Новости за 17.02.2017

WASHINGTON — Even infants can have conversations with mom or dad. Their turn just tends to involve a smile or some gibberish instead of words. That’s a key lesson from programs that are coaching parents to talk more with their babies — and recording their attempts. At issue is how to bridge the infamous “word

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Clint Bowyer hasn’t won a race since 2012, hasn’t made the playoffs in three years and is coming off an embarrassingly bad season. The worst of his career. It was so bad the one-time championship contender was a backmarker in nearly every event. But there was never reason to panic for

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the largest branch of American Judaism declared their opposition Friday to the combative attorney President Donald Trump selected to be his envoy to Israel, citing his “extreme views” and dearth of professional foreign policy experience. The liberal Union for Reform Judaism said in a statement that David Friedman is the

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — First baseman Marwin Gonzalez and the Houston Astros have finalized a one-year contract worth $3,725,000, a deal that avoided salary arbitration. The deal, announced Thursday, includes a 2018 club option worth $5,125,000 and has awarded bonuses. When the sides exchanged proposed salaries last month, Gonzalez asked for a raise from

DETROIT — BMW AG is recalling more than 19,000 i3 REx plug-in hybrids in the U.S. because they could develop a fuel vapor leak that would increase the risk of a fire. Cars from the 2014 to 2017 model years produced between March 2014 and December 2016 are affected by the recall. BMW says a

LAWRENCE, Kan. — There’s a very simple reason every rival coach picked Kansas to win the Big 12 this season: Only one of those coaches has been around when the Jayhawks failed to do it. That was Baylor’s Scott Drew. And it was well over a decade ago. Now, the pressure is on Drew and

HOOVER, Ala. — Former NFL running back Trent Richardson is facing a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Alabama. Police in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover say the 26-year-old Richardson was jailed Friday with bond set at $1,000. A police statement says officers received a call about yelling coming from a guest room at a hotel

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Glen Perkins’ professional baseball career began with the Minnesota Twins organization. He wants it to end that way too. He’s just not quite ready for that day to come. “In an ideal world I’d get to finish here,” Perkins said. “I’ve been in the organization for 14 years, but there are

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A Penn State fraternity where a pledge was fatally injured in a fall down the stairs earlier this month was shut down Friday, and the school said it was working to tighten anti-hazing measures. The university said it will be at least five years before the Beta Theta Pi chapter might

HONOLULU — Minor shaking was felt across Hawaii’s island chain Friday morning after a moderate earthquake struck between the Big Island and Maui, but no damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.7 temblor was recorded at about 26 miles deep and centered about 15 miles off the northwest coast of the Big

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. was confident NASCAR took the right step Friday when it beefed up its concussion protocol by adding a consistent screening rule at all venues. “Good to see progress being made and implemented. Health and safety is top priority,” Earnhardt tweeted . Earnhardt, long NASCAR’s most popular driver, was

HARTFORD, Conn. — No matter if Connecticut can’t attract another professional hockey team to its capital city, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday the aging XL Center in downtown Hartford still needs to be either overhauled or ultimately shuttered. The Democrat’s new budget plan proposes borrowing $250 million over several years to renovate the downtown

PHILADELPHIA — The Latest on Boarding School-Sex Abuse (all times local): 3 p.m. A Pennsylvania boarding school official says he will be “vigilant” in following new policies to prevent the type of sexual abuse described in a former student’s lawsuit. Solebury School head Tom Wilschutz says the woman came forward in response to a letter

MESA, Ariz. — The day in early October when Chip Hale lost his job as manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, he called his good friend Bob Melvin. Just to talk. The two go back many years in baseball — Hale was Melvin’s third base coach in Arizona from 2007-09 and bench coach in Oakland from

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Baltimore Orioles have been eager to get back to work and forget about losing the wild-card game to the Toronto Blue Jays last October. On Friday, they took another step in that process. As Baltimore took the field for its first full-squad workout most of the prominent names were present, except

CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Zoo says one of three Malayan tiger cubs at its nursery has been treated by a chiropractor. The zoo says one of the newborn cubs was having trouble holding its head up. A chiropractor determined the cub’s top cervical bone was out of alignment. After three adjustments, the cub’s neck and

AUSTIN, Texas — The NBA has warned that Texas could be overlooked for future events because of a proposed “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people. The Texas legislation is similar to a North Carolina law that prompted the league to move the All-Star Game out of that state. Texas’ proposed law would require people to use

AUSTIN, Texas — No. 8 Texas has shaken off early-season struggles to look like the team everyone thought they would be. With a 19-game winning streak — the second-longest in the country behind Connecticut’s 100 — and sitting in first place in the Big 12, Texas heads into a critical weekend: The team is on

YORK, Maine — A former Roman Catholic priest who spent more than a decade in a Massachusetts prison for raping an altar boy has made an initial court appearance in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct. Ronald Paquin appeared before a judge via video conference from jail on Friday. The 74-year-old is now accused

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Brandon Phillips was struck by the oddity of being traded to a team that includes 43-year-old pitcher Bartolo Colon. “It’s crazy being on he same team with the guy I got traded for,” the new Atlanta Braves second baseman said Friday after his first spring training workout. “I think we’re the only

MILAN — The appearance of an oasis of palm trees opposite Milan’s gothic-era Duomo Cathedral has spawned a vibrant public debate. Twitter is awash with palm-inspired memes, including pink palms in front of an aquamarine-colored Duomo subtitled, Milano Vice, referring to the 1980s television series. A well-known landscape architect wrote a page-one criticism in the

NEW ORLEANS — Cleveland’s LeBron James and New York’s Carmelo Anthony did not attend NBA All-Star media day events on Friday. The NBA said James had a family matter to deal with, and that he would be in New Orleans with his Eastern Conference teammates for practice on Saturday. Anthony was permitted to miss the

NEW YORK — As the final votes pour in ahead of the Academy Awards’ Tuesday afternoon deadline, Hollywood is drawing to a close an awards season that has, from Nate Parker to Mel Gibson, often been a confounding morality play. By even movie standards, the dramatic swings of fortune are hard to believe. Parker, hailed

UNITED NATIONS — United Nations officials say 1 million children urgently need humanitarian aid in eastern Ukraine, and the number has nearly doubled in a year. The U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF, reported the statistic Friday. More than 9,800 people have died since government forces and Russia-backed separatist rebels began fighting in April 2014. UNICEF says

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons have finalized their revamped coaching staff, less than two weeks after their disheartening loss in the Super Bowl to New England. The Falcons announced Friday seven new hires, including former Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood as assistant offensive line coach and offensive assistant Charlie Weis Jr., the son