Новости за 11.03.2016

MEXICO CITY - Kate del Castillo ended two months of silence about her and Sean Penn's controversial meeting with then-fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, saying Penn's account of an encounter with a Mexican military checkpoint never happened.

JACKSON, Mississippi - A Confederate soldier statue that has stood for generations in a prominent spot on the University of Mississippi's Oxford campus will soon be accompanied by a plaque giving it historical context.

MIAMI - Autopsy results show a rare heart condition contributed to a Dartmouth College swimmer's accidental death at a Florida pool.

HAVANA - Cuba and the European Union have signed a deal normalizing their relations after years of tensions spawned by disagreement over human rights on the island.

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut - A man accused of harassing the family of a teacher who died in the Newtown school massacre was given a deadline Friday to accept a plea agreement or go to trial.

NEW YORK - RGIII in NYC?

JACKSON, Mississippi - The Latest on a young Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge after authorities said he and his fiancée tried to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (all times local):

PALM HARBOR, Florida - Will MacKenzie said his putter saved him Friday at the Valspar Championship, where he had a 4-under 67 to take the early lead in the second round.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - A reporter for a conservative news website filed a police report Friday alleging that she was battered at a Donald Trump press conference in Florida.

CROWN POINT, Indiana - A judge has delayed ruling on whether to separate two murder cases faced by an Indiana man who has confessed to killing seven women.

MIAMI - Candidates shuttled out of Florida and abandoned their vicious rhetoric - at least with each other - as the tone and central front in the increasingly desperate push to stop Donald Trump shifted on Friday.

JACKSON, Mississippi - A young Mississippi man pleaded guilty Friday to a terrorism-related charge, months after authorities said he and his fiancée thought about using their honeymoon as ruse to go to Syria to join the Islamic State.

PORTLAND, Oregon - Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed one of the nation's most aggressive pieces of pro-climate legislation into law.

President Ronald Reagan's letter to wife Nancy on Dec. 25, 1981, their first Christmas in the White House. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney read it at Friday's funeral service for Mrs. Reagan.

SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Friday said she will not resign despite mounting pressure to do so and that there is no legal justification backing efforts to impeach her.

ATLANTA - Georgia would provide state-funded grants to "pregnancy resource centers" that offer medical care, counseling and other services to pregnant women while discouraging abortion, under legislation that easily passed the state House on Friday.

LAWRENCE, New York - A cyberattack on a small dam in the suburbs outside of New York City was a "shot across the bow" of the United States and should be met with tougher sanctions against Iran, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Friday.

LIMA, Peru - All bets are off in Peru's presidential race after the disqualification of the moderate economist who was the chief challenger to front-runner Keiko Fujimori.

SEATTLE - Lawyers for a Russian man charged with hacking into U.S. businesses asked a federal judge to throw out evidence taken off his laptop computer after it was discovered that hundreds of files were modified and thousands of others were accessed between the time of his arrest and when a search warrant was secured.

FAYETTEVILLE, West Virginia - West Virginia State Police said Friday that the discovery of human remains and personal possessions found near the New River Gorge Bridge could solve an 18-year-old mystery: the disappearance of a Virginia Tech graduate student.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana lawmakers wrapped with their 2016 session this week with votes to approve a short-term boost in spending on roads and bridges around the state and ultimately replace the much-maligned ISTEP standardized test taken by more than 400,000 students each spring.

NEW YORK - Louis C.K. and Russell Brand will perform next month at a benefit supporting veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

MIAMI - Trial has been delayed several months for a Florida man accused of conspiring to detonate a bomb in a Florida Keys beach in a plot the FBI says was inspired by the Islamic State terror group.

Sean Watkins, "What to Fear" (Thirty Tigers)

CHISINAU, Moldova - Moldova's Parliament has approved a new central bank governor after the previous one resigned over his handling of a banking scandal where more than $1 billion disappeared.