Новости за 18.08.2020

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An attorney representing the state of Florida told a federal appeals court Tuesday the state can legally require felons to fully pay all fines, fees and restitution before allowing them to vote, while attorneys representing some felons argued that constitutes an illegal poll tax and discriminates against the poor.

Former supermodel Cheryl Tiegs has finally sold her superb home in posh Bel-Air for $14.1 million. The L.A. home had been on and off the market for years.

The show will go on for Outside Lands in 2020… digitally.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans turned to Walmart and Home Depot for supplies and do-it-yourself projects as they stayed close to home at a time when new cases of virus surged, resulting in soaring sales for their fiscal second quarter.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mutinous soldiers surround private residence of Mali's president, fire shots into the air, witnesses say.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A father and his two children while out hiking helped rescue a man who was stranded in the Santa Fe National Forest for 14 days.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee plans to install more than a dozen secure drop boxes to make it easier for voters to drop off their absentee ballots before Election Day to combat a “full-scale attack on voting by mail,” Mayor Tom Barrett told Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday.

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) — Three southwest Missourians were charged with first-degree murder after a woman was found shot to death over the weekend and a friend of hers was critically wounded in a separate shooting, authorities said Tuesday.

GRANDVILLE, Mich. (AP) — The football season remains alive for a group of home-schooled teenagers in western Michigan.

CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 18, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Twenty-eight more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19 and 850 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, state health officials said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Aug. 11, 2020, about the racial justice march in Washington planned for Aug. 28, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the National Park Service had issued a permit for the event. The application for the march has been approved but the actual permit has not been issued yet.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. Rep. Don Young, Alaska’s sole representative in the U.S. House since 1973, faces token opposition in the Republican primary Tuesday as he attempts to win a 25th term.

BAGLEY, Minn. (AP) — An 18-year-old woman drowned after pulling several children from turbulent river water below a dam in northwestern Minnesota, authorities said.

As schools prepare to restart in September, Vermont plans to expand child care capacity, including opening regional hubs to serve school-aged children on remote learning days at their schools, Republican Gov. Phil Scott announced Tuesday.

SP, Brazil (AP) _ Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (SBS) on Monday reported second-quarter earnings of $70.5 million.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A woman accused of leaving her two dead infants in separate abandoned cars pleaded no contest on Tuesday to charges including involuntary manslaughter.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued three federal agencies on Monday after six months of no response regarding the closure of the National Archives in Seattle.

WA Current Conditions as of 10:00 AM PDT Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)

Arlington;Cloudy;62;S;3;89%

Bellingham;Mostly cloudy;67;S;15;67%

Bremerton;Mostly cloudy;74;S;3;66%

Chehalis;Cloudy;70;Calm;0;68%

Deer Park;Sunny;81;Calm;0;37%

Eastsound;Mostly sunny;66;S;12;72%

Ellensburg;Partly sunny;68;ESE;5;65%

Ephrata;Partly sunny;79;E;5;37%

Everett;Cloudy;66;SE;1;86%

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and Republican Party groups are suing a third Iowa county, seeking to invalidate thousands of absentee ballot request forms that have been returned by voters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed in a report how associates of the Republican candidate had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin's help.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former Providence police recruit who is Black endured race-based harassment and humiliation at the hands of his instructors at the police academy before he was dismissed based on undeserved demerits, the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

It's going to more difficult to pick up a pair of khakis at the last minute in San Francisco.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska at Kearney is looking to draw more out-of-state students by offering them in-state tuition.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan city and a business group have agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit over the handcuffing of a 7-year-old boy at an after-school program in 2015.