Новости за 03.10.2018

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California police officer has been charged with four felonies for allegedly recording conversations between four juvenile suspects and their attorney.

Free-trade groups affiliated with the conservative Koch network urged President Trump Wednesday not to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement until Congress ratifies the new deal reached this week with Canada and Mexico.

The French government has decided it has no choice but to confront Iran after a blatant terror attempt on French soil during the summer against the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran, which held a massive gathering in Paris in June. The question now becomes what will ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A western Michigan county has recorded its second death from West Nile virus this season.

The state of the recently contentious relationship between Pakistan and the Trump administration rests squarely on whether Washington's new war plan for Afghanistan can turn the tide of the 17-year conflict, Pakistan's top diplomat said.

The FBI calls them "bribes."

I prefer to call them "signing bonuses."

Those discrepant views just might determine your stance on what happens in college basketball. But none of us should ever confuse NCAA violations for federal crimes.

Adidas, Nike and Under Armour understand the distinction. So do players, their ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police in Las Vegas have released body-camera videos that show officers reviewing hotel security footage from nearly two dozen screens inside the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino the night of the mass shooting just over a year ago.

"Venom," starring Tom Hardy as a TV investigative journalist whose body is invaded by an alien organism, is a destabilizing mix of intentional and unintentional comedy that for better and worse returns the superhero movie to its natural state: camp.

A diversity study finds that white men still "overwhelmingly" fill leadership positions at top-level college sports programs and conferences, leaving a "consistent underrepresentation of women and people of color" in those roles.

NEW YORK (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has the edge over accuser Christine Blasey Ford in television audience size.

PGA TOUR

SAFEWAY OPEN

Site: Napa, Calif.

Course: Silverado Resort. Yardage: 7,166. Par: 72.

Purse: $6.2 million. Winner's share: $1,116,000.

Television: Thursday-Sunday, 5:30-8:30 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Brendan Steele.

FedEx Cup champion: Justin Rose.

Last tournament: Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship.

Notes: This is the first tournament of ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Whether a man already sentenced to prison for attacking police officers in a Phoenix suburb will eventually stand trial in the killings of three Washington state residents in rural western Arizona is uncertain after a judge dismissed charges in the triple-homicide case while chastising prosecutors for being ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Indiana University says its School of Global and International Studies will now bear the names of former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton and former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) - Running back Devonta Freeman has been cleared to play after missing three games with a sore right knee, giving the Atlanta Falcons an important boost as they prepare to visit the Pittsburgh Steelers.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - The Oakland Raiders placed right tackle Donald Penn on injured reserve with a groin injury Wednesday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Six new lawsuits accuse St. Louis police of misconduct in their handling of protesters after a former officer was acquitted in the death of a suspect.

CONNEAUTVILLE, Pa. (AP) - The National Weather Service has confirmed the presence of at least two more tornados in Pennsylvania during a series of storms that also spawned a twister that prompted evacuation of a nursing home.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Authorities say three bears fed on the body of a contract employee who was killed this week at a remote southeast Alaska mine site.

CLEVELAND (AP) - A motorist arrested in the hit-skip death of a Cleveland police patrolman on an interstate has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and other charges.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina officials say repairing roads damaged by Hurricane Florence will cost at least $266 million.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

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Oct. 3

The Baltimore Sun on President Donald Trump's remarks on a psychology professor who has accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her at a party:

Dear Sens. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski,

There was ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A man who robbed a Rhode Island bank on Valentine's Day last year has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) - Classes have continued as normal at a Kearney elementary school, despite a vehicle crashing through a wall of the school building.

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended a prospective Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline as economically feasible and voiced hope that European Union nations will be able to resist U.S. pressure to thwart the project.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia nonprofit says it plans on opening the city's and possibly the country's first supervised drug injection site with the help of former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.