Новости за 21.03.2019

ACOMA PUEBLO, N.M. — Native American leaders are banding together to pressure U.S. officials to ban oil and gas exploration around a sacred tribal site that features massive stone structures and other remnants of an ancient civilization but are facing the Trump administration’s pro-drilling stance. Creating a formal buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park

LONDON — Visiting Paris Saint-Germain fans have been involved in violence in London before attempting to bring weapons into a Women’s Champions League game against Chelsea. The first leg of the quarterfinal was played Thursday night at the Kingsmeadow Stadium in Kingston. The Metropolitan Police say they were informed around 8 a.m. of a group

MIAMI — Shaquille O’Neal is coming back to play in Miami next week. Play music, that is. The former star center and four-time NBA champion still has a hectic life in retirement, with work as a television analyst and celebrity endorser and other off-court business interests. He’s also serious about music and will be one

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Biogen Inc., down $93.71 to $226.88 The biotechnology company is ending development of a potential Alzheimer’s disease drug after concluding it will be ineffective. Guess Inc., down $2.76 to $19.31 The clothing retailer’s fourth-quarter profit fell short of Wall Street expectations and it

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Nina O’Brien and Luke Winters each used powerful slalom runs to win Alpine combined titles at the U.S. championships. Trailing after the super-G leg, Winters made up ground in the slalom to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 54.32 seconds on Thursday at Sugarloaf Mountain. He beat Jeffrey Read

Maverick Sabre, “When I Wake Up” (FAMM) English-Irish musician Maverick Sabre doesn’t hold back on his new album “When I Wake Up.” Sabre writes with purpose and resolve on his third studio release, not shying away from topics such as faith and politics. In Sabre’s soulful opening track, “Preach,” he dives in, questioning his relationship

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — A sap bucket thief has brought a sour note to Vermont’s maple sugaring season. Fred Hopkins tells MyNBC5 that someone took 140 of his sap buckets, a first for him. Hopkins makes award-winning maple syrup at his home in the town of St. Albans and gifts it to friends and family.

ROME — Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is predicting a “stunning victory” for populists and nationalists in the European Parliament elections in two months but says they can do it without his help. Bannon has been trying to form a movement uniting populist and nationalist voters across Europe ahead of the May 23-26 vote,

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas county commission honored a sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty last year as a hero and announced his family will receive $300,000 in a worker’s compensation settlement. The Sedgwick County Commission approved settlement payouts to Deputy Robert Kunze’s widow and young daughter on Wednesday, the Wichita

WASHINGTON — A new study has found that about 4 percent of women incarcerated in state prisons were pregnant when they were jailed. The number of women behind bars has risen dramatically over the past decades. But there had been a lack of data on women’s health behind bars and no tracking system for how

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders have signed unrestricted free agent offensive lineman Jordan Devey. Devey spent the past three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs before joining the Raiders on Thursday. Devey has experience playing both guard and center and gives the Raiders depth on the interior. Devey has played 40 games with 17

TRENTON, N.J. — Days ahead of a planned vote in the Legislature that would make New Jersey the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana, Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday that the measure is short of the votes needed to pass. The Democrat spoke Thursday during a news conference alongside more than a dozen supporters of

DES MOINES, Iowa — Minnesota won its first NCAA Tournament game in six years behind 24 points from freshman Gale Kalscheur as the 10th-seeded Gophers rolled past Louisville 86-76 in the opening round of the East Region on Thursday. It was the first tournament win in Richard Pitino’s six seasons coaching the Gophers and came

LOS ANGELES — Jason Derulo is simultaneously looking ahead, looking back and looking across the ocean for his new project. In “Let’s Shut Up & Dance,” the pop singer collaborates with Asian K-pop acts Lay Zhang and NCT 127 in a trans-Pacific partnership he thinks ought to be increasingly common in the musical future. At

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia prosecutor has released a police dashcam video of a 16-year-old boy being beaten by officers during a November traffic stop. Berkeley County Prosecutor Catie Wilkes Delligatti released the eight-minute video to The Associated Press on Thursday. The teen’s face is redacted in the video, taken from a sheriff’s cruiser.

LA PAZ, Bolivia — A Brazilian soccer player who was subjected to monkey chants during a recent game in Bolivia’s professional league says racism must come to an end in the Andean country. Serginho stormed off the field Sunday during a Bolivian league game that his club Wilstermann lost 2-0 against Blooming. The 34-year-old striker

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Minnesota Timberwolves have more than likely shut down three of their top five scorers for the rest of the season with lingering injuries: Robert Covington, Derrick Rose and Jeff Teague. The Timberwolves announced before their game Thursday at Charlotte that Covington, who was the centerpiece of the package received in the

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — The PGA Tour event that doesn’t have Tiger Woods this year instead has the Leaping Cougar. That’s a childhood nickname for Joel Dahmen, who took advantage of gentle conditions on a tough golf course for a 5-under 66 to share the early lead Thursday with Sepp Straka in the Valspar Championship.

LOS ANGELES — Fox will use five commentary crews for its broadcast of this year’s Women’s World Cup, basing two teams in France and the others in its Los Angeles studio. JP Dellacamera and former national team midfielder Aly Wagner were announced last month as the lead team for the tournament, which runs from June

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have signed tight end Logan Thomas. Detroit made the move Thursday, adding depth at a position recently bolstered by the addition of Jesse James. Thomas made 19 catches for 144 yards and a touchdown over the previous two seasons with the Buffalo Bills. He was drafted as a

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local): 1:20 p.m. Another levee has breached as high water levels make their way down the flooding Missouri River. Buchanan County, Missouri, Emergency Director Management Bill Brinton says an agriculture levee breached around 11 a.m. Thursday just across the river from Atchison,

ISLAS MARIAS, Mexico — It’s unclear if Islas Marias ever really worked as a penal colony: The remote Mexican archipelago is battered regularly by hurricanes, and its ramshackle, often century-old installations are sprinkled with the ruins of failed “productive” projects that once aimed to make the prison population self-sustaining. Now, with the prison just closed,

HAMMOND, Ind. — A white police sergeant who spent 26 years with the Hammond department has resigned while under investigation for homophobic and racist comments while off duty at a bar. Lt. Steven Kellogg says the officer submitted a retirement letter Thursday, two hours before an interview. The Times reports that he was facing possible

Residents near a petrochemical storage terminal in the Houston suburb of Deer Park were warned to shelter in place for several hours on Thursday after elevated levels of benzene were detected in the air. The warning was lifted around noon after air-quality readings improved, but health officials said air monitoring will continue as firefighters and

NEW YORK — Comcast is launching an aggregated bundle of existing streaming-TV apps for $5 a month to appeal to cord-cutters. The new service, “Flex,” available March 26, brings together apps that customers already pay for, like Netflix, Amazon’s video or HBO, and free services like YouTube, Pluto and Tubi, and lets users search for