITCHFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Police say two fishermen have found the body of a 16-year-old Kentucky girl who was reported missing in April. News outlets report the body was found Monday under a bridge on Kentucky 84 in Hardin County near the Western Kentucky Parkway. Leitchfield Police Chief Kevin Henderson announced on Tuesday morning that […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese business news magazine says the chairman of the insurance company that bought New York City’s Waldorf Hotel has been detained by regulators. Tuesday’s report by Caijing follows accusations of possible misconduct by Anbang Insurance Group. The magazine, citing unidentified sources, said Anbang chairman Wu Xiaohui was detained last Friday. Anbang […]

BERLIN (AP) — Three Syrian men alleged to have been sent to Germany with forged passports by the Islamic State group have gone on trial in Hamburg. The men, aged 18, 19 and 26, arrived in Germany at the end of 2015, at the height of the influx of migrants. They were arrested at homes […]