Новости за 28.01.2020

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to a launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program.

A three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Miami was crowned the "Ugliest House of the Year" for 2019. The house was rehabbed by broker Rick Tobchi.

BEIRUT — The Islamic State’s self-styled “caliphate” across parts of Iraq and Syria seemed largely defeated last year, with the loss of its territory, the killing of its founder in a U.S. raid and an unprecedented crackdown on its social media propaganda machine.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pompeo's battle with National Public Radio and tweeted out more media criticism, one target familiar and the other less so.

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who will oppose the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, won the Kansas City Chiefs over well before becoming an NFL MVP.

TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY

URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE

National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX

239 PM CST Tue Jan 28 2020

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON

CST WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 25 knots with gusts up to 30 knots

expected.

* WHERE...Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas out 20

NM, Coastal... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the social safety net program signed into law by President Ronald Reagan that reduced benefits and increased taxes on working families.

BERLIN (AP) — A man confirmed as Germany's first case of the new virus that emerged in central China is believed to have been infected by a Chinese colleague who visited his workplace, authorities said. Another three cases were confirmed later Tuesday, all connected to the first.

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — A 23-year-old Louisiana man has agreed to a plea deal in the double slaying of a mother and daughter that was sparked by a dispute over custody of his children.

There was no voice recorder in the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas, Los Angeles County, on Sunday, killing the NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people who were on their way to a basketball tournament, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration's release of its Mideast peace plan (all times local):

Wheat for Mar. was off 2.50 cents at 5.6975 a bushel; Mar. corn was up 5.50 cents at 3.8650 a bushel, Mar. oats rose 6.50 cents at $3.07 a bushel; while Mar. soybeans fell 2.25 cents at $8.95 a bushel.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they will not retry a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge on some charges thrown out by a federal appeals court in what authorities said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center.

TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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805 FPUS54 KSHV 282026 AAA

ZFPSHV

Zone Forecasts...UPDATED

National Weather Service Shreveport LA

226 PM CST Tue Jan 28 2020

TXZ096-291515-

Red River-

Including the cities of Clarksville and Bogata

226 PM CST Tue Jan 28 2020

.TONIGHT...Showers and isolated thunderstorms in the evening,

then a chance of showers after midnight. Cloudy. Lows in the mid

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AUGUSTA, Manie (AP) — The chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court used her annual State of the Judiciary address to lawmakers Tuesday to press for more funding for courthouse security and higher wages for the state's judges.

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — An elementary school student in the City of Beloit brought a loaded handgun to school Tuesday, police said.

VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A judge has rejected the request of a Connecticut man charged with killing his wife to keep evidence about his wife’s Fitbit out of his murder trial.

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — The rapper Afroman famously sang about how getting high on marijuana prevented him from going to court. A Tennessee man decided to combine the two when he lit a marijuana cigarette in the courtroom, authorities said.

NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Norwich University, the nation's oldest private military college, named an Air Force colonel as its next president on Tuesday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence touted alternatives to a public school education during a visit Tuesday to the state where the private school voucher program began, stopping in battleground Wisconsin for a noontime celebration in the state Capitol.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters may have the opportunity to choose between competing tax increase measures to boost school funding in November.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gun rights would be expanded at churches and other places of worship and for local government officials who want to carry firearms at meetings under two bills approved by a House committee Tuesday.

The scene of many drama-fueled moments between "Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and estranged girlfriend Jen Harley is now available for $870,000.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee girl who showed up at school with bruises allegedly was beaten by her father later in the day after officials sent her home, police said.

Due to rapid decline in demand for travel to China, United Airlines announced today that it will suspend flights to Hong Kong and Shanghai from San Francisco International Airport beginning February 1 through February 8. For now, the airline will cancel 24 flights during that week and says that it will monitor the situation and will make further adjustments as needed.