Новости за 22.03.2016

A look at what’s happening all around spring training in Florida and Arizona today: ___ HAVANA HOTSPOT The Tampa Bay Rays take on the Cuban national team at Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana. Matt Moore starts for the Rays in the first game for a major league team in Cuba since the Orioles visited in 1999. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The government has been adamant for weeks: FBI investigators need to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, and Apple Inc. was the only one that could do it. In a stunning reversal on Monday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a much-anticipated hearing on […]

Ducks put game away with a nine-run sixth inning.

It was a record 24 hours for the Pac-12 as the conference has four teams in the Sweet 16 for the first time ever. Oregon State advanced Sunday night and then Washington got Monday started with an upset of Maryland, 74-65. UCLA and Stanford kept the strong night for the conference going. The conference had […]

EPHRAIM, Wis. (AP) — In Wisconsin, a state known for beer brewing and binge drinking, there’s a small picturesque tourist village northeast of Green Bay where you can’t buy a drop of alcohol. Ephraim, along the water in peninsular Door County — a popular destination dotted with small towns, resorts and wineries — is dry, […]

The seventh-seeded Huskies defeated the second-seeded Terrapins 74-65 in College Park, Md., to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2001.

The experience Brandon Gonzalez and Keegan Dolan gained playing with the Seattle Sounders FC Academy could prove valuable for Auburn Riverside as the Ravens aim to get back to the state tournament and prove they belong there.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras is reporting a record quarterly loss of more than $10 billion due to a large reduction in the value of some assets amid lower oil prices. Petrobras has been at the center of a sprawling corruption scandal that has ensnared some of Brazil’s most powerful […]

She posted state-bests in the high jump and long jump last Saturday.

A recent article in the journal Pediatrics has caught the attention of vaccine proponents and opponents alike [“Physicians bucking trend on vaccines,” Page One, March 18; Doctors’ plan confirms wrongful anti-vaxxers’ suspicions,” Letters to the Editor, March 18]. As pediatric-infectious-diseases doctors, we feel it is our responsibility to respond to the article and resulting media […]

SYDNEY (AP) — Police on Tuesday charged a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old school girl in Sydney with raising money for the Islamic State group. The pair were arrested in the western suburb of Guildford, New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said. They were to appear in a Sydney court on Tuesday charged […]

Aztecs (26-9) allow opponents 60.1 points per game (third in the nation) while Huskies (19-14) average 84.1 (sixth).

It appears that Massachusetts does a better job of funding public education than Washington [“Massachusetts turnaround: A lesson for Washington?” Page One, March 20]. Perhaps one way they are doing this is by having a more progressive taxation system than our state. Massachusetts has a 5.1 percent personal income tax on wages, interest and dividends […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Defending champion Rory McIlroy will face a player he knows very little about in the Dell Match Play. Jordan Spieth knows one of his opponents all too well. Spieth, the former Texas Longhorn and crowd favorite at Austin Country Club, wound up in the same group as longtime friend Justin Thomas. […]

In “Docs paid by pharma tend to favor brand-name drugs” [Local News, March 18], there is a correlation between physicians receiving payments from pharmaceutical companies and their use of higher-price name-brand drugs. The Everett Clinic has proved that limiting access to enticements from pharmaceutical companies lowers the cost to patients without lowering the quality of […]