Новости за 16.09.2016

WASHINGTON — More Americans are buying houses and taking on mortgage debt at a time when higher home prices are also boosting their ownership stakes. The trends, revealed in a Federal Reserve report Friday, reflect the healing of the U.S. housing market nearly a decade after the real estate bubble burst. The Fed’s quarterly report

JERUSALEM — In his landmark speech to the Arab world seven years ago, President Barack Obama warned that Israeli settlements on occupied territories were undermining hopes for peace. “It is time for these settlements to stop,” he declared. As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not

CANTON, Ohio — The inclusion of former NFL safety and convicted rapist Darren Sharper on this year’s list of Pro Football Hall of Fame nominees has created a national outcry. Sharper, a five-time Pro Bowler, pleaded guilty in 2015 to drugging and raping up to 16 women in four states. U.S. District Court Judge Jane

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has imposed sanctions on a French citizen considered to be one of the top Syria-based recruiters of potential militants. Omar Diaby was added to the State Department’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists Friday, which imposes sanctions on foreigners or groups who have committed or are looking to commit acts

WASHINGTON — So many people are registering drones and applying for drone pilot licenses that federal aviation officials said Friday they are contemplating the possibility of millions of unmanned aircraft crowding the nation’s skies in the not-too-distant future. In the nine months since the Federal Aviation Administration created a drone registration system, more than 550,000

ATLANTA — A judge ruled Friday against Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her estate, though the decision doesn’t answer any of the questions surrounding her mysterious death. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — Residents forced to move out of a northwest Indiana public housing complex because of high levels of lead in the soil are suing city officials and the companies they say are responsible. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday on behalf of three families living in the West Calumet Housing Complex in

LONDON — When Britain voted to leave the European Union, it was a triumph for the U.K. Independence Party. Since then, the right-wing party has lurched toward disaster, losing its leader and descending into feuding. On Friday UKIP chose a new leader, Diane James, who promised to turn the fractious party into a professional political

ARLINGTON, Va. — Doug Grant says his new company, Hemeos, can save lives. But a proposed change in federal regulations could make his business a criminal enterprise. The goal of Grant’s D.C.-based startup company is to find matches for people who need bone-marrow transplants, particularly in the African-American community, where matches are harder to find.

PHOENIX — Authorities say an American Airlines jetliner bound for Phoenix made an emergency landing without incident at its destination after a tire blew out on takeoff from Portland, Oregon. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the Boeing 737-800’s pilot declared an emergency Friday morning en route to Sky Harbor International Airport. The Phoenix

SPRING LAKE, N.C. — A 79-year-old North Carolina man suffering from dementia is in jail on murder charges after shooting his wife and caretaking daughter, authorities said. Bobby King killed the two women Thursday, then called 911 and waited for officers outside his family’s home in Spring Lake near Fort Bragg, Police Chief Troy McDuffie

PITTSBURGH — The state agency that regulates taxicabs and transportation businesses in Pennsylvania says it doesn’t have jurisdiction over free trips in self-driving cars being offered by Uber, but it will once the company starts charging money. The Public Utility Commission said Thursday that it wants a review of the regulatory, legal and technical issues

The Obama administration is publishing new rules that promise to help doctors and patients learn if clinical trials of treatments worked or not. At issue is how to help people find medical studies that may be appropriate for them — and then to make the results public so that successes can reach patients more quickly

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Talk of joint efforts to defend Europe is on the lips of EU leaders after decades of leaving collective security mostly to the United States and NATO. Nobody is suggesting a joint European army, with thousands of tanks and combat planes displaying the EU’s star-studded logo. But at a summit in the

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University is offering students a way to train to become officers in the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force for the first time since the Vietnam War. Brown and other Ivy League schools closed on-campus Reserve Officer Training Corps programs amid protests against the war. Most opposition to the programs dissolved

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Russia disapproves of the hack of medical files of Olympic athletes, though their findings should attract public attention. Putin’s statement on Friday came as IOC President Thomas Bach said he will ask Moscow for help to stop the hackers, which the World Anti-Doping Agency said were linked to Russia.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins will announce the results of an investigation into assaults that occurred at a party on July 23 involving members of the Washington State football team. Jenkins will announce the findings this afternoon in Pullman. Washington State Athletic Director Bill Moos will join Jenkins to make a statement.

LONDON — A British man was sentenced Friday to at least 24 years in prison for the murder of a Muslim cleric who practiced a form of faith healing condemned by the Islamic State group. A jury at Manchester Crown Court found 21-year-old Mohammed Syeedy guilty of murdering Bangladeshi imam Jalal Uddin. Uddin was bludgeoned

ZADAR, Croatia — Marin Cilic held his nerve to beat big-hitting Lucas Pouille 6-1, 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 and draw Croatia level against France at 1-1 in their Davis Cup semifinal on Friday. Earlier, Richard Gasquet won the opening tie against Borna Coric in straight sets to heap the pressure on the big-serving Cilic. But

LONDON — Music aside, the true power of The Beatles wasn’t the volume of their fans or the popularity of their hairstyles — it was the pull of their politics. The band’s refusal to play to segregated American audiences in 1964 is one striking example explored in a new documentary about the band’s tireless years

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press and two other news organizations sued the FBI on Friday to learn who the government paid and how much it spent to hack into an iPhone in its investigation into last year’s San Bernardino, California, massacre. The lawsuit seeks records about the FBI’s contract with an unidentified vendor who provided

AMMAN, Jordan — Conflicts in Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen have erased “development gains for a whole generation,” including driving up already high levels of poverty and unemployment, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Friday. The international community must be prepared to scale up long-term development aid in

NAIROBI, Kenya — Angry protesters marched in Kenya’s capital on Friday against plans to build an elevated railway line over the country’s oldest national park, saying it will threaten wildlife that includes lions, leopards and giraffes. The Chinese project would cross six kilometers of Nairobi National Park. Dozens of conservationists and others carried banners saying

SNYDER, Texas — A division of Amazon has unveiled plans for a more than 100-turbine wind farm in West Texas. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced the 253-megawatt wind farm in Scurry County will be the company’s largest renewable-energy project. No cost estimate was immediately provided. Officials say the Amazon Wind Farm Texas should

INDIANAPOLIS — A national study ranks Indiana among the lowest states for teacher recruitment and retention, with many Indiana teachers worried about the impact of standardized testing. The report from the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute says Indiana teachers earn starting salaries lower than the national average but face among the largest class sizes. The Indianapolis