Новости за 15.06.2017

ATLANTA (AP) — The search for two Georgia inmates sought in the killing of their guards during an escape from a prison bus went into its third day Thursday and the scope of the manhunt is expanding. The FBI promised a "comprehensive update" on the investigation at a Thursday news conference with state and local law enforcement officials in Madison. The other 31 inmates have been questioned, and a camera on the bus recorded the guards being shot, but corrections officials have not explained to the... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The gunman who wounded a top Republican congressman and several others during an early morning baseball practice had apparently been living out a white cargo van for months and was frequently seen working on a computer at a nearby YMCA, where he kept mostly to himself. James T. Hodgkinson shot House Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday before he was fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip on the Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field, officials said. Hodgkinson was... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The business of the House was resuming a day after a rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police. The shooter was identified as James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old home inspector from Illinois who had several minor run-ins with the law in recent years and belonged to a Facebook group called "Terminate the Republican Party." Across the Potomac River in Washington... Читать дальше...

(AP) — There may be no more potent reminder of California's humongous snowfall than the plows still clearing roads that snake across the state's highest mountains as summer approaches. [...] the serenity of the Sierra Nevada, with birds chirping beneath snow-crested peaks that tower above 12,000 feet, was shaken by the roar and beep of plows, excavators and massive machines carving through 15-foot snowbanks and moving giant blocks of snow. The air is clean and views are stunning, but working here... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — When Ron Barber saw the news that a gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for a baseball game, he immediately was taken back to when he was yelling his wife's name and phone number while lying on a gurney. The attack Wednesday in Virginia that left Rep. Steve Scalise in critical condition brought back painful memories for survivors of another shooting six years ago involving a member of Congress, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords... Читать дальше...

Conservatives immediately seized on Hodgkinson's support for Sanders, with commentator Ann Coulter, a frequent voice on conservative cable news and talk radio, describing the gunman as "some nut Bernie Sanders supporter." Sanders has opposed some gun restrictions, including the Brady Bill requiring background checks for individuals buying firearms. Sanders defended his record on gun restrictions, arguing that residents of the more rural states like Vermont view guns differently than many urban voters. Читать дальше...

The original sample was drawn from respondents selected randomly from NORC's National Frame based on address-based sampling and recruited by mail, email, telephone and face-to-face interviews. No more than 1 time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 4.q percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all adults in the U.S. were polled.

(AP) — When he campaigned for his leadership job, Rep. Steve Scalise embraced two things he loved, baseball and his home state of Louisiana, handing out commemorative baseball bats and serving up a Cajun dinner with oysters and gumbo. Nationally, Scalise, the majority whip, is the party-line vote-getter for Republicans in Congress and a fierce proponent of the GOP health care law and efforts to overhaul the tax code. Back home, he's the kid from the Italian family who's become one of the most powerful... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A fire has prompted an evacuation of a building on the campus of a university in Virginia. According to the school's alert system students and staff were told to evacuate the science center Wednesday afternoon.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Parcel Service driver who opened fire during a meeting with co-workers had filed a grievance that he was working excessive overtime and appeared to specifically go after the three drivers he killed before fatally shooting himself. Jimmy Lam, 38, filed the grievance in March complaining of too much overtime and requesting that the package delivery company relieve him of working extra hours going forward, Joseph Cilia, an official with a Teamsters Union local that represents UPS workers in San Francisco... Читать дальше...

DENVER (AP) — A former Veterans Affairs Department executive who was harshly criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at a new Colorado VA medical center said he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion before he left the agency, and does not know how it happened. Haggstrom, who was the VA's top construction official when the project nearly collapsed amid legal disputes and skyrocketing costs, said the last estimate he heard from the builder before he was removed from the project was about $890 million. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump sat by Rep. Steve Scalise's bedside and spoke with the House Majority Whip's family during a visit Wednesday evening to the hospital where Scalise remains in critical condition. Spicer says the president was also briefed by Scalise's medical team and spoke with Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, who was shot in the ankle during the attack on a Republican Congressional baseball practice. President Donald Trump is making a surprise visit to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where Rep. Читать дальше...

Sweethearts struggling with a 30-year age gap Dear Abby: I’m in my late 20s and have a male companion who is 30-plus years older than I am. Last time, I was reluctant to become emotional because I was afraid of getting hurt. If you really want to have a family and a career, you will have to sacrifice something for it, and that “something” may be devoting much more time to this man. Recently, my husband and I were walking down the sidewalk in our neighborhood and came across $160 in cash strewn all over the ground. Читать дальше...

After three days, the jury in entertainer Bill Cosby's sex assault trial outside of Philadelphia has been unable to reach a verdict on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. If deliberations drag on, that's usually because either the panel is divided or, in complex cases, they are reviewing voluminous amounts of evidence. Philadelphia-based jury consultant Melissa M. Gomez said: "There's a good chance that there's polarizations of opinion on either end, and they want to go through evidence carefully... Читать дальше...

(AP) — As deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial continue into a fourth day Thursday, nerves are frayed, patience is shot and no one is certain when it will all end. The sequestered jury has been at it for more than 27 hours since getting the case Monday, pausing a half-dozen times to revisit key evidence, including Cosby's decade-old admissions that he fondled Constand after giving her pills. In it, he claimed Constand showed no ill effects from the 1 1/2 Benadryl pills he gave her to help her relax... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — A security researcher disclosed a gaping security hole at the outfit that manages Georgia's election technology, days before the state holds a closely watched congressional runoff vote on June 20. Georgia is especially vulnerable to such disruption, as the entire state relies on antiquated touchscreen voting machines that provide no hardcopy record of votes, making it all but impossible to tell if anyone has manipulated the tallies. The NSA report offered the most detailed account... Читать дальше...

Whether Golden State would accept an invitation from President Trump was a much-discussed topic on social media in the wake of the team winning its second NBA title in three seasons Monday. After two reporters published unsubstantiated tweets after the Warriors’ Game 5 defeat of the Cavaliers that the team “unanimously” had decided to boycott a visit to the White House, Golden State released a statement Tuesday morning saying that no such decision had been made. Backup point guard Shaun Livingston... Читать дальше...

Raiders’ Sebastian Janikowski thriving at age 39 The 39-year-old Raiders kicker said Wednesday that he plans on kicking off when the Oakland team has packed its weights and opens the 2020 season in Las Vegas. How long does he plan to keep on kicking, anyway? An admittedly much smarter man than he was at 24, Janikowski hits the weight room instead of the bars and started studying game video last year. After 17 years with the Raiders, the 2000 first-round pick has an NFL-record 55 field goals of 50 yards or longer. Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS (AP) — A power outage has hit Brussels airport, delaying departing planes and leaving hundreds of people stranded outside the terminal. Florence Muls of Brussels airport says the outage hit at 5 a.m. (0400 GMT) Thursday and specifically affected the luggage and air conditioning systems. Early morning departures were immediately affected and hundreds of people were left waiting outside. Muls says after the outage was fixed, people were slowly let back in the building. Dozens of flights were delayed.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's security forces early Thursday morning ended a night-long siege by al-Shabab Islamic extremists at a popular Mogadishu restaurant. All five attackers were killed and after dawn the soldiers secured the building, said senior Somali police office Capt. Mohamed Hussein.

Asian shares fall after Fed rate hike, tracking Wall St lead Lower oil prices took a toll on energy-related shares across the region and property developers led the decline in Hong Kong. The drop in crude oil prices and the corresponding unloading of energy shares in the region, meanwhile, seems to be the primary drag on regional bourses, Jingyi Pan of IG said in a commentary. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised interest rates after the Fed's move, to help keep the territory's currency at... Читать дальше...

(AP) — It's been more than three years since Flint, Michigan, switched its water source in an effort to save money, which led to a man-made public health crisis embroiling Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's administration in scrutiny and criminal charges against a number of public officials. Residents immediately complain about the smell, taste and appearance of the water, and raise health concerns, reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems. Two state officials and a local official are charged with... Читать дальше...

[...] his December 2015 death has been blamed on Legionnaires' disease and linked to a tainted water crisis that on Wednesday led to involuntary manslaughter and other charges against five officials, including the director of Michigan's Health and Human Services department. Nick Lyon, 48, is accused of failing to alert the majority-black population about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area, which has been linked by some experts to poor water quality in 2014-15. Toxic lead from old plumbing leached into the water system... Читать дальше...

[...] this time, it was President Donald Trump who was called upon to speak words of comfort in such a troubled moment, one fraught with the overtones of gun politics and the heated rhetoric of a nation sharply divided along party lines. Trump's measured response to Wednesday's shooting at a congressional baseball practice stood in stark contrast to his inflammatory reactions to some previous acts of violence. "The president entered the room, spoke with Scalise's family members and sat by his bedside with Mrs. Читать дальше...

Adele wore her heart on her sleeve Wednesday night when she visited the ashy remains of Grenfell Tower, the 24-story London apartment building that burned to the ground killing at least 12 people and injuring 74. The Grammy-winning “Hello” singer, who hails from the nearby district of Tottenham, was spotted with her husband Simon Konecki in the Notting Hill neighborhood that was struck by tragedy at around 1 a.m. when flames engulfed the building. Around 600 residents lived in 120 apartments in the Grenfell Tower... Читать дальше...