Новости за 21.06.2016

BOGOTA, Colombia — The killing of three foreigners the past two weeks in Medellin is causing alarm in Colombia’s second-largest city as it struggles to leave behind its reputation as the one-time murder capital of the world. Danish tourist Tomas Willemoes was shot and killed last week at close range by an unknown assailant in

PHOENIX — The Latest on extreme heat in the Southwest (all times local): 3:55 p.m. For a second day, Las Vegas set a record daytime high temperature on Tuesday, reaching 113 degrees. National Weather Service meteorologist Barry Pierce says that tops the old mark of 111 degrees for the date set in 1954. It follows

CEMENT, Okla. — A teenager in rural Oklahoma made a startling discovery when his barking dog alerted him to an enormous python in his front yard. Fifteen-year-old JC Lara says he thought he was dreaming when he saw the 14-foot python hissing at his dog outside their home last week in Cement (see-MENT’), about 60

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With time running out for the Obama administration to prove the success of the Affordable Care Act, officials are aggressively targeting a group that could help turn things around: young people. Federal health officials announced Tuesday they will comb tax records to find 18-34 year-olds who paid the penalty stipulated under

NEW YORK — Elmo, Elsa and other costumed characters are getting boxed in at Times Square. New rules went into effect Tuesday that restrict street performers to designated painted rectangles on the pedestrian plaza. The boundaries apply to anyone who is performing a service where there can be an exchange of money, including the costumed

BISMARCK, N.D. — A worker was killed in a crane accident at an oil well site in western North Dakota, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. The incident, which happened late Monday near Ross in Mountrail County, was the second oilfield-related death in North Dakota’s oil patch in the past week, the federal

MEXICO CITY — The remnants of Tropical Storm Danielle dissipated after bringing heavy rains that caused little major damage, though at least one death in east-central Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday that Danielle weakened quickly after making landfall about 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of the port of Tuxpan, in

FAIRFAX, Va. — Police say 18 people were arrested after protesting outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Virginia. Fairfax County Police spokesman Don Gotthardt said the protesters were arrested Tuesday morning, charged with loitering on a public highway and released. Local media outlets report that activists gathered outside the headquarters Monday evening

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on a lawsuit claiming the intro to Led Zeppelin’s hit “Stairway to Heaven” was copied from another band’s song (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page have completed testimony and the defense has rested in the trial of a copyright lawsuit claiming they

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The parents of a Georgia teenager found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat are “in a state of bewilderment” after the Justice Department decided to close a long investigation into the 2013 death while releasing only a vague account of its findings, a family spokesman said Tuesday. Classmates at Lowndes High School

ST. LOUIS — The unrest that rocked the University of Missouri-Columbia campus last fall was part of a racial conflict that has existed in Missouri and the nation for centuries and still is evident on campuses across the country, interim president Michael Middleton said Tuesday. Middleton also defended the firing of assistant professor Melissa Click

The double standard didn’t hit Aly Raisman fully until she found herself talking to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. You know, as one does. The three-time Olympic medalist, all of 22, was trying to explain to Brady the long odds she faced of making it to Rio de Janeiro this summer for the 2016

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to planning to kidnap and kill a woman after going on two dates with her, admitting that he was at least partly motivated by greed as part of a plot to sell her house and empty her bank account. Christopher Thieme, of Newton, pleaded guilty

EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — A man charged with killing a Maine teenager 36 years ago in a cold case that vexed authorities for years has pleaded not guilty to murder. Police arrested 55-year-old Philip Scott Fournier in March in the slaying of 16-year-old Joyce McLain, of East Millinocket. She disappeared while out jogging. WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/28NlpZc

WASHINGTON — Who will be next in the passenger seat for an upcoming edition of “Carpool Karaoke” with late-night comic James Corden? None other than Michelle Obama. Corden was at the White House on Tuesday for the taping. The first lady announced the appearance with Corden as she launched an account on Snapchat. Follow her

NEW YORK — A tribute center that’s been hosting tours led by volunteers with personal ties to the Sept. 11 attacks is moving and expanding. “Our mission here is to give a voice to those who lost their voice,” said co-founder Lee Ielpi, a retired firefighter who had carried his firefighter son’s body out of

DALLAS — Dallas city leaders expressed outrage in the month after a homeless Army veteran was killed by roaming dogs, bitten more than 100 times as the animals tore one of her arms to the bone and ripped away most of her thigh. They promised to respond to Antoinette Brown’s death by cracking down on

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman whose two teenage siblings were kidnapped and held for ransom won’t serve any jail time for her involvement in the case. Marion Superior Court Judge Shatrese Flowers sentenced 29-year-old Whitney Blackwell 1½ years on probation Tuesday and ordered her subject to random drug testing after Blackwell pleaded guilty to a

PARIS — With a dentist as a coach, a movie director in goal and a squad of mostly unheralded players, the underdogs of Iceland were always going to be the feel-good story of the European Championship. The smallest nation ever to compete in the Euros is showing, though, that there’s a talented team behind the

DES MOINES, Iowa — A Republican congressman is trying to block the Treasury from redesigning U.S. currency, a move that could prevent the government from replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Rep. Steve King of Iowa has offered an amendment to a spending bill barring the use

ATLANTA — A mystery is brewing in Atlanta, where someone stole an ocean of beer. A brewery in the city says nearly 3,300 cases of beer went missing when two of its refrigerated trailers were stolen. SweetWater Brewing Co. said the trailers had been loaded for a morning pickup when they were taken from the

LOS ANGELES — Nicolas Winding Refn is pressed for time. He has two premieres to get to for his film “The Neon Demon ,” a stylish and perverse thriller about an aspiring teenage model (Elle Fanning), which struts into U.S. theaters Friday. One is a public event on the sprawling lawn of the Hollywood Forever

NEW YORK — New York City is on track to become the nation’s first city to require free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails after lawmakers approved the idea Tuesday amid a national discussion of the costs of having a period. The proposal, which Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration

OMAHA, Neb. — A funeral has been held for a 2-year-old Nebraska boy killed by an alligator at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The Mass for Lane Thomas Graves was held Tuesday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in west Omaha. It was limited to family and friends. Lane was pulled into the water

SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on the decision to close California’s last nuclear power plant (all times local): 10:45 a.m. An expert welcomes the decision to close California’s last nuclear power plant, calling the facility costly, dangerous and unnecessary given the rise of solar and other renewable energy sources. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and