Новости за 24.10.2018

WASHINGTON — A top U.S. official is accusing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of illegally exporting tons of gold in a bid to rescue his country’s collapsing economy. U.S. Treasury’s Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea said Wednesday that Maduro is “looting” his country’s gold reserves in a new strategy to replace Venezuela’s failing oil industry. Billingslea said

DENVER — Prosecutors have filed a second-degree assault charge against a Denver police officer accused of beating a 17-year-old suspect with a metal baton, breaking his nose and leg. Denver District Attorney Beth McCann’s office formally filed the charge Wednesday against 50-year-old Sgt. Joseph Rodarte, who was arrested Thursday. Rodarte could not be reached Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Fourteen of 15 U.S. diplomats pulled from China for medical testing this year have been found not to have the same set of injuries as personnel evacuated earlier from Cuba, the State Department said Wednesday. The department said 14 of the 15 brought to the U.S. for medical testing earlier this year did

NEW YORK — Justin Timberlake says he is postponing his Wednesday night concert in New York City because his vocal cords are “severely bruised.” The pop star writes on Instagram that under doctor’s orders he must postpone his show at Madison Square Garden. He performed at the famed venue on Monday night. Timberlake says he

JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. — The Latest on a shooting at a Kentucky grocery (all times local): 5:30 p.m. Police say two people have died in a shooting at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky. Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers confirmed the deaths at the store Wednesday. He said two people were dead

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A South Dakota board has granted compassionate parole to a man sentenced to nearly 60 years in prison for molesting boys while working as a counselor at a former state juvenile correctional center. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles granted 72-year-old Darwin Heuer the parole last week. Heuer was the

Texas A&M Last season: 22-13, reached Sweet 16 Nickname: Aggies Coach: Billy Kennedy Conference: Southeastern Conference Who’s gone: Forward Robert Williams (NBA), center Tyler Davis (NBA), forward DJ Hogg (NBA) and center Tonny Trocha-Morelos, guard Duane Wilson. Who’s back: Guard Admon Gilder considered the NBA before deciding to return for his senior season, giving the

David Crosby, “Here If You Listen” (BMG) Crosby, Stevens, Willis & League doesn’t have the ring or reputation of David Crosby’s other multi-named band with Stills, Nash & Young, but “Here If You Listen” makes it wonderfully clear that the 77-year-old’s association with Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Snarky Puppy bandleader Michael League is also

NEW YORK — The Latest on New York’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Exxon Mobil is calling New York’s lawsuit against the Texas energy giant tainted and meritless. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood says Exxon Mobil misled investors about the risks that climate change poses to its operations. She says

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The New Orleans Pelicans will field a G League team in Birmingham starting in the 2022-23 season. The Pelicans announced Wednesday they have acquired the rights to the NBA G League team, giving the developmental league 28 teams by the 2019-20 season. The team, which hasn’t been named, will play next season

DEARBORN, Mich. — The Latest on Ford’s third quarter earnings (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Ford Motor Co.’s net profit fell 37 percent in the third quarter as sales slowed in the U.S. and China. The company says it made $991 million from July through September, or 25 cents per share. Revenue was up 3

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A month ago, quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr. was breaking school records and Ohio State was threatening to run the table and cruise into the College Football Playoff. During Saturday’s rout by unranked Purdue, however, problems that have nagged the No. 11 Buckeyes for weeks came home to roost: Their running backs couldn’t

Lukas Graham, “3 (The Purple Album)” (Warner Bros.) The new Lukas Graham album opens with the band attending funerals of their friends and the lead singer offering this hope for survivors: “I pray you won’t reach for that rope.” Things don’t get much happier from there for the Danish band. Frontman Lukas Forchhammer, whose optimistic

TRENTON, N.J. — The maker of an expensive cholesterol drug is slashing the list price, which should make it more affordable for patients. Amgen Inc. said Wednesday it is immediately cutting the price of Repatha by 60 percent, from about $14,000 to $5,850 per year. The move could help boost Amgen’s share in the U.S.

HOUSTON — When the Texans host the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night it will be a matchup of Houston’s quarterback of the future in Deshaun Watson and one of the many failed quarterbacks of the team’s past in Brock Osweiler. It will be Osweiler’s third straight start in place of Ryan Tannehill, who is out

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — A northwestern Indiana Catholic priest who claimed he was attacked by an assailant mentioning clergy sex abuse is on leave after church officials deemed a 2004 abuse claim against him to be “credible.” Attorney James Niehaus for the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, tells the Post-Tribune that church officials received new

NEW YORK — The Latest on the conviction of three college basketball recruiting insiders (all times local): 3:45 p.m. Adidas says it will continue to work with the NCAA and “other stakeholders” to improve “the environment around college basketball” following the conviction of three recruiting insiders. The company said in a statement it cooperated fully

BASEL, Switzerland — Alexander Zverev became the first man to reach 50 wins on the ATP Tour this season by beating Robin Haase 6-4, 7-5 Wednesday in the first round of the Swiss Indoors. The second-seeded German moved to 50-16 in a season that has brought three titles, including the Madrid Masters. Zverev converted all

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the arrests of alleged white supremacists in Southern California (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Officials say the leader of a Southern California white supremacist group has been ordered to remain jailed until his trial on charges of inciting to riot last year in Charlottesville, Virginia. U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kareem Hunt spent the first few weeks of the season doing what he called “dirty work,” which mostly amounted to carrying the ball late in games as the Kansas City Chiefs tried to run out the clock. The Chiefs didn’t really need the NFL’s reigning rushing champ the way Patrick Mahomes

Wichita State Last season: 25-8, lost in first round of NCAA Tournament Nickname: Shockers Coach: Gregg Marshall Conference: American Who’s gone: SG Landry Shamet (NBA), SG Austin Reaves (transferred to Oklahoma), PF Brett Barney (transferred to Omaha), PG Kaelen Malone (transferred to Newman), SG C.J. Keyser (transferred to North Carolina Central), F Rashard Kelly, F

Gregg Marshall was asked not long ago if he could recall the last time he spent so much time in practice teaching, and Wichita State’s coach allowed his mind to drift back more than two decades. He still came back with nothing. Not as an assistant tiny Randolph-Macon or Belmont Abbey. Not during those years

MANAMA, Bahrain — About 100 members of a U.S. Army training brigade scheduled to leave Afghanistan next month will take the unusual step of returning in February to help the next unit of advisers coming in, U.S. military officials told The Associated Press. The advisers’ return is intended to help compensate for a monthslong break

NEW YORK — An Adidas executive and two other insiders from the high-stakes world of college basketball recruiting were convicted Wednesday in a corruption case that prosecutors said exposed the underbelly of the sport. A federal jury in Manhattan found former Adidas executive James Gatto, business manager Christopher Dawkins and amateur league director Merle Code

DES MOINES, Iowa — Call it the world’s largest lottery prize that wasn’t. The Mega Millions jackpot that had been announced as the biggest ever at $1.6 billion ended up being the second-biggest at $1.537 billion. It’s a difference that likely means little to the lucky person who bought the ticket in South Carolina and