Новости за 23.06.2016

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting late Wednesday on North Korea's launch of two ballistic missiles and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power called for "urgent and united condemnation."

BEIJING (AP) — U.S., European and Chinese regulators said they will jointly enforce product safety in online commerce, and an American official said they are making progress on crafting standards for hoverboards.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman who said she was raped by two Oregon State football players and two other men in 1998 while Mike Riley was the head coach of the Beavers spoke Wednesday to Riley's Nebraska team about…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Heavy-duty trains with thousands of gallons of crude oil in tow will soon begin rolling through the scenic Columbia River Gorge for the first time since a fiery derailment in early June.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police says it has opened a criminal investigation into the death of a mentally ill inmate at a regional jail last year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebellious Democrats shut down the House's legislative work on Wednesday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun control measures before lawmakers' weeklong break.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a copyright lawsuit against Led Zeppelin members over a riff used in the 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven" (all times local):

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting death of a Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, sheriff's deputy (all times local):

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Supporters of gun owners' rights and a congressional candidate who once ran for governor are free to use video from the state Assembly for political advertising despite a state law barring it, a federal judge said…

The race for the District 16 seat in the state House of Representatives is still a four-way contest, even though one of the candidates failed to win his own party’s nomination in the primary.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest at the NHL Awards show from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (all times EDT):

ALOHA, Ore. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a 21-year-old Beaverton man in the shooting death of a young man on a residential street in Aloha.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers put struggling left-hander Derek Holland on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, and later said Colby Lewis would join him because he won't be able to throw for four weeks because of a lat…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Libby Schaaf is a trained lawyer who left her legal career years ago for grassroots community service in Oakland that eventually led to her election as mayor of the long-troubled California city.

HWASEONG, South Korea (AP) — Lee T.B. fled North Korea not because he suffered from dire poverty or persecution at home, as many other defectors have. He did it for mushrooms, and to fulfill his wife's dying wish.

ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA (AP) — Former UN General Assembly Chief John Ashe of Antigua has died, brother says.

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a…

SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state agency in charge of protecting millions of acres of state land from wildfires is opposing a proposal to build an oil-by-rail terminal in Vancouver, citing risks of blazes from increased train traffic and other…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Families in a poor farming community where hundreds of domestic wells have dried up during California's historic drought will soon have clean water again flowing into their homes, officials said Wednesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is planning to use provisional ballots during the upcoming elections and then throw out all of the votes for state and local races cast by the thousands of voters who…

BOSTON (AP) — Supporters of a proposal that could make Massachusetts the fifth U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana said they met a Wednesday deadline to submit voter signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

NEW YORK (AP) — The best thing about Kansas City's road trip was it only lasted two games. Even a visit to the site of last year's championship triumph couldn't help the Royals win away from home.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A report about a bomb forced dozens of passengers to evacuate a tour bus and wait on the shoulder of a busy interstate highway in searing summer heat, a Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman said Wednesday.

DETROIT (AP) — Seven months after being traded by Seattle, Tom Wilhelmsen is back with the Mariners.