Новости за 14.03.2017

Romania may not be the easiest place to travel, but for adventurous souls, it’s exceptionally rewarding.

This healthful breakfast skillet is yet another reason to celebrate our country’s current obsession with cauliflower.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police investigating the killing of two teenage girls in northwestern Indiana say they have interviewed more than 300 people and are following up on thousands of tips. Fourteen-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams vanished Feb. 13 while hiking near Delphi, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Their bodies were found the […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The winter storm wreaking havoc in the Northeast has forced postponement of a National Hockey League game and the cancellations of most flights in and out Buffalo as several college basketball teams head in for the start of the NCAA Tournament. Tuesday night’s game between the Winnipeg Jets and New Jersey […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to represent the U.S. in trade negotiations faces Republican senators at his confirmation hearing Tuesday who are more supportive of free trade than he is. Robert Lighthizer is an experienced trade official who has criticized some Republicans for being too pro-free trade. Trump has nominated him to be […]

It was puzzling to read a letter from a reader who felt that inverting the American flag is done out of disrespect when it is an internationally recognized symbol for distress. A nation whose leader mocks disabled people; brags about abusive behavior toward women; is hostile toward our allies and friendly toward those more adversarial […]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Brian Kelly was at Notre Dame’s 5:45 a.m. player workouts this winter, a departure from the past. The Fighting Irish coach spent time with multiple position groups during his program’s first spring practice Wednesday, as opposed to working primarily with the quarterbacks. And he has given his new offensive coordinator […]

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Police and wildlife officials are searching for a tan and yellow monocle cobra that apparently escaped from a Florida home. The Ocala Star-Banner (http://bit.ly/2mVW0E2 ) reports a man was shadowing the snake’s owner so he could get a license to handle poisonous or venomous reptiles and snakes. He was at the […]

The Seahawks have signed free agent running back Eddie Lacy to a one-year contract worth up to $5.5 million.

Scientists have been finding evidence that loud noise — from rock concerts, leaf blowers, power tools and the like — damages our hearing in a previously unsuspected way. It can rob our ability to understand conversation in a noisy setting, says a Harvard researcher.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — This is one cosmically cool sax — and saxophone player. France’s musical astronaut Thomas Pesquet (pes-KAY) is enjoying a special birthday present delivered to him up at the International Space Station. The saxophone arrived in a SpaceX cargo ship on Feb. 23, and his crewmates kept it hidden until his […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price is likely to start the season on the disabled list because of his sore pitching elbow. Starting the second season of a $217 million, seven-year contract, Price has not yet appeared in an exhibition game. “I think at this point, yeah, it would be […]

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has pleaded not guilty to assault and weapons charges after authorities say he pulled a gun on state troopers, prompting them to shoot him. The Kingsport Times-News (http://bit.ly/2lXgFs2 ) reports 39-year-old Richard D. Jenny of Johnson City entered the plea Monday to two counts of aggravated assault and […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say last week’s windstorm in western New York resulted in six deaths, all occurring in the storm’s aftermath. Officials in Monroe County, which includes the city of Rochester, say there were no deaths or serious injuries during the violent weather that struck the region last Wednesday. Winds gusting from 70 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus says it’s exploring strategic alternatives including a possible sale of the company. The announcement Tuesday came as the retailer, which also operates Bergdorf Goodman, reported a loss in its second fiscal quarter that ended Jan. 28 and its sixth consecutive quarterly drop for a key revenue measure. […]

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Bulleit bourbon has reached a milestone in its maturity with the opening of its first distillery. It’s riding the wave of bourbon’s popularity as its parent company — spirits giant Diageo — looks to expand a brand started 30 years ago when Kentuckian Tom Bulleit (BUL’-liht) revived his family’s whiskey recipe. […]

DALLAS (AP) — The New York attorney general says that while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO of Exxon he used an alias in emails to talk about climate change. The attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, made the accusation in a letter to a New York court Monday. He is investigating whether the company deceived […]

TORONTO (AP) — President Donald Trump loomed large in the mind of Mexico City plastic surgeon Rodrigo Munoz as he was deciding where to go for a winter ski vacation. Munoz has skied in Nevada and New Mexico, but what he and many others perceive as Trump’s hostile posture toward Mexico made him seek out […]

Neiman Marcus is in talks with Hudson’s Bay Co., the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, about a buyout of the upscale retailer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The decision comes after a inquest jury found last month that the two white officers believe Che Taylor posed a threat of death or serious injury before he was shot. Taylor's family, unhappy with the decision, repeats its call to change the law on when police can be charged.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When the Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office last week, there were waves of social media messages thanking students at one South Korean university for sparking the historic change. Last summer, months before the public learned about a shadowy adviser behind Park, Ewha Womans University students gathered on […]

BERLIN (AP) — Police in the German capital are appealing for witnesses to help find a cyclist who sprayed at least half a dozen women with liquid, injuring several, in the past three months. Berlin police say the attacks began Dec. 7 and in at least four cases battery acid was sprayed at the women. […]

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Italy’s oil and gas company Eni says the discovery of a huge natural gas deposit in Egyptian waters has boosted hopes of other such finds in the eastern Mediterranean that could help meet Europe’s energy needs. Eni SpA Chief Exploration Officer Luca Bertelli told a gas conference […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Rights groups are urging Thailand’s government to enact legislation banning torture and forced disappearances as its human rights record comes under United Nations review. Tuesday’s review in Geneva by the U.N. Human Rights Committee comes shortly after Thailand’s legislature unanimously ratified a U.N. treaty against forced disappearances. But groups such as Human […]

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police official says a truck loaded with sand toppled over, collapsing a mud shack and killing seven members of an Afghan refugee family living there. Police official Aslam Bokhari says the incident happened on Tuesday in the southwestern city of Quetta. He says the truck was about to unload […]