Новости за 30.03.2017

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former punk-rocker who needed a hefty upset to win his congressional seat six years ago will have to pull off an even bigger one to unseat powerful Sen. Ted Cruz. Beto O’Rourke, a 44-year-old Democrat from the remote West Texas city of El Paso, has advocated for legalizing marijuana and […]

Hollywood’s megabudgeted live-action take on the anime franchise is a muddied, overbusy mess. Rating: 2 stars out of 4.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The attorney for an Oklahoma police officer accused in the shooting death of a black man says a potentially “prejudicial” audio recording should be barred from trial because it’s inflammatory. Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby is charged with first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16 killing of Terence Crutcher. Shelby has pleaded […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Bill rolling back North Carolina’s contentious LGBT law passes General Assembly and heads to governor, who supports it.

DETROIT (AP) — An Ohio man says Detroit rap-metal group the Insane Clown Posse and member Joseph Bruce used a poem he wrote without his consent. Stanley Gebhardt filed the copyright infringement suit Tuesday in federal court in Detroit. It seeks monetary damages and asks a judge to force Bruce and the group to stop […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A state appeals court has ruled that civilian complaints made to a police watchdog agency about the white officer involved in the chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner should not be made public. An earlier court ruled that the Civilian Complaint Review Board records of Officer Daniel Pantaleo could […]

The U.S. software giant is launching a new lab in Munich — following openings in Redmond and Shenzhen, China — for customers investing in the so-called internet of Things (IoT), the idea that everything from refrigerators to industrial robots will be connected to the internet.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cable television’s Spike network will be transformed into the Paramount network early next year, introducing new series with stars to include Alicia Silverstone and Michael Shannon.    In its announcement Thursday, owner Viacom billed the rebranded network as “a prime destination for premium storytelling.” Spike, launched in 2003, has focused on young […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has submitted a vague set of guidelines to Congress for renegotiating the North American Free Agreement with Mexico and Canada, disappointing those who wanted a major overhaul of a decades-old trade deal that Trump described as “disaster” during the presidential campaign. In an eight-page draft letter to Congress, acting […]

White House threats against cities are putting America's economic engine in danger.

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Residents in the Texas town of New Braunfels are grieving for 13 senior adults who were killed as they returned home from a church retreat. Authorities said Thursday that the First Baptist Church members who died in the Wednesday crash ranged in age from 61 to 87. They were returning […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say President Donald Trump has given the U.S. military greater authority to go after al-Qaida linked militants in Somalia. The officials say Trump’s decision approves a Pentagon request to allow more aggressive airstrikes in the African nation’s southern region. It also allows American forces to increase assistance to the Somali […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, a new survey shows Americans mostly disapprove of his overall performance but are more upbeat about his handling of the economy. The poll was conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research amid the collapse of the GOP’s health care overhaul. It found that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the labor and agriculture departments and moved the new administration closer to filling the final pair of empty seats in his Cabinet. In back-to-back tallies just off the Senate floor, two committees sent the nominations of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator facing a tough re-election is warning her party there is a political risk in voting to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who says she is torn over how to vote, highlighted the dilemma for Democratic senators running next year in states that Trump […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal officials have decided to keep in place many of the corrective measures they ordered in December after a pipeline spilled about 530,000 gallons of oil in western North Dakota, which was one of the biggest spills in the state’s history. The March 24 decision from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials […]

LONDON (AP) — Roger Daltrey says “a dead dog” would have beaten Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. The Who’s legendary front man tells the British music news website NME that President Donald Trump “really didn’t win” the election because Democrats “threw it away.” The British singer also is speaking in favor of his […]

The library’s directors say Gary Wasdin, who has served in the position for two years, announced his resignation after violating the code of conduct. The nature of the violation was not immediately clear.

NEW YORK (AP) — Some believe you haven’t really made it in comedy until you’ve landed a one-hour stand-up special. If that’s true, then “Saturday Night Live” writer and comedian Sasheer Zamata has officially, made it. Zamata, a former member of the Upright Citizens Brigade who plays a mean Beyonce and Rihanna on NBC’s “SNL,” […]

PARIS (AP) — A UNESCO-backed Paris exhibition exploring the psychology behind racism aims to shed light on why racist acts in France are on the rise, and to educate against prejudice. “We and the Others, Prejudices of Racism,” which opens Friday to the French public at Paris’ Museum of Mankind, comes at a prescient moment […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A rebel in charge of communications for warlord Joseph Kony has surrendered to Ugandan forces, the military said Thursday, shortly after the U.S. indicated it was pulling out of the international manhunt for one of Africa’s most notorious fugitives. Michael Omona’s surrender to Ugandan forces in neighboring Central African Republic “shows […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Eight coaches of a passenger train derailed in northern India on Thursday, injuring at least 38 people, officials said. The coaches of the Mahakaushal Express train fell off the tracks in Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh state, said Indian Railways spokesman Anil Saxena. Railway police and engineers were investigating the cause, […]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A mother faces multiple charges after police say she showed up at a South Florida high school to confront her daughter’s rival. Miami Gardens police officers wrote in an arrest report that 30-year-old Ernstlatta LaFrance knocked a cellphone out of a Carol City high School student’s hand and hit her. […]

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Nicaraguan man hanged himself in his cell after spending about three months in custody at a Southern California immigrant detention facility. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 32-year-old Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba was taken to the hospital March 22 after he had hanged himself at a detention center in Adelanto. […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The FBI has reportedly recovered a 1919 Norman Rockwell painting stolen more than 40 years ago from a New Jersey home. The painting, sometimes called “Lazybones” or “Boy Asleep with Hoe,” graced the cover of the Sept. 6, 1919, edition of the Saturday Evening Post. The oil-on-canvas piece was among several items […]