Новости за 27.06.2018

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Officials have approved naming a major new precision agriculture facility at South Dakota State University after a company that donated $5 million for the project. The South Dakota Board of Regents voted Wednesday to grant SDSU's request to name the facility the Raven Precision Agriculture Center in recognition of the gift from Sioux Falls-based Raven Industries. It was approved as part of the board's consent agenda. State lawmakers approved the project this year. The roughly... Читать дальше...

The first half of 2018 has been filled with box office record breakers, and now for the first time ever, domestic gross revenue for the year has passed the $6 billion mark before the end of June, the National Association of Theatre Owners and comScore announced Wednesday. No previous year in box office history has come even close to that mark after the first six months. 2017 was the closest to get to $6 billion, but could only reach $5.64 billion by the end of June 30. 2018’s year-to-date total is currently up nine percent over 2017... Читать дальше...

Three current Warriors players — Jordan Bell, Damian Jones and recent draft pick Jacob Evans III — highlight Golden State’s Summer League roster, which was announced Wednesday afternoon. Player-development coach Willie Green will serve as head coach of the Warriors’ Summer League team. After participating in the inaugural California Classic Summer League in Sacramento from July 2-5, Golden State will play in the MGM Resorts NBA Summer League 2018 in Las Vegas from July 6-17.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Kennedy, the retiring Supreme Court justice, may have been appointed by a Republican president, but his opinions over the last three decades have been challenging to pigeonhole from a partisan perspective. Kennedy has been a key — even swing vote — on high-profile issues including gay rights, abortion, affirmative action and campaign finance. Here's a sampling of some of his most notable opinions: OBERGEFELL v. HODGES (2015) In a landmark gay marriage decision, Kennedy wrote... Читать дальше...

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on immigrant parents and children separated at the U.S. border (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Arizona facilities are housing 1,654 immigrant children, including 328 who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The office of Republican Gov. Doug Ducey confirmed the figures Wednesday. Ducey says he doesn't think children should be separated from their families but he also wants strong border security. He urged Congress to take action, saying lawmakers... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detectives investigating the death of a man shot while camping with his two young daughters are reviewing three prior shootings in the past year at the popular Southern California wilderness park. Tristan Beaudette was shot in the chest before dawn June 22 as he slept in a tent at Malibu Creek State Park with his girls, ages 2 and 4. Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says Wednesday that investigators are looking into shootings at the park on June 18 of this year and July 22 and June 6 of last year. Читать дальше...

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Dominga Garcia Lopez’s only son, Francisco Ramirez Garcia, had nearly completed a master’s degree in psychology, and at 36 was supporting the parents who had toiled to give him every opportunity to escape their hillside poverty above this famed Pacific resort. Elisa Ceballos Santiago’s son, 19-year-old Arturo Rios Ceballos, who she called her “only hope,” was in his first year of university here studying electromechanics. Both were murdered. One... Читать дальше...

CA Las Vegas NV Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 27, 2018 _____ 057 FPUS55 KVEF 272038 ZFPVEF Zone forecasts for the Mojave Desert and Southern Great Basin National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 138 PM PDT Wed Jun 27 2018 This is an automatically generated product that provides average values for large geographical areas and may not be representative of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site specific forecast...please visit weather.gov/lasvegas and either (1) Select a location... Читать дальше...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Democrats in the U.S. Senate are urging Vice President Mike Pence to press Ecuador's government over its continued asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when he arrives in the Andean nation Wednesday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other Democratic senators say in a letter to Pence that they are extremely concerned over Ecuador's protection of Assange. Assange has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012. The senators say hacked information released... Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney looks like a shoo-in for a Senate seat from Utah after winning a landslide primary victory and toning down his criticism of Donald Trump, but first he'll face a Democratic opponent with a distinctly different political outlook. Jenny Wilson has an elected office in the state's biggest county, a political pedigree as the daughter of a former Salt Lake City mayor and worked with Romney on the 2002 Olympics. But in a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats by 4 to 1 and Romney has near-celebrity status... Читать дальше...

The Washington Post has dismissed reporter Marwa Eltagouri over what it reported was a failure to properly attribute aggregated content to an original source in her own reported work. Eltagouri had been with the paper less than a year and her employment was terminated during a nine month probationary window. A rep for the Washington Post declined to comment to TheWrap as well as the paper’s own in-house media guru Paul Farhi. By 4:00 p.m. eastern Eltagouri was already listed as a former general assignment reporter by the paper’s website.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A teacher in Mobile has received the nation's highest honor for the profession. At a ceremony Wednesday at the White House, WKRG-TV reports Chasity Collier was presented the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science teaching. The teacher at Dawes Intermediate in Mobile also got a signed citation from President Donald J. Trump and a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. This isn't Collier's first major honor this year. She was also named Alabama's Teacher of the Year for 2017-2018. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to Democratic-leaning organized labor. The court's conservative majority, re-empowered by Justice Neil Gorsuch, scrapped a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join. The 5-4 decision... Читать дальше...

An East Bay congressman said Wednesday that sources have indicated to him that the the Trump administration will not build a massive detention center for undocumented migrants in Concord. On Tuesday, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, wrote a letter to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer in response to a Time magazine report that detailed what was described as a draft memo submitted for Spencer’s approval. The memo reportedly outlined a contingency plan to build temporary... Читать дальше...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier's office says 21 of the department's college savings account customers have been hacked, resulting in than $1.4 million worth of unauthorized withdrawals. The office announced Wednesday it was advised of the breach by the Connecticut Higher Education Trust or CHET Direct program manager, which is TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing Inc. Unauthorized individuals were apparently able to gain online access to the customers' accounts, making a total of 44 unauthorized withdrawals. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that President Donald Trump views Moscow's return to the international fold as inevitable and that "trade-offs" could allow it to re-enter the Group of Seven club of industrialized democracies without it giving Crimea back to Ukraine. Pompeo's comments Wednesday to the Senate Appropriations Committee came as Trump's national security adviser John Bolton met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to prepare for a summit between the two leaders next month in Europe. Читать дальше...

A respite from scenes depicting the Golden Gate Bridge playing second fiddle to Transformer battles and Ant-Man car chases is "Beautiful Boy," a non-fiction-based drama starring Steve Carell and "Call Me By Your Name" star Timothée Chalamet.

When we first see Scott Lang, a.k.a. Ant-Man, in “Ant Man and the Wasp,” he is crawling on all fours with his daughter Cassie through a maze of cardboard boxes in an Indiana Jones-like adventure, complete with tunnels, silly string cobwebs, cardboard skeletons and painted string lasers in a quest for buried treasure — an old, cheap trophy. Escape means a roller-coaster finish, and with this delightful sequence achieved without the aid of computer effects, this “Ant-Man” entry stakes... Читать дальше...

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A white police officer was charged Wednesday with homicide in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager who was hit in the back while fleeing a traffic stop, a death that has fueled daily protests around Pittsburgh. Prosecutors cited officer Michael Rosfeld’s inconsistent statements about whether he saw a gun in the teen’s hand. The East Pittsburgh officer first told investigators that the teen turned his hand toward him when he ran from the... Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown took a victory lap Wednesday after he signed a $139 billion California budget that marks a stark turnaround from the financial crisis he inherited almost eight years ago. Nearing the end of his second two-term stint as governor, Brown has celebrated the state's financial strength and thriving economy, even as President Donald Trump and his allies paint the nation's most populous state as in decline. Brown has largely eschewed the pomp and circumstance of his office in recent years. Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on Oklahoma's primary election (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Oklahoma's interim health commissioner says the state Department of Health will be ready to implement a new law allowing medical marijuana. Tom Bates said Wednesday the agency has been working to develop rules and regulations for medical marijuana since he was appointed April 1. He said the rules will be ready according to the requirements of the law, which is scheduled to go into effect 60 days after passage. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found that Dr. Dre, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and their headphone company Beats Electronics owe a former partner $25.2 million in royalties. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Wednesday by a narrow 9-3 margin that Beats breached a contract with Steven Lamar and his company Jibe Audio. The suit said Lamar in 2006 came to Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, with the idea for celebrity-endorsed headphones. The plaintiffs contended Lamar was owed over $130 million for a dozen different models of headphones... Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The leader of New York state's largest public-sector union has compared Donald Trump to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, saying the Republican president could have mentored the three despots. CSEA President Danny Donohue denounced the president Wednesday during an appearance with other labor leaders and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The men were discussing the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that government workers can't be forced to contribute to unions. Moments later, New York City teachers... Читать дальше...

The potential fallout from Anthony Kennedy’s absence from the Supreme Court came quickly after the perpetual swing vote announced his retirement on Wednesday. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was typically blunt, declaring within minutes of the news that abortion would be outlawed in nearly half the U.S. within 18 months. “Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Abortion will be illegal in twenty states in 18 months. #SCOTUS,” he said in a tweet that racked up thousands of retweets within minutes. Also Read... Читать дальше...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Democrats in Tennessee's largest county are accusing election officials of trying to suppress black votes in early voting preceding the August elections. Shelby County Democratic Party Chairman Corey Strong on Wednesday criticized the decision by the county Election Commission to make Agricenter International the only open polling location on the first five days of the early voting process, which starts July 13. Strong said the location in suburban east Memphis is too far away... Читать дальше...