Новости за 22.02.2016

MONDAY, Feb. 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- More women in the United States are undergoing mastectomies, even though the overall rate of breast cancer has remained stable, a new federal governme…

MONDAY, Feb. 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The gap in cancer deaths among blacks and whites in the United States has narrowed for most cancers, but disparities remain for two common cancers, a …

ATLANTA (AP) — Fierce storms could bring strong tornadoes, hail and damaging winds to several states in the Deep South during the day and into the night on Tuesday, forecasters say.

Tennessee's 31-year run in the Top 25 is over.

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge presiding over a trial involving a polygamous community along the Arizona-Utah border fell ill on the bench Monday and was taken away from the courthouse in an a…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the city of Flint's water emergency (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has declined to endorse a proposal from the nation's governors to limit the number of high-powered painkillers doctors can prescribe at a time.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — War crimes are "rampant" in Syria, and the conflict has become "a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances," U.N. investigators said …

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan-Flint professor said Monday that the city has more than 8,000 old lead pipes running from water mains to homes and businesses, an estimate the ma…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man considered a "person of interest" in a Missouri fire that killed four people was arrested over the weekend after he was found walking naked in northwestern Arizon…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are considering legislation that would prevent a utility from resuming full operations at a facility that had a massive natural gas leak for near…

LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — A woman found pushing her dead son in a playground swing last year will avoid time in prison or a mental institution under a plea deal accepted Monday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's largest city may pass a law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, prompting the governor to c…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In clashes over which restrooms and locker rooms transgender students should use, the U.S. Department of Education has warned public schools that a 1970s sex discriminatio…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The mayor of Ithaca in upstate New York wants his city to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, where heroin users would be able to shoot illegal drugs int…

LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a woman found pushing her dead son in a playground swing last year (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon says it will pay $1.8 billion to buy the fiber-optic network business of XO Communications, in a deal that the wireless phone company said would improve service for its…

VIENNA (AP) — Vienna visitors beware: Burping too loud could come at a price.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian detainee has entered uncharted medical territory with a hunger strike of 89 days -- longer than protest fasts by other Palestinians or by prisoners in …

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — It's good being Trevor Hoffman these days.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has collected millions of dollars in ransom for a group of Assyrian Christians it kidnapped in Syria a year ago, Christian officials and an opposition gro…

Texas A&M and Utah both return to the Top 25 this week, replacing Dayton and Providence.

Villanova remains No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll, holding its comfortable lead over Kansas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans urging a steep increase in the Pentagon's budget have received $10 million in campaign contributions over the course of their congressional careers from def…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Peter Mondavi, a Napa Valley wine country innovator who led his family's Charles Krug Winery through more than a half-century of change, has died. He was 101.