Новости за 04.01.2018

Syfy has given a series order to “Nightflyers,” based on “Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin’s novella of the same name, the network announced Thursday. The network picked up the series pilot in July, written by Jeff Buhler (“Jacob’s Ladder”). Universal Cable Productions will produce, and Netflix will co-produce with first-run rights outside of the United States. The story, which was adapted previously into a 1987 film of the same name, follows eight scientists and a telepath who embark on a quest to make contact with alien life. Читать дальше...

The California insurance commissioner and a state legislator running to replace him have released competing proposals for how to solve the problem of insurance availability and affordability in fire-prone developments abutting wildland. The two plans would add regulations to the industry in an effort to help homeowners keep their residential insurance policies or find new ones at low rates. They come after a record wildfire season destroyed or damaged more than 20,000 homes and buildings across the state.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Justice Glenn Murdock is stepping down from the Alabama Supreme Court. Murdock announced his resignation Thursday in a letter to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. Murdock said his resignation will be effective on Jan. 16. The retiring associate justice wrote in his letter to Ivey that he wanted to "explore other professional opportunities and other ways in which I might be of service to our state." Murdock said over the years he tried to carry out duties with a goal to "just do what... Читать дальше...

ROME (AP) — As Italy's political parties scrambled to solidify coalitions and find candidates for the March 4 parliamentary election, the 5-Star Movement announced Thursday that one would-be lawmaker is the coast guard commander who famously cursed out the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia. The 5-Stars confirmed Thursday that Gregorio De Falco had nominated himself as a possible candidate. De Falco became a hero in Italy after recordings from the Jan. 13, 2012 Concordia disaster off Tuscany... Читать дальше...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' governor is touting an 11 percent drop in the state's Medicaid rolls over the past year as he faces another potential fight in keeping the state's hybrid Medicaid expansion alive another year. Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday that enrollment in the state's Medicaid program dropped by more than 117,000 people from 2017 to 2018. Nearly 59,000 of that came from the state's hybrid expansion, which uses Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents. Читать дальше...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld a second brother's murder conviction in the 2013 killing of a man in front of his wife and three stepchildren while they sat in their parked SUV at a Farmington mall. The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday upholds the murder conviction of Luis Ramon Ramirez in the shooting death of Johnny "Benji" Vialpondo Jr. The state high court last month upheld the murder conviction of Alejandro Ramirez, whom witnesses testified was the gunman. The shooting... Читать дальше...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The city of Lincoln is suing for the return of more than $50,000 it paid in November to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by a Lincoln couple who said police wrongly seized $224,000 in cash, firearms and coins in 2014 from their home. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the city's newly filed lawsuit accuses David Tarrence of violating the nondisclosure agreement of the settlement by bad-mouthing police inside a local convenience store last month. Tarrence and Tamara Geis sued the city in 2016... Читать дальше...

In a story Dec. 28 about a neo-Nazi website publisher's whereabouts, The Associated Press reported that the publisher, Andrew Anglin, mocked a process server's claim that he recently spotted Anglin at an Ohio grocery store. The story included comments that Anglin posted on social media before the process server detailed his claims in a sworn affidavit. Anglin's social media posts referred to an earlier Huffington Post report on the process server's claim. A clarified version of the story is below. Читать дальше...

Wheat for March was 2 cents lower at 4.34 a bushel; March corn was off 2 cents at 3.51 a bushel; March oats rose 1.25 cents at $2.4575 bushel; while January soybeans was fell .50 cent at $9.5925 a bushel. Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange February live cattle was off .70 cent at $1.2225 a pound; January feeder cattle fell .35 cent at $1.4902 a pound; while February lean hogs was up .32 cent at $.7137 a pound.

Nearly six decades worth of creative materials, notes and scripts by Woody Allen have been examined and the findings are, well, not good. In an essay for The Washington Post, titled, “I read decades of Woody Allen’s private notes. He’s obsessed with teenage girls.,” freelance writer Richard Morgan discussed his exploration of 57 years worth of notes from the film auteur’s personal archives at Princeton University. Morgan concluded it “drips with repetitious misogyny” as a whole.

Somebody has been watching lots of Westerns: The sky that begins a few feet off the ground. The red rock. The courage. The silence. The bad food. The people wearing the same clothes forever. And nobody has any luggage. Somebody has been loving Westerns, too, but loving them perhaps a little too much. Excessive reverence has a way of lengthening pauses between lines of dialogue, and sometimes between words. Writer-director Scott Cooper invests every last moment in “Hostiles,” even minor encounters between minor characters... Читать дальше...

A teenager from San Francisco's Tenderloin District glided his way to a silver medal in the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — If you skipped most of your workouts to be more "present" during the holiday festivities and aren't looking forward to getting back on the treadmill, we feel you. We rounded some of the workouts that have fitness fans talking to keep you motivated. Do them at home, in the studio, on a trampoline or a lake (gasp) — whatever it takes to get moving. IF YOU LOVE WORKING OUT AT HOME There are tons of amazing streaming options out there and the new offering from former SLT... Читать дальше...

Warriors at Rockets Time: 5 p.m. PT Where: Toyota Center, Houston Coaches: Steve Kerr, 4th season with Warriors (237-47 with Warriors and overall); Mike D’Antoni, 2nd season with Rockets (82-36 with Rockets and 537-462 overall) On air: TV on TNT; Radio on 95.7 The Game Records: Warriors (30-8); Rockets... Читать дальше...

There’s a pretty irresistible thrill that comes from the spectacle of Prokofiev cranking up his stirring bombast machine to the levels he uses in the cantata “Alexander Nevsky.” It helps, of course, if you can keep from remembering that all this musical splendor was originally deployed, in Sergei Eisenstein’s film, as a way of paying tribute to Stalin. But as long as you can do that, the composer’s stirring orchestral writing, choruses and solo vocal numbers pack a punch. ... Читать дальше...

STRATFORD, Ontario (AP) — Mementos from Justin Bieber's formative years as an aspiring singer will go on display next month at a museum in his Canadian hometown of Stratford, Ontario. "Steps to Stardom" opens at the Stratford Perth Museum on Feb. 18. The title is a reference to the young singer's busking shows on the steps outside the local Avon Theatre. The exhibit was put together by the museum's curators in cooperation with Bieber's grandparents, Diane and Bruce Dale, who gave them access to an... Читать дальше...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appeals court panel says Idaho's ban on spying at farms, dairies and slaughterhouses violates free speech rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that sections of the law illegally targeted free speech and investigative journalism. However, the panel also ruled the law correctly criminalized those who made false statements to obtain records at an agricultural facility. Idaho lawmakers passed the law making it a crime to surreptitiously videotape... Читать дальше...

BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A fire official on Long Island says two unoccupied summer homes on a remote island have burned to the ground during the blizzard. Babylon Fire Chief Scott Glen says mem 50 members of his department were dispatched Thursday morning to reports of fires at Oak Island. The island has about 50 houses used primarily as vacation homes. It is in the Great South Bay on Long Island's south shore. Glenn says firefighters had no way to access the island with equipment to fight the fires. Читать дальше...

GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico county is facing the prospect of bankruptcy in 60 days and the likelihood of having to move forward with layoffs and liquidate assets, officials said. Cash-strapped Cibola County is in "crisis mode" after years of overspending and the recent discovery that it sent a bounced check to the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, interim County Manager Valerie Taylor said. The Gallup Independent reports that Taylor has contacted the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration... Читать дальше...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have confirmed appointments of two of their Republican colleagues to serve on tax and utility commissions. Senators in a Thursday voice vote approved Lee's Summit Sen. Will Kraus' appointment to the State Tax Commission. They also approved Kansas City Sen. Ryan Silvey's appointment to the Public Service Commission, a regulatory board that sets utility rates. Both Silvey and Kraus resigned from the Senate to take the jobs. Kraus was a leader in tax policy during his time in the Legislature. Читать дальше...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek government is defending its decision to ban educational trips abroad for high school pupils, saying that protects disadvantaged children from the "trauma" of not being able to afford the cost. The Education Ministry says the ban applies to foreign trips for cultural and environmental educational purposes. But traditional final-year five-day excursions — which are purely for fun — can still be organized abroad, as well as domestically. A ministry statement Thursday... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were: 2-9-3 (two, nine, three)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on protests in Iran (all times local): 11:40 p.m. The United States is imposing sanctions on five Iranian entities over their involvement in developing ballistic missiles. The sanctions are unrelated to the ongoing protests in Iran. But U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says more sanctions "targeting human rights abuses are coming." Mnuchin is alluding to the protests and says the U.S. will call out Iran's economic mismanagement. The five entities being targeted... Читать дальше...

The Latest on massive winter storm in the Northeastern U.S. (all times EST): 3 p.m. Authorities say a person is dead after the car they were traveling in couldn't stop at the bottom of a steep, snow-covered hill and slammed into a commuter train on its way to Philadelphia. Police say the driver of the car was able to escape before the crash Thursday morning in Lower Moreland but the passenger stayed inside as the vehicle crashed through a gate at the railroad crossing. That person was later found by police along the tracks. Читать дальше...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on Washington state reaction to the rescinding by the Trump administration of policy by president Barack Obama's Justice Department generally barred federal law enforcement officials from interfering with marijuana sales in states where the drug is legal (all times local): 12:07 p.m. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says it's frustrating that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions won't meet with state officials to discuss marijuana laws. Sessions on Thursday... Читать дальше...