Новости за 04.02.2017

LOS ANGELES — Leaked video showing a frightened dog being forced into churning water during filming of “A Dog’s Purpose” was misleadingly edited and the German shepherd was unharmed, according to third-party findings released by American Humane, the group responsible for overseeing animal safety on the movie set. An independent animal-cruelty expert found that preventative

CHICAGO — Visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban hurried to board U.S.-bound flights Saturday, fearing they might have only a slim window through which to enter the country after a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban. Those who could travel immediately were being urged to do so because

PRISTINA, Kosovo — The Kosovo government says it’s reached a deal with the country’s ethnic Serb minority to resolve the issue of a concrete wall erected in the northern city of Mitrovica that has provoked tensions between Kosovo and neighboring Serbia. A statement Saturday said the “solution will lower the tensions in northern Kosovo” but

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Only a tiny minority of African soccer players achieve stardom and the rich rewards that go with it. Some of them will feature in Sunday’s African Cup of Nations final, while for thousands of journeymen professionals on this continent, it’s not a beautiful game but an ugly and abusive system that has

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan says it has carried out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in southern Syria, hitting an arms depot, a warehouse for making car bombs and barracks used by the extremist group. The state news agency Petra on Saturday quoted the military as saying drones and precision-guided munitions killed and wounded an unspecified

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Health and utility officials say the water that serves North Carolina’s flagship university is safe to drink after a broken water main and problems at a water treatment plant forced the school to cancel classes and led restaurants and hotels to close. Both the Orange County Health Department and Orange Water

LONDON — Harry Kane’s penalty was decisive as Tottenham took advantage of its rivals’ losses and secured a 1-0 victory over Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Saturday. Despite being frustrated for long periods by the organized Middlesbrough defense, Kane’s 14th league goal this season was enough to secure a vital three points at White

ATHENS, Ohio — Jaaron Simmons scored a career-high 38 points with 10 rebounds and Ohio beat Akron 85-70 to snap the Zips’ 12-game winning streak on Saturday. Simmons was 10-of-16 shooting, made all five of his 3-point attempts, sank 13 of 16 free throws and had five assists as the Bobcats (14-7, 6-4 Mid-American) handed

HOUSTON — The go-to place for many of the Super Bowl related festivities in Houston this week hasn’t been a swanky nightclub or a hard to get into restaurant but a popular 12-acre park that has helped revitalize the downtown area as well as become the heart of the city for many local residents. Discovery

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Carsen Edwards made two free throws with 2.1 seconds left, and No. 23 Purdue rallied to beat No. 17 Maryland 73-72 on Saturday and knock the Terrapins out of first place in the Big Ten. After Purdue took a timeout to set up a play, Edwards was fouled on a drive

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Infielder Wilmer Flores defeated the Mets in New York’s first salary arbitration hearing since pitcher Oliver Perez won in 2008. Flores was awarded a $2.2 million salary Saturday by arbitrators Mark Irvings, Sylvia Skratek and Robert Herzog, who heard the case a day earlier. The Mets contended he should be paid

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Tyus Battle had a career-high 23 points and Andrew White also had 23 as Syracuse rallied past No. 9 Virginia 66-62 on Saturday, its second win over a ranked team in eight days. Syracuse (15-9, 7-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) extended its winning streak to four games and remained in the hunt for

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Bridget Carleton matched her career-high with 31 points and ran her consecutive free throws made streak to 42 and Iowa State routed No. 22 West Virginia 80-55 on Saturday. Carleton had 22 points in the first half as the Cyclones (13-10, 4-8 Big 12) took a 37-28 lead. Emily Durr added 14

HOUSTON — The NFL Referees Association has donated more than 20 Super Bowl tickets to charities nationwide benefiting a variety of causes. The American Diabetes Association, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Susan G. Komen Foundation are among the organizations that received tickets to Sunday’s game between the Atlanta Falcons and New

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Scores of individually wrapped heroin packets seized during a Florida drug bust featured a certain famous likeness: that of President Donald Trump. The Tampa Bay Times reports (http://bit.ly/2l5n4wW) law enforcement officers seized the drugs Jan. 27 in Hernando County. Packets were stamped with not only Trump’s image and name; others bore the

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian police searched the house of ex-President Alejandro Toledo for five hours on Saturday in a case involving alleged bribes from a Brazilian construction firm under investigation in a major corruption probe. It’s the latest development in a case that first started in Brazil but has since caught up dozens of politicians

NIS, Serbia — Nenad Zimonjic and Viktor Troicki won the doubles to give Serbia an insurmountable lead in the Davis Cup World Group first-round match against Russia. The pair beat Konstantin Kravchuk and Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 6-4 on Saturday. Serbia secured the tie 3-0 ahead of the reverse singles on Sunday.

PARIS — Benjamin Mendy delivered two assists and Falcao scored twice as leader Monaco moved three points clear in the French league with a 3-0 defeat of Nice in their top-of-the-table clash on Saturday. After struggling to get past the solid defense put up by the visitors, Monaco played with more fluidity in the second

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has wasted little time in beginning a push to reverse the stricter banking regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis. Trump has branded the Dodd-Frank Act “a disaster” — a regulatory overreach that slowed the economy and stifled lending to consumers and businesses. Dodd-Frank did impose tighter curbs on

BOULDER, Colo. — The chancellor of the University of Colorado is apologizing for the university’s failure to act quickly enough when it learned of domestic abuse allegations against assistant coach Joseph Trumpkin. Chancellor Philip DiStefano issued a statement Friday saying he, athletic director Rick George and football coach Mike MacIntyre wanted to apologize to the

TOKYO — In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea his experience in uniform is seen as an asset. Not everyone who knows Mattis well in the U.S. shares that view, but he clearly was

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Corey Henson scored 16 points to join the 1,000-point club, Michael Carey added 15 and Wagner pulled away late to defeat Fairleigh Dickinson 68-59 on Saturday for its third straight win. JoJo Cooper added 13 points, six assists and three steals for the Seahawks (11-11, 7-5 Northeast Conference) and Michael Aaman had

OBERSTDORF, Germany — Stefan Kraft claimed his second ski jump World Cup of the season with victory in Saturday’s flying hill competition. The Austrian soared 227.5 meters with his first jump and 218.0 with his second for 439.9 points, beating Andreas Wellinger of Germany by 5.1 points and Kamil Stoch of Poland by 14.5. Norway’s

LOS ANGELES — Police have arrested several people for a 1993 apartment building fire that killed 10 people, including seven children, it was announced Saturday. Those arrested remained jailed, Officer Aareon Jefferson said. He had no other details. Police planned to hold a news conference on Monday. The three-story building in the Westlake district caught

MINNEAPOLIS — Volunteers are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of wild horses in South Dakota that were spared a possible trip to the slaughterhouse but are now suffering through a harsh winter. The horses, some of them blind, were once kept at a troubled South Dakota sanctuary. Now a small group of volunteers from