Новости за 26.07.2017

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A juror vomited while viewing autopsy photos during a North Carolina murder trial, but she told the judge she became sick because she missed breakfast. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that a medical examiner was showing 13 autopsy photos of Jason Corbett on Wednesday. As a picture of the top of Corbett’s […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The mayor of Allentown and the former mayor of Reading have been charged with corruption for a series of pay-to-play schemes officials likened to putting for-sale signs on their offices while promising political favors to deep-pocketed donors. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and former Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer have been charged with multiple […]

Advances in engineered wood products send height limits soaring.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most LGBT-rights activists never believed Donald Trump’s campaign promises to be their friend. But with his move Wednesday to ban transgender people from military service, on top of other actions and appointments, they now see him as openly hostile. Leaders of major advocacy groups depicted Trump’s Twitter pronouncement as an appeal […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Scrolling through an ad-free Instagram is now a distant memory, much like the once ad-free Facebook itself. Soon, users of its Messenger app will begin to see advertisements, too — and WhatsApp may not be too far behind. Welcome to the Facebook ad creep. The world’s biggest social media company has […]

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The U.S. Education Department has not approved any applications for student-loan forgiveness in cases of possible fraud since President Donald Trump took office, according to records sent to an Illinois senator. Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin released the records Wednesday and blasted the department for its inaction and for a June decision to delay and rewrite […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A biblical passage that has long been displayed at a Tennessee city’s police headquarters will be moved following a complaint from an organization that advocates for the separation of church and state. The East Tennessee chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint in February over the Knoxville Police […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — American Indian tribes trying to shut down the Dakota Access oil pipeline are objecting to the possible intervention of national energy and manufacturing trade groups in the legal dispute. Attorneys for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes say in court documents filed Tuesday that the arguments of the trade […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities have identified a Virginia man who police killed after officials say the shirtless, kilt-wearing man attacked an officer with a small ax. Richmond police identified the man Wednesday as 23-year-old Alexander J. Schoessel of Chester. Police and witnesses say that before he was shot on Tuesday, Schoessel had been walking […]

Overall, all cars are more reliable, better made and last longer than ever. But some still are better than others.

NEW YORK (AP) — After her brassy start at NBC News, viewers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward Megyn Kelly in anticipation of her big test this fall. Kelly’s newsmagazine ends its eight-episode summer run this weekend, featuring her interview with Ricky Gervais. That’s a light sign-off after her June debut with Russian President Vladimir […]

BRISTOL, Fla. (AP) — Some conservationists say the wrong kind of serpent has been released into a Florida preserve known locally as “the original Garden of Eden,” but others say there’s no problem. A dozen Eastern indigo snakes were released recently in The Nature Conservancy’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle. Conservationists aim […]

Late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio is set to tour again in hologram form. Rolling Stone reports the “Dio Returns” world tour kicks off in Helsinki on Nov. 30 and comes to the U.S. in the spring. Dio’s widow, Wendy, says the hologram “gives the fans that saw Ronnie perform an opportunity to see […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Against a backdrop of cyberattacks that have grown into full-fledged sabotage, Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos is bringing a new message to hackers and security experts at the Black Hat conference. In short: it’s time for hackers once known for relatively harmless mischief to shoulder responsibility for helping detect and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Solid earnings from Boeing, AT&T and other big companies are sending stocks higher on Wall Street. Boeing jumped 8.7 percent in midday trading Wednesday, its biggest gain in nearly eight years, after reporting earnings that easily beat analysts’ forecasts. […]

Passengers at all U.S. airports will soon face new measures for screening electronic devices bigger than a cellphone. Security officers will ask travelers in regular lanes to take all larger devices out of their bag and put them in a bin by themselves, similar to the screening of most travelers’ laptops. Officials say it gives […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is urging Congo’s government to swiftly implement an agreement to hold presidential elections by the end of the year. The council warns that failure to do so will increase the risk of insecurity and instability in the country and the region. The head of Congo’s electoral commission […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Trump administration is poised to hit Venezuela with new sanctions amid widespread unrest ahead of weekend elections that would lead to a rewrite of the country’s constitution. The officials said the sanctions to be announced by the White House later Wednesday would target senior current and former government […]

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police on Wednesday fatally shot a man in Sydney’s main train station who was suspected of attempting to rob a florist, police said. Witnesses said the man was armed with a pair of scissors. Officers were called to the florist’s shop in Central station following reports of a robbery, police said. […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is calling President Donald Trump’s review of two dozen national monuments highly problematic and out of step with what Americans want. Jewell said Wednesday in Salt Lake City at the nation’s largest outdoor recreation trade show that Trump is treating national parks like contestants on […]

AUBURN, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana sheriff’s deputy has been suspended following the death of a police dog that he left for hours inside a hot patrol car. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department says Deputy Courtney Fuller is suspended without pay for 30 days. The department says an investigation determined Fuller didn’t commit a crime […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed by current and former black employees of Time Warner, owner of Turner networks including CNN, TNT and TBS. U.S. District Court Judge William Duffey of the Northern District of Georgia said in Tuesday’s order that the employees didn’t meet legal standards […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Now there’s something you don’t see often: a bridge on a barge. Workers were moving the main span of New York City’s old Kosciuszko (kuh-SHOOS’-koh) Bridge down Newtown Creek to the East River on Wednesday. The slow process started Tuesday when crews used cables to lower the span — 300 feet […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutor says he’ll charge 2 officers with assault in death of man shocked with stun gun dozen times.