Новости за 13.07.2017

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs found the pitching help they were looking for just a few miles from Wrigley Field. They hope it will give the scuffling team the kick it needs.

WASHINGTON  — The Education Department’s top civil rights official’s “flippant” remarks are raising questions about the government’s commitment to fighting campus sexual violence, even as she issued her second apology in as many days for attributing 90 percent of sexual assault claims to both parties being drunk.

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Thursday said she believed the risks concerning inflation are “two-sided,” stressing that price gains could both accelerate or slow down.

ADRIAN — An Adrian man has been charged with breaking into a home and killing another man.

The Soldier’s Creed includes the passage: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.”

MONROE — Leannda Bruck evoked memories of an average family before Chelsea, the youngest of five children, disappeared following a 2014 Halloween party.

Band/act: Noisy Neighbors

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, characterizing it as standard campaign practice and maintaining that “nothing happened” as a result of the June sit-down.

ATLANTA — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being treated for dehydration in Canada, where he’s helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity.

LONDON — All these years later, Wimbledon still brings out the best in Venus Williams.

GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — This summer's western Lake Erie algal bloom is expected to be the third or fourth largest on record since NASA began aerial surveillance in 2002, and — barring unusually strong northeasterly winds or unforeseen biological factors within the lake — should not keep Toledo and other shoreline communities from continuing to produce high-quality tap water, officials said Thursday.

Toledo's finance officials violated state accounting laws for years by co-mingling funds, avoided fixing the accounting problem in an effort to prevent a negative mark from the Ohio Auditor, and tried as recently as last month to continue using that accounting maneuver.

LOS ANGELES — “Saturday Night Live,” powered by madcap skits skewering the Trump administration, earned 22 Emmy Award nominations, including bids for Alec Baldwin’s florid portrayal of the president and Melissa McCarthy’s manic, gender-busting take on press secretary Sean Spicer.

WASHINGTON — In a high-stakes bid for conservative support, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to demands from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to allow insurers to sell low-cost, skimpier plans as part of a new but still-reeling health care bill he was releasing Thursday, GOP aides said.

NEW YORK — Authorities in New York have brought charges against 14 people they say were involved in a $147 million stock scheme.

CINCINNATI — A supervisor for an Indiana woman killed during a mass shooting at a gender reveal party in Ohio said the last thing he told her before she left work Friday for a weekend wedding was “be safe.”

A Toledo man who shot his former girlfriend to death was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison.

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Trump administration has denied a request from Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for a “major disaster declaration” to help cover some of the estimated $38 million cost to police protests of the Dakota Access pipeline.

SHENYANG, China — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent political prisoner, died Thursday at a hospital in the country’s northeast, officials said. He was 61.

An ATM was stolen Thursday from a South Toledo gas station during a vehicle smash and grab incident.

KENT, Ohio — Two Ohio college students are set for an epic Tinder date in Hawaii that’s been three years in the making.

A North Toledo man who was stabbed Wednesday at a Point Place residence has been identified.

WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week, as the number of people seeking benefits has stayed near historic lows pointing to a robust job market.

LONDON — There’s no divorce without paperwork.

PARIS —French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday it is “obvious and indispensable” to have exchanges with U.S. President Donald Trump as the two leaders were set to meet to try to push past major differences and find common ground on security, defense and other issues.