Новости за 19.06.2017

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — It’s a lobster lover’s dream. A Portsmouth, New Hampshire, restaurant is hoping it set the record for the longest lobster roll at 159 feet, 6 inches (49 meters). A lobster roll is usually made from a hot dog-type bun stuffed with lobster meat. The creation by the British Beer Company on […]

Costco’s business model of membership fees, low prices, and high degree of vertical integration will help it defend against the e-commerce giant that’s now buying Whole Foods, but the competitive pressure will increase.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Two versions of the travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries have been put on hold by federal courts. Trump says the ban is necessary […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On Christmas Eve of 2011, Maira Maidana lit a candle to the patron saint of Argentina and closed her eyes in prayer – just like she did every time she feared a brutal beating by her partner. But this time, she felt her whole body catch on fire. When she […]

At the 5th Avenue, Robin Schiff’s book for “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” follows her screenplay, right down to the structure that drifts in and out of flashback and fantasy, and it retains that same delightful comic voice.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week, died Monday afternoon. He was 22. The family announced his death in a statement released by UC Health Systems, saying, “It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his […]

Apple and other big-name technology stocks got back to their winning ways Monday and helped drive U.S. indexes once again to record heights. On Monday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 20.31 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,453.46. The Dow Jones industrial average added 144.71 points, or 0.7 percent, to 21,528.99. Most Read StoriesSeattle […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has issued an injunction that will temporarily prevent the city of St. Louis from removing a Confederate monument from Forest Park. St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert Dierker on Monday issued the injunction and set a July 6 hearing for arguments over whether the city or the Missouri Civil […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Otto Warmbier, US student freed from North Korea, has died, family says in a statement released by Ohio hospital.

BAGGS, Wyo. (AP) — A SUV crossed the center line of a highway in south-central Wyoming and collided with a pickup truck, killing four members of a Colorado family and another person. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said Monday the accident occurred about 2:50 p.m. Friday on Wyoming 789, 22 miles north of Baggs. The patrol […]

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are still trying to piece together what led to the killings of a California woman and her two young sons as her husband remains hospitalized with self-inflicted wounds. Modesto Police Department spokeswoman Heather Graves says a 28-year-old man who was found outside of the Modesto home with a large cut […]

ROME (AP) — Representatives of most of the armed groups in Central African Republic on Monday signed an agreement to honor an immediate cease-fire, after more than three years of sectarian conflict that have left thousands dead. The announcement in Rome followed negotiations between Central African Republic’s nascent government and 13 of the 14 armed […]

Bar Ferdinand, RN74 and Canlis were named among the top "100 Best Wine Restaurants in 2017" by Wine Enthusiast.

LAKESIDE, Mont. (AP) — Police officials say a Montana resort’s insurer will investigate what caused a second-story deck to collapse and injure at least 50 people. Two of those people are in critical condition from Saturday’s accident at a memorial service for a firefighter who died in April. Witness Leslie Dillon says dozens of people […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Teams looking for point guard help in Thursday night’s NBA draft are in luck — as long as they have a high pick, that is. Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball have been the headliners in so much of the pre-draft conversations, projected to be selected first and second. Who will go […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is welcoming the president of Panama to the White House for discussions on organized crime, immigration and fighting drug trafficking. Trump was sitting down with President Juan Carlos Varela in their first face-to-face meeting since the start of the Trump presidency. Varela arrived at the White House Monday morning. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say they’ll begin using procedural moves to slow the Senate’s work to protest how Republicans are drafting their health care overhaul behind closed doors. A senior Democratic aide says the effort will begin Monday evening. It will include trying to force votes aimed at drawing attention to the lack of transparency, […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana appeals court says a woman who lost both legs after she was run over by a freight train can sue the railroad for negligence. The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports (http://bit.ly/2rw9Dcd ) that the Indiana Court of Appeals last week ruled Crystal Williams can sue the Chicago, South Shore and South […]

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Two immigrant dairy farmworkers have been arrested on immigration charges after marching to the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Vermont to call for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk for the ice cream maker. The Vermont Department of Corrections says Yesenia Hernández-Ramos and Esau Peche-Ventura, both […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When military history author Bill Sloan sought inspiration for his new book on World War II in the Pacific, he found it in a then-96-year-old combat veteran from upstate New York who survived one of the war’s bloodiest battles. John Sidur rescued two hometown buddies during Japan’s largest banzai attack of […]

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man accused of stomping a kitten to death because he wasn’t allowed to take it on a light rail train has been charged with felony animal cruelty. The suspect, 23-year-old DeCarlos Johnson-Foston, is jailed on $75,000 bond. St. Clair County Sheriff’s Capt. Bruce Fleshren says Johnson-Foston was at […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows. Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more frequent, according to a new comprehensive study of fatal heat conditions. Still, those stretches may be less lethal in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evidence of two major dispersals from the Middle East, in which people evidently took cats with them. Genetic signatures the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says hundreds of out-state-residents can’t sue drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in California state court over adverse reactions to the blood thinner Plavix. The justices ruled 8-1 Monday that there was not a strong enough connection between the claims against the drugmaker and the company’s ties to the state. The […]

DENVER (AP) — Liberal groups resistant to Republican policies say they have no plans to change their tactics or approach after a gunman apparently driven by his hatred of President Donald Trump opened fire at a GOP baseball practice, grievously injuring a House Republican leader and several others. Within hours of the shooting, leaders from […]