Новости за 31.07.2020

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s health secretary defended the government’s abrupt re-imposition of restrictions on social life across a swath of northern England on Friday, saying it was important to clamp down quickly on new outbreaks of COVID-19.

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Counterterrorism police acting on intelligence raided a suspected militant hideout in a remote town in eastern Pakistan early Friday, triggering a shootout that killed five members of a separatist group, a spokesman said.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ Portland General Electric Co. (POR) on Friday reported second-quarter profit of $39 million.

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 60-year-old woman. My house is on a corner lot. Just about every time I walk outside, a male neighbor of mine stares at me. He looks like a hobo.

PARIS (AP) — France's economy shrank by nearly 14% in the second quarter when the country was in coronavirus lockdown, a third consecutive quarter of negative growth in a worsening recession, the national statistics agency said Friday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tyson Foods expects to create 230 more jobs and invest $87.6 million in an expansion in Tennessee.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University's nearly 750 spring graduates are being honored this weekend with a virtual commencement.

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina man visiting the Florida Keys stole large pieces of federally protected coral, authorities said.

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A bridge connecting Wickliffe, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois, will close Saturday for extensive maintenance, meaning a long detour for those traveling between the cities, officials said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday named Raleigh County Commission administrator Jeffrey Miller as the new leader of the state parkways authority.

For the first time this season, the San Francisco Giants played extra innings and got a taste of the new rule of placing a runner on second base to begin every subsequent half-inning. Well, it was a total embarrassment for the Giants, who gave up six runs in the top of the 10th and lost to the Padres 12-7.

CAIRO (AP) — For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt’s capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead. Now in its campaign to reshape Cairo, the government is driving highways through the cemeteries, raising alarm from preservationists.

NY Marine Warnings and Forecast for Friday, July 31, 2020

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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT

Marine Weather Statement

National Weather Service New York NY

202 AM EDT Fri Jul 31 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE WATERS...

The areas affected include...

Long Island Sound West of New Haven CT / Port Jefferson NY...

At 201 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated a thunderstorm, capable of

producing winds to around 30 knots. This... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly tests the Republican Party's limits on issues including race, trade and immigration. On Thursday, he struck a boundary.

Starlin Castro is coming off a four-hit game. His Washington Nationals finally have their first consecutive wins of the season. So much for momentum, though.

DENVER (AP) — School districts nationwide are working to remove police officers from campuses, but some Black and Indigenous educational leaders are resisting the push prompted by the national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers showed some rust. They knocked it off with time to spare.

ARIES.  (March 19 - April 18):  A closed door suddenly springs open at the touch. Can you trust it? There's only one to find out . . .

Sean Manaea is scheduled to start for the A’s as they play their first road game of the season against Seattle at 6:30 p.m. Friday (NBCSCA/960).

Defending champ Brooks Koepka matched his career best with an 8-under-par 62 to take a two-stroke lead over Rickie Fowler and Brendon Todd after the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's leaders were deadlocked and on the verge of financial catastrophe in 2008. Five negotiators, including Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, couldn't agree on a budget that would guide the nation's most populous state through the Great Recession.

Major League Baseball has postponed this weekend’s scheduled series between Toronto and Philadelphia because of concerns about the coronavirus after two Phillies staffers tested positive.

Dealing with an offseason move to Las Vegas, an overhaul of his defense and contending in a division with Patrick Mahomes and the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs is a tough enough task for Raiders coach Jon Gruden.

BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:

CAIRO (AP) — A recent surge of violence in Darfur, the war-scarred region of western Sudan, has deprived more than 14,000 children of medical care, a leading aid group reported on Thursday.