Новости за 03.06.2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has withdrawn from consideration for a position at the Justice Department. News outlets reported in March that George Conway was President Donald Trump’s pick to head the civil division of the department. He was never nominated for a job. In a statement, Conway thanked […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a judge to deny requests from former Illinois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock to throw out his corruption case. Prosecutors say Schock’s reasons for dismissing the charges against him are “meritless.” They made their argument in a filing late Friday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Illinois. Prosecutors have accused […]

By Colin Moynihan Dale Chihuly, the artist whose show of 20 glass art installations is on display spread across the 250 acres of the New York Botanical Garden, used a group of unpaid assistants for 15 years to create works that were attributed solely to him, a man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Friday […]

New Seahawks running back Eddie Lacy said he thinks weight clauses the team added to his contract are a positive challenge.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities say an American Airlines plane veered off of a runway at the San Antonio airport during takeoff and is stuck in the mud. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says American Airlines Flight 2214 veered off the edge of the runway at San Antonio International Airport Saturday morning shortly after […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A truckload of pigs wasn’t ready to become bacon, despite being parked in the hot sun for hours in West Virginia. Bystanders called the fire department Friday after spotting 165 “panting pigs” in a seemingly abandoned tractor-trailer outside a Long John Silver restaurant. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported that firefighters doused the […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say an Australian tourist was killed in a scuffle outside a San Francisco hotel. Authorities say 33-year-old Matthew Bate got into an argument with two men that turned physical around 2 a.m. Friday outside the Da Vinci Villa hotel in the Russian Hill neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at a […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man sought in the stabbing of a Philadelphia city councilman during an attempted robbery near his residence has turned himself in. The 24-year-old suspect arrived Saturday at the police station accompanied by an attorney who said he asserts his innocence. Police earlier called him “armed and dangerous” and said he was […]

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — The San Diego federal judge whose performance was questioned by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke about the “American dream” to his Indiana high school alma mater’s graduating class. Trump said last year that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had an “absolute conflict” in handling a Trump University case because he was […]

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Two more Indonesian men who fled to the United States to flee religious persecution have been deported back to the country. The two were among four who had been living in New Jersey since the 1990s, but were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after checking in with officials in […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say officers shot and killed a man after he opened fire on their patrol car on the city’s South Side. In a news release, police say the officers were responding to a call of a man with a gun at about 11:10 p.m. Friday when they pulled up to a […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island State Police have released documents related to the investigation of a failed video game venture that include an interview with a former lawmaker involved in the deal. Among the documents released Friday is a transcript of a 2014 interview that Assistant Attorney General Patrick Youngs and detectives did with […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Russian analyst and journalist scrutinizing her home country from thousands of miles away, Kseniya Kirillova works out of an impersonal Oakland apartment that she deliberately keeps bare of mementos, except for a stuffed teddy bear memorializing another Russian opposition journalist who died doing the same kind of work. These days, […]

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man believes his thin piece of cardboard that’s smaller than a cellphone could earn him more than $1 million. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/2rEVsVX ) 76-year-old Ross Greene has held onto his Honus Wagner baseball card for 21 years, keeping it a secret to all but family and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of a man who kidnapped and dismembered a lost 8-year-old boy has been found dead, his body bound, wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a basement closet in the same Brooklyn home where detectives uncovered the gruesome remains of the boy nearly five years ago. Detectives found Tzvi […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — It wasn’t unfair for a jury to see cellphone video of a man being stomped to death in the suspect’s murder trial, a New Jersey appeals court ruled while upholding the man’s prison sentence. Dwayne Johnson had argued the video of the January 2013 fight in Newark unfairly influenced jurors, but […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — With Western American art long dismissed as unworthy of the fine art world, few collectors would have even cared 25 years ago if an early 20th century oil painting of cowboys or Indians on the frontier was authentic or not. Now, the owner of galleries in New Mexico and New York […]

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BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces say they are close to capturing an Islamic State-held town that lies halfway between the former IS-stronghold of Tabqa and its de facto capital, Raqqa, in northern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say they are in control of 90 percent of the town of Mansoura, approximately 26 kilometers […]

SINGAPORE (AP) — Malaysia said Saturday that it will work with the Philippines and Indonesia to conduct joint patrols in the Sulu Sea targeted at members of the Islamic State group. Malaysian Defense minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the trio will begin joint sea patrols later this month, in the area bounded by Sabah and the […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At one of Africa’s premier art galleries, thieves have stolen roof copper to sell for scrap, the telephones and security cameras don’t work and half the exhibition space is closed and awaiting repairs. Yet for 21-year-old photographer Tshepiso Mazibuko, the chance to exhibit at the Johannesburg Art Gallery was a highlight of […]