Новости за 14.01.2021

Jan. 20

1891 - The International YMCA in Springfield, Mass. is the site of the first official basketball game. Peach baskets were used, but it wasn’t until 1905 that someone removed the baskets’ bottoms.

1937 - Nels Stewart of the New York Americans becomes the NHL’s all-time scorer with his ...

The injury-depleted Virginia women's basketball team has opted out of the remainder of the season, becoming the second Atlantic Coast Conference team to make that decision.

The last time these slinking mongrels in Congress impeached President Trump, a deadly disease from China was stalking our country, poised to pounce and kill close to 400,000 Americans.

Thanks to a political uprising at the Capitol building and its online fallout, the scrutiny toward major tech companies has never been more intense. Following a flurry of deplatforming decisions on the part of major corporations, Apple moved to polish off Parler from the app store for its alleged failure ...

MIAMI (AP) - Men’s Olympic soccer qualifying in North and Central America and the Caribbean was rescheduled Thursday for March 18-30 in Guadalajara, Mexico, where the tournament originally was set to be played last spring.

President Trump served up a brief summary on Thursday of his achievements in stopping U.S. involvement in "endless" wars, days before he is to leave office.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Restaurants in some COVID-19 hot spots in New York can once again offer limited indoor dining in the wake of the latest lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's virus restrictions.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi” by Charles Soule (Del Rey)

2. “Neighbors” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)

3. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)

4. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

5. “A Time for Mercy” by John ...

Mark Davis is expanding his sports empire in Las Vegas, buying the Aces from MGM Resorts International.

LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) - Police in Rhode Island are investigating what are being called the suspicious deaths of two people found in a Lincoln home on Thursday morning.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Missouri on Thursday opened up coronavirus vaccines to police, firefighters and health care administrators as the state prepares for an influx of vaccines next week.

CHICAGO (AP) -

A teenager already suspected in a string of carjackings in Chicago has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly shot to death the driver of an SUV during an attempted carjacking last month, prosecutors said Thursday.

At a court hearing, a judge ordered 16-year-old ...

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) - A wildlife officer in New Mexico has been arrested after police say he allegedly decapitated a nine-week-old gray kitten at his home in Bloomfield, authorities said.

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts is highlighting efforts to help small businesses survive the economic turmoil they have suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic.

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Nine state prison inmates have been charged in San Diego County with scamming California’s unemployment benefits system, which is battling fraud in its massive coronavirus relief program.

WILMINGTON, N.Y. (AP) - A 22-year-old college student from Pennsylvania died from a ski accident in the Adirondack Mountains, police said.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro mocked people "losing their s--t" Thursday after Politico allowed him to guest-edit the most recent edition of its Playbook newsletter.

1. “Keep Sharp” by Sanjay Gupta (Simon & Schuster)

2. “Star Wars: Light of the Jedi” (The High Republic) by Charles Soule (Del Rey)

3. “Bridgertons: The Duke and I” by Julia Quinn (Avon)

4. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Crown)

5. “Neighbors” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) ...

Roughly 277,000 Connecticut residents who are 75 years and older were allowed Thursday to begin making appointments online or via telephone for their COVID-19 vaccinations, with plans in the works to soon phase in people 65 and older and anyone 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions that put them ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week in an indication that the long period of record-low rates could soon be over.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina lawmakers are again considering a bill that would ban most abortions in the state and it seems much more likely to pass this time thanks to conservative gains in the General Assembly and at the U.S. Supreme Court.

NEW YORK (AP) - Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, the physician who once declared that Donald Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," died Jan. 8. He was 73.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A Republican North Dakota lawmaker wants to prohibit businesses from banning cash as a payment, saying cashless transactions create economic barriers for some residents.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Assembly Republicans grilled health officials with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration Thursday about the lagging pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Wisconsin, saying the process is a cumbersome mess.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un resurfaced last week at the eighth Congress of his ruling Workers’ Party, where he admitted “almost all sectors” of his country’s economy had fallen short of their goals. Speaking for nine hours, Mr. Kim also said North Korea should bring its “arch-enemy” — the United ...