Новости за 13.07.2017

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England’s summer lobster season is off to a slow start, but consumers are paying a little bit less for the critters than they were a year ago. The annual summer boom in lobster catch has yet to arrive, lobster fishermen and distributors said. Lobster catch typically picks up in the […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The man convicted of gunning down Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on a bridge within sight of the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for life imprisonment for Zaur Dadayev in the 2015 killing that sent shock waves through Russia’s beleaguered opposition. Prosecutor Maria Semenenko said […]

Richland native Dietrich Schmieman has been identified as one of the Marines who died in a plane crash that killed 16 people.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks and Houston Rockets are still trying to work out a deal involving Carmelo Anthony, though it may take some time — if it happens. The teams continue to talk about a trade but no deal is imminent, said a person familiar with the situation. The person said […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain’s BBC News is ending a long-running agreement to share reporting and resources with ABC News in the United States and instead will match up with CBS. CBS News President David Rhodes said Thursday the deal with the BBC gives the network access to an organization that is larger and more […]

Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman says NFL players may need to strike to get contracts like players in the NBA and MLB.

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being treated for dehydration in Canada, where he’s helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity said in a statement that the 92-year-old Carter was “dehydrated working in the hot sun” at a build site in Winnipeg on Thursday. Carter told Habitat officials he […]

The "Insecure" actress didn't receive a nomination Thursday morning. Neither did her HBO show.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators looking for clues in the disappearance of an Alabama woman last seen in 2008 are analyzing potential evidence found during a search of the home where she was last seen. Authorities wouldn’t say what they located Wednesday while looking for remains of Jennifer Fay Powers in a rural area near […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter is revealing the up-close beauty of our solar system’s biggest planetary storm. Juno flew directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on Monday, passing an amazingly close 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the monster storm. The images snapped by JunoCam were beamed back Tuesday and posted […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Natural History Museum in London has suspended a gigantic blue whale skeleton in its main entrance — drawing attention to vanishing species in an environment under strain. Scientists named the 25.2-meter (82-foot) whale “Hope,” recognizing the role of science in safeguarding the environment. The immense creature seems to fly over the […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is again blocking Democratic lawmakers’ attempt to have the state rejoin a regional environmental pact. Christie on Thursday vetoed a measure approved in the Legislature that would require the state to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The century mark is in sight for the Los Angeles Dodgers heading into the second half of the season. Their 61-29 record leads the majors for the first time since 2009. Their plus-163 run differential is the best in National League history at the break, according to STATS LLC. They own […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Yu Darvish was unable to pitch two years ago when the Texas Rangers had an even worse record at the All-Star break before going on to win the AL West title. Darvish, the only Texas player who was at the All-Star Game this week, could now be going into his final […]

An era of dominance in the majors ended the last time the British Open was at Royal Birkdale, even if nobody knew it. Tiger Woods piled up so many majors so quickly that when he had knee surgery following his 2008 U.S. Open victory at Torrey Pines and had to sit out the last two […]

BEIRUT (AP) — They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back. Worn out from months of living in tents, about 150 Syrian families decided this week to return to the city of Homs — even if it meant going back to a life under […]

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — An exclusive club in the tony town where Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen live has finally admitted the celebrity couple. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/2tjfRwi ) that The Country Club in Brookline, a leafy and affluent Boston suburb, quietly approved membership for the New England Patriots’ star quarterback and his supermodel […]

TORONTO (AP) — A judge in Toronto on Thursday dismissed a request to freeze the assets of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was recently awarded a settlement by the Canadian government. Omar Khadr last week was reportedly issued an $8 million (CA$10.5 million) settlement by the Canadian government after a court ruled his rights […]

Hercules Mata'afa finds himself on a second prestigious watch list as we near the start of the college football season

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN anchor Anderson Cooper dubbed an aide to President Donald Trump “the Hungarian Don Rickles” following an insult-laden exchange on the network. On Cooper’s show Wednesday, White House aide Sebastian Gorka faced questions about last summer’s meeting held by the president’s son with a Russian woman who promised to help the […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has opened to door for the family of a Florida teenager to sue his friend’s mother after the boys never returned from a fishing trip off Florida’s Atlantic. U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas on Monday lifted an injunction that kept Pamela and Philip Cohen from […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Uber is ceding control of the Russian market by agreeing to merge its ridesharing business in the country and five other ex-Soviet republics with Yandex, the Russian search-engine leader that also runs a popular taxi-booking app. A statement by Yandex on Thursday said Uber and Yandex Taxi would combine into a new […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis fire captain has died after sustaining injuries fighting a fire in the early morning hours of July 5. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2sTm8iW ) reports that the fire department says Capt. John Kemper died Wednesday. He was 59. Kemper didn’t suffer any burns. He was admitted to the […]

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s government says a suicide attack in the far north has killed at least 15 people and wounded at least 42. Governor Midjiyawa Bakary said Thursday that two attackers entered the town of Waza late Wednesday and one detonated their explosives near a group of youths. Nigeria-based Boko Haram extremists have […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine military official says a Vietnamese hostage has been killed during a gunbattle between his militant captors and government troops that also left four militants and a soldier dead in the country’s south. Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said troops found the body of Viet Van Tran after the fighting Saturday […]