Новости за 23.03.2016

WASHINGTON - The government is ordering federal and state inspectors to remove certain Volvo tractor trucks from the road because of a steering wheel defect that can cause a complete loss of control of the vehicle.

DOVER, Delaware - A Delaware cybersecurity task force moved its inaugural meeting into a closed "emergency" executive session Wednesday because of what its chairman called a "mix-up" about the sensitivity of information presented in an FBI briefing.

NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

NEW YORK - Officials in an affluent suburban New York village acquiesced to race-based opposition to a housing project and changed zoning codes to discriminate against minorities, a federal appeals court said Wednesday as it also opened the door to one of America's most affluent counties facing claims it steered affordable housing to its lowest-income communities.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovakia's president has sworn in a new coalition government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico following his party's victory in the parliamentary election.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia - A prosecutor says the preliminary hearing for two former Virginia Tech students charged in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl has been postponed.

TAMPA, Florida - Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man has been sentenced to just over three years in prison for burning a cross in front of a black neighbor's home.

WAUWATOSA, Wisconsin - While Ted Cruz decried "gutter politics" against him, former Republican presidential contenders gave him a boost Wednesday, casting the Texas senator as the party's last best chance to stop Donald Trump. The long and bitter 2016 campaign shifted to a new Midwestern battleground.

The nation is spending about $46 billion less than what it needs to keep up its school buildings, according to a report Wednesday that pointed out disparities in state support for infrastructure.

WASHINGTON - Two Texas congressmen have introduced legislation to repeal a preferential law that grants Cubans automatic permanent residence if they set foot on U.S. territory.

GREENFIELD, Indiana - A central Indiana woman convicted of neglect in the death of her 1-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

CAIRO - London-based Amnesty International has condemned Egypt's crackdown on human rights advocates, saying authorities should halt their "persecution" of them and drop attempts to prosecute them and seize their assets.

CHICAGO - Patients who delay getting treatment and insurers who balk at paying for it are among job stresses that Chicago nurse Ben Gerling faces on a semi-regular basis. So there was no tail-dragging when his employer offered a few four-legged workplace remedies.

LAFAYETTE, Indiana - The Griffith High School basketball team is set to play its state tournament game that was postponed after its bus overturned in a crash on Interstate 65.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Police in Argentina have arrested a man who allegedly walked into a radio station carrying a belt with fireworks and threatening to use them as explosives.

PARIS - Security officials have told The Associated Press that the Islamic State group has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe for terror attacks.

NEW YORK - When Toyota aired a Super Bowl television ad featuring a surprisingly quick Prius gas-electric hybrid eluding police, it marked a turning point for the auto industry.

NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez says he plans to retire from baseball after the 2017 season.

LAS VEGAS - An MGM Resorts International real estate subsidiary has filed for an initial public offering.

DENVER - A powerful spring blizzard has shut down Denver's airport, knocked out power and shut down hundreds of miles of highway in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska as it spread into the Midwest on Wednesday.

NEW YORK - Phife Dawg, a masterful lyricist whose witty wordplay was a linchpin of the groundbreaking hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died Tuesday from complications resulting from diabetes, his family said in a statement on Wednesday. He was 45.

LONDON - Two home-grown British extremists face long prison terms for conspiring to kill soldiers, police officers and civilians in west London in a plot inspired by the so-called Islamic State group.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The Latest on President Barack Obama's visit to Argentina (all times local):

CLEVELAND - A 12-year-old boy who was shaken as a baby and remained in a vegetative state for the rest of his life has died, authorities said Wednesday.