Новости за 01.11.2016

CHICAGO — Sam Bradford and the Minnesota Vikings were rolling as the NFL’s last undefeated team. Now, they can’t even beat the last-place team in their division. Bradford got sacked five times behind a leaky offensive line and the Vikings dropped their second straight in a stunning 20-10 loss to the Chicago Bears on Monday

BAZWAYA, Iraq — The Latest on developments in Iraq, where the offensive to take the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group is now in its third week (all times local): 11:50 a.m. An Iraqi special forces general says his men have entered the outskirts of Mosul and were driving ahead despite fierce resistance

TOKYO — North Korea is joyfully jumping into a bizarre political scandal rocking Seoul, calling it the inevitable result of a corrupt regime and saying the administration of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is “the most deformed, abnormal and stupid in contemporary society.” Pyongyang, while allowing none of its media the freedom to point criticism

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion, four-state project designed to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois, has become a rallying point for American Indian tribes and others determined to block it. Here’s a look at the key players connected with the protest, which began in April, heated up during the

BEIJING — Malaysia’s prime minister, embattled at home because of a financial scandal that prompted a U.S. government investigation, hopes to use his visit to Beijing this week to woo new investment and buoy up his image back home as he is shunned by Western leaders, analysts say. Prime Minister Najib Razak will meet with

TOKYO — A Tokyo metropolitan government panel reviewing costly Olympic venues has proposed downgrading the expensive rowing and canoeing site for the Tokyo Games to temporary quality, or moving the events to an existing site in northern Japan. The city-commissioned panel of outside experts, in a report submitted to Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Tuesday,

LOS ANGELES — DeAndre Jordan looked around the press room with that big, megawatt smile and playfully avoided a question about his injured thumb as though it never happened. Jordan sprained his right thumb Sunday but played with it taped on Monday night. That meant the Big Three for the Los Angeles Clippers was still

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Grammy-winning bluegrass and country artist Ricky Skaggs and bluegrass singer-turned-country star Chris Stapleton were honored at the ASCAP Country Music Awards on Monday night. The performing rights organization honored their top country writers and singers during an awards show on Halloween night at the Ryman Auditorium featuring performances by Garth Brooks, Kelsea

SEOUL, South Korea — The Latest on South Korea’s political scandal (all times local): 12:30 p.m. North Korea is joyfully jumping into a bizarre political scandal rocking Seoul, calling it the inevitable result of a corrupt regime and saying the administration of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is “the most deformed, abnormal and stupid in

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — It’s not easy to find military veterans in undergraduate programs at most Ivy League schools. Harvard has only three in its undergrad liberal arts and sciences school. Princeton, just one. Students from the eight Ivies hope to change those kinds of numbers. They see an opportunity for institutions to diversify and for

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean police detained a man who rammed a large excavator into a gate Tuesday near the office where prosecutors questioned a woman at the center of a scandal that threatens the country’s president. The woman had earlier said she “deserves death” and the detained man said he “came here to

RAMALLAH, West Bank — In a divorce court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s, victory for lawyer Reema Shamasneh is rare and often bittersweet. On this morning in March, a young nurse is desperate to end her marriage to a truck driver who she says beat her, doused her with scalding tea

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s lawyers will argue Tuesday that prosecutors are reaching back to the “casting couch” era to round up women accusers and build a “stale” sexual assault case against the entertainer. And they will take a Pennsylvania judge through a time warp to prove their point, challenging sexual misconduct claims that spanned the

BISMARCK, N.D. — Protesters at the demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline are increasingly divided over how to stop the project, with militant younger activists seeking more aggressive tactics and an older crowd arguing for peaceful protest centered on prayer. The differences came to a head last week after law enforcement officers in riot gear

BAZWAYA, Iraq — Iraq’s special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday and were advancing toward its more urban center despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an Iraqi general said. Troops have entered Gogjali, a neighborhood inside Mosul’s city limits, and were only 800 meters (yards) from the

TRENTON, N.J. — The days of cheap gas in New Jersey came to an end Tuesday when a 23-cents-per-gallon increase in the state’s gas tax took effect. New Jersey previously had the nation’s second-lowest gas tax, behind only Alaska. But the boost has catapulted it to the sixth-highest. The increase came about after the state

BOSTON — A prosecutor has told a judge that former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is now cancer-free, but should be released early from prison because he can’t eat or drink without a risk of choking. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons and federal prosecutors have recommended compassionate release for DiMasi, who has served nearly five

ZHUHAI, China — China’s J-20 stealth fighter made its public debut at an air show on Tuesday, in the latest sign of the growing sophistication of the country’s military technology. The fifth-generation warplane, which outwardly resembles the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in service with the U.S. military, performed a series of maneuvers under overcast skies

MELBOURNE, Australia — Almandin stormed down the straight to beat Heartbreak City by a long head in the 156th Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, giving owner Lloyd Williams a record fifth win in Australia’s richest race and jockey Kerrin McEvoy his second victory in the 2-mile classic. McEvoy won his previous Melbourne Cup on Brew in

CHUNKY, Miss. — A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said. Two children and one adult — all related to each other — were killed in the crash, Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Four bodies were recovered Tuesday from the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed in Indonesia’s remote, mountainous Papua province a day earlier, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said. The wreckage was found on terrain at an elevation of about 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) in the Jayawijaya area, said Henry Bambang Soelistyo,

HAVANA — For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente. The retired software entrepreneurs made worldwide headlines by winning Obama administration permission to build the first U.S. factory in Cuba since 1959. Cuban officials lauded their plans to build small tractors in the Mariel free-trade zone west

HONG KONG — Private and official surveys showed Tuesday that China’s factory activity rose last month to its highest level in more than two years, suggesting the world’s No. 2 economy is stabilizing. The Caixin monthly purchasing managers’ index climbed to 51.2 in October from 50.1 the previous month. The report found that production grew

CHICAGO — Jay Cutler threw for 252 yards and a touchdown after missing five games with a thumb injury, rookie Jordan Howard ran for a career-high 153 yards and a TD, and the Chicago Bears stunned the Minnesota Vikings 20-10 on Monday night. The Bears (2-6) sacked Sam Bradford five times while handing the NFC

CHICAGO — Quarterback Sam Bradford probably wishes now he’d bought travel insurance for the journey that brought him to Minnesota just in time for the season opener. What seemed like a steal for most of the last two months as the Vikings cruised to a 5-0 start increasingly feels like a bad trip. The Chicago