Новости за 20.04.2018

An investigation into NFL teams’ bizarre questioning of prospects during the Combine has now turned on the player who launched it. Former LSU running back Derrius Guice is one of four potential first-round draft picks facing scrutiny for off-the-field issues, NFL.com reported, after he apparently walked back his story about a team surprising him with...

Adrien Broner was in his own world. Ahead of Saturday’s welterweight fight against Jessie Vargas at Barclays Center, a main event that could help get his boxing career back on track or send it further spiraling, the four-division world champion delivered this performance: Broner spent the first 20 minutes of Thursday’s press conference in Brooklyn...

It’s always risky using a time jump as a plot device — but the new season of The CW’s “The 100” pulls it off. “We take a lot of chances, and sometimes we hit and sometimes we miss,” says showrunner Jason Rothenberg. “But the fact that it was a risk — a bold choice —...

“I don’t do plays by dead guys,” Dan Lauria says with a laugh, and he’s not joking: These days, the actor, who famously played the father in TV’s “The Wonder Years,” performs only works by living playwrights. The latest is Shem Bitterman’s “The Stone Witch,” in which Lauria, 71, plays a children’s book writer, which...

"When you or I were kids, we would pull out the Sharpie and try to get celebrities to sign something," Cameo CEO Steven Galanis said. "Today everyone wants to take a selfie with them."

Matt Harvey is fighting for his spot in the Mets’ rotation after three straight lackluster starts, as Jason Vargas nears a potential return from the disabled list. The former Mets ace was roughed up for six runs in the first three innings against the Braves on Thursday before pitching three scoreless frames. Even so, Harvey...

Political scribe: Dems’ Stormy Daniels Problem James Comey, Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen “represent an inescapable threat to Republicans” come November’s midterm elections, suggests Ronald Brownstein at The Atlantic. But they also “pose a challenge for Democrats, too.” Because the intense media attention they attract is keeping the Dems’ economic message from “breaking through.” Besides,...

Once upon a time, Disney handed Howard Ashman and Alan Menken an amazing — and terrifying — opportunity. “We were hired basically to help reinvent animation,” Menken tells The Post of that offer, made in the mid-’80s. “Our assignment was to create works that could sit on the shelf with the classics.” Chances are the...

Aimee Stanton isn’t what most people picture when they think of a plumber. The 24-year-old is Australia’s “hottest plumber,” and defies stereotypes by looking good while getting dirty doing her job.

"Scarface" had a 35th anniversary reunion at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The aliens have landed. Well, one of them has — and it’s on the Met’s roof. Huma Bhabha’s installation, “We Come in Peace,” is this year’s museum-topper. If that title sounds familiar, it should: It’s straight out of the 1951 sci-fi classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Like all the rooftop works preceding it,...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Four young men pleaded not guilty Friday to criminal charges in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge. Matthew Alexander Naquin, 20, of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, was arraigned on a negligent homicide charge in the September 2017 death of 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver, a freshman from Roswell, Georgia....

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SYCAMORE, Ill. — A northern Illinois judge has convicted a DeKalb man of beating and stabbing his girlfriend to death and then hiding her body in a closet. DeKalb County Judge Robbin Stuckert found 22-year-old Michael G. Kulpin guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and other charges in the June 2016 killing of 19-year-old Moorea Des...

These stars wound up alone in the delivery room.

GEORGETOWN, Mass. — A Massachusetts family is looking for a new preschool for their 4-year-old daughter because her current school has barred use of the term “best friend.” Christine Hartwell says her daughter, Julia, appeared sad recently when she came home from the Pentucket Workshop Preschool in Georgetown. The little girl told her mother she...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Prison officials in Maryland say an inmate hanged himself in his cell hours after he was publicly linked to a decades-old disappearance. Fifty-one-year-old Fernando Asturizaga was declared a “person of interest” last week in the 2000 disappearance of Alison Thresher. She was a copy editor at the Washington Post, and Asturizaga babysat...

Anthony Bourdain opened up about the #MeToo movement and shared some advice for actor and comedian Alec Baldwin.

Jonathan Scott announced his split from fianceé Jacinta Kuznetsov earlier this month.

A British Airways pilot allegedly four times over the drink-fly limit has been charged after he was hauled off a plane. Julian Monaghan, 49, was arrested in January and led from the Boeing 777 in handcuffs after fellow crew members reportedly noticed he stank of booze. Airline colleagues called 999 — the UK’s version of...

Last year’s exciting, brutal “Westworld” season finale featured Maeve Millay’s (Thandie Newton) escape from the theme park. Viewers thrilled to the prospect of Maeve, a “host” who figured out how her behavior was being masterminded by Ford (Anthony Hopkins) and his employees, turning the tables on her oppressors and getting out. Then a strange thing...

YouTube has been accused of showing ads from multi-national companies on channels promoting extremism, Nazis and even pedophilia. The likes of Adidas, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and Under Armour are among the 300 firms who unwittingly helped these channels, a CNN investigation revealed. Other channels found to be running high-quality commercials from as many as 300...

"I was like, 'Man, it's Sarah Jessica Parker, yeah I'm definitely super interested,'" he recalled.

A little more than a year after working at the MillerCoors brewery, Trevor Richards will go to work Friday night at Miller Park to face the Brewers. The Marlins pitcher is set to make his fourth career major-league start in the city where he worked a side job while trying to keep his baseball dreams...

JOHANNESBURG — Breathe easy, Switzerland: The tiny African kingdom of Swaziland is changing its name. King Mswati III announced it during celebrations of the 50th anniversary of independence and his 50th birthday. It appears to be as easy as that, as the king is an absolute monarch. Many African countries upon independence “reverted to their...