Новости за 18.08.2016

LONDON — Britain’s police watchdog says two officers are under criminal investigation over the death of a former Premier League soccer player who was shot with a stun gun by police. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Friday that the West Mercia Police force officers “are also being served with gross misconduct notices” after the

PHOENIX — Police documents and body camera footage show that a 10-year-old Arizona boy who has been missing for a month had been found away from his home before. Authorities have been actively searching for Jesse Wilson since he went missing from his Phoenix-area home on July 18. Searches have involved drones, U.S. Border Patrol

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. was kicked out of practice Thursday following a skirmish with Tampa Bay Buccaneers guard Ali Marpet. Coaches told Fowler to leave the practice fields late in the 2-hour joint session. Fowler, a second-year player from Florida, was not present in the locker room during a

LEBANON, Ind. — A Muslim inmate is suing a central Indiana sheriff for denying him a diet that follows Islamic dietary laws. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Gannon Thomas against the Boone County Sheriff’s Office over its refusal to serve him a halal diet. It accuses

RIO DE JANEIRO — Kerron Clement picked up on Thursday where the United States left off on the sultry evening before — hauling in more gold. And where things could have gone really badly, with the U.S. women’s 4×100-meter relay team failing to get the baton around, the 2012 champions successfully protested that Allyson Felix

NEW YORK — Gawker.com, the brash New York website that broke new ground with its gossipy, no-holds-barred coverage of media, culture and politics, is shutting down after 14 years, brought low by an unhappy, but deep-pocketed, subject. The news — appropriately enough, broken by Gawker itself — follows the sale of the site’s parent company

NEW YORK — Twitter said Thursday it has suspended 360,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating its policies banning the promotion of terrorism and violent extremism. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post that it has also made progress in preventing users who were suspended from immediately returning to the platform using different accounts,

RIO DE JANEIRO — Allyson Felix got jostled and stumbled. Instead of handing off the baton, she had to try flipping it to English Gardner. That didn’t work, and though another full-on American nightmare in the Olympic relays was forestalled, the 4×100 certainly has turned surreal. Race officials upheld an American protest due to the

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont inmate who once hatched a plot in a New Mexico prison to kill pop singer Justin Bieber was behind an anthrax scare at a courthouse where he was sentenced for killing a 15-year-old girl, police said Thursday. The courthouse in Barre received an envelope Wednesday containing white powder and a

RIO DE JANEIRO — Despite all the talk at the Olympics about Brazil’s talented strikers, it’s the defense that’s holding the team together as the host tries to win the soccer gold medal for the first time. Brazil has yet to concede a goal entering Saturday’s final against Germany at the Maracana Stadium, helping keep

ASHBURN, Va. — Josh Doctson is inching his way back from an Achilles tendon injury, though the Washington Redskins still don’t know when the wide receiver will be ready to practice with the team, let alone play in a game. Doctson’s sore left Achilles tendon was a day-to-day problem when it first occurred in May

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — While North Carolina’s record-setting offense commanded headlines, the Tar Heels’ defensive improvement from awful to merely adequate was a key factor in matching a school record with 11 wins. For defensive coordinator Gene Chizik, the next step for that unit is obvious entering the opener against Georgia and beyond. “We have

ATLANTA — Turner Field, the home of the Atlanta Braves and the 1996 Olympics, will get its “third life” when Georgia State University converts it to a college football stadium, Atlanta city leaders said Thursday. The deal involves new commercial development and improvements to streets and neighborhoods on the city’s south side, an area that

PARIS — The French Justice ministry says a suspected Islamic extremist has been mistakenly granted too much money in damages for being kept in custody before a judge eventually dismissed his case. Farouk Ben Abbes was placed in custody in 2010 after being given preliminary terrorist charges and he sought damages when he was released

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Terrell Suggs still wears No. 55, and his familiar mischievous smile isn’t going anywhere. Thing is, there’s less of Suggs to appreciate in his return to the football field from a torn left Achilles tendon. Though he won’t disclose how much weight he’s lost, the 33-year-old Baltimore Ravens linebacker is sleeker

BISMARCK, N.D. — Developers of a four-state oil pipeline have agreed to halt construction of the project in southern North Dakota until a federal court hearing next week in Washington, D.C. The temporary construction shutdown comes amid growing protests and increased tension over the Dakota Access Pipeline that is intended to cross the Missouri River

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Thursday it will phase out its use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending shares of the two publicly traded prison operators plunging. In a memo to the Bureau of Prisons, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told it to start reducing “and ultimately ending”

NEW YORK — The New York Times is shutting down its NYT Now smartphone app because the company says it hasn’t lived up to its hopes in the two years since it was launched in an effort to reach a younger audience. NYT Now offers morning and evening news briefings and a curated list of

TILTON, N.H. — Scientists have long known ospreys make an epic journey each summer from New England to South America. But the details of their dangerous trip remained a mystery — until now. Thanks to trackers on the backs of these fish-eating raptors, scientists are filling in the picture. And what they are learning is

RIO DE JANEIRO — Si Yajie established herself as China’s latest gold-medal favorite at the diving pool, leading another round in the women’s 10-meter platform Thursday. The 17-year-old totaled 389.30 points over five dives in the semifinals, not far off her top score in the preliminaries. The scores do not carry over to the afternoon

Arc Iris, “Moon Saloon” (Bella Union) The songs on “Moon Saloon” are prone to frequent, unpredictable changes in the meter, tempo, tune and instruments, making for music herky-jerky and always quirky. Fetching but fleeting melodies ride a wave of guitars, horns, strings, keyboards, banjo, pedal steel, layered wordless vocals and electronic whooshes and bleeps. At

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says it needs to do “much more” to address its own involvement in the introduction of cholera to Haiti and the suffering of those affected, estimated at more than 770,000 people. Researchers say there is ample evidence that cholera was introduced to Haiti’s biggest river in October 2010 by

BILLINGS, Mont. — A trailer hauling hazardous materials burst into flames and exploded, causing a grass fire along Interstate 94 in Montana. The Montana Highway Patrol says a FedEx semitractor was towing three trailers east of Billings Wednesday afternoon when an apparent brake system malfunction caused the fire. Trooper Joshua French says another driver flagged

NEW YORK — T-Mobile is phasing out data limits and pushing people toward unlimited data plans — which will mean higher prices for many new customers. Although T-Mobile is cutting the price of the unlimited plan, those who haven’t been using that much data might eventually pay more for unlimited data they don’t need. T-Mobile’s

WASHINGTON — Harley-Davidson Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $15 million to settle a U.S. government complaint over racing tuners that caused its motorcycles to emit higher-than-allowed levels of air pollution. Harley-Davidson manufactured and sold about 340,000 Screamin’ Eagle Pro Super Tuners since 2008 that allowed users to modify a motorcycle’s emissions control system to increase