Новости за 25.04.2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House to discuss trade as he engages in negotiations around the globe. Trump tweeted before the meeting that they would be "talking about many things, including how the U.S. has been treated unfairly for many years, by many countries, on trade." The president met with Cook in the Oval Office a day after the leader of the technology giant attended Trump's state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A late round of buying erased early losses on Wall Street, leaving major indexes mixed at the close of trading. Bigger companies managed to eke out modest gains, while smaller companies mostly fell. A big gain in Boeing pushed the Dow Jones industrial average higher, breaking a five-day losing streak. Late in the day, energy companies got a boost after Exxon Mobil said it is raising its quarterly dividend. Stocks got off to a weak start as investors worried that growing costs for... Читать дальше...

TORONTO (AP) — The deadly van rampage in Toronto is training attention on an online world of sexual loneliness, rage and misogyny after the suspect invoked an uprising by "involuntary celibates" and gave a shout-out to a California killer who seethed at women for rejecting him. The world of self-described "incels," where sexual frustrations boil over into talk of violent revenge against women, has become a virtual home for some socially isolated men like the 25-year-old computer science student charged... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled VA nominee Jackson denies report alleging drunken car crash: 'I never wrecked a car'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are floating an alternative to bipartisan legislation that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller's job. It's a nonbinding resolution endorsing him. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on the bill, which would give any special counsel a 10-day window to seek expedited judicial review of a firing. Two Republicans and two Democrats introduced the legislation earlier this month as President Donald Trump publicly criticized Mueller.... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on Arizona's teacher walkout (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is pushing his plan to give educators a 20 percent raise by 2020 a day before an unprecedented statewide teacher walkout. He told Phoenix news station KSAZ-TV on Wednesday that he's committed to getting his plan passed. He also said he's hopeful lawmakers vote on it as soon as possible. Teachers overwhelmingly voted for the statewide walkout starting Thursday after saying Ducey's plan doesn't... Читать дальше...

Topher Grace will portray former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke in Spike Lee’s upcoming “BlackKklansman,” it was announced in CinemaCon on Wednesday. Grace’s casting was previously announced, but it was not known he’d be playing the prominent white supremacist and former Louisiana state representative in Lee’s telling of a remarkable American story. Footage screened for theater exhibitors was brief but classic Spike Lee — biting social commentary that is all the more shocking for being true.

WILMERDING, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a dog in a yard near a police mounted unit event in Pennsylvania escaped and bit one of the participating horses on its legs. Allegheny County police say its mounted unit and one from Pittsburgh were in Wilmerding on Wednesday to talk to a citizens group about the duties and responsibilities of the units. Police say a dog that hadn't been properly secured escaped from a yard and bit a Pittsburgh police horse named Jack, leaving the animal with puncture wounds on his front legs and near his back legs. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold President Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. by visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, giving the president a major victory on a signature and controversial policy. In the court’s first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court’s majority seemed unwilling to hem in a president who has invoked national security to justify restrictions on who can or cannot step... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — French President Emmanuel Macron urged the United States to reject fear and isolationism Wednesday and instead embrace the historic bond between the two countries to launch a new era of 21st century leadership and security. Macron told a joint meeting of Congress, “the American and French people have had a rendezvous with freedom.” Speaking almost directly to President Trump, Macron quickly turned to the top issues of Syria, the Iran nuclear deal, free trade and the Paris accord on climate change ... Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on developments in a California serial killer case (all times local): 1:25 p.m. California authorities say they studied the behavior of a man they suspect of being a serial killer in the 1970s and '80s and surprised him with arrest. Sacramento County Scott Jones told reporters that Joseph James DeAngelo was taken into custody without incident Wednesday as he left his Sacramento-area home. He was a former police officer in the city of Auburn. Jones said DeAngelo also was an officer in Exeter... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington's newest bromance: Yeezus and The Donald. President Donald Trump is tweeting his thanks Wednesday to rap superstar Kanye West for his recent online support. Trump wrote, "Thank you Kanye, very cool!" in response to the tweets from West, who called the president "my brother." West tweeted a number of times Wednesday expressing his admiration for Trump, saying they share "dragon energy." The rap star also posted a photo of himself wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban on travel to the U.S. by visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, giving the president a major victory on a signature and controversial policy. In the court's first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court's majority seemed unwilling to hem in a president who has invoked national security to justify restrictions on who can or cannot step on U.S.... Читать дальше...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Waffle House where four people were fatally shot reopened Wednesday amid tears and solemn remembrance of the dead, as the company said it will donate a month of the restaurant's sales to help the wounded survivors and the families of the slain. Employees wore orange ribbons and hugged one another while a steady stream of customers came in to order food and show support. Among those killed when a man opened fire in the parking lot with an AR-15 rifle and stormed... Читать дальше...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A lawsuit over white nationalist Richard Spencer's effort to speak at an Ohio college has been dropped. A federal court filing Wednesday showed both Spencer's campus tour organizer and the University of Cincinnati have agreed to drop the case. No other details were available immediately. A trial had been scheduled for next year in U.S. district court. The school last October agreed to let Spencer speak, and his tour organizers had set a date in March. But they then sued in January... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The company owned by President Donald Trump didn't win a contract to refurbish one of Syria's biggest air bases, which the U.S. struck last year with a barrage of cruise missiles. The breakingburgh satirical site falsely claimed the Trump Organization won the deal to rebuild the Shayrat air base. The story first emerged in April 2017, after the U.S. struck the base following a chemical attack that killed Syrians in the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, in northwestern Syria. Читать дальше...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The jury in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case began deliberating Wednesday in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, weighing charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home 14 years ago. The seven men and five women got the case after receiving final instructions from the judge. The two-week trial pitted Cosby, the 80-year-old former TV star once beloved as "America's Dad," against Andrea Constand, a former Temple University sports administrator... Читать дальше...

British art rock quartet Django Django appears at the Great American Music Hall on Saturday, April 28, hot off the heels of two weekends in the desert at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (or the first-ever Beychella, if you will). The group — producer-drummer David Maclean, vocalist-guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon and keyboardist Tommy Grace — is known for its genre-bending ethos, featuring strong rockabilly, Jamaican dancehall and pop influences. ... Читать дальше...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man who they say confessed to knocking over about 120 tombstones at Jewish cemetery near St. Louis last year, which they say wasn't a hate crime. St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch on Wednesday charged 34-year-old Alzado Harris of Florissant with institutional vandalism. Harris is jailed on $20,000 bond. Authorities say Harris confessed to toppling headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri, in February 2017, causing more than $30,000 in damage. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is defending President Donald Trump's pardons of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Bush administration official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Both of those pardons were issued by Trump and bypassed the input of the Justice Department's pardon attorney, which historically reviews petitions for clemency. Sessions appeared Wednesday at a Senate hearing, where Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen reminded him that the attorney general had once defended the role of the pardon attorney. Читать дальше...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on restoring voting rights to felons after they leave prison in Florida (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an emergency motion asking a federal appeals court to give the state more time to respond to a ruling on voting rights. A federal judge back in March gave Florida until Thursday to create a new process for restoring voting rights to former prisoners. He said the current system is unconstitutional and arbitrary. The state... Читать дальше...

Steph and Ayesha watch out – the Bay Area has a new favorite dynamic duo.

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. It was a mixed finish on Wall Street as large-company stocks eked out modest gains but smaller ones ended lower after a wobbly day of trading. Big health care, energy and retailing stocks posted gains Wednesday. Boeing jumped 4.2 percent, helping the Dow Jones industrial average break a five-day losing streak. Exxon Mobil rose 1.5 percent after raising its dividend. Bond yields rose again, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury note up to 3.02 percent... Читать дальше...

More than 30 years since the East Area Rapist committed the last of his known crimes, which included at least 12 murders and 45 rapes, a cold-case DNA match led to the arrest of a man who terrorized communities across California from 1976 to 1986, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, a former Auburn and Visalia police officer during the time some of the crimes were committed, was arrested on a warrant from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked on two... Читать дальше...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — To most spectators, the term "Olympics" means world-class swimming competitions, downhill skiing or the 100-meter dash. But near the Arctic Circle, a different type of Olympics for young people pays homage to the region's subsistence hunters and the methods they've used for centuries to feed their families and stay alive in harsh conditions. This week, more than 400 high school students from across Alaska will gather in Anchorage for the Native Youth Olympics state championships... Читать дальше...