Новости за 13.08.2016

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska safety Nate Gerry was ejected from back-to-back games last season because officials ruled he targeted receivers above the shoulders when tackling them. This year, Gerry and his teammates are transitioning to a tackling method whose objectives are to eliminate dangerous helmet-to-helmet contact while making defenders dominant tacklers. Nebraska is the latest

NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. — Chekota American Horse and his 8-month-old son traveled a few miles from their home on the nearby Sioux reservation to join the growing protest against a $3.8 billion oil pipeline that’s going into the ground fast. Mekasi Horinek, a Ponca, traveled from Oklahoma. Carlos Castaneda, who is

Since Massachusetts moved to the Bowl Subdivision five years ago, the Minutemen have eight victories and 40 losses, have averaged less than the NCAA minimum attendance of 15,000 for their homes games and were essentially kicked out of a conference. Instead of giving up its major college football aspirations — as some on the Amherst

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A fair ride operator has received permission to renew running its rides at Tennessee fairs — other than a Ferris wheel that dropped three girls to the ground. The state Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced the decision late Friday to allow Family Attractions Amusement to resume operations. Inspectors hired by

SEATTLE — He’s notched more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, wrote the definitive guidebooks to a major North American mountain range, and at age 93, Fred Beckey is still plotting routes — though more slowly and buoyed by a cadre of fiercely protective partners. For years, stories have floated around about the man

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Robert De Niro says Donald Trump is like the main character of the legendary 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” the mentally disturbed Travis Bickle. “What he has been saying is totally crazy, ridiculous, stuff that shouldn’t be even … he is totally nuts,” De Niro said during a question and answer session at

NEW YORK — The Baby Bombers arrived with a bang. Two of them. Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game, sparking the New York Yankees to an 8-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees aren’t wasting time with a new-look lineup, with Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge called up from the minors and making their major league debuts in Saturday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Austin is starting at first base and batting seventh and Judge starts in right field and

WHITING, Ind. — BP is considering spending millions of dollars for equipment to reduce pollution from its refinery in northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan three years after a $4.2 billion expansion and upgrade. BP Whiting Refinery management has asked for corporate approval to build a new hydrotreater unit, which uses hydrogen to remove unwanted chemicals

ATLANTA — Most fireworks became legal in Georgia more than a year ago, but state officials can’t say whether the number of people injured by them has changed — echoing a nationwide pattern in which experts believe fireworks injuries often go underreported and undercounted. The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission reported at least 11 deaths

MADRID — Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns that a third round of elections in one year would make Spain “the laughingstock of Europe” as he tries to cobble together support to form a government and end eight months of political deadlock. Rajoy’s conservative Popular Party will decide Wednesday if it accepts the conditions

NEW YORK — A man hit by lightning at a park in New York’s Hudson Valley died Saturday, a hospital spokesman said, while four other people wounded by the same strike remained hospitalized. The 50-year-old man succumbed to his injuries around 1 a.m. Saturday at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, according to Tim Massie, a senior

SPIELBERG, Austria — Andrea Iannone earned his second career MotoGP pole position as Italian riders locked the front grid of the Austrian Grand Prix. The Ducati rider timed 1 minute, 23.142 seconds in Saturday’s qualifying to lead seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi on a Yamaha by 0.147 and Ducati teammate Andrea Dovizioso by 0.156. “We

TIPTON, Ind. — Federal officials say the remains of an Indiana airman who went missing during World War II will be buried in Indiana. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says 21-year-old Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Robert L. McIntosh of Tipton will be buried in his hometown Saturday. The agency says McIntosh was piloting a

HENRYVILLE, Ind. — A stretch of Interstate 65 in southern Indiana has been named to honor the state’s first governor. “Governor Jonathan Jennings Memorial Highway” was named this week during a dedication ceremony at Henryville Junior/Senior High School. The News and Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2bcWZLu ) that students cheered Wednesday when a large sign was carried

HAVANA — Fidel Castro has written a long letter thanking Cubans for their support on his 90th birthday and once again criticizing President Barack Obama. In the letter in state media Saturday, Castro relays “my deepest gratitude for demonstrations of respect, greetings and praise that I’ve received in recent days, which give me strength to

HULL, England — Leicester opened its title defense with a shock 2-1 loss to newly-promoted Hull on the first day of the Premier League season on Saturday. Having sprung one of soccer’s biggest surprises by winning the league last season, Leicester was on the receiving end of an upset after Robert Snodgrass rifled home Hull’s

PORTLAND, Maine — Sweden is digging in on a proposal to ban imports of live lobsters into the European Union after a rebuke from American scientists, and the issue could go all the way to the World Trade Organization. Sweden asked the European Union to bar imports of live American lobsters into the bloc earlier

CROMWELL, Conn. — The PGA Tour, which almost pulled out of Connecticut a decade ago, is making another major investment in its TPC River Highland’s golf course, which last week was the site of the best score in tour history. The announcement was made in Hartford during the Travelers Championship tournament by PGA Tour commissioner

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields, Syrian Kurdish officials and an opposition activist group said Saturday. Nasser Haj Mansour, of the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces told The Associated

CHATHAM, N.Y. — The remains of a U.S. Marine killed in a World War II Pacific battle nearly 73 years ago have been identified and will be returned to upstate New York for burial. The Times Union of Albany reports (http://bit.ly/2bnzdM2 ) military officials identified Pfc. George Traver using dental records and his Boy Scout

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan is softening its rejection of a regional protection force a day after the U.N. Security Council voted to deploy the 4,000 additional peacekeepers to help restore calm. But a government spokesman said Saturday it will accept the force only if it can negotiate the size, mandate, weapons and contributing

RIO DE JANEIRO — The pink scar that winds from the bottom of Connor Fields’ left hand and past his wrist serves as a reminder of the injury that derailed a promising BMX season. It didn’t stop him from returning to the Summer Olympics, though. The U.S. BMX team arrived in Rio de Janeiro on

BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister says humanitarian aid is desperately needed in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and that it may be necessary to start an “air bridge” to bring it in. Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Saturday that Germany was in talks with the U.S., Russia and the

LONDON — The British government promised Saturday to keep paying for European Union-funded agriculture, infrastructure and science projects until 2020, even if Britain leaves the bloc before then. Treasury chief Philip Hammond wants to allay worry among farmers and scientists about what will replace the millions they currently get from the EU. Some scientists in