Новости за 24.05.2016

ROME (AP) — Friends, Romans, countrymen! Oh yes, and countrywomen. And people in far-flung nations. Everyone, basically. Rome is seeking all the sponsors it can find to fund the monumental job of restoring and maintaining its hundreds of fountains, statues,…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a year when the musical world is still mourning icons Prince, David Bowie and Merle Haggard, musicians of all genres and generations have been celebrating a still active legend — Bob Dylan — in an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Making it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee is an amazing achievement for any kid, but for 11-year-old Neil Maes, being born deaf made his journey especially unlikely.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor is bringing back familiar elements of "A Prairie Home Companion" at least one more time.

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS will finish the television season as the nation's most popular television network for the eighth consecutive year, and win among the youthful demographic sought by advertisers for only the third time since modern record-keeping began…

BOSTON (AP) — The Bruins have signed defenseman Kevan Miller to a four-year contract extension and added a pair of assistant coaches.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is being sued in New York City by a Hungarian musician who says West sampled his song without permission.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeanne L. Parr, a former television correspondent in New York and mother of actor Chris Noth, has died. She was 92.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues are going back to goaltender Brian Elliott for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — The revived New York City Opera announced its first full season following its emergence from bankruptcy, planning 28 performances of six works in 2016-17 that include the U.S. debut of Antonio de Literes' "Los Elementos" and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Celine Dion, Tyler Perry, Bono and Julia Roberts are a few of some 65 big names scheduled to appear on the second annual "Red Nose Day Special" this Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Sweetbitter," (Alfred A. Knopf), by Stephanie Danler

MOSCOW (AP) — Ten medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including 2012 high jump champion Anna Chicherova, were among 14 Russians that tested positive in the reanalysis of their doping samples, state television reported Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If you're the head of world sailing, this is your worst Olympic nightmare.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield will share his skills with students at Michigan State University.

As 28 rigs drill away in western North Dakota for roughly $48-per-barrel of oil Tuesday, about 2,500 registrants gathered in Bismarck for the 24th annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles. And there's also a twist — at some shows she'll play Hedwig.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two dozen engineering and physics professors weighed in Tuesday with a federal appeals court being asked to review New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension for "Deflategate."

MIAMI (AP) — Draymond Green has a history, and in this case it seems to have been helpful.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lin-Manuel Miranda has already this year won a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. What more could he get?

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby ordered to stand trial in Pennsylvania felony sex-assault case stemming from 2004 encounter.

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Two people claiming to be heirs of Prince's estate are objecting to having to take blood and genetic tests to prove their relationship to the musician.

Interior designer Heather Mourer and her family were considering a move from Denver when her young daughter saw a mountain lion across the street from the mid-century home in the suburbs they were considering.

Union workers have started clearing the path for the North Dakota portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline.