Новости за 24.01.2020

State and local governments have been leading the legal fight against the opioid industry, seeking payouts to help them deal with the fallout from the nation’s addiction crisis. Average Americans are about to get their shot. On Friday, the federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma set a June 30 deadline to file

BERLIN — The German soccer federation says it has a “special responsibility” to support Holocaust Memorial Day as its former president Felix Linnemann was directly responsible for sending victims to be murdered at the Auschwitz extermination camp. The DFB said on Friday that Linnemann, who led the federation from 1925 to 1945, “was directly involved

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. — The owner of an island home off South Carolina’s coast is suing Airbnb, claiming it only reimbursed him for a “fraction” of the damages that a guest who threw a big party did to his home. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, Scott Shaw said the party left his

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Perfect at home and flawed on the road, No. 17 Maryland hopes it’s found the solution to a weakness that has afflicted several Big Ten contenders. The Terrapins (15-4, 5-3) trailed last-place Northwestern by 14 at halftime Tuesday before rallying to win their first away game of the season. Whether that

NEW YORK — Celebrities, beware: “Punk’d” is being revived. And this time Chance the Rapper is the one doing the punk’ing. MTV Studios and Quibi said Friday they are teaming up to revive the show with Grammy-winner Chance the Rapper pranking unsuspecting A-listers. No date was announced but the show will be available only on

CAMDEN, Ala. — The parents of an Alabama first-grader were taken into custody after the child accidentally fired a gun at school Friday, officials said. The incident happened at J.E. Hobbs Elementary School in rural Wilcox County, where District Attorney Michael Jackson said a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to school and the weapon went

MOBILE, Ala. — Jalen Hurts and Shea Patterson started for two Power 5 programs, Justin Herbert passed for 10,000-plus yards for another and Jordan Love became a highly rated prospect without playing for one. The Senior Bowl quarterbacks followed different paths to potential NFL careers, but they started this week on a more even playing

SHREWSBURY, England — The world’s best soccer team is coming to Shrewsbury, a quaint market town near the border of England and Wales, and the local mayor has mixed emotions. “Being something of an armchair Liverpool supporter, I’m going to be a little conflicted,” Phil Gillam says ahead of Sunday’s match in the FA Cup.

PARIS — France on Friday announced two cases of the deadly new virus from China, the first cases in Europe. The two confirmed cases were announced by the health minister, Agnes Buzyn. She said that both of the sickened people had traveled to China. The minister said she expects more cases. “We have two cases,”

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears are raising season ticket prices after a disappointing year. The Bears announced Friday that season tickets will go up between 1.6% to 5.3% for 2020. The average increase for club seats will be 3.3% and 4.3% for non-club seats. The team also said prices for individual game tickets

LÜNEN, Germany — Iran’s only female Olympic medalist said Friday she wants to compete for Germany after defecting from her native country. Kimia Alizadeh is trying to rebuild her life and career after she announced this month she had left Iran, citing sexism on the part of officials there. “Even if I do not make

LOS ANGELES — Rapper YG was arrested Friday at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of robbery just two days before he is scheduled to perform at the Grammy Awards, officials said. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies took YG, whose real name is Keenon Jackson, into custody at his Chatsworth home as they served a

NEW ORLEANS — As 84-year-old Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw looks back, he’s still looking ahead too — fiddling, singing, writing and performing as the quintessential “Louisiana Man.” Kershaw taught himself to play by surreptitiously using his daddy’s fiddle at age 5. And in a life marked with struggles, drug addiction and family trauma, he’s

“The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties,” Simon & Schuster, by Christopher Caldwell This is a sweeping but insightful examination into every social, political and legal decision, movement and trend that leaves us where we are today in a polarized nation. Author Christopher Caldwell traces the origins of today’s deep discords to President John

NEWINGTON, Conn. — An Amtrak train collided Friday with a maintenance truck working on the tracks in Connecticut, resulting in minor injuries to six people on the train, officials said. Two workers were inside the truck when they saw the train approaching as they worked on the tracks in Newington. The workers were able to

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — IMSA will create a new car for its top class that will be eligible to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans by 2022. The new car will be called the Le Mans Daytona h and be eligible for teams to compete for both the FIA World Endurance championship and

BEIRUT — When Nazih Khalaf heard that protests were taking place Oct. 17 in Lebanon’s capital over government plans to impose new taxes, he was just returning from south of Beirut where he’d been working to put out deadly wildfires that had been raging for days. The 42-year-old media activist hopped in a shower and

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning retired from the NFL after 16 seasons just the way he wanted, as a hard-working, career-long New York Giant who did it his way in leading the franchise to two Super Bowls. Saying he had no regrets, the 39-year-old Manning officially ended his career on Friday at a packed

Ethan Gruska, “En Garde” (Warner Records) Ethan Gruska has a well-deserved reputation for dreamy experimentation. From his work with the Fleetwood Mac-adjacent Belle Brigade to his 2017 solo debut, “Slowmotionary,” the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has long demonstrated an adventurous musical spirit. Sometimes the experiments succeed, sometimes they don’t. That pattern continues on Gruska’s latest solo

ANKARA, Turkey — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 rocked eastern Turkey on Friday, causing some buildings to collapse and killing at least four people, Turkish officials said. The quake struck at 1755 GMT, 8:55 p.m. local time at a depth of 6.7 kilometers — near the town of Sivrice in the eastern

GRAZ, Austria — Russia swept the top three places in the women’s short program at the European figure skating championships on Friday. Alena Kostornaia leads with 84.92 points ahead of Saturday’s free skate, with Anna Shcherbakova second on 77.95 and Alexandra Trusova third on 74.95. That puts Russia on track to finish 1-2-3 in the

NEW YORK — Walmart says it’s testing higher wages for new hourly positions at 500 of its U.S. stores as part of an overall strategy to better empower its staff. The nation’s largest private employer, which operates roughly 4,700 namesake stores in the U.S., says it will be raising the starting hourly wages to $12

Star England allrounder Ben Stokes has apologized for swearing at a cricket fan while leaving the field after being dismissed on the opening day of the series-deciding final test against South Africa on Friday. Stokes said he was subjected to “repeated abuse from the crowd” when he was walking off but “I should not have

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Moms are coming to the aid of a mother who says she was asked to cover up while breastfeeding inside a Chick-fil-A in Georgia. Mothers held a “nurse-in” this week at the fast food restaurant near Augusta, The Augusta Chronicle reported. Samantha McIntosh says she was breastfeeding her 7-month-old daughter in a

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, England — The Ladies European Tour will have its biggest schedule in nearly a decade and record prize money that includes bonus money for the top three players at the end of the season. The 24 tournaments held in 16 countries offers a total prize fund of nearly 18 million euros (about $19.5 million),