Новости за 19.02.2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You don't have to thank James Burrows, given that Jennifer Aniston, Ted Danson and Jim Parsons are lavishing him with praise and gratitude.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Big 12 has bragged the past few years that it's the toughest conference in college basketball, and its brutal double-round robin format has consistently produced st…

NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young peo…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is firing back at Apple for refusing to help unlock a phone used by one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino attack.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on ceremonies at the Supreme Court paying tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead Saturday (all times local):

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jim Davenport, a longtime third baseman for the San Francisco Giants who later managed the team and worked in the front office, has died. He was 82.

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida is about to be invaded by Jedis and stormtroopers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Foreign film Oscar contender "Mustang" is a Turkish-language film from a Turkish-born director that was filmed in Turkey and tells a distinctly Turkish story with Turkish ac…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the massive influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's security forces used strong-arm tactics in the middle of an election Friday, arresting the main opposition candidate, beating protest…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge on Friday sent the Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck to adult court, raising the possibility that he could get ja…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Dodgers and reliever Louis Coleman have agreed to a $725,000, one-year contract.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A spokesman for Pope Francis insisted Friday the pontiff was "in no way" launching an attack on Donald Trump, a U.S. presidential candidate, nor was he trying to sway voter…

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic will roll out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 acc…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Abby Johnston is not only an Olympic diving silver medallist, she's also a second-year medical student who's been studying Zika from afar.

BEIRUT (AP) — In another setback to international efforts to resolve Syria's devastating civil war, peace talks are not to resume next week in Geneva, a U.N. envoy announced as Turkey on Frida…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech industry is starting to line up with Apple in its fight against the federal government over the encryption it uses to keep iPhones secure.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish president Lech Walesa on Friday denied claims that he collaborated with communist-era secret police for money in the 1970s.

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say Illinois basketball player Leron Black has been jailed on suspicion of threatening a campus-bar bouncer with a knife.

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization's Zika response team is predicting that Brazil will host a "fantastic Olympics" and that the mosquito-borne virus will be "way down" by …

Lynn Arlet Cowdrey Sr., 79, of Brownsville died Wednesday, Feb. 17. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced on Friday it is halting deals worth $4 billion aimed at equipping and supporting Lebanese security forces in retaliation for the tiny country's siding with…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian law enforcement agencies clashed in court Friday in a case blaming the billionaire owner of the nation's biggest airport for alleged safety violations that officials say …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Three Palestinian attackers were killed in separate assaults on Israeli forces on Friday, including a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City that left two Israeli officers wo…

WESTON, Mo. (AP) — Firefighters are dousing hotspots at the site of a northwest Missouri grass fire that damaged up to 1,500 acres of land and briefly spawned a so-called "fire tornado."