Новости за 19.08.2017

Follow here for live updates and analysis as the Mariners (62-61) continue their road trip against the Rays (60-64) in Tampa in search of their fourth consecutive win.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy is recovering after Alabama police said he was tortured by his mom and an acquaintance of hers. WBRC-TV reports he was being treated at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham but is expected to pull through. Tuscaloosa Police said a relative notified them after noticing something was wrong with the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn (EYE’-kahn) stepped down from an unpaid post as President Donald Trump’s adviser on deregulation efforts just days before The New Yorker was preparing to publish a lengthy article detailing potential conflicts of interest. Icahn said in a letter to Trump released Friday that he would resign to prevent […]

Outfielder Mitch Haniger was activated from the disabled list and was inserted into the starting lineup for Saturday's game with the Rays.

HONOLULU (AP) — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory says the earthquake struck at 8:35 p.m. Friday about 66 miles (107 kilometers) northeast of the town of Hawaiian Beaches on the island’s east coast. The agency reports that about 100 […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee cancer survivor has hit a hole-in-one in her first round of golf since undergoing five surgeries in the past year. The Tennessean reports Cathy Helton hit a hole-in-one while playing in the annual Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition Celebration of Life Golf Classic at Hermitage Golf Course. Her singular shot […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police officer, whose claims of police corruption in the 1970s were chronicled in an Al Pacino movie, joined dozens of current and former officers Saturday at a rally in support of getting quarterback Colin Kaepernick a job in the National Football League. The former San Francisco […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s basketball federation accused the Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA of hatching a plan to prevent Giannis Antetokounmpo on Saturday from playing in the European championship. About an hour after Antetokounmpo posted on Facebook and Instagram that he was unavailable because of a knee injury, the federation attacked the Bucks and […]

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman who became stuck in a swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to Facebook to ask for help getting out. Sixty-one-year-old Leslie Kahn was swimming in her pool Aug. 11 when the ladder broke, leaving her stranded. She said she didn’t have the strength to pull herself. […]

The Seahawks lost their starting left tackle, but Friday's 20-13 win over the Vikings also cleared up some things, like Kasen Williams' path to the 53-man roster.

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police officials say a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been vandalized. The Dallas Morning News reported a crew of city workers went to Lee Park early Saturday to power-wash the spray-painted word “Nazis” off of the statue, one of three Confederate monuments in the city. A police spokeswoman […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s congress met Saturday in defiance of what opposition leaders consider an autocratic push by allies of President Nicolas Maduro to usurp the legislature’s powers. Brian Naranjo, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, was among a group of foreign diplomats from countries including Mexico, Spain and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans’ deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party. Behind the high-profile denunciations voiced this week by GOP […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball players will hold their breath as numbers are drawn for one of the nation’s biggest lottery jackpots. The numbers for an estimated $535 million jackpot will be drawn Saturday at 10:59 p.m. Eastern time. The prize has grown so large because no one has matched all six balls in […]

Free-scoring, tight at the back and confidence oozing through the side, Manchester United might already be the team to beat in the English Premier League. United hasn’t challenged for the title since winning its record-extending 20th championship in 2013, Alex Ferguson’s last year in charge, but back-to-back 4-0 wins sent a powerful early-season message to […]

SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — About 600 residents are under evacuation orders in a prime eclipse-viewing location in Oregon threatened by a wildfire that has closed access to part of a wilderness area and a regional highway. Fire officials said Saturday another 1,000 residents near the tourist town of Sisters have been told to be ready […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers return Monday from a monthlong break with a busy agenda that includes tackling the state’s housing crisis and deciding whether to make California a statewide sanctuary for people living illegally in the U.S. Here’s a look at some of the high-profile issues the Legislature will tackle in the last […]

DALLAS (AP) — Karen Stipes always believed her missing mother was “Mountain Jane Doe,” buried unidentified in a paupers’ cemetery deep in the woods outside Harlan, Kentucky. But without proof, it took nearly half a century and the development of DNA technology for forensic scientists at the University of North Texas to confirm her intuition. […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A National Guard proposal to expand airspace for fighter jet training low over the mountains of western Maine has dragged on for so long that many of the aircraft currently used for training could be retired by the time the plans are completed. Vermont-based F-16 fighters account for the bulk of […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When 92-year-old Dr. Fergie Reid was a young man growing up in Richmond, he resented the massive statues of Confederate leaders lining Monument Avenue. But Reid says black people knew better than to speak out. “If you complained, they’d probably put you in jail,” said Reid, who was Virginia’s first black […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to vacation in New Jersey. But unlike Trump, who spent most of his “working vacation” at his private golf club in Bedminster, his 19th century predecessors sought relief along the New Jersey shore from Washington’s swamp-like summer before air-conditioning. They joined wealthy friends, […]

Only the New York and Los Angeles metro areas topped Seattle for adding “million-dollar ZIP codes” — areas where at least 10 percent of homes cost that much; new internet utility planned focusing on rural areas; more Amazon-Wal-Mart rivalry.

A mother worries about the intentions of her daughter’s fiancé, who is much older and has been divorced, twice.

Readers rave about KCLS reading in the park, rant about Hempfest

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday, days after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness early Saturday morning from Duke Chapel where it stood among 10 historical figures depicted in the […]