Новости за 24.03.2016

PEORIA, Arizona - The San Diego Padres granted Casey Janssen's request and gave the veteran reliever his release Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has vetoed a bill that would have required the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to report to the Legislature when making rules.

NEW ORLEANS - Veteran NFL linebacker James Laurinaitis is taking his release by the Rams this offseason as a personal affront. Doing so, he figures, can only help his career, as well as his new club, the New Orleans Saints.

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

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Auston Matthews is the first player to be named by USA Hockey to the U.S. roster for the upcoming world hockey championship in Russia.

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

CALLAWAY, Minnesota - Authorities have evacuated a town in northwestern Minnesota after a freight train collided with a propane truck that caught fire.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

NEW YORK - Changes announced in corporate dividends Mar. 21-Mar. 25.

NEW YORK - CBS led with 77 nominations overall while its daytime drama "The Young and the Restless" led with 27 nods when nominations were announced Thursday for the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy awards.

INDIANAPOLIS - A bill that would have allowed private college police departments in Indiana to disclose less on-campus crime information than their public counterparts has been vetoed by Gov. Mike Pence.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - State security prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates have dropped terrorism charges in a case involving two Libyan Americans and a Libyan Canadian, instead charging them with the lesser offense of illegally raising funds, a defense lawyer said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Federal officials are encouraging generic drugmakers to develop painkillers that are harder to abuse, the latest in a string of steps designed to combat abuse of highly-addictive pain drugs like codeine and oxycodone.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's most government-critical newspaper has, almost overnight, made an about-face, joining scores of other media outlets that toe the government's line, as two prominent opposition journalists go on trial, facing life imprisonment on charges related to their reports of an alleged government arms shipment to Syrian rebels.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says an Islamic radical accused of involvement in the destruction of historic mausoleums in the Malian city of Timbuktu plans to plead guilty.

PARIS - Two investigations have been opened after videos were posted on You Tube showing a riot police officer in full gear forcefully punching a young man to the ground on a Paris sidewalk with colleagues helping or standing nearby.

LESBOS, Greece - Aid workers on the island of Lesbos Thursday protested planned deportations of migrants and refugees from Greece, as the government said the process would not start for at least another 10 days.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin - A defense contractor in east-central Wisconsin has picked up about $676 million in federal contracts to build and update military vehicles.

BARILOCHE, Argentina - Dancing the tango, relaxing with family in picturesque Patagonia, catching a baseball game with Cuba's Raul Castro - it's been an unusual week for President Barack Obama.

BRUSSELS - Belgian police were called to the address used as a hideout for jihadists in Brussels a month before they took part in attacks that claimed 31 lives, the woman who phoned police that day told The Associated Press.

"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" kicks off a string of DC Comics adaptations from Warner Bros. slated to swarm theaters in the next five years and give Marvel a run for its money. Here's a rundown of the planned releases:

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RICHMOND, California - Authorities say a man covered in gold spray paint was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in the San Francisco Bay Area after he allegedly hit three cars on a freeway and then led police on a brief chase.

NEW YORK - A man charged with killing a U.S. Department of Defense official and wounding a U.S. Marine during a carjacking in Niger in 2000 has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

NEW YORK - Exelon has closed its nearly $7 billion deal to buy Pepco, creating America's largest U.S. electric utility company.