Новости за 29.01.2020

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana school district will provide early retirement incentives to about 40 veteran teachers to combat an anticipated budget deficit of more than $1 million, district officials said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Sanders is approaching next week’s Iowa caucuses in a position to become the first major-party Jewish presidential nominee in the nation’s history. And at a time of resurgent anti-Semitism, he’s talking in more depth about how his faith shapes his broader worldview.

Center Kevon Looney, who has missed the past 17 games with left abdominal soreness, fully practiced for the third time in a week Wednesday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dozens of teachers returned to the Statehouse on Wednesday to remind lawmakers they have their own ideas about how to reform education, a debate that continues to drag on in the legislature.

Ex-Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles has finally completed the sale of his oceanfront abode in Jacksonville Beach, FL, for $1.7 million.

In his annual “state of the league” address, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell conceded that the Rooney Rule, intended to increase diversity in coaching and front office hires, is not working

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The publicly funded reward for information leading to an arrest in the murder of Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre has been increased to $200,000, making it the largest reward in county history, authorities said.

More major airlines worldwide are slashing or even eliminating their flights into China this week as fears of coronavirus continue to spread, with one leading airline analyst saying this week that “the bottom has quickly fallen out” of the U.S.-to-China travel market.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump signed a revamped trade agreement with Mexico and Canada into law Wednesday, he kept a campaign pledge to improve upon a deal that he had long condemned.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's state prison population has dropped below 25,000 for the first time in more than a decade, but the system is still overcrowded.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has completed 34 of the forest thinning projects it rushed to finish in the past year as a way to buffer 200 communities at high risk from wildfires, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man who is suspected of ramming into a Wichita home with three children and three adults inside during a domestic disturbance.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats.

AL-KASSARAT, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians have furiously rejected President Donald Trump's plan to end the Mideast conflict, which would grant them limited autonomy in parts of the Middle East, while allowing Israel to annex its West Bank settlements and keep nearly all of east Jerusalem.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee prosecutors have enough evidence to try a 62-year-old white man accused of throwing acid on a Latino man's face during a racist attack that's being prosecuted as a hate crime, a judge ruled Wednesday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state prison in Alabama's troubled corrections system will be largely shut down because of infrastructure problems that were the culmination of years of neglect, the state prison commissioner announced Wednesday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state court judge Wednesday put on hold a decision that would have allowed an effort to recall Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy to move to a new signature-gathering phase, a stay intended to provide time for the Alaska Supreme Court to weigh in.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is joining a consulting firm founded by an attorney who had been his chief of staff.

NEW YORK (AP) — One woman testified that Harvey Weinstein led her to a New York City hotel bed, put his hand up her skirt and fondled her genitals during a 2004 meeting about her fledgling acting career.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles firefighters rescued terrified residents from the rooftop of a 25-story high-rise apartment building where a windswept fire broke out on a sixth-floor balcony and sent choking smoke billowing through the upper levels Wednesday morning. One person was critically injured, authorities said.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A House Democrat on Wednesday urged lawmakers to put a constitutional measure on Kentucky's ballot to automatically restore voting rights for felons who have completed their sentences.

On Tuesday night's show, Kimmel sent a producer down to the pier to interview fans wearing 49ers gear about their Super Bowl excitement and their loyalty to the 49ers. Unbeknownst to the fans, the producer then sprung a trap.

HUD chief Ben Carson is committed to tackling the affordable housing crisis afflicting the country. His first step? A nationwide bus tour.

Jimmy Garoppolo has not been a member of the New England Patriots since October 2017, but still receives text messages from his former head coach Bill Belichick.