Новости за 26.01.2017

WASHINGTON — The former head of President Donald Trump’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency says he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts.

MIAMI — The man suspected of the shooting at a South Florida airport that left five people dead and six wounded has been formally indicted by a federal grand jury.

The U.S. Senate race in Ohio is beginning to warm up with the airing of political action committee TV ads that urge viewers to call Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and tell him to support one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks.

WASHINGTON — A number of senior career diplomats are leaving the State Department after the Trump administration accepted their resignations from presidentially appointed positions.

A series of potent winter storms that lashed Northern, and more recently Southern California, has erased the worst of the long-term drought that plagued the Golden State for three years.

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump today rallied fellow Republicans who control the White House and Congress for the first time in more than a decade, telling lawmakers they will be busier than they have been in decades helping him implement a broad agenda.

PHILADELPHIA— Britain “absolutely” condemns the use of torture, Prime Minister Theresa May said today — and she says she’s not afraid to tell that to U.S. President Donald Trump when she meets him in Washington.

SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods won’t have to wait long to see how his game stacks up with the best in golf.

BEIRUT — The Trump administration’s expressed interest in setting up safe zones for civilians in Syria was greeted today with caution by Russia and Turkey, which have taken the lead in the latest peace efforts to end the Mideast country’s devastating six-year war.

WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists reset their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” to its closest time to midnight in 64 years today, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trump's election as U.S. president.

NEW ORLEANS — Federal prosecutors say two owners of psychological service companies have been convicted in an $8.9 million Medicare fraud scheme that billed Medicare for unnecessary or nonexistent tests on nursing home patients in four Gulf Coast states.

DETROIT — Volkswagen’s efforts to do right by owners who unknowingly purchased cars and SUVs that cheat on emissions tests have run into some speed bumps.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — Four teenage boys have been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a storage closet at a northeast Ohio high school.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River.

Jurors hearing the case of Timothy and Esten Ciboro were shown home videos today of the two men with two young children running a race, jogging at a park, and opening presents on Christmas morning.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said today he will not attend a planned Jan. 31 meeting with President Donald J. Trump, hours after Trump tweeted that the meeting should be canceled if Mexico won’t pay for a border wall.

FOSTORIA — Two teens have been arrested in the Wednesday stabbing death of an 18-year-old Fostoria man.

COLUMBUS—A federal magistrate judge today blocked Ohio’s plan to resume carrying out executions next month using a new three-drug process that, he said, could subject the condemned to cruel and unusual punishment.

CLEVELAND — The driver accused in the fatal hit-and-run of a Cleveland patrolman kept his hands clasped in front of his face today while a judge set a $500,000 bond in Cleveland Municipal Court.

A man with a gun robbed a gas station in East Toledo late Wednesday, authorities said.

CLEVELAND — Police in Cleveland are investigating a shooting that left two men dead on the northeast Ohio city’s east side.

XENIA, Ohio — Two brothers have been arrested in a double fatal shooting in southwestern Ohio.

COLUMBUS — Former Senate President Keith Faber has been captured on canvas.

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VIENNA — Austrian authorities say they have arrested eight people on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization through possible connections to the Islamic State group.