Новости за 10.05.2017

CARACAS, Venezuela — Jhonny Reyes’ son left the house to join students in an anti-government protest a few days ago, one of hundreds of thousands of angry people who have flooded Venezuela’s streets in demonstrations often blocked by police and soldiers. He wound up in front of a military tribunal, accused of inciting rebellion and

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Hands on and lots of hand-offs? No longer. The Denver Broncos’ upcoming rookie minicamp reflects a change in the way many teams handle the draft class introduction into the NFL. “We’re going to have a rookie orientation, and it’s not going to be all football,” coach Vance Joseph said. “It’s going to

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Dakota Access pipeline leaked 84 gallons of oil in South Dakota early last month, which an American Indian tribe says bolsters its argument that the pipeline jeopardizes its water supply and deserves further environmental review. The April 4 spill was relatively small and was quickly cleaned up, and it didn’t threaten

CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Police in Virginia have charged a white man with a hate crime after, they say, he intentionally struck a black woman’s car and pulled her from her vehicle. Chesterfield County police say 27-year-old Matthew Ellis began shouting at the driver last week while she was waiting to make a turn, then followed

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania woman who says she had an eight-year affair with author Norman Mailer has lost a defamation lawsuit over a Mailer biography that describes their relationship as “strictly sexual.” A judge dismissed ex-supermodel Carole Mallory’s lawsuit after finding she offered no evidence that biographer J. Michael Lennon or his publisher acted with

RICHMOND, Va. — The Latest on a federal appeals court’s consideration of a challenge to a North Carolina law allowing magistrates with religious objections to refuse to perform same-sex marriages (all times local): 1:30 p.m. An attorney for North Carolina says a state law letting magistrates refuse to perform same-sex marriages ensures the state complies

WASHINGTON — The federal government ran the second highest monthly surplus on record this April as tax revenues were pushed higher by a change in the deadline for corporate tax payments. In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that the surplus for April totaled $182.4 billion, the second largest surplus after a

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has described the second leg of his team’s Europa League semifinal against Celta Vigo on Thursday as “the most important match of our history.” United, a three-time European champion and 20-time English champion, leads 1-0 from the first leg in Spain last week. The winner of the

INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar driver Sebastian Saavedra will get a chance to start his sixth career Indianapolis 500 after being hired Wednesday by Juncos Racing. The 26-year-old Colombian’s best finish at Indy was with 15th in 2014. He did not compete in the series last season. Saavedra and Spencer Pigot will be teammates and both will

WASHINGTON — The first photos of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to be made public came from the Russian government, not the White House. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a photo of Trump and Lavrov shaking hands in the Oval Office. The Russian Embassy followed on Twitter with

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An officer used “unreasonable” force that wasn’t part of his training when subduing a restrained suspect in a way that appeared to show him kicking the suspect in the head, police in Ohio said Wednesday. The Columbus Division of Police announced the finding in the case of an April 8 arrest that

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A man accused of shooting two sheriff’s deputies, one fatally, in an Iowa jail escape has been returned to that state to face charges. Officials say 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty was picked up from an Omaha, Nebraska, jail Wednesday and taken to the Pottawattamie County Courthouse in Council Bluffs for his initial

NORMAN, Okla. — The Republican district attorney in a left-leaning Oklahoma college town said he will pursue remaining charges in a controversial drug paraphernalia case despite three acquittals and one hung jury so far. Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn is pursuing criminal charges stemming from two 2015 raids of The Friendly Market in Norman,

BEIRUT — With the Trump administration’s decision to supply Syria’s Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons, U.S. troops inside Syria are in the crossfire between Turkey, a powerful NATO ally, and the Kurdish fighters that Ankara deems as terrorists. In only a few months under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has almost doubled the number of

BALTIMORE — Officials say four Johns Hopkins University undergraduates were hospitalized for apparent opioid overdoses following a fraternity house party. The school mentioned the overdoses in a public safety advisory emailed to its student body Tuesday evening. According to the email, the Delta Phi fraternity has been suspended by its national organization and is not

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s national oil company says oil production in the violence-plagued country has exceeded 800,000 barrels a day for the first time since 2014. NOC said on Wednesday that production could also reach 1,000,000 barrels per day, if contractual issues are resolved. Libya descended into chaos with its 2011 civil war, which ended

LOGAN, Utah — A judge in Utah ruled Wednesday that a teenage boy accused of shooting a 14-year-old girl will be tried in adult court. First District Juvenile Court Judge Angela Fonnesbeck said that the 16-year-old boy’s alleged actions were premeditated, and that it is clear he intended to kill Deserae Turner. “He planned and

WICHITA, Kan. — The Agriculture Department is forecasting a far smaller U.S. winter wheat crop than a year ago, led by a downturn in expected production out of Kansas. The department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service on Wednesday predicted the 2017 crop would be 25 percent smaller, at 1.25 billion bushels. Its forecast average wheat yield

LONDON — A British theme park is closed to the public after an 11-year-old girl was killed on a water ride. Evha Jannath died after falling from the Splash Canyon ride. She was on a school trip Tuesday at the Drayton Manor theme park in Tamworth, 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of London, when she

CHICAGO — The U.S. women’s national team will host Brazil, Australia and Japan in the Tournament of Nations to be played in three West Coast cities this summer. The round-robin tournament will feature doubleheaders in Seattle, San Diego and Carson, California, from July 27 to Aug. 3. The U.S. Soccer Federation said Wednesday it plans

BERLIN — Stuttgart prosecutors say they have received a complaint from Germany’s financial watchdog alleging former Porsche Automobil Holding SE executives manipulated markets by not releasing information about Volkswagen’s diesel cheating soon enough. The 2016 complaint from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority was filed against executives from the holding company that controls Volkswagen including Matthias

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A Holy Cross College administrator is out of his job just days after mistakenly sending an email to students describing dismal finances for the northern Indiana school. Holy Cross interim President Rev. David Tyson said in a Monday email to students and employees that Kelly Jordan was no longer a college

DORTMUND, Germany — Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra returned to team training Wednesday after recovering from injuries sustained in last month’s bomb attack on the team bus. Bartra says in a tweet, “I’ve been looking forward to this moment for weeks! So happy to be here today. Can’t wait to compete again next to my

INDIANAPOLIS — College athletes posted record scores in the classroom for the 12th consecutive year while historically black colleges and universities continue to bear the brunt of the harshest academic penalties, according to NCAA figures released Wednesday. The NCAA’s most recent Academic Progress Report shows the four-year average in Division I was 981, two points

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Yemen’s planning minister says 60 percent of the country’s population is in dire poverty more than two years since the Shiite rebels forced the country’s internationally recognized government and president out of the capital. Mohamed El-Saadi says 22 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian relief, a figure that exceeds the