Новости за 26.04.2017

As the NBA prepares to bring its Basketball Without Borders program to Israel this summer, league officials hope that the first trip to the country can help bring children together during a time of increasing tension. Basketball Without Borders has visited countries across the globe since 2001, using the sport to promote cultural understanding and […]

Florida’s highest court will wait to hear all arguments before deciding if the state’s governor had the right to take away cases from a prosecutor who says her office won’t seek the death penalty. State Attorney Aramis Ayala had asked for an emergency ruling, but the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday denied that request for […]

CLAY, Ky. (AP) — A man has been wounded and an officer injured after the suspect gained control of a police car as authorities investigated a report of possible counterfeit money in western Kentucky. Kentucky State Police say in a statement a trooper shot 30-year-old Alex Harvey on Tuesday after he gained control of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — When Sheila Abdus-Salaam agreed to speak this month at an alumni gathering at Columbia Law School, it was business as usual for someone in demand as the first black woman to serve on New York’s highest court. But only six days before the event at her alma mater, Abdus-Salaam’s success story […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday launched legal action against Hungary over a new higher education law that critics say is aimed at shutting down a university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. European Commission President Valdis Dombrovskis said the EU’s executive arm has sent a “letter of formal notice” to Hungarian Prime […]

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and pursue talks on joint economic projects aimed at a possible breakthrough in their decades-old island dispute. Japanese officials said North Korea is also likely to be discussed given the timing of Abe’s trip, though the […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi paramilitary forces said Wednesday that they have captured Hatra, a 2,000-year-old historical site near the northern city of Mosul, where U.S.-backed forces have been battling the Islamic State group for months. Karim al-Nouri, a spokesman for the state-sanctioned force made up mainly of Shiite militias, told state TV they captured the […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man is facing sentencing in the shooting of five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis. Allen Scarsella could go to prison for more than a decade when he’s sentenced Wednesday. The 25-year-old Bloomington man was convicted of assault and riot after […]

Readers rave about dragon boats, rant about construction street closures.

The Hulu series, based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, is a cautionary tale, a story of resistance and a work of impeccable world-building. It is unflinching, vital and scary as hell.

Think of a frittata as a crust-less quiche, which is great since the crust is the hard part — the rest is just cutting veggies and cracking eggs.

Steaklike portobellos are the ingredient around which this recipe is built.

Amazon.com is sailing toward its first-quarter earnings report with a close-to-record market valuation, as Wall Street bets that the Seattle e-commerce juggernaut will keep showing proof of spectacular growth.

Even if the unthinkable were to happen, state law actually bars Washington’s emergency planners from crafting a plan to specifically address a nuclear attack. The law is a remnant of the end of the Cold War.

The band is having a “Nerd Prom”-themed album release show on Friday, April 28, in Seattle. Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard will be there.

This weekend (April 28-30) also marks the official final days of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

On Friday, Boeing is closing a massive and beloved gym facility near Boeing Field, a former haunt of CEO Dennis Muilenburg that’s heavily used by current and former employees.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Goldblum is returning to the Jurassic Park franchise. The Hollywood Reporter says Goldblum will reprise his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm in next year’s “Jurassic World” sequel. Goldblum played the mathematician in the first two films of the franchise, 1993’s “Jurassic Park” and its 1997 follow-up “The Lost World: Jurassic […]

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The mother of an inmate who fell to his death while fighting with a guard at a Pennsylvania county prison has sued several elevator firms she claims are responsible. The lawsuit filed last week by Kia Bradford, of Colonia, New Jersey, contends the companies are liable for the death of her […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says next year’s induction ceremony is scheduled for April 14 at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland. The Rock Hall is located in Cleveland, but the city hasn’t hosted the induction ceremony since 2015. The event instead has been held in New York. The hall said […]

BEIJING (AP) — China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human outpost on the moon. The secretary general for China’s space agency, Tian Yulong, disclosed the talks Wednesday in Chinese state media. Further details on what the collaboration could entail were not revealed. The European Space Agency, or ESA, has […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hyundai Motor Co. says its first-quarter profit fell 21 percent from a year earlier. The company said Wednesday that its January-March net profit was 1.3 trillion won ($1.2 billion), compared with 1.7 trillion won a year earlier. The result was slightly above the market consensus of 1.22 trillion won. Sales […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has outraged persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television debate that he opposes homosexuality, something his supporters say he had to do to win office in the deeply conservative country. Moon, a liberal candidate and former human rights lawyer, made the comments […]

BOSTON (AP) — The rate at which minorities are subjected to stops, searches and frisks by police doesn’t appear to be improving in Boston in the year since the department claimed it was narrowing racial disparities in their tactics. At least 71 percent of all street level, police-civilian encounters from 2015 through early 2016 involved […]

Former Green Bay teammates Eddie Lacy and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix had some fun on Twitter Tuesday looking ahead to the 2017 regular season opener.