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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the corruption scandal in college basketball (all times Eastern): 4:30 p.m. San Diego State has provisionally suspended senior forward Malik Pope, the team's leading scorer and rebounder, while its compliance department investigates whether he received a $1,400 loan from an agent. Pope's name appears in documents that are part of a federal investigation into college basketball corruption. The documents were obtained by Yahoo Sports. Pope won't travel with the team for... Читать дальше...

A building in San Francisco’s Castro District that city officials had targeted as a “drug house” caught fire Friday morning, officials said. Water rushed down the road from the house at 519 Sanchez St. as firefighters — standing on the blackened roof — doused the two-unit building. Several of the windows had been broken. The fire was reported at 10:35 a.m. and brought under control by 11:45 a.m. with no injuries, said Nicol Juratovac, an assistant San Francisco fire chief. Читать дальше...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on legislation designed to circumvent a court ruling that found Washington state lawmakers were fully subject to the state's public disclosure law (all times local): 1:40 p.m. The Washington Senate moved quickly to pass legislation meant to circumvent a recent court ruling that found that state lawmakers were fully subject to the state's public disclosure laws. The measure passed on a 41-7 vote Friday and heads directly to the House, which is expected to take it up sometime in the afternoon or evening. Читать дальше...

SEATTLE (AP) — A new federal lawsuit claims an immigrant detained at a privately run jail in Washington state was beaten and placed in solitary confinement because of his role in a hunger strike. The Washington state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as GEO Group, which operates the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The organization says Jesus Chavez Flores is one of more than 120 immigrant detainees at the facility who began a hunger strike Feb. Читать дальше...

Warriors forward Jordan Bell is doubtful for Saturday evening’s game against the Thunder, Golden State head coach Steve Kerr said. Bell, who was re-evaluated by team doctors Thursday, was seen participating in a 3-on-3 scrimmage after practice Friday. Kerr said he will probably wait to play him until the Warriors’ upcoming road trip: Monday at New York, Wednesday at Washington and Friday at Atlanta. Bell has missed 13 games with a swollen left ankle. After participating... Читать дальше...

A bronze statue of President William McKinley has held court over the tiny town square of Arcata, Calif. for more than a century. It will soon be torn down.

A swarm of small earthquakes continued to shake the Danville area into Friday afternoon, measuring as strong as magnitude 3.6 and slowing BART trains but causing no significant damage, authorities said. As of 1 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey had reported 15 quakes in the area, with five of them above magnitude 2.5. The 3.6-magnitude temblor happened at 12:19 p.m. Friday near Diablo, a wealthy community northeast of Danville. When BART receives reports of earthquakes... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull put their "mateship" on full display Friday at the White House as they took turns praising each other's approaches on immigration and taxes. Relations between the two got off to a rocky start a year ago, but none of that was evident as they prepared to field questions from journalists in the East Room after an afternoon of talks, including a lot of discussion about jobs. Trump congratulated Turnbull on "your immigration... Читать дальше...

The private Studio City high school attended by former Stanford and 49ers offensive lineman Jonathan Martin was closed Friday after an Instagram post linked to the player made references to a possible gun-related response to bullying he’d been subjected to in high school and the NFL. According to the USA Today, Harvward-Westlake students received an alert before classes were to start telling them that the school would be closed Friday. The paper quoted a Los Angeles police spokesperson... Читать дальше...

It’s crunch time for Oscars campaigners. Academy Awards ballots are due on Tuesday at 5 p.m., which means films only have a few days to present their final cases before the voters. And that means that the contenders, and the studios and consultants running their campaigns, have by now trotted out their final ad campaigns. The trick at this point in the calendar is to become the consensus movie that can win under the preferential voting system used in the Best Picture category — to appeal not just to the voters who got you nominated... Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the federal agency that grants visas says he has a message for anyone who considers his new mission statement anti-immigrant: "A thousand times no." Francis Cissna told The Associated Press on Friday that he cut a reference to the U.S. being a "nation of immigrants" from Citizenship and Immigration Services' mission statement because he felt it didn't belong on what he called a bureaucratic document. He says it's undisputed that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants but... Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a western New York couple who sold satellite television contracts to state prisons illegally pocketed $375,000 that should have gone to DirecTV. New York state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott announced Friday that Richard and Christine Wertman of Lockport in Niagara County have pleaded guilty to grand larceny in connection with the scheme. Investigators say the couple signed contracts to provide DirecTV service to three state prisons and then used their technical skills to provide the service. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of John McCain for the senator's dramatic thumbs-down deciding vote last year against the GOP health care repeal. Without using McCain's name, Trump spoke of his move in December that effectively defeated the overhaul in a close vote. The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference that "except for one Senator, who came into a room at three o'clock in the morning and went like that," Trump gave a thumbs-down, "we would have had health care (reform)... Читать дальше...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The head of the state prison guard union says an Ohio inmate suspected of stabbing a guard was at a lower security level than required. Christopher Mabe (mayb) is president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association. He says prisoner Casey Pigge (pij) is supposed to be held at the highest-security level but was in a lower security area when the attacked happened at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Pigge is suspected of stabbing a guard multiple times in the prison's infirmary Tuesday morning. Читать дальше...

NEW DELHI — As criticism mounted that the American president’s eldest son was pushing an ethics boundary by making a foreign policy speech at an Indian business summit, conference organizers hurriedly changed the speech’s title. Donald Trump Jr. was slated to speak Friday evening on “Reshaping Indo-Pacific Ties: The Era of Cooperation.” But a few hours before he was set to speak, the agenda for the Global Business Summit had changed, announcing instead “A Fireside... Читать дальше...