Новости за 25.09.2015

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee compared the choice of Boston as a bidder for the 2024 Olympics to Seattle's choice to pass the ball at the goal line at the end of the Super Bowl last season.

AMARILLO, Texas - Charges have been dropped against two of six people arrested after a disturbance aboard a Southwest Airlines flight that led to an unscheduled landing in Amarillo, Texas.

UNITED NATIONS - The head of the U.N. nuclear agency pushed back on Thursday against critics questioning the wisdom of letting Iranian experts take samples meant to help determine whether their own country clandestinely worked in the past on atomic arms, saying he is convinced the process was faultless.

NEW YORK - One of the world's wealthiest people - a Chinese real estate mogul at the center of a Democratic campaign fundraising scandal two decades ago - has been grounded from his fleet of private planes and stripped of his $200,000 watch after his incarceration without bail in Manhattan as U.S. investigators probe where his money goes.

WILMINGTON, Delaware - The police shooting of a man in a wheelchair was "unjust," his mother said Thursday, but authorities described a different scenario, saying the man was pulling a handgun from his waist when officers shot him to death.

OAKLAND, California - The Texas Rangers have given Cole Hamels plenty of run support since acquiring him in a trade from Philadelphia in late July.

MONTREAL - Montreal's women's hockey team is now the Canadiennes.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - When it comes to the subject of what happened in the NFL draft a decade ago, Aaron Rodgers chooses not to get into hypotheticals.

TEMPE, Arizona - When Bruce Arians became Arizona's coach in 2013, Larry Fitzgerald learned he would be changing positions.

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah woman who unexpectedly gave birth on a cruise ship months before her due date says she wrapped towels around the 1 1/2-pound boy and, with the help of medical staff, managed to keep him alive until the ship reached port.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - The New York Giants were without defensive end Robert Ayers Jr. and offensive tackle Ereck Flowers on Thursday night against the Washington Redskins.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota - Mike Harris has been a major asset for Minnesota's offensive line.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Florida State running back Mario Pender has been hospitalized since Tuesday because of a collapsed lung that he suffered during practice.

DENVER - The clothing chain Hollister will get rid of steps at its trademark entrances at dozens of stores across the U.S. to make the doorways wheelchair accessible as part of a settlement approved Thursday by a federal judge.

MACKEY, Indiana - Authorities say a van crash in southwestern Indiana has killed one person and injured 23 others.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen "felt dehydrated at the end of a long speech under bright lights" Thursday in Massachusetts and was seen by medical personnel as a precaution, the Fed said in a statement.

NEW YORK - Three works by Andrew Wyeth owned by the painter's close friend and admirer, the late actor Charlton Heston, are headed for auction.

TUCSON, Arizona - A Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Mexican teen is one of only three agents to face murder charges in more than 20 years.

EDNA, Texas - Federal immigration officials say six people who were killed after the SUV they were in crashed following a police chase were being transported by a smuggling organization.

TUCSON, Arizona - U.S. Sen. John McCain wants the Department of Defense to explain how a 500-pound military bomb wound up in a scrap yard, where it partially exploded and killed an employee trying to cut into it.

WICHITA, Kansas - The latest developments in the re-sentencing of Kansas doctor and his wife who were convicted of running a moneymaking conspiracy at a clinic that prosecutors have linked to 68 drug-overdose deaths (all times local):

MIDDLETOWN, California - A daughter was worried about her elderly parents trying to flee a massive California wildfire on horseback.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania's attorney general said Thursday she does not think she will be eligible to run for a second term next year if her law license remains suspended as she faces perjury, obstruction and other charges.

MILAN - Milan designers looked to the sea and the forest for inspiration for warm weather looks being previewed during Milan Fashion Week.

ROUND ROCK, Texas - A Texas high school football coach accused of ordering players to knock down a referee who allegedly hurled racial insults at the team has resigned, and state officials warned Thursday that punishments to others may be coming.