Новости за 14.01.2018

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Sunday that a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children is “probably dead,” casting a cloud over already tenuous negotiations just days before a deadline on a government funding deal that Democrats have tied to immigration.

Democratic committee people chose Sonja Finn, a restaurant owner and first-time political candidate, to be the Democratic candidate in the City Council District 8 special election on March 6. But she will likely face a familiar foe: City Council aide Erika Strassburger, who said she will run as an independent candidate after Ms. Finn won the party's nomination by a vote of 27 to 20.

A woman who was assaulted and thrown out of an Uptown pizza restaurant Friday night told Pittsburgh police she stopped there to use the restroom on her way home from a nearby bar.

The Steelers’ postseason revenge tour through the Jaguars and Patriots over consecutive games ended as it began Sunday when Jacksonville upset them, 45-42, at Heinz Field.

The Steelers scored the only touchdown of the third quarter to make a game of it as they whittled Jacksonville’s once-hefty lead to 28-21 as they entered the final quarter Sunday at Heinz Field.

The Steelers did little on offense or defense as Jacksonville ran out to a surprising 14-0 lead after one quarter of their playoff game at Heinz Field Sunday.

Katharine Eagan Kelleman, who officially begins her work as the new Port Authority CEO this week, comes with high expectations and a high salary.

The Pirates designated infielder Engelb Vielma and right-handed pitcher Shane Carle for assignment Sunday as the corresponding roster moves for the Gerrit Cole trade.

The Penguins haven’t been afraid to lean heavily on Tristan Jarry when Matt Murray has been out this season, and that won’t stop now.

Steelers All-Pro receiver Antonio Brown is active for Sunday’s AFC divisional round playoff game against the Jaguars after missing the final practice of the week due to an illness.

ISTANBUL — A commercial plane that skidded off a runway after landing in northern Turkey dangled precariously off a muddy cliff with its nose only a few feet from the sea.

PASADENA, Calif. – Oh, Hallmark: You had us at “Lacey Chabert.”

Pittsburgh authors have been busier than ever putting out more books than this book page can accommodate with reviews. Still, readers should know that they exist and look for them. Here are just a few notables:

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By calculations from earlier works in James Lee Burke’s popular series, fictional detective Dave Robicheaux should be past 80. His age is inconsistent in the sequence, but he’s a senior citizen in the latest, titled simply “Robicheaux.” He’s working as a sheriff’s deputy in New Iberia, La., and refers to himself in the narrative as “semiretired.” His colleagues call him “Pops” — among several other less complimentary epithets — but his energy and acuity are undiminished.

In the 250-plus years of Pittsburgh’s history, few figures loom larger than steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The legacy in Pittsburgh of one of the richest men in American history is a decidedly mixed bag: His efforts to democratize art and education for the masses via libraries and museums rest uneasily alongside his role in low wages and poor conditions for his employees.

Lucyna de Barbaro, a former telecommunications engineer and particle physics researcher, is an independent energy-efficiency implementer, most recently volunteering with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh (lucyna.debarbaro@gmail.com). She and her husband own the first residential certified passive house in Pittsburgh.

Ken Gormley is a former dean of the Duquesne University School of Law and has served as the university’s president since July 2016.

World War I began in 1914 following the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist. By 1918, the war had dragged into its fourth year with many more bloody battles still ahead.

Stacy Innerst is the artist. You are the caption writer.

Before anything else, I learned how to walk in the woods -- heel to toe quietly rolling slowly over sticks, dead leaves and crunchy snow. I learned to use peripheral vision and all of my senses, not just my eyes, to probe surrounding habitat for movement, colors, shapes, sounds and smells. I learned how a stop-and-go gait could coax unseen animals to run, and the invaluable skill of staying still and silent.

Private property owners nationwide continue to report incidents of defiant trespass by hunters. But according to a survey released this month by a pro-hunting organization, nearly three-fourths of hunters have had their own problems with trespassers.

Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, has attracted 64 Senate co-sponsors for a bill that could prevent online trafficking of young people for sex. Yet the bill sits idly waiting to be put to a vote.

The Allegheny County Health Department has adopted new air-pollution rules that give industries better incentives to comply and hits them with tougher penalties when they don’t — penalties that could redound to the benefit of the communities they pollute. The new regulations appear to be an important step forward for the department, which has been criticized in the past for not going after polluters with alacrity.

Just when I think I know Pittsburgh, I see that a double-decker trolley ran through this city for more than a decade and nobody bothered to tell me.