Новости за 19.02.2017

MADISON, Wis. — Nigel Hayes scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half, Ethan Happ had 20 points and No. 11 Wisconsin beat No. 23 Maryland 71-60 in a choppy, foul-filled game today.

LAKELAND, Fla. — When the Detroit Tigers indicated they were willing to listen to offers for their top players, Ian Kinsler became a prime candidate to be traded.

Ann Ravel, one of the three Democratic appointees on the deeply divided Federal Election Commission, announced Sunday that she will leave her post on March 1, setting up one of the first tests of how President Donald Trump will approach campaign finance regulation.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister turned down a regional peace initiative last year that was brokered by then-American Secretary of State John Kerry, former U.S. officials confirmed today, in apparent contradiction to his stated goal of involving regional Arab powers in resolving Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians.

NEW YORK — Ketchup maker and packaged food giant Kraft Heinz has withdrawn a $143 billion offer to buy Unilever, backing away after the mayonnaise, tea and seasonings maker rejected the bid as too low.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Joey Logano won the Clash at Daytona today, stealing a victory when leader Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski wrecked on the final lap.

WOODBURN, Ore. — Police say they arrested a former NFL player after he tried to force his way into an Oregon home and then took his clothes off.

BOGOTA, Colombia — A homemade bomb exploded near Bogota’s bullring today, killing a police officer and injuring as many as 31 bystanders.

NEW YORK — “The Great Wall” was a hit in China. In North America, it was a dud.

PRESIDIO, Texas  — Two hunters accused of shooting each other on a remote Texas ranch near the Mexican border had told authorities that they were shot by immigrants who had entered the country illegally.

PARIS — French activists are demonstrating against corruption amid a presidential campaign marked by a fake jobs investigation and other legal scandals.

FLORIDA, N.Y. — When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. But she soon realized that her home had been ransacked, and that her other dog, Quigley, was lying dead on his favorite blanket in the living room.

HELSINKI — Swedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing President Donald Trump’s remarks that suggested a major incident had happened in the Scandinavian country.

CLEVELAND — Election officials in two major metropolitan areas in northern Ohio plan to begin using electronic poll books this year, joining more than two-thirds of Ohio’s 88 counties in making the switch from paper lists to check in voters.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA’s long-idled moonshot pad today, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago.

WASHINGTON — When North Korea fired a ballistic missile into waters between South Korea and Japan, President Donald Trump moved quickly to show U.S. resolve. He appeared within hours alongside visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and said the U.S. “stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.”

MUNICH — Iran’s foreign minister brushed aside new pressure from the United States today, declaring that his country is “unmoved by threats” but responds well to respect.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that killed 34 today. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who planned the blast.

MONEY, Miss. — Deep in the Mississippi Delta, in a blip of a place called Money, an old grocery store decays.

Rogers showed more moxie Saturday than it had all season.

ANN ARBOR — The scene on national signing day was not unfamiliar from countless media sessions at the University of Michigan.

Dre Ware forgot his keys ... and it changed his life.

Gibsonburg captured a third consecutive league wrestling team title with six individual champions Saturday.

The somber announcement came just recently — the Midwest Open Ice Fishing Tournament, one of the largest frozen angling extravaganzas in this part of the country and an event that creates a mid-winter buzz throughout the Irish Hills, had been cancelled because of the lack of a solid foundation — ice.

Sienna sat calmly on a makeshift exam table as volunteer veterinary technicians checked her skin, eyes, and ears and gave her vaccines.