Новости за 26.02.2017

LOS ANGELES — Great reviews and buzz propelled comedian Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, the micro-budget thriller “Get Out,” to a chart-topping opening weekend with $30.5 million according to studio estimates today.

LOS ANGELES — Joseph A. Wapner, a retired California judge whose flinty-folksy style of resolving disputes on the show “The People’s Court” helped spawn an entire genre of courtroom-based reality television with no-nonsense jurists and often clueless litigants, died Feb. 26 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.

High school athlete Mack Beggs, a teenager who is transitioning from female to male, won his 110-pound weight class in the Texas girl's state championship on Saturday, according to media reports.

DUBLIN, Ohio — Wendy’s says it plans to install self-ordering kiosks at about 1,000 locations by the end of the year.

NEW YORK — Samsung’s product showcase today is notable for what’s missing: a new flagship phone.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A state certification process will require that all Ohio police departments for the first time collect data on the race and gender of people they pull over in traffic stops or take aside for questioning, in an effort to reduce potential police bias against suspects.

NEW ORLEANS — Authorities today identified the man who allegedly plowed into a crowd enjoying a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans while intoxicated.

Actor Bill Paxton, whose extensive career included films such as "The Terminator," "Aliens" and "Titanic," has died, a representative for his family said in a statement. He was 61.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The father of a Navy SEAL killed during a raid in Yemen is demanding an investigation into its planning and criticized the Trump administration for its timing.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s Daytona Day!

HOWLAND, Ohio — Police in northeast Ohio say an ongoing dispute led to a shooting that has left two people dead and three hurt.

WASHINGTON — A sobering report to governors about the potential consequences of repealing the Obama-era health care law warns that federal spending cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten many people with the loss of insurance coverage.

WALHALLA, S.C. — In the aftermath of the racially motivated Charleston church slayings in 2015, the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse during an elaborate nationally televised ceremony.

WASHINGTON — The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems poised to usher in a reversal of that trend.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon wants to expand the military’s ability to battle al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, potentially putting U.S. forces closer to the fight against a stubborn extremist group that has plotted attacks against America, senior U.S. officials said.

OREGON — Firefighters battled an early morning fire today at the Toledo Refining Company, according to a dispatcher.

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, likely died within 20 minutes of being exposed to a nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — The now two-decades-old battle to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, being waged at numerous sites around the Midwest, has evolved into an uneasy standoff of sorts here on the Chicago waterway that is universally considered the front line in this biological conflict.

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Robyn Marrufo thumbed through hundreds of seed packets Saturday, searching for just the right fruits and vegetables to grow in her garden this spring.

If the early controversies of the Reagan Administration are any indication — the contretemps over whether the Agriculture Department should count ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches and whether Interior Secretary James Watt’s view that Americans should “occupy the land until Jesus returns” was national policy — the current furors swirling around the Trump Administration are mere distractions.

Most of us, when we think of politicians, think of a clash of interests, values, and egos.

The Ohio General Assembly passed a law last year that would let drivers go through red lights in some cases. It may have been an accident. Now lawmakers are trying to fix it.