Новости за 16.12.2018

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — What, you didn't have "Josh Johnson quarterbacks game-winning drive over disappointing Jaguars team" in the preseason pool?

CLEVELAND (AP) - Jimmy Butler returned for the Philadelphia 76ers against the Cleveland Cavaliers after missing two games because of a strained groin.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A man accused of volunteering for a toy charity drive and stealing more than $1,000 worth of donated toys has been charged with theft in Ohio.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - The leader of Romania's ruling party has asked a party colleague to press charges against the country's president for saying Romania wasn't prepared to assume the European Union's rotating presidency.

Tariffs haven't hit them yet, but that's cold comfort to clothing manufacturers who proudly display the "Made in America" label.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A brazen daylight robbery turned into a bizarre bungle as would-be robbers were thwarted by shatterproof glass at a jewelry store near Grand Rapids.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Judges in Hartford have decided the most asylum cases since 2003 and denied most of the requests.

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts residents who don't have health insurance or who need to take action to stay covered have until Dec. 23 to enroll or renew coverage through the Massachusetts Health Connector to obtain coverage for Jan. 1.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - The Leavenworth County Historical Society has launched a campaign to build and endow a research center at the Carroll Mansion Museum.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say figures stolen from a south Philadelphia nativity scene have been recovered, but no one has yet been arrested.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The state of Maine has shut down a Facebook page detailing the potential dangers of marijuana use in response to a satirical page launched by pro-pot critics.

Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times, says the culture war in America may not be so much about secularism or atheism replacing Christianity but the rise of an old Christian foe — paganism.

On a three-day trip to Baghdad and Fallujah in December 2005, I could see the devastating effects of precision-guided munitions months after the bombs were dropped.

This past week, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), two of the nation's foremost evangelical organizations, publicly announced they now support adding "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as officially protected minority classifications to the ranks of federal nondiscrimination law.

The first iron rule of American politics is: Follow the money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

Letting legislators bring guns onto the U.S. Capitol grounds or into their offices hasn't been a problem for 242 years. But Democrats are now promising to end that practice when they retake control of the House of Representatives next month.

DENVER (AP) - Case Keenum wasn't the cautious quarterback his coach complained about last week. Instead, he was the careless one who made Broncos fans wonder why John Elway had spent $36 million to replace the much cheaper and just as effective Trevor Siemian.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Officials in Montpelier have given conditional approval to a proposed hotel and parking garage development.

If President Trump sends a wish list to the North Pole, it might say something like this (and he had better hurry): "All I want for Christmas is a big, beautiful wall." If congressional Democrats send a letter, it would be addressed to the Grinch, Santa's sometime helper, and demand, ...

While I agree with Sen. Tom Cotton that there is a risk associated with releasing potentially dangerous criminals early, we must remember the scope of the problem that the United States faces: A prison system that right now has a population double that of Rhode Island ("How the Senate First ...

LANDING ON THE EDGE OF ETERNITY: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AT OMAHA BEACH

By Robert Kershaw

Pegasus Books, $27.95, 376 pages

Extraordinary and excruciating, "Landing on the Edge of Eternity" might be the hardcover version of "Saving Private Ryan"'s torturous opening minutes. Or a nonfiction reprise of Irwin Shaw's "The Young ...

Europe is being destroyed by uncontrolled migration. There are refugees, fake refugees, economic migrants and terrorists, and no one can identify who is who.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Two more West Virginia ski resorts have opened their slopes for the winter season.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Police say a 17-year-old boy was struck in the shoulder and his 7-year-old brother suffered a graze wound in a possible drive-by shooting at a home in central California.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking operation.