Новости за 18.01.2016

JACKSONVILLE, Florida - A person familiar with the search says the Jacksonville Jaguars are interviewing former Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz for their vacant defensive coordinator position.

NEW YORK - Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars' second straight year of all-white acting nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday that they will not attend this year's ceremony.

NEW YORK - Relatives of a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran almost nine years ago say they're happy for the families of the Americans just released by that country, but wish they had something to celebrate as well.

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WASHINGTON - Puerto Rico's $72 billion public debt crisis has forced congressional leaders to pay attention to a U.S. territory that's usually on the sidelines of American politics.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera has banned hoverboards from the team's facility fearing players will get injured.

HONOLULU - The latest on the crash of two Marine helicopters off Hawaii (all times local):

BEIRUT - A Lebanese Christian leader pulled out from the presidential race on Monday and endorsed the candidacy of his long-time rival in the latest political maneuvering aimed at resolving Lebanon's 20-month political deadlock.

VATICAN CITY - Vienna's cardinal said on Monday that he is in touch with a man condemned to die in Texas this week, and that Pope Francis is following the case, too.

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana - Louisiana-Lafayette running back Elijah McGuire has been granted permission to play basketball for the Ragin Cajuns this season.

When the Anaheim Ducks traded Emerson Etem to the New York Rangers last summer, the young man from Long Beach with the "LB" tattooed behind his ear embraced his new challenge.

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani official says the government has allowed access to a localized version of the video sharing website YouTube after assurances from the company that it would insert country-specific filters to remove objectionable content.

EVANSVILLE, Indiana - The manager of Evansville's 4-year-old downtown arena has started looking at options if its current minor league hockey team follows through on threats to move.

LONDON - Welsh golfer Jamie Donaldson looks set to miss this week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after tangling with a chainsaw and picking up a severe finger injury.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's health minister is advising women to delay plans to become pregnant for the next six to 12 months due to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

JERUSALEM - Israel's Justice Ministry says former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has signed a plea bargain in which he will plead guilty to obstruction of justice for pressuring a confidant not to testify in multiple legal cases against him.

ATHENS, Greece - Greece's finance minister says his government is pressing lenders for a swift review of the country's bailout program, warning that delays would prolong market uncertainty and make fiscal targets more difficult.

RICHMOND, Virginia - A legislative panel has rejected a bill to decriminalize adultery in Virginia, one of about a dozen states where infidelity is a crime.

TUCSON, Arizona - Arizona has agreed in principle to hire Boise State defensive coordinator Marcel Yates as its defensive coordinator.

WARRI, Nigeria - Nigerian separatists said police killed eight people during renewed violent protests Monday demanding an independent Biafran state in southeastern Nigeria and the release of a detained leader. Police deny the allegation from leaders of a cause that sparked a civil war in the 1960s in which a million people died.

MINEOLA, New York - A New York man is about to go on trial in vehicular homicide case that tests the limits of criminal consequences. He wasn't behind the wheel when a police officer was struck and killed - he was leaning against the guardrail.

NEW YORK - A deal to reduce the number of horse-drawn carriages in New York City and permanently move stables to Central Park will now go to the City Council for approval in a compromise between the drivers and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had pledged to end the popular rides.

FLINT, Michigan - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is making Flint's water crisis a political issue.

LONDON - A British lawmaker has warned his colleagues it would be wrong to give Donald Trump a "halo of victimhood" by banning him from the U.K.

RABAT, Morocco - Moroccan police have arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent linked to the Islamic State group and who had a "direct relationship" to attackers who carried out the Paris attacks just over two months ago, the Interior Ministry said Monday.