Новости за 12.08.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook anonymously launched a new photo-sharing app in China in a new effort to make inroads in the world’s most populous country. China’s ruling Communist Party controls internet traffic across the country’s borders and tries to keep the public from seeing thousands of websites including Facebook. The app, called Colorful Balloons, […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman accused of leaving her newborn for dead in a trash can has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. The Press-Citizen reports that 24-year-old Ashley Hautzenrader pleaded guilty Friday in Johnson County District Court to child endangerment and to neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. In exchange, prosecutors […]

CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A western Missouri police officer slain during a traffic stop has been eulogized by his brother as a man with a passionate, optimistic view of life and someone who considered policing as his dream job. WDAF-TV reports that Chris Michael offered that remembrance during Gary Michael’s funeral Saturday in Clinton, a […]

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts couple tried to defraud the government out of more than $50 million in clean energy grants. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Christopher Condron and Jessica Metivier were arrested Thursday on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims. Prosecutors say from […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees have put right-hander Masahiro Tanaka on the 10-day disabled list because of shoulder inflammation. The Yankees made the move Saturday before hosting the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox. Righty Giovanny Gallegos was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. “I don’t think this will be too long,” manager Joe Girardi […]

Follow here for live updates and analysis as the Sounders (9-7-7) host Sporting Kansas City (9-4-10) in a battle of two teams atop the Western Conference standings.

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — The defense attorney for a teenage driver accused of driving drunk while livestreaming the crash that killed her younger sister says a mechanical problem may have caused the accident in California. The Merced Sun-Star reports (http://bit.ly/2uAONdr ) Obdulia Sanchez’s lawyer told a judge Friday that he has reason to believe the […]

Sketched August 9, 2017 The Seahawks training camp has become a hot ticket since it opened its doors to fans in 2009. On a recent weekday morning, I watched a long stream of fans wearing the team’s jerseys and hats descend from a fleet of school buses that were transporting them from The Landing in […]

LONDON (AP) — To start the world championships, Natasha Hastings stood on the podium and received a gold medal. That was without even racing, when she and her American 4×400-meter teammates from 2013 were upgraded in the wake of the Russian team being stripped of first place because of doping. To end the competition, Hastings […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos appeared Saturday to have dodged a huge hit to their battered defensive line: Derek Wolfe’s right ankle injury apparently isn’t as serious as first thought. The sixth-year defensive end was carted off the field after he got tangled up with right tackle Menelik Watson on the second snap […]

HONOLULU (AP) — The $200 million estate of 91-year-old Hawaiian royalty descendant Abigail Kawananakoa has become the topic of a legal dispute between her lawyer and her longtime partner. The Campbell Estate heiress Kawananakoa suffered an acute stroke in June, which on July 24 turned into her lawyer, James Wright, being granted control of her […]

BEDMINISTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday there was “no place” in the United States for the kind of violence that broke out at a white nationalist rally in Virginia and appealed to Americans to “come together as one.” Disturbances that began Friday night during a march through the University of Virginia escalated […]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and unstable and must be trimmed into a memorial that recognizes its once-imposing stature. The Ute Council Tree in the western Colorado town of Delta is believed to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of blinding a woman with bleach last month. The unidentified 53-year-old victim told authorities she got into an argument with the suspect outside a liquor store in the Tenderloin district on July 30. He left after they argued […]

BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Even as he seeks Beijing’s help on North Korea, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order asking his trade office to consider investigating China for the alleged theft of American technology and intellectual property, an administration official said Saturday. That step is expected Monday but won’t come as a […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — White House official Omarosa Manigault-Newman clashed with a veteran news anchor during a panel discussion on policing in black communities held at the largest gathering of black journalists in the country. The director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison was a late addition to the Friday afternoon […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a role Mike Pence has come to know well. The vice president departs Sunday for Latin America on the heels of yet another provocative statement from President Donald Trump that he is sure to have to answer for. This time it’s Trump’s sudden declaration that he would not rule out a […]

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (AP) — A security guard has been accused of killing two co-workers at a beachside resort on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Herald Tribune reports that 29-year-old Darryl Hanna Jr. of Bradenton was charged Wednesday with armed robbery and two counts of second-degree murder for the fatal shootings Aug. 4 at Zota Beach […]

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a military truck Saturday with a bomb killing eight soldiers and seven civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta, an official and the military said. Kabeer Khan, an explosives expert who examined the site, said after collecting forensic evidence that it was a suicide […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government energetically rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of a potential “military option” to resolve the country’s political crisis on Saturday, calling it the most egregious act of belligerence against Venezuela in a century and a threat to stability in the region. The stinging rebuke came in a statement read […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas corrections officials expect the next prison built by the state to be fully air-conditioned, including the cells for inmates, viewing it both as a way to lessen problems with inmates and to combat high employee turnover. Some lawmakers who don’t want to coddle criminals see a need to make corrections […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s four-term former governor Edwin Edwards is having an ostentatious 90th birthday bash, with a $250-per-person price tag to attend. A more traditional person might call it crass. But Edwards isn’t anything close to traditional. The powerful and charismatic Democrat was the dominant figure in Louisiana politics for decades before […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who hanged himself from his bunk bed with a necktie want school officials held responsible, testing the issue of school liability in suicides blamed on bullying. The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabriel Taye against Cincinnati Public Schools and school officials cites […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As Texas’ big cities boom like few places in the U.S., Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to rein them in and reassert himself ahead of his 2018 re-election bid, but some of his summer demands are wilting. That includes a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people that by Saturday was all […]

Carolyn Hax tells a woman she made the right choice leaving a guy who chose TV after promising to attend an event that was important to her. No second chances!