Новости за 21.12.2015

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Black Lives Matter protesters vowed Monday to press on with their plan to demonstrate at the Mall of America on the busy shopping day before Christmas Eve, despite the m…

NEW YORK (AP) — Pep Boys on Monday called a revised offer from billionaire Carl Icahn a "superior" bid, just days after the auto parts seller accepted a sweetened deal from tire company Bridgestone.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Van Dyke Money Gang in New York made off with more than $1.5 million this year — but it wasn't in gunpoint robberies or drug running, it was a Western Union money order sch…

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian news media are reporting that the country's national security service has banned the leader of the group Limp Bizkit from entering the country for five years.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his national authority proposes to change its name on passports it issues to State of Palestine.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A delegation of South Sudan's rebels has returned to the capital after two years of exile to start implementing a peace agreement signed four months ago, officials sai…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — In barely 24 hours, Martin Shkreli went from an egotistical pharmaceutical boy wonder running two small drug developers and live-streaming his daily activities to unemploy…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan opposition candidate for the presidency said Monday that President Yoweri Museveni's government is trying stifle his campaign after police raided his offices a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA lifts formal ban on blood donations from gay men. New policy requires year of abstinence.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Barack Obama Foundation says seven architectural firms are finalists to design the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has renewed its economic sanctions against Russia for six months, after concluding that Moscow has failed to fully respect a peace agreement in eastern Ukraine.

BENTON, La. (AP) — The latest on a bombing at a northwest Louisiana horse farm (all times local):

BEIRUT (AP) — Amid shouts of "death to Israel," thousands of Hezbollah supporters on Monday thronged the coffin of a high-profile Lebanese militant who the group says was killed by an Israeli …

NEW YORK (AP) — A new national beat team has been established at The Associated Press to elevate coverage of issues in education, the news cooperative announced Monday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday will consider whether a mental evaluation of billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone should be conducted in response to his ex-girlfriend's claims that his…

NEW YORK (AP) — Cheap is the new chic for holiday gifts.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Safety technology that can prevent crashes like a deadly passenger train derailment in May has been activated on Amtrak tracks between Philadelphia and New York.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say two teenagers were found dead inside a SUV in a garage.

PARIS (AP) — A French watchdog that checks he probity of public figures has asked the prosecutor's office to look into the far right's top two figures — Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen — a…

Rio and Cuba. The Pope's Year of Mercy and artist Christo's walk on water. Philadelphia, Cleveland and the next U.S. president. Super Bowl in California and the Indy 500 at 100. A centennial f…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nuclear-armed U.S. submarines that went more than a decade without calling on foreign ports in part because of post-Sept. 11 security concerns are once again visiting ot…

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Police are investigating "detailed" threats to hurt students and teachers that led to the closure of schools in the state's second largest district Monday.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixed Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — Jeremy Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, has died near Atlanta. He was 28.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A chemist was convicted of a bomb plot against Poland's parliament and other government buildings, and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Monday.