Новости за 23.04.2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The mentally unstable gunman suspected of opening fire at a Waffle House restaurant in the middle of the night was arrested not far from his apartment Monday after hiding from police for more than a day following the attack that killed four people, authorities said. Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning attacks, in which a gunman clad only in a jacket used an AR-15 rifle to kill four and injure others. Metropolitan... Читать дальше...

The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday Curry's new production company, Unanimous Media, has signed a huge multi-year TV and film deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The Bible has "some good parts," but it's still "repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned," according to some editors at men's lifestyle magazine GQ.

WASHINGTON — A veteran who lost his genitals from a blast in Afghanistan has received the world’s most extensive penis transplant, and doctors said Monday he is recovering well and expected to leave the hospital this week. Saying they wanted to address “an unspoken injury of war,” Johns Hopkins University surgeons rebuilt the man’s entire pelvic region — transplanting a penis, scrotum and part of the abdominal wall from a deceased donor — in a highly experimental 14-hour operation last month. Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS — A Belgian court on Monday found 2015 Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam and an accomplice guilty of attempted murder over shots fired at police as they sought to avoid arrest in Brussels. The court handed both Abdeslam, Europe’s most wanted fugitive at the time, and Sofiane Ayari the maximum 20-year sentence. It said the “terror character” was clearly established in the March 2016 shooting, four months after the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.... Читать дальше...

Sony Picture Entertainment has inked a multi-year development and production deal with Steph Curry for film, TV and worldwide partnerships, the company announced Monday. Curry just recently formed a production company titled Unanimous Media with partners Jeron Smith (CEO) and Erick Peyton (CCO). Their production company will produce film and TV projects with a focus on family, faith and sports, and the deal will also extend to electronics, gaming and virtual reality. The production company’s headquarters... Читать дальше...

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say an assistant North Carolina district attorney has been arrested on several drug charges. News outlets report police in Waxhaw said officers stopped Gaston County Assistant District Attorney James Brandon Graham on Sunday. The Union County Sheriff's Office said Graham was stopped for speeding, having an expired tag and an inspection violation. According to a police report, officers found heroin and methamphetamine inside his car, as well as a syringe which contained heroin. Читать дальше...

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Cranston police are continuing an investigation into a carjacking that recently occurred in Boston by questioning nine people. WPRI-TV reports police noticed an SUV matching the description provided by the Boston Police Department parked in Cranston Monday morning in violation of a city parking ordinance. Nine people are being questioned in relation to the Friday night carjacking. Police say they ran the vehicle's license plate and saw it had been stolen. They... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says North Korea won't get sanctions relief until it takes "concrete action" toward denuclearization. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' comments Monday appeared to leave open the possibility of easing the U.S.-led "maximum pressure" campaign before North Korea had completely given up its nuclear weapons. But Sanders said the U.S. wouldn't make the mistake of past administrations in taking the North Koreans "simply at their word." She said, "We've seen some... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT — Syrian government forces moved to cut off Islamic State militants in southern Damascus from nearby rebel-held suburbs Monday in an attempt to force the extremists to surrender or evacuate the district, state media reported. The area in southern Damascus is the last part of the capital not controlled by President Bashar Assad’s troops. Other insurgents in the area, including an al-Qaeda-linked group, have said they would relocate to rebel-held regions in northern Syria. ... Читать дальше...

Four hundred people were evacuated Monday morning from Next Door: Espicopal Community Services — one of San Francisco’s largest homeless shelters — due to a gas, according to people who live and work at the shelter. The San Francisco Fire Department issued an alert at 10:45 a.m. Monday advising people to avoid the area of Cedar and Polk streets, and multiple people were being treated by emergency personnel on scene while others were taken to the hospital. In total... Читать дальше...

NASHVILLE — The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle from a gunman at a busy Tennessee restaurant says his was a “selfish” act of self-preservation and he doesn’t consider himself a hero. Never mind that he is being credited with saving other lives. “When I grabbed the barrel of the weapon it was hot, but I didn’t care. It was life or death,” said James Shaw Jr., a 29-year-old Nashville resident who found himself wrestling with the suspect after four people had already been fatally shot... Читать дальше...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Serzh Sargsyan, who ruled Armenia for 10 years, resigned Monday as prime minister after thousands of people poured into the streets to protest his political maneuvering to cling to power in this former Soviet republic. The stunning development touched off jubilation in the capital of Yerevan, with car horns blaring and people dancing, hugging and waving the tricolor Armenian flag. The opposition called for a meeting with the acting prime minister to discuss a "peaceful transfer of power." Sargsyan... Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas education official has tweeted at a biracial teen accepted to Harvard University asking if he was admitted based "on merit or quota." The Dallas Morning News reports that former Texas Board of Education member George Clayton replied Friday to Drake Johnson's tweet announcing his Ivy League school acceptance. Clayton tweeted at the California teen, "Congrats. Were you admitted on merit or quota?" Johnson responded with his accomplishments, including being valedictorian of his high school. Читать дальше...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers will publish environmental recommendations this week for a massive gold mine in western Alaska. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports the Corps' final environmental impact statement for the Donlin Gold Mine is expected to be released Friday after five years of work. Owners plan a conventional open-pit mine 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) across and up to 1,200 feet (366 meters) deep. The mine would be 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of the village of... Читать дальше...

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 66-year-old Michigan man has died and his grandchildren were hurt in a traffic crash near Midland. Midland County sheriff's officials say in a release Jeffrey Long was driving east on U.S. 10 in Lincoln Township Monday morning with three grandchildren, 13, 11 and 9. His vehicle was rear-ended by a vehicle driven a 25-year-old woman. Investigators say Long died at the scene, and his grandchildren were taken to a nearby hospital. The 11-year-old was flown to... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Champaign area-based bus company faces a federal lawsuit accusing it of discriminating and harassing customers and their families. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Monday that her office is suing Suburban Express Inc. and owner Dennis Toeppen. The transportation company provides bus service to college students in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana to the Chicago area. Madigan says her lawsuit "seeks to shut this company down for good." The lawsuit comes after a December mass-marketing... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Health officials in Las Vegas are reporting a jump in the number of flu cases, deaths and hospitalizations this year compared with last year. The Southern Nevada Health District reported Monday that 48 people have died of flu this season, and that of the 1,291 cases reported so far, 940 people were hospitalized. Those numbers were more than double the figures reported in the same week last April, with 13 people dead, 598 cases reported and 416 people hospitalized. The health district... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly believe teachers don’t make enough money, and half say they would support paying higher taxes to give educators a raise. The findings of the new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research come amid recent teacher strikes and other protests over low pay, tough classroom conditions and the amount of money allocated to public schools in several Republican-led states. Tens of thousands of Arizona teachers... Читать дальше...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — When some 20,000 West Virginia teachers walked off the job in February, some educators were sympathetic, others inspired. For Phil Levine, a retired city art teacher, the job action took him back 40 years to when he walked a picket line outside Warren Harding High School before being carted off to jail for two weeks. "I emailed the West Virginia Education Association and said 'Go for it,' said Levine, now 71 years old. "Their pay is pathetic." Former Bridgeport Schools Superintendent... Читать дальше...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby opted not to testify in his sexual assault retrial as his lawyers rested their case Monday, setting the stage for closing arguments and jury deliberations. "You now have all of the evidence," Judge Steven O'Neill told jurors, sending them back to their hotel after an abbreviated day of testimony. "Try to relax, so that you're on your game tomorrow." Closing arguments will be held Tuesday in the case that pits the "Cosby Show" star once known as America's Dad against... Читать дальше...

The “Maze Runer” trilogy of movies may not be your bag, but it’s certainly mine. And for the past four years, I’ve had a blast experiencing this tale of a horrible post-apocalyptic conservative dystopia taken down by children. In the present age, these stories somehow seem to gain more and more relevance, and that certainly was the case with “The Death Cure,” the third and final installment released in January.

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Maritime Academy is growing: Enrollment has risen more than 60 percent over the past decade and the 482 students in the class of 2020 make it the largest in the school's history. It is a trend most U.S. colleges would love to have, but it does force MMA to consider where to put the expanding student body. Last year, the school sent out a request for proposals for properties that could house a new dormitory for 180 upperclassmen during the school year and... Читать дальше...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The suspect in an attack that killed four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee was arrested Monday not far from his apartment, police said. Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning attacks, in which a gunman clad only in a jacket used an AR-15 rifle to kill four and injure others. Metropolitan Nashville Police announced Monday on Twitter that he was taken into custody not far from his apartment. Photos... Читать дальше...

SEOUL — South Korea halted anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts across their tense border on Monday as officials from the two Koreas met again to work out details of their leaders’ upcoming talks, expected to focus on the North’s nuclear program. Seoul had been blasting propaganda messages and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers since the North’s fourth nuclear test in early 2016. The North quickly matched the South’s action with its own border broadcasts and launches of balloons... Читать дальше...