Новости за 09.10.2015

JACKSON, Mississippi - The home where Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963 gets thousands of visitors each year, operates as a college-owned museum and relies on state grants and private donations for maintenance funds. Now the state's U.S. senators are hoping the National Park Service can lend a hand.

NEW YORK - Rappers Snoop Dogg and Birdman, Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri, and entrepreneur Damon Dash are among the stars of a still-untitled BET reality series, the network announced Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS - A black bear that roamed into Indiana from southwestern Michigan this summer and eventually returned home is back in the Hoosier State, raiding bird feeders and trash cans as it fattens up for winter hibernation, a wildlife biologist said Friday.

NEW YORK - Two-time Tony Award-winner John Cullum has gotten the ultimate stage honor - a theater named after him.

NEW YORK - Nick Jonas and rappers Rick Ross, Meek Mill and French Montana have been added to the Tidal X concert in October, concert organizers announced Friday.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - A New York couple has donated $20 million to the University of Notre Dame to endow a new Institute for Global Investing.

About 35,000 highchairs are being recalled this week because nearly a dozen children have suffered injuries after removing the tray and falling. Other recalled consumer products include off-highway vehicles with a fuel tank defect.

DES MOINES, Iowa - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has slightly lowered its corn and soybean harvest estimates based on updated harvest figures across the U.S.

NEW YORK - Donna Karan introduced her famous Seven Easy Pieces in 1985, as she was introducing the world to her namesake label. Based on a black bodysuit with simple added pieces like a wrap skirt, classic trousers, or a suede jacket, it was a lot more than a convenient wardrobe: It was a conceptual shift in fashion. Karan was trying to tell women working women that clothes could work for them, and not the other way around. And that they didn't need to wear buttoned-up suits to look professional. Читать дальше...

Selena Gomez, "Revival" (Interscope Records)

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea is holding what is expected to be one of its biggest celebrations ever Saturday for the 70th anniversary of its ruling party's creation, an attention-getting event that is the government's way of showing the world and its own people the Kim dynasty - now in its third generation - is firmly in control and its military a power to be reckoned with.

INDIANAPOLIS - Authorities say a second child has died from his injuries following a crash that also killed the boy's father and a fellow student at Indianapolis Junior Academy.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence announced a boost in school safety spending on Friday, just months after signing a two-year budget that drastically cut funding for the same types of improvements.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden faces political uncertainty after the small Christian Democratic Party dropped out of a deal that has kept the minority left-wing government in power.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - The latest on the rainstorm that pounded parts of the East Coast (all times local):

SPOKANE, Washington - An electrical equipment malfunction caused an explosion at a hydroelectric dam on Washington's Columbia River that injured six workers, utility officials said Friday.

BERLIN - Germany's culture minister hopes to put some works from the trove accumulated by the late collector Cornelius Gurlitt on exhibition next year.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has directed the attention of the world's bishops debating family life to crises facing families today: He denounced the escalation of conflicts in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East and urged greater diplomacy to end the "humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions."

SAVANNAH, Georgia - A Georgia sheriff's deputy says a 21-year-old detainee found dead in a Savannah jail cell fought officers "with every bit of fiber of strength" until he was restrained.

LEBANON, Ohio - A man arrested in Arizona in a 23-year-old homicide was a furniture sales competitor of the slain man in Ohio, authorities said Friday.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - A man known as the "bicycle bandit" who became even more infamous after escaping from custody at a northern Virginia hospital has been sentenced to 32 years in prison.

CAIRO - The restoration of King Tutankhamun's world-famous golden mask will begin Saturday, over a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy, Egypt's state-run news agency said Friday.

ORLANDO, Florida - UCF and UConn expected to be in much different places heading into Saturday's American Athletic Conference matchup.

LONDON - Shares in commodities group Glencore rose strongly Friday after the company said it is slashing its zinc production by a third and cutting jobs in response to sharp fall in the price of the metal.

PITTSBURGH - Three organ transplant patients who developed mold infections before dying at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center likely breathed in the mold spores, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.