Новости за 26.04.2017

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration hosted senators for an extraordinary White House briefing today at a perilous moment with North Korea, marked by the unpredictable nation’s nuclear threats and stern talk of military action, if necessary, from the United States.

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby and his delegates are speaking out in select media interviews a month before jury selection starts in his Pennsylvania sex assault trial.

NEW YORK — Stock indexes wobbled between modest gains and losses today, as the White House unveiled broad outlines of its plan to slash tax rates but left many of the details to be determined.

St. Luke’s Hospital unveiled today a new germ-killing robot that destroys infection-causing bacteria and virus cells using beams of light.

A federal grand jury today indicted two local pastors on charges involving child sex trafficking and production of child pornography.

NEW YORK — A Fox News Channel anchor who is black has joined a racial discrimination lawsuit against his company, saying today that the network marginalized him and has little interest in promoting diversity.

BERKELEY, Calif. — Ann Coulter said in an email today that her speaking event planned for this week at the University of California, Berkeley is “canceled” but implied she might still travel to the city or campus anyway.

U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R., Bowling Green) said today he has updated northwest Ohio boards of election on his investigation into the U.S. Postal Service’s slow or failed delivery of absentee voter ballots in the 2016 election.

A 16-year-old Toledo boy is recovering from a shooting today inside a North Toledo home.

Police are searching for a man believed to be responsible for two bank robberies today, officials said.

BOWLING GREEN — A rapidly shared Facebook post by a Bowling Green State University student who criticized what she says is the university’s flawed handling of her reported rape prompted the university to issue a statement in response today.

BOWLING GREEN — The Toledo man facing charges stemming from an apparent foot fetish will likely have his competency evaluated.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys for accused arsonist Ray Abou-Arab finished individual questioning of prospective jurors about 11:30 a.m. today.

LOS ANGELES  — Jeff Goldblum is returning to the Jurassic Park franchise.

MILAN — Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles reported today that its first-quarter earnings rose by more than a third mainly due to an improved performance in Europe and by its luxury Maserati brand.

For all the talk about Pope Francis' techno-savvy — and 10 million Twitter followers ain't bad for a 80-year-old churchman — he doesn't seem sold on Silicon Valley's endless promises.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed dramatic cuts in corporate and personal taxes today in an overhaul his administration asserts will spur national economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to America’s middle class. But his ambitious plan is alarming lawmakers who worry it will balloon federal deficits.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is proposing tax cuts for individuals and businesses even as Washington struggles with mounting debt and the populist president tries to make good on promises to bring jobs and prosperity to the middle class.

SAN FRANCISCO — For the third time in two months, a federal judge has knocked down an immigration order by President Trump and used Trump’s own language against him.

CHICAGO — A man accused of luring an off-duty Chicago police officer to a South Side alley and shooting him to death in 2010 has been found guilty of first-degree murder.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel coming near it in the Persian Gulf, an American official said today, the latest tense naval encounter between the two countries.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hours after a display of North Korean military power, rival South Korea announced today the installation of key parts of a contentious U.S. missile defense system meant to counter the North.

LONDON — The woman who took the British government to court in a successful bid to win Parliament a vote on Brexit is now urging voters to back pro-EU candidates at the ballot box.

HONG KONG — Hong Kong police today arrested two pro-independence lawmakers who were disqualified in a dispute over their oaths, in the latest round of legal action against activists involved in the Chinese territory’s pro-democracy movement.

PARIS — French police have arrested 10 people in an investigation of suspected suppliers of weapons to one of the attackers who killed 17 people at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher store in January 2015, the Paris prosecutors’ office said today.