Новости за 31.08.2016

Theranos woes; a ‘Silicon Valley’ ride; Climb Real Estate sold In a promotion with HBO, peer-to-peer car rental company Turo is offering customers a chance to rent a “Silicon Valley” favorite: the 2006 Ford Escape driven by Erlich Bachman, a character in the hit HBO sitcom. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Palo Alto company didn’t have the right patient safeguards in a study of the new test, quoting people familiar with the matter. San Francisco’s Climb Real Estate, which focuses on urban Millennials... Читать дальше...

The state's largest teacher's union says it will fight the Christie administration's legal attempt to force the labor group to participate in meetings to help determine benefits for public school teachers and retirees. New Jersey Education Association President Wendell Steinhauer said Wednesday that the union will oppose Attorney General Christopher Porrino's effort to compel the group's three representatives to attend a meeting about health benefits for teachers. A New Jersey judge has ordered... Читать дальше...

Multiple news media report that the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Coleton Weatherford was arrested Tuesday night after Blake Shurling was found dead with a gunshot wound at a home in Statesboro, Georgia, which is about 210 miles southeast of Atlanta. Weatherford is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and discharging a firearm while under the influence.

Oscar winner will have “significant” role in HBO drama’s penultimate season Character details are being kept under wraps, but the veteran British actor will have a “significant” role on the upcoming season, according to HBO. Broadbent’s long list of credits includes “Cloud Atlas,” “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” the “Harry Potter” series (as Potions teacher Horace Slughorn), “Brooklyn” and “Iris,” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. “Game of Thrones” has been renewed for two final seasons at the network. Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Trump says he and Pena Nieto discussed his call for border wall, but did not talk about his insistence Mexico pay for it.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After meeting with Pena Nieto, Trump says US, Mexico must respect right to build a border wall on sovereign land.

(AP) — State lawmakers Wednesday lambasted the pace of mobile home setup for flood victims, saying it's unacceptable that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved only one manufactured housing unit into a yard nearly three weeks after the catastrophic flooding. Rep. Clay Schexnayder, a Republican who represents areas of hard-hit Ascension and Livingston parishes, criticized the FEMA mobile home program at a House homeland security committee meeting. Debbie Gonzalez, 52, was among those... Читать дальше...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A state lawmaker said Wednesday that police officers threw him to the ground and put him in handcuffs as he tried to de-escalate tensions where 14 people were eventually arrested at the scene of a recent fatal police shooting and unrest on Milwaukee's north side. Eleven people were arrested Tuesday night for disorderly conduct and resisting an officer after police asked a crowd that had gathered to disperse and some refused to leave, according to Sgt. Timothy Gauerke. Three more... Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — Grand jury indicts ex-Atlanta police officer on murder, other counts in death of unarmed man.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities have cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment as part of a protest at a Dakota Access oil pipeline about 20 miles west of a main protest site in North Dakota. Construction has been stopped for days near the main protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After meeting with Mexico's president, Trump says countries must work to end illegal immigration, 'it must be solved quickly'

Corrections spokesman Ken Pastorick says the Louisiana Transitional Center for Women, a private lockup run by LaSalle Corrections, holds 221 of the women. The New Orleans Opera Association and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra are giving a concert next Thursday evening to benefit south Louisiana public schools, arts organizations and artists hit by recent floods. Opera director Robert Lyall says both organizations know by experience how flooding can cripple a community, and want to return the help they received after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/2bCAKJS ) reports Sam Vonachen also was convicted Wednesday of aggravated arson and attempted murder. Prosecutors say Vonachen waited until his three family members went to sleep before pouring gasoline around the stairs in his home and lighting it on fire.

(AP) — Two Tucson TV personalities have pleaded guilty to a felony count of endangerment after their baby's body was found to have cocaine. Tests revealed there was cocaine in the baby's body, and police learned the couple had a party the night before.

Thousands of people are crowding into an outdoor arena in a casino parking lot at Lake Tahoe where President Obama is to give the keynote address at the 20th annual environmental summit addressing the lake's ecological challenges. Scientists are worried about the loss of clarity in the alpine lake caused by a wide variety of factors over past half-century, including housing construction, storm-water runoff, automobiles and aquatic species. Barack Obama is opening a two-day environmental tour aimed... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Retiring U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield says he will resign from office next week, triggering a special election that will give his successor a head start in Congress. First elected in 1994, Whitfield announced his retirement last year in the midst of a House Ethics Committee investigation.

Two sisters, ages 4 and 7, died at a Sonoma County hospital after their 26-year-old mother lost control of the car they were riding in Wednesday morning on their way to school, and it overturned and landed in the Petaluma River, officials said. In the latest tragedy, the girls weren’t in child safety seats as they were required to be, said CHP spokesman Jonathan Sloat, the officer who was heading to the funeral for last week’s victims but ended up missing it due to the morning crash. A witness... Читать дальше...

Passengers — mostly airline executives, U.S. government officials and journalists, with a sprinkling of Cuban-American families and U.S. travelers — were given gift bags with Cuban cookbooks, commemorative luggage tags and Cuban flags, which they were encouraged to wave. The arrival opens a new era of U.S.-Cuba travel with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55-year-old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the island. Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Donald Trump: Meeting with Mexican President Pena Nieto 'great honor,' nations united by support for democracy.

(AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a uranium mining company has agreed to corrective measures after radioactive sludge from Wyoming leaked from a truck onto a highway. The NRC said Wednesday the barium sulfate sludge originated at Cameco's Smith Ranch-Highland uranium mine in east-central Wyoming and contained low levels of radioactive material.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Pena Nieto: US-Mexican border security must address illegal flow south of arms and cash, as well as immigration north.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision this week to refuse to stand during the playing of the national anthem as a way of protesting police killings of unarmed black men has drawn support and scorn far beyond sports. The Associated Press explains how "The Star-Spangled Banner" became a ritual of American public life, its complicated racial origins and how the song has been used as a form of political resistance. The anthem is played before the start of every U.S. major sporting event... Читать дальше...

Rick Perry Faces Longest ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Odds: ABC unveiled the celebrities and their professional pairings yesterday for Season 23 of “Dancing With the Stars,” and everyone’s already got their favorites — including Las Vegas. The model, actress and fashion designer is followed by Vanilla Ice (7-to-1), rounding out the Top 3. Who can keep up with that dude? [...] Read: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 23 Cast Revealed Terra Jole of “Little Women” doesn’t quite have the sharks’ confidence either, clocking in at 16-to-1. Читать дальше...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday he intends to seek "spiritual guidance" in hopes of quieting a controversy he created when he left an obscene message on a Democratic lawmaker's voicemail and then said he wished he could challenge him to a duel and point a gun at him. In recent days, legislators have called for LePage to step down or get professional help after his remarks to Gattine and comments he made blaming blacks and Hispanics for Maine's heroin epidemic. Republican... Читать дальше...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he had "open and constructive" conversation with Donald Trump.