Новости за 24.04.2018

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signaled on Tuesday that he was open to a new arrangement with European allies that would preserve the Iran nuclear agreement by expanding and extending its terms to further constrain Tehran’s development of weapons and destabilizing activities in the Middle East.

Pennsylvania has met increased federal standards for overseeing safety on the state’s rail systems, ensuring the state will be able to receive $438.6 million in railway subsidy funds for the Port Authority and two other agencies.

About a dozen people identifying themselves as the “Pittsburgh Raging Grannies” picketed the annual PNC Financial Services Group Inc. shareholders meeting Downtown Tuesday, protesting the banking giant’s lending to companies involved in making nuclear weapons.

Evgeni Malkin and Carl Hagelin were spotted walking around UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex Tuesday looking no worse for wear. The problem was that neither took the ice for practice.

Primanti Bros. — the famous Pittsburgh-based late-night haunt and destination for an overstuffed sandwich topped with fries — hasn’t been paying its workers their fair share.

MarkWest, which operates natural gas facilities across the region, has agreed to pay $610,000 and spend several million dollars to install emission control technology to settle an air pollution claim brought by the federal government.

A Mount Washington woman pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Tuesday after stabbing a man to death last summer.

After Kevin Stallings’ ouster March 8, three of Pitt’s four leading scorers opted to take their talents elsewhere, leaving new head coach Jeff Capel with a rebuild just one month into his tenure.

YORK, Pa. — A golf club in York County, Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course.

WASHINGTON — His nomination in peril, Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson fought Tuesday to convince lawmakers of his leadership abilities as more details emerged over his alleged misconduct, ranging from repeated drunkenness to a toxic work environment, as he served as a top White House doctor.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician and allowed the overprescribing of drugs, according to congressional officials briefed on the committee’s work.

TORONTO — The suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto posted a chilling Facebook message just minutes before plowing into a crowded city sidewalk, authorities said Tuesday, raising the possibility that he may have nursed grudges against women — a possible echo of a 1989 massacre of 14 women that remains one of Canada’s most traumatic acts of violence.

The 25-year-old suspect who plowed a van into a crowded Toronto sidewalk was ordered held Tuesday on 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s modern history.

It used to be that right around mid-April Hollywood would roll out the superhero film a la “The Avengers” that starts the blockbuster season.

A four-year effort to organize some 3,800 graduate assistants into a union at Penn State University has failed, with a majority of those casting ballots on three campuses rejecting the idea.

Results are expected to be revealed within hours from a union election held earlier this month covering some 3,800 graduate assistants at Penn State University.

Young adults are always searching for a job that’s satisfying and successful. It’s the same for young people with autism, so new programs are helping them hit the job market running. At the same time, new therapies being tested at the University of Pittsburgh might improve their work experiences.

When bartender Shirl Mahoney retired, she told people the last thing she wanted to do was sit around the house growing old. She was true to her word. When she saw an ad for a 5K race in her town of South Park, she signed up — even though the only running she’d ever done was behind the bar.

Another historic Fort Pitt Boulevard property dating to the 1800s when the Monongahela Wharf was a prime port for river traffic and commerce has hit the market.

Travis Reinking exhibited multiple warning signs that he was mentally unstable: He talked openly about delusions that he was being stalked by Taylor Swift. He insisted unknown people were making barking noises outside his home. He even went to the White House on a mission to talk to the president.

PARIS — Of everything Emmanuel Macron has accomplished in nearly a year as France’s president, one of the most important is seen as his tough-love friendship with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Matt Murray basically can’t lose when it comes to the NHL postseason, as last week he reached 25 career playoff wins in fewer games (36) than any goalie ever.

NEW YORK — If you’ve ever wondered exactly what sorts of things Facebook would like you not to do on its service, you’re in luck. For the first time, the social network is publishing detailed guidelines to what does and doesn’t belong on its service — 27 pages worth of them, in fact.

A three-alarm fire destroyed a former Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District early Tuesday morning.

A three-alarm fire destroyed a former Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District early Tuesday morning.