Новости за 21.08.2018

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Barbara Harris, who starred in films including "Nashville" and "Freaky Friday," has died. She was 83.

A Bernie Sanders supporter who was beaten by Antifa earlier this month in Portland, Oregon, says he had no idea that carrying an American flag would elicit such violence.

SEATTLE (AP) - The fight over a ballot initiative that would charge a carbon pollution fee is already drawing big money.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to campaign in Kentucky ahead of the midterm elections.

Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to campaign violations, bank fraud and tax evasion in connection with hush payments to two women on behalf of Mr. Trump.

An Iowa official says the suspect in custody in Mollie Tibbetts' death is being held on a federal immigration detainer.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Authorities in Dallas say LSU offensive lineman Ed Ingram was arrested on sexual assault charges in early August, around the same time the projected starter was suspended from the Tigers' football program for an unspecified violation of team rules.

NEW YORK (AP) - Ex-Trump attorney Cohen pleads guilty to charges, including campaign finance violations involving payoffs to women .

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) - Iowa official says suspect in custody in Mollie Tibbetts' death being held on federal immigration detainer.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest state court is upholding the conviction of a rapper for threatening police, saying lyrics that named two Pittsburgh officers were "highly personalized."

A jury found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty on eight charges in his bank and tax fraud trial, a verdict that has major implications for the president and his allies.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) - State police in Maine say the death of a man in Presque Isle is no longer considered suspicious, though their investigation into the death is not yet concluded.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Bernalillo County authorities says a male Metropolitan Detention Center officer is accused of raping a female jail inmate.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Federal authorities told Florida election officials on Monday that they saw no signs of any "new or ongoing compromises" of state or local election systems, a statement seemingly at odds with recent assertions by U.S. Sen Bill Nelson of some Russian meddling.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Rapper Post Malone thanks fans for prayers after his jet that blew 2 tires leaving New Jersey lands safely in New York.

NEWARK, N.J. — A private jet that blew two tires during takeoff at a small New Jersey airport on Tuesday made a safe emergency landing hours later at an airport in New York.

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan accused White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of escalating President Trump's war on the press, suggesting that she "should have to pay" for the press pool's security detail due to recent threats.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The former billing director for a nonprofit mental health provider has been arrested on felony charges of helping defraud Arkansas' Medicaid program of $2.2 million.

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (AP) - The fruit bouquet company Edible Arrangements is moving its corporate headquarters from Connecticut to Georgia.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Private jet that blew 2 tires on takeoff from New Jersey on flight to England makes safe emergency landing in New York.

Federal authorities have found no evidence of Russian hackers recently breaching election systems in Florida, the heads of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a letter released Tuesday, contradicting recent claims raised by Sen. Bill Nelson.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team is in Maryland this week to evaluate the state's election systems, after officials learned last month about a transaction between a venture fund with Russian ties and a company involved in the state's election infrastructure.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A plan to deepen the main channel of the Mississippi River to 50 feet (15 meters) from a Louisiana city to the Gulf of Mexico has won a critical endorsement from the Army Corps of Engineers.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire's Democratic Congressional delegation criticized the Trump administration efforts to scale back restrictions on climate-changing emissions from coal-fired power plants, calling it a threat to the health and safety of the state's residents.