Новости за 28.06.2018

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston has been suspended for the first three games of the regular season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. Winston says in a statement released on Facebook that the NFL informed him of their decision on Thursday. Winston says that “in the past 2½ years my life […]

A United Nations group is approving standards for measuring how much airlines need to reduce the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions from planes. Environmentalists call it a significant step, but they are wary about a change that they fear could slow down the wider use of biofuels. The standards were approved Wednesday in Montreal by the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates were flat to lower this week. The benchmark 30-year rate marked its fourth decline in the past five weeks. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages was 4.55 percent, down from 4.57 percent last week. By contrast, the 30-year rate averaged 3.88 percent […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The thunder-clapping Icelanders have gone home, along with the Egyptians and Peruvians. Now comes the business end of the World Cup, a European- and South American-dominated club that rejects most new applicants as unwanted hoi polloi. The group stage is the crossroads of cultures, a mixture of multitudes filled with happiness and […]

Raphael Sanchez stole the identities of at least seven would-be immigrants and used them to create fake identification documents submitted to banks and credit-card companies to open accounts.

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Ana Mari Cauce, the president of the University of Washington, and U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, are both being honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as distinguished immigrants.

The road trip began with a sweep at the hands of the Yankees, but the Mariners can close it with one of their own over the Orioles in Baltimore. Can Mike Leake get the M's home on a good note? Follow here for live updates, analysis and more.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man authorities say poached a sturgeon from the Snake River below Swan Falls Dam has been cited. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game in a news release Thursday says 32-year-old Michael Melton received the citation on June 17 after conservation officers found Melton with a 2-foot (.6-meter) sturgeon […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The NFL has fined former Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson $2.75 million following its investigation into sexual and racial misconduct in the workplace. The league said Thursday the investigation conducted by former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White substantiated allegations against Richardson, that the improper conduct was limited to Richardson and that […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says demonstrations taking place in Iran prove that international economic pressure against the Islamic Republic is working. Benjamin Netanyahu told a military ceremony on Thursday that the U.S. decision to withdraw from the international nuclear deal with Iran and re-impose sanctions is causing “economic upheaval” and undermining public support […]

FRANKLIN, Ohio (AP) — A small monument honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that sparked debate and had been removed from its original location is now displayed on private property in southwestern Ohio. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a Franklin Township trustee says the bronze plaque on a five-ton rock is now on property at a […]

NEW YORK — A groundbreaking scholar on slavery and Reconstruction has died. Willie Lee Rose was 91. Rose died in her sleep June 20 at a Baltimore retirement community, Johns Hopkins University told The Associated Press on Thursday. Rose was known for the 1964 publication, “Rehearsal for Reconstruction,” a prize-winning study of a black community […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas lawmaker has been arrested on six felony charges after authorities said he failed to pay income taxes for several years and owes nearly $260,000 to the state. Arkansas State Police says state Rep. Mickey Gates of Hot Springs surrendered to authorities on Thursday. He faces six counts of […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — In the months leading up to the 2019 Super Bowl, some of Atlanta’s bare walls will get a makeover. The city of Atlanta and the Super Bowl Host Committee have partnered with arts group WonderRoot to launch “Off the Wall.” The project will create up to 30 murals focusing on Atlanta’s past, […]

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A U.S. judge says a former Serbian militia member can be extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina to face charges in the fatal shooting of a Muslim couple in 1994. U.S. Magistrate Judge Phillip Green in Michigan says the extradition is lawful under a 1902 treaty with Serbia. Alexander Kneginich told investigators that […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday that lingering racial bias infected some General Assembly district boundaries approved last year, but its ruling leaves intact the district lines already used earlier this year for this fall’s elections. The justices ruled 8-1 it was proper for a lower-court panel of federal judges to […]

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — A popular Missouri restaurant is facing a lawsuit claiming one of its rolls was so hot that it caused second-degree burns for a mentally disabled veteran. The Springfield News-Leader reports the lawsuit was filed on behalf of 22-year-old Nathanael Smith of Florida. He was discharged from the Army after a severe […]

Chief Financial Officer Scott Maw’s retirement comes as Starbucks grapples with slowing sales in the U.S., a tricky expansion China and the departure of longtime executive Schultz, who built the chain into a coffee powerhouse. The news pushed Starbucks stock down sharply

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A lawsuit accuses an Idaho property management company of fraudulently moving or taking up to $1 million from the property owners it contracted with. The Idaho Statesman reports the suit, filed June 11, alleges Meridian-based Paradigm Property Solutions, LLC, through its owner, Ronald Jaques, took as much as $750,000 to $1 […]

ROSCHINO, Russia (AP) — While some big-name goalkeepers have stood out for their mistakes at the World Cup, Danijel Subasic is quietly making a name for himself with Croatia. He has yet to concede a goal, keeping clean sheets when Croatia won its opening two group matches against Nigeria and Argentina. He was rested for […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Japan and Senegal wound up with four points apiece when their World Cup group’s final games finished, sending it to a new FIFA tiebreaker rule to determine who advanced to the knockout stage. Over the course of the three group matches, each team won once and lost once, and they tied each […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a $675 billion spending bill for the Defense Department that includes a 2.6 percent raise for the military. Lawmakers approved the bill, 359-49, on Thursday. The vote sends the bill to the Senate, where the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar measure this week. The House bill provides […]