Новости за 04.03.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man repeatedly traveled to the Middle East to try to join the Islamic State or another extremist group and later told authorities he’d been prepared to strap on a bomb to sacrifice himself for jihad, prosecutors said Saturday. And when police on suburban Long Island arrested Elvis Redzepagic […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A recently unsealed search warrant shows police have suspects in the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old Milwaukee girl last year, but authorities are still seeking evidence to bring charges in her death. Za’layia Jenkins was inside a relative’s home on the night of May 5 when she was hit by a bullet […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials say more than two dozen aircraft have violated airspace restrictions near President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida. The Sun Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2mE0Iqv ) that last month, the Federal Aviation Administration reported 27 violations of the airspace restrictions near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. In one instance, Air […]

WARWICK, Mass. (AP) — Some children were among the five people unaccounted for after a fire broke out early Saturday at a home in the northwestern Massachusetts town of Warwick, authorities said. Two family members escaped the blaze, which broke out in the single-family home at about 12:45 a.m., the state fire marshal’s office said. […]

EMERSON, Manitoba (AP) — Canada is enforcing border laws and is willing to put more resources in place to deal with the influx of asylum-seekers from the United States, federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Saturday. Goodale visited Emerson, Manitoba, a small border town that has seen some 200 illicit crossings so far this […]

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he doesn’t even have a good idea what the Republican health care plan will be. At a rowdy town hall Saturday, Graham reminded the 1,000 people who packed a theater at Clemson University he is vehemently against a single-payer plan. Graham says the health care plan […]

Kent police are looking for a gunman who allegedly walked onto a man’s driveway and shot him, saying “go back to your own country.”

PARIS (AP) — French presidential candidate Francois Fillon, fighting for political survival, has called on supporters not to “abdicate” to those trying to destroy him as the Socialist mayor of Paris asked him to cancel a scheduled rally. The conservative Fillon, whose campaign has been unraveling over impending corruption charges, vowed to remake France in […]

Washington receiver John Ross set a record in the 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine Saturday.

PARIS (AP) — It was designer Elie Saab’s first collection since his coup of dressing Meryl Streep for the Oscars following the actress’ high-profile spat with Chanel. The deep blue embellishments of Streep’s lauded Oscars gown were picked up again in Saturday’s fall-winter Paris show, inspired by the magical, romantic ballet Giselle. Meanwhile, Paris Fashion […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials said that an aircraft believed to belong to the Syrian military crashed near the Turkey-Syria border Saturday, with the Syrian opposition claiming to Turkish media they were responsible for shooting the plane down. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters that “we have information that a MIG model plane belonging to […]

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Smuttynose Brewing Company is helping the University of New Hampshire mark its 150th anniversary with a new ale. Called 1866, the year UNH was founded, the session ale will be for sale and on tap throughout the seacoast region starting March 13. The university is launching a new minor in brewing […]

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police have found body of a man in the central city of Multan with chained feet, tied hands, and wearing a Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuit. Police officer Gul Mohammad said Saturday that the body found near a state-owned television station with gunshot wounds to the head. The body was identified as […]

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Officials say they’re on schedule to open the new home base for the U.S. government’s “hurricane hunter” aircraft before the Atlantic hurricane season begins. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s planes are specially equipped to collect forecasting data as they fly in and around tropical storms and hurricanes. The agency’s aircraft […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The sound of howling dogs filled downtown Anchorage on Saturday as mushers from around the world gathered for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. About 2,000 dogs belonging to 72 mushers are waiting their turn to hit the trail this year. The race spans nearly 1,000 miles […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thirteen boxes of emails from Vice President Mike Pence’s term as Indiana governor have been turned over to state government, about two months after an earlier attempt didn’t work, a spokesman said. Attorneys for Pence delivered the emails Thursday to be archived for public review as required under Indiana law, the Indianapolis […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan has sharply increased the cost required for foreigners to work in the country — from roughly $100 to up to $10,000 — just days after famine was declared there. Even before the fee hike, the government had been repeatedly accused of restricting humanitarian aid access during the country’s three-year […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Supporters of President Donald Trump are convening near Trump Tower, the Washington Monument and several other places around the country in marches to show their pride in his presidency. Saturday’s “March 4 Trump” demonstrations are also intended to show unity in the face of what organizers call “a seditious fringe” aiming […]

On paper at least, this first season opener on the road in Sounders history would appear the perfect way to ease a banged-up squad into action. The defending MLS champions face Houston, which was last in the Western Conference last season.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — North Korean weapons barred by U.N. sanctions ended up in the hands of U.N. peacekeepers in Africa, a confidential report says. That incident and others in more than a half-dozen African nations show how North Korea, despite facing its toughest sanctions in decades, continues to avoid them on the world’s most impoverished […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister says the government has expelled the North Korean ambassador over Kim Jong Nam killing.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing former President Barack Obama of having Trump’s telephones “wire tapped” during last year’s election, but Trump isn’t offering any evidence or saying what prompted the allegation. Trump says in a series of tweets that he “just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — U.S. and Canadian scientists are planning to spend the next five years studying flooding on Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River, which drains the lake north into Quebec, and whether methods can be developed to control future flooding. Besides studying the causes of past floods, particularly the historic floods in 2011, […]

HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — A local newspaper called it this little Ohio city’s “lost year.” It was a year of subpoenas, search warrants, depositions and whispers. Hillsboro’s mayor, a standup comedian long before he became a politician, was the focus of it all. Drew Hastings, who has appeared on Comedy Central and “The Tonight Show” […]

DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time — and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant government back together again in an increasingly polarized landscape. The big winner from Saturday’s final results to fill the Northern Ireland Assembly is […]