Новости за 15.05.2017

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-grade to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland today, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were seriously injured.

NEW YORK — A spurt in oil prices today revived energy stocks, which have been among the year’s worst performers, and helped push the broader market back to record highs.

NEW YORK — A fraternity pledge who was ordered to guzzle alcohol during a hazing ritual and twice fell down a flight of stairs before his death was treated like “roadkill,” his father said today, days after criminal charges were filed against 18 of his son’s Penn State fraternity brothers.

CARLSTADT, N.J. — A jet struck a building and crashed near a small airport today, killing two crew members and sparking a fire that sent thick, black smoke spewing into the air, authorities said.

JERUSALEM — A diplomatic spat erupted today between U.S. and Israeli officials, just days before a planned visit by President Donald Trump, after an American representative questioned Israel’s claim to one of the holiest sites in Judaism.

NEW YORK — The Fox network is calling on superpowers and Seth MacFarlane to boost ratings this fall.

Cotton prices extended a rally to the highest since June 2014 amid buoyant demand for U.S. exports and signs of a squeeze on July futures. Bullish options jumped for the second straight session as volume surged.

Megyn Kelly introduced herself to advertisers and publicly appeared with her NBC News family for the first time at the network's upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in New York today.

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NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman who joined a group critical of a Republican congressman and President Donald Trump’s policies says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer.

AKRON — A couple and their five children died today in an early morning house fire.

MONROE — The man accused in the 2014 death of a Maybee, Mich., woman insisted he doesn’t remember how the victim obtained several serious facial fractures.

ROGERS, Ark. — Rapper Travis Scott’s recent arrest after a concert in Arkansas is not his first on accusations of encouraging fans to join him on stage.

LOS ANGELES — Brad Grey, who served as the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures for 12 years, has died.

DETROIT — A federal judge has ordered Uber not to use technology that a key executive downloaded before he left Waymo, the autonomous car company that was spun off from Google. But he refused to order a halt to Uber’s self-driving program, as requested by Waymo.

Toledo police have released the name of a man believed to be responsible for Friday’s central Toledo shooting.

WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has announced that her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland beginning this fall.

CLEVELAND — A person familiar with the contract says the NBA champion Cavaliers will wear Goodyear’s wing-foot logo on their jerseys starting next season.

HAYWARD, Calif. — Two people were shot and wounded after a motorist opened fired on a freeway off-ramp in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Hayward.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina’s law mandating voter identification and scaling back early voting, which a lower court said targeted African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.”

SEATTLE — Federal judges today peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the administration’s travel ban discriminates against Muslims, the second time in a week the issue has been in court.

KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio — Authorities in Ohio are piecing together the events that led up to a nursing home shooting that left four people dead including the suspected gunman.

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump considers a replacement for fired FBI Director James Comey, lawmakers are urging the president to steer clear of appointing any politicians.

BOSTON — The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez is speaking out publicly for the first time.

DETROIT— General Motors is launching its Maven car-sharing service in New York City.