Новости за 18.08.2016

RIO DE JANEIRO — China has its next diving superstar. Actually, two of them. Fifteen-year-old Ren Qian captured another diving gold medal for China on Thursday, producing five nearly flawless efforts off the women’s 10-meter platform to beat her 17-year-old teammate, Si Yajie. Ren finished with 439.25 points, while Si settled for silver at 419.40

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A federal indictment alleges that a North Carolina man accused of plotting a terror attack in the U.S. communicated with a member of the Islamic State as he developed his plans. The indictment filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte said Justin Nojan Sullivan spoke with Junaid Hussain in June 2015

DETROIT — Second baseman Ian Kinsler caught a line drive by Mookie Betts for the final out with runners on second and third, and the Detroit Tigers held off the Red Sox 4-3 Thursday, snapping Boston’s six-game winning streak. Andrew Romine drew a bases-loaded walk to cap a three-run Detroit rally in the eighth. Boston

FAIRBANK, Iowa — The mother of a high school student who transferred schools due to alleged bullying says her daughter cannot play varsity volleyball because her former school district hasn’t confirmed the bullying occurred. Jade Stepp played volleyball for Wapsie Valley High School before transferring to Jesup High School, according to KWWL-TV (http://bit.ly/2b4lDfu ). “These

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks again ticked higher Thursday as the continuing rebound in oil prices gave energy companies a lift. The gains were modest, however, as investors have been avoiding big moves. The dollar weakened further, and compared to the yen it’s at its lowest in almost three years. On Thursday: The Dow Jones

LOS ANGELES — Christie Brinkley is defending her daughter on social media after her appearance and privilege were criticized. The supermodel and mother rallied behind daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook on Instagram after the 18-year-old college student and model lashed out against online critics. Brinkley asked her followers to “choose to create beauty, through mutual respect,

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Craig Watts’ stomach tightened ever so slightly whenever a news report about a military strike near where one of his parents was deployed flashed on the television screen. Those sudden moments when phone calls would just drop in the middle of long-distance conversations would cause some concern, too. “You’d never know

SHELBURN, Ind. — Indiana State Police say a southwestern Indiana man is facing preliminary charges in connection with the beating death of a woman he lived with. They say 32-year-old Joshua Travis Hall of Shelburn was charged Thursday with voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, criminal confinement, and battery. He already had been jailed for

CHICAGO — Four groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Walgreens for reassurance that its partnership with a Catholic health care system to run in-store clinics in the St. Louis area won’t limit women’s access to birth control. The drugstore giant announced in April that SSM Health, a St. Louis-based Catholic system,

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s federal police arbitrarily executed 22 people on a ranch in the western state of Michoacan last year, the country’s human rights commission said Thursday. National Human Rights Commission President Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez said there were also two cases of torture and two more deaths caused by excessive force. “The investigation

The Obama administration’s announcement that it will phase out its contracts with private prison companies has sent the stocks of two publicly traded prison companies plummeting. Both get about half their revenue from the federal government. A third prison company, Management and Training Corp., is a private company. Here’s a look at the companies: Corrections

HARTFORD, Conn. — A man who committed a string of outlet store break-ins that targeted watches in Connecticut and elsewhere will have to serve time in prison. Forty-year-old Cuban national Alionis Perez pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in May and was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison. Prosecutors say he led a group

RIO DE JANEIRO — Connor Fields and his U.S. teammates made it safely through the wind and the wrecks at the BMX track. Two-time defending gold medalist Maris Strombergs of Latvia and reigning world champion Joris Daudet of France weren’t as fortunate on Thursday at the Summer Olympics. A crash-filled quarterfinal round on a breezy

CONROE, Texas — A Southeast Texas man serving life in prison for the suffocation of his girlfriend’s child in 1998 has been released and charges dismissed because of what prosecutors say is a lack of evidence. Neal Hampton Robbins said nothing Thursday as he left the Montgomery County courthouse in Conroe after appearing in court.

HOUSTON — Major League Baseball owners approved the sale of a controlling stake in the Seattle Mariners from Nintendo of America to a group of minority owners led by Western Wireless Corp. founder John Stanton and retired Microsoft executive Chris Larson. The sale was announced in April and approved Thursday. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Thanks to the efforts of local volunteers, three Girl Scout camps in Missouri will avoid the closure. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2bgsAuo ) reports that five camps in the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland council were scheduled to close, but three have been rescued by local volunteers. Girl Scouts of

HONOLULU — A Texas couple is suing footwear maker Crocs and a Waikiki resort after their 2-year-old son’s foot got caught in an escalator while the family visited Hawaii for an oral surgeon convention. The lawsuit says the Crocs shoes were “negligently and improperly designed,” while the Hilton Hawaiian Village was also negligent in maintaining

CLEVELAND — A Cleveland police detective accused of striking a handcuffed woman in the face after she spat at officers has been placed on administrative duty. Cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/2bB06JN ) reports police Chief Calvin Williams said the detective will be restricted to paperwork and other in-office tasks until investigators determine what happened. Williams says other officers

BATON ROUGE, La. — Anger. Sorrow. Vengeful glee. Guilt. Terrence Carter has experienced it all during Baton Rouge’s summer of pain. And on Thursday, as he walked through the dirty water on the floor of his home, Carter said he was experiencing, of all things, hope. “A couple of weeks ago, it seems like everybody

JACKSON, Miss. — A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office says a Texas lawyer and at least two other people have been acquitted of charges that they tried to commit fraud after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Jurors began delivering verdicts Thursday afternoon, according to Sheila Wilbanks, the spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Gregory

RIO DE JANEIRO — Leaning over, hands on her knees and cheering at every chance, injured U.S. star Foluke Akinradewo could only watch. The top-ranked Americans had fought back to force a fifth set against Serbia before falling short — short of the gold-medal goal that had driven her and others back to the national

NEW YORK — Drake is dominating at the BET Hip Hop Awards for a third year, garnering the most nominations with 14. BET said Thursday that the “Hotline Bling” rapper is nominated for album of the year, best live performer and other awards, to be presented Sept. 17 in Atlanta. The show will tape at

DETROIT — Dave Dombrowski was back in his old ballpark, exactly one year after being hired by the Boston Red Sox. He made the trip to Detroit with the Red Sox for a four-game series that began Thursday. It’s Boston’s first visit to Comerica Park this season. “I guess mixed emotions. Many great memories, and

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympic celebration for Spain’s women’s basketball team is on. The Spaniards are guaranteed to receive the country’s first medal in the sport at the Rio Games. They’re so excited the party might still be going on, even with Saturday’s final looming. Alba Torrens and Astou Ndour each scored 14 points

SALINA, Kan. — A $7.5 million campaign to move the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina campus to downtown Salina is 84 percent of the way to its fundraising goal. The Salina Regional Health Foundation announced Wednesday that more than $6.3 million has been raised in the Blueprint for Rural Health campaign, including a $2