Новости за 16.03.2021

Play Ball! Hopefully.

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Little League World Series to be canceled, organizers are hopeful the late-summer Classic will return this August.

“We are planning as if we are going to have a tournament season,” said Steve Keener, the president and CEO of Little ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana residents ages 16 and older will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on April 1, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Tuesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings released defensive tackle Shamar Stephen on Tuesday, continuing the overhaul of a front four that fell off badly last season.

CHELTENHAM, England (AP) - A horse from the yard of banned trainer Gordon Elliott won a race on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival as the prestigious meeting began Tuesday without racegoers during the pandemic.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Several bills under consideration in the Oregon Legislature would help make menstrual products more readily available, including at schools and to some people who receive government assistance.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Three Alabama lawmakers tested positive for COVID-19 this week, a legislative spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Progressive-pillow entrepreneur David Hogg slept through the first step of creating a business.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted a critical need to maintain or boost funding for schools, mental health treatment, child care scholarships and other programs, advocates told House budget writers Tuesday.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - People age 55 and older can self-report to their pharmacist any underlying health conditions that make them eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, Nevada health officials said.

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - George Mason fired men’s basketball coach Dave Paulsen on Thursday, ending his tenure after six seasons that did not include an NCAA Tournament or NIT appearance.

BOSTON (AP) - Earl Grant is hoping to return Boston College to its distant glory by bringing back a style reminiscent of its Big East days.

The “correction” was remarkable:

“Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided ...

The women's NCAA Tournament field is set and now the fun begins with 64 teams descending on the San Antonio region for the event that was canceled in 2020.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Veteran cornerback Tramon Williams announced via social media on his 38th birthday that he's retiring from football.

The new Cold War film “ The Courier ” about a Soviet whistleblower and the British businessman who helped transport information to Western intelligence agencies is both based on real events and people and also is very much the product of a screenwriter’s imagination. That’s not to criticize the film ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The last time Drexel basketball made more than local headlines, TMZ was on the scene because Philadelphia 76ers’ All-Star Ben Simmons and model Kendall Jenner were in the bleachers for a game on the West Philadelphia campus.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - About 90% of California's nearly 40 million residents can enjoy a restaurant meal indoors, watch a movie at a theater and sweat it out inside a gym after more counties were authorized to open up to business thanks to low coronavirus case rates throughout the state.

LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Four years after two classmates shot her in the head and left her for dead in a canal in Utah, Deserae Turner received a robotic arm to help in her recovery, the family said.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas on Tuesday made the coronavirus vaccine available to 1 million more people, expanding its eligibility to a wide swath of people that includes food service workers, prisoners and people with certain health conditions.

Millions of people recently watched the end of a real-life fairy tale as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took on a more than 1,000-year-old British institution.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Plans for a full Missouri State Fair are back on after the event was canceled last year because of the coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the state's agriculture director confirmed Tuesday.

In what has become an increasingly rare occurrence, there appears to be growing bipartisan consensus forming that America’s “Big Tech” industry needs regulatory reform. Senior leaders of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, agree that Big Tech has significant problems. But that is where ...

President Biden offers himself as champion of the working class and minorities, but his policies will leave more jobless and enable Donald Trump or another populist from the right in 2024.

The future usually arrives before anyone is ready for it, especially in warfare.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky lawmakers voted Tuesday to shield many diabetics from income-draining insulin prices by capping their out-of-pocket costs for the life-saving medication.