Новости за 23.03.2016

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal lawyers on Tuesday formally asked a judge in New Orleans to approve a record-breaking $20 billion-plus settlement agreement announced last July by the Department of Justice and five Gulf Coast states to resolve years of…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Zoo says one of its cheetahs has died two weeks after giving birth to five cubs in a rare C-section procedure.

The 623-foot-long ship Sparna, which stuck something in the Columbia River near Cathlamet on Monday, has multiple fractures, including one that's 25 feet long and five feet wide, with a boulder lodged inside.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — When President Barack Obama's state visit to Buenos Aires was announced early this year, Argentina's new president cast it as a sign that the South American nation was on a U.S.-backed path to investment and…

HUDSON, Mass. (AP) — A state trooper who died following a crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike was a dedicated family man and cherished colleague with a sense of humor, mourners said at his funeral Tuesday.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois homeless shelters struggling to get by without state aid during the budget stalemate could get a much-needed financial boost through specialty scratch-off lottery tickets.

HAVANA (AP) — President Barack Obama let some actual aces take care of the first pitches in Cuba.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Environmentalists and commercial fishermen both say they are fearful of proposed changes to the federal rules that govern New England's beleaguered cod fishing industry.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The last named defendant in the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was still at large Tuesday, drawing calls for supporters to flock to his Montana hometown and a local sheriff to urge outsiders to…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A push to automatically sign up voters that began with new laws in Oregon and California will soon likely hit a third, notably less liberal state — West Virginia.