Новости за 13.08.2015

Police outnumbered protesters in Ferguson overnight, signaling the demonstrations around the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death could be starting to fade. [...] several officers in riot gear, along with St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, quickly moved to break it up. A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice cleared Wilson, but Brown’s death spurred a national “Black Lives Matter” movement. The events had largely been peaceful until Sunday night, when gunfire erupted and 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr. Читать дальше...

Porsche 911 Carrera GTS models represent an excellent value for consumers interested in owning an S model and desirous of outfitting them with specific performance enhancement options, such as larger wheels, sportier suspension systems and more supportive seats. The 911 Carrera GTS model on the other hand, provides an impressive list of standard features and equipment that would all be optional for Carrera S models. The GTS’s additional horsepower comes from the Powerkit, which consists of different cylinder heads... Читать дальше...

Stephen Strasburg will start Thursday night’s series opener for the Washington Nationals, and the Giants aren’t catching him at an opportune time. Strasburg’s last outing, against Colorado, was “the best I’ve seen him since I’ve been here,” said Washington outfielder Jayson Werth, who has been with the Nationals since 2011. With his breaking pitches snapping hard to the outside corner, Strasburg humbled the Rockies with 12 strikeouts and no walks over 91 pitches in seven innings. The Giants’... Читать дальше...

The toxic waste that gushed last week from a Colorado mine and threatened downstream water supplies in at least three states will continue to be dangerous whenever contaminated sediment gets stirred up from the river bottom, authorities said Wednesday, suggesting there is no easy fix to what could be a long-term public health risk. [...] the strong dose of arsenic, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals settled out as the wastewater traveled downstream, layering river bottoms with contaminants sure to pose risks in the future. Читать дальше...

Anna Johnsen, the attorney representing two neighbors who are suing the Manns, says the residential neighborhood is "not designed to host a large-scale wildlife feeding operation."

DAMASCUS, Syria — Iran’s foreign minister, who negotiated his country’s nuclear deal with world powers, discussed ways of ending Syria’s civil war with President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Wednesday, as attacks surged around the Syrian capital, killing at least 36 people and wounding dozens. “It is time for the other players and our neighbors to take note of reality, listen to the demands of the Syrian people and work for combatting extremism and terrorism,” Zarif said, referring to gulf Arab countries that back Syrian rebels. Читать дальше...

Family and friends of two Bay Area men raised in the United States and facing deportation to the countries of their birth held a rally in San Francisco Wednesday demanding justice and their release. Both men were flagged by ICE officials for deportation because of crimes they served prison time for while in this country — Maher for an armed robbery 15 years ago, and Bou for a concealed weapons conviction in 1993 and a drug conspiracy case in 2013. [...] supporters of the two men, who held a 10... Читать дальше...

Republicans passed a spending plan in late June without new taxes or any Democratic votes, but Wolf vetoed it along with GOP proposals on pensions and liquor privatization. State services have so far been generally unaffected and state workers are being paid, but billions in funding for counties and social services providers are at risk of being held up without a deal in place. Wolf wants billions in new taxes on sales, income and natural gas drilling to close a large budget deficit and provide... Читать дальше...

A transgender inmate was paroled Wednesday after 28 years in state prison, a day before a federal court was scheduled to hear the state’s appeal of a judge’s groundbreaking order allowing the inmate to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco canceled Thursday’s hearing in Norsworthy’s case but did not dismiss her lawsuit, as state prison officials had requested, and said it would consider written arguments from both sides. Besides the male-to-female surgery... Читать дальше...

A spokesman for Buffalo's Women & Children's Hospital said the staff there is anticipating a busy month as well. Since the baby business is generally unpredictable, hospitals plan for its ebb and flow. Most members of Mercy's obstetrics staff are able to shift among units to accommodate needs, and they know where to put extra beds as patient rooms fill up, the officials said.

Jimmy Carter says he has cancer, revealed by recent surgery “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” Carter said in the statement released by the Carter Center. Carter included his family’s history of pancreatic cancer in his memoir “A Full Life, ”writing that his father, brother and two sisters died of the disease.

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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit against an Alabama school board to continue over a 14-year-old girl who was used by a school employee in a plot to catch an alleged sexual predator. A middle school teacher's aide asked the 14-year-old to go into a bathroom as bait so a 16-year-old eighth-grader with a history of sexual harassment allegations could be caught trying to have sex with her and could be disciplined. The U.S. Department of Justice and 33... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Aug. 11 about Kim Kardashian's social media promotions of a morning sickness drug, The Associated Press erroneously described the removal of a different version of the drug from the market in 1983. Kardashian recently began promoting a prescription pill to treat morning sickness through her social media accounts. [...] FDA regulators say the posts violate rules for promoting drugs because they don't mention side effects of Diclegis, which include sleepiness that can... Читать дальше...

The $40 million program mandated by state law requires all school districts and charters to submit a comprehensive plan for reading instruction and intervention from kindergarten through third grade by Oct. 1. State funding is provided to schools to support the implementation of the reading plans and there's an ongoing court case to clarify authority over State Board employees.

“Unfortunately, we’ve made the hard decision to close the doors on Zen99 and return remaining capital to investors,” CEO and co-founder Tristan Zier wrote in a post on Medium. The company aimed for the surging market of independent contractors, who now account for a third of the U.S. workforce, and are projected to hit 40 percent by 2020. While its services were free, Zen99 made money as an insurance broker, collecting a commission when users bought a product through its website. The company reached... Читать дальше...

Police officers rescue groundhog with head stuck in tin can The creature roaming Lehigh University wasn't able to see its own shadow — or much of anything — because its head was stuck in a tin can.

KOS, Greece — Locked in a sunbaked football stadium without food, drinking water or sanitation, about 1,000 refugees lined up for hours on Wednesday to register with Greek authorities on the island of Kos, which is now at the forefront of a humanitarian crisis sweeping the financially broken country. After sending police reinforcements, the government promised to charter a commercial ship to house up to 2,500 immigrants on the island where authorities have been overwhelmed by a spike in arrivals. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration doesn’t plan to invite Cuban dissidents to Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic flag raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrating how U.S. policy is shifting focus from the island’s opposition to its single-party government. Excluding dissidents would certainly provoke fierce criticism from opponents of Obama’s new policy, including Cuban American Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. “It wouldn’t be surprising if North... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — NBCUniversal is investing $200 million in digital media company Vox Media, whose brands include news site Vox, food blog Eater, the sports-focused SB Nation and the tech blog Re/code. NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast Corp., said Wednesday that it hopes to build a partnership with Vox that involves collaborating on editorial content, advertising and technology.

SACRAMENTO — It calls itself the Center for Medical Progress, and its name has been all over the news in the past few weeks after it began releasing hidden-camera videos that set off an uproar over the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research. An abortion provider group is suing it over its clandestine tactics, and the California attorney general’s office has accused it of falling behind on its fees and paperwork and has opened an investigation into its activities. The center’s CEO defended the organization... Читать дальше...

Conn was removed from the presidency Wednesday and kicked out of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. In April, hundreds of teachers with Conn's blessing took a day off to protest Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to overhaul Detroit's troubled school system.

Zhu Jinshi’s formidable “Boat,” constructed of calligraphy paper, bamboo and thread, on the ground floor of the Asian Art Museum, is just one elevated — and elevating — entry point into “28 Chinese.” The group exhibition, drawn from the collection of Don and Mera Rubell, continues on the upper floors with startling results. Try not to trip over the corpselike form of Ai Weiwei, a.k.a. He Xiangyu’s “The Death of Marat,” amid sculptures of dancing deities in the permanent displays. Throughout, “28... Читать дальше...

The Bay Area will start to heat up going into the weekend with inland temperatures reaching triple digits Saturday, forecasters said. Walnut Creek and Brentwood were predicted to hit 104 while Livermore and Antioch will be a not-much-cooler 99 degrees Saturday, forecasters said. The soaring heat is the result of a ridge of high pressure building over much of the state that’s moving westward from the desert Southwest, Strudley said.