Новости за 23.10.2019

SAN FRANCISCO — The state’s largest utility began another widespread blackout Wednesday that could affect hundreds of thousands of people as dangerous fire weather returns to California. The Santa Rosa Fire Department tweeted that shutoffs had started in the city and it was getting multiple reports of outages. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. previously said

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge is blocking a new law that would allow doctors who perform medication abortions to face felony charges for not informing women about the possibility of reversing the process. Oklahoma County District Judge Don Andrews issued a temporary injunction that prevents the law from taking effect Nov. 1. The injunction

DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co.’s third-quarter net income tumbled nearly 60% as the company booked $1.5 billion in charges mainly for restructuring, and Chinese and U.S. sales fell. The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker knocked a half-billion dollars off its pretax earnings guidance for the full year. Ford now says it will make $6.5 billion to

DENVER — Olivia Gant’s mother brought her to the emergency room when she was 2, saying the girl was having trouble eating. Kelly Turner, who had recently moved to Colorado from Texas with her three daughters, told the doctor she had problems nursing and other complications feeding Olivia since she was born. Over several years,

NEW YORK — Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” is heading back into theaters with 10 minutes of added scenes. Sony Pictures said Wednesday that the longer “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” will play in more than 1,000 theaters in the U.S. and Canada beginning Friday. The new running time

There’s no cheering — or jeering — in the press box. Impartiality should be the guiding tenet of any journalist. Yet, the Houston Astros are making it really, really tough to abide by that principle. This is an organization that clearly has no respect for the media — female sports writers, in particular — or

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian swimmer Brent Hayden is coming out of retirement after seven years with a goal of competing at the 2020 Olympics. The 36-year-old Hayden said Wednesday he left because he “hated the sport” but now realizes he has a chance to “fall in love with the sport again.” Hayden retired after

BEIRUT — Once again, Syrian President Bashar Assad has snapped up a prize from world powers that have been maneuvering in his country’s multifront wars. Without firing a shot, his forces are returning to towns and villages in northeastern Syria where they haven’t set foot for years. Assad was handed one victory first by U.S.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn says quarterback Matt Ryan is hopeful he’ll return from a sprained ankle to play against Seattle. As expected, Ryan did not practice Wednesday. He also may sit out Thursday’s practice. Quinn says the team “will have a better sense” of the quarterback’s status for Sunday’s game

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Colorado Avalanche say forward Mikko Rantanen is week to week with a lower-body injury. The 2019 All-Star caught an edge in the ice and awkwardly twisted his left skate during the second period of Monday night’s loss in St. Louis. He didn’t return. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Wednesday after practice

NEW YORK — Mark Twain’s adventures overseas, and the irreverent book which helped make him famous, will be featured in an upcoming exhibit at the New-York Historical Society. “Mark Twain and the Holy Land” opens Friday and runs through Feb. 2. The exhibit follows Twain’s so-called “Great Pleasure Excursion” to Europe and the Holy Land

OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma. Court records show 26-year-old William T. Gangemi of Freehold, New Jersey, was accused of violating a federal law against the sale or purchase of illegally collected wildlife with a

LEIPZIG, Germany — Marcel Sabitzer scored with a sublime volley as Leipzig came from behind to end a four-game winless streak and boost its chances of Champions League progress with a 2-1 win over Zenit St. Petersburg on Wednesday. Sabitzer netted the winner in the 59th minute after controlling a cross with his chest and

SANTIAGO, Chile — Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets Chile’s capital as an apology and promises of reform from President Sebastián Piñera failed to quell turmoil that has led to looting, rioting and at least 18 deaths. Many protesters are waving the national flag and shouting: “Chile has woken up!” Others

TRENTON, N.J. — A violent biker gang that is involved in illegal drug trafficking and considers women to be “below dogs” is growing in New Jersey at an alarming rate, state investigators said Wednesday at a public hearing. Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, or the Pagans, which now has about 300 members statewide and roughly 900 countrywide,

Purdue coach Matt Painter turned the page on the Carsen Edwards era long ago. Now he expects everyone else to do the same. Seven months after Edwards nearly led Purdue to the Final Four and four months after he was drafted by the NBA, Painter finds himself contemplating how the next chapter in the Boilermakers’

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Rob Phinisee understands the secret to being an effective point guard, how he must find the proper balance between being an aggressive scorer and a creative distributor. This season, Indiana coach Archie Miller asked his sophomore ball-handler to focus on another critical skill: developing a strong enough voice to help the Hoosiers

NEW YORK — It’s not exactly the stuff of “Stop the presses!” that some of the greatest filmmakers in the world have misgivings about the rise of the superhero film and its outsized place in our film culture. And yet recent critical comments by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have been greeted like entreaties

AMSTERDAM — Substitute Michy Batshuayi scored a late winner Wednesday as Chelsea rode its luck to beat Ajax 1-0 in the Champions League and throw Group H wide open. The Belgium striker fired in off the underside of the bar from close range in the 86th, 15 minutes after coming on as a replacement for

HOUSTON — Sonny Dykes knows No. 16 SMU just needs to keep winning games. He is not really concerned right now about the Mustangs being the highest-ranked Group of Five team and what that could eventually mean if they stay that way. “I don’t know that we understand any of that right now,” Dykes said.

SOMERSET, Calif. — The Latest on a deputy fatally shot in Northern California (all times local): 11:35 a.m. Authorities say one sheriff’s deputy was killed and an off-duty deputy has been injured after they were shot while responding to a call in the rural Sierra Nevada foothills. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office says Deputy

NEW YORK — Lizzo is sharing writing credit on her hit song “Truth Hurts” with the creator behind the song’s signature line, but not with two other writers who claim they also contributed to the track. “Truth Hurts” features the popular line, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch,”

Just last week, the Green Bay-Kansas City game was looming as one of the largest in the NFL this season. Then Patrick Mahomes went down with a dislocated kneecap, tainting a bit this made-for-prime-time TV matchup against Packers counterpart Aaron Rodgers. Matt Moore, as experienced as he is, doesn’t the produce the same what-will-he-do-next wizardry

TEL AVIV, Israel — Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says Brexit is the “saddest thing” that’s happened to Britain and Europe since World War II. Speaking in Israel, where he was inaugurating new Virgin Atlantic services, Branson said British voters were “misled” before the 2016 referendum and if given another chance would vote to stay

Allison Moorer, “Blood” (Autotelic/Thirty Tigers) Darkness is the first word of one song and a recurring image on “Blood.” No wonder — Allison Moorer’s autobiographical album explores damage done by her parents’ murder-suicide in 1986 when she was 14. Moorer has also written a new memoir, and “Blood” makes the personal universal, with inspiration to