Новости за 21.03.2017

Walleye captain Alden Hirschfeld is out for the rest of the regular season with a lower-body injury.

A convicted sex offender banned from using the internet won a victory in New Jersey’s top court today in a case that echoes a larger battle being fought elsewhere in the U.S.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ governor signed legislation today ending the state’s practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same holiday as slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., leaving only two states remaining that honor the two men on the same day.

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders hope that the latest changes to their health care bill win enough votes to drive the legislation through the House later this week. It’s looking tight.

WASHINGTON  — President Trump has signed into law a bill that adds exploration of Mars as a NASA goal.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are on track for their biggest loss this year as banks tumble and industrial companies such as transportation stocks take large losses. Small-company stocks are falling more than the rest of the market.

Ivanka Trump will work out of an office in the West Wing and get a security clearance, a White House official told CNN Monday.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The rusty patched bumblebee today became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a last-minute delay ordered by the Trump administration.

WASHINGTON —The White House is instructing Cabinet heads and agency officials not to elaborate on President Trump’s proposed budget cuts beyond what was in a relatively brief submission, a move Democrats decried as a gag order.

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco woman who fell critically ill after drinking tea from a Chinatown herbalist has died.

NEW YORK — Apple is refreshing and cutting prices on two of its iPads, but held back on updating its higher-end tablets.

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart is launching an incubator lab focused on projects in robotics, virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence as it aims to compete more aggressively with Amazon.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Authorities in South Dakota today confirmed an incident of vandalism against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in which someone burned a hole through an empty section of pipe.

The parents of a former Otsego student filed suit against the school district today in U.S. District Court, claiming school officials failed to protect their daughter from sexual assault and bullying by two fellow students.

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch batted away Democrats’ efforts today to get him to reveal his views on abortion, guns and other controversial issues, insisting he keeps “an open mind for the entire process” when he issues rulings.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is rallying support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers at the Capitol, two days before the House plans a climactic vote that poses an important early test for his presidency. Top House Republicans unveiled revisions to their bill in hopes of nailing down support.

ELYRIA, Ohio — Police say a 47-year-old man died in a holding cell after he was arrested in a child pornography investigation in northern Ohio.

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Four people have died and one person has been hurt in a fire at a home in central South Carolina.

AMSTERDAM  — The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam welcomed home two paintings by the Dutch master today, more than 14 years after they were ripped off the museum’s wall in a nighttime heist.

A water boil advisory has been issued for a portion of Perrysburg Township near Oregon Road and the Ohio Turnpike, effective through Wednesday at 3 a.m.

Despite hundreds of tips, authorities still don't know the whereabouts of a 15-year-old Tennessee teenager and her former high school teacher, who is charged in her abduction.

LAS VEGAS — The former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine was found guilty Monday of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting his porn actress ex-girlfriend over several months in 2014, and of beating her male friend when he found them together in her bedroom.

WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey’s testimony that the bureau has been quietly investigating possible links between associates of President Donald Trump and Russian officials since the summer enraged Democrats who already blamed him for rattling the 2016 campaign’s closing days.

MOSCOW — A Kremlin spokesman has said a U.S. intelligence committee is “confused” after it heard testimony from FBI Director James Comey about an investigation into the Russian ties of President Trump’s associates.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is ordering passengers on nonstop, U.S.-bound flights from a handful of mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries to pack electronic devices other than cellphones in their checked baggage.