Новости за 01.01.2019

TAMPA, Fla. — Safety Jake Gervase made an interception in the end zone to help preserve a late lead, and ball-hawking Iowa Hawkeyes beat No. 18 Mississippi State in the Outback Bowl 27-22 Tuesday. Gervase also batted down an errant fourth-down pass to end the Bulldogs’ final drive at the Iowa 32 with 25 seconds

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra says he’s deciding how he will respond to the attorney general’s move to dismantle a team investigating the sweeping Odebrecht corruption case. Vizcarra cut short a trip to Brazil on Tuesday, returning home to address the case that set off street protests on New Year’s Eve. With hours

TORONTO — Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry has had pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory injections for his sore lower back. The team said Tuesday he was treated Friday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Coach Nick Nurse said Monday “things are progressing really well” and it “shouldn’t be too long” before Lowry returns.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Ty Outlaw hit three 3-pointers in a 22-9 second-half run and No. 10 Virginia Tech beat Notre Dame 81-66 on Tuesday. Kerry Blackshear Jr. led the way with 21 points, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Ahmed Hill scored 17 apiece and Outlaw finished with 14 for the Hokies (12-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). Virginia

TIJUANA, Mexico — U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who were trying to breach the border fence in Tijuana. An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana’s beach

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Officials say a child has been injured after falling into the rhinoceros exhibit at a Florida zoo. Brevard County Fire Rescue officials said on Twitter that the boy was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in nearby Orlando on Tuesday afternoon. The mother was also taken to an Orlando hospital for

CARDIFF, Wales — Harry Kane’s third-minute goal set Tottenham on its way to a 3-0 win at Cardiff on Tuesday, ensuring the prolific England striker has scored against all 28 teams he has faced in the Premier League. Christian Eriksen and Son Heung-min also netted first-half goals as Tottenham moved back into second place, a

MANCHESTER, England — It appears Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah have some company as they vie for the second straight season to be top scorer in the Premier League. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was the Bundesliga’s leading marksman in his last full season in German soccer — with 31 goals for Borussia Dortmund in the 2016-17 campaign

NEW YORK — It wasn’t long after Todd Bowles was fired as the Jets’ head coach that frustrated fans started asking the inevitable question: What about Mike Maccagnan? The general manager was hired a day before Bowles in 2015, the two linked together — but separately in the team’s reporting structure — for the next

SEATTLE — Washington on Tuesday joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after voters passed a sweeping firearms measure in November that has drawn a court challenge from gun-rights advocates. The ballot initiative seeks to curb gun violence by toughening background checks for people buying

HAMMOND, Ind. — A northwestern Indiana scrap-metal dealer convicted of demolishing a historic railroad bridge and selling the metal is seeking a new trial. Kenneth Morrison’s defense attorney says in a motion filed last week that federal prosecutors didn’t meet their burden of proving that he illegally scrapped the century-old bridge. The Post-Tribune reports the

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State wide receiver Jakobi Meyers is skipping his final season to enter the NFL draft. The school announced the redshirt junior’s decision on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the Wolfpack lost to Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl. Meyers came to N.C. State as a quarterback but moved to

OSLO, Norway — Petra Vlhova of Slovakia took advantage of her height to beat overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin in both runs of the final and win a parallel slalom city event Tuesday. The 5-foot-11 (1.80 meters) Vlhova was able to cross check gates out of her way with both fists while the more

LONDON — Arsenal bounced back from its mauling by Liverpool by easing past Fulham 4-1 in the Premier League to move to within two points of the Champions League qualification positions on Tuesday. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wrapped up a routine victory in the 84th minute with his 14th goal of the campaign, leaving him the league’s

BATON ROUGE, La. — A prosecutor says two LSU football players appear to have responded with justifiable force when they gunned down an 18-year-old man who was allegedly trying to rob them at gunpoint. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore tells The Associated Press that the investigation is still in a preliminary stage

The mandate directing individuals to obtain health insurance or face tax penalties ends on Tuesday for most, but not all Americans. In Massachusetts, an individual mandate that has been on the books since 2006 will continue in the absence of the federal fines that had been in effect since 2014 under the Affordable Care Act

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. — State Police say there’s no body or dash camera video of a state trooper’s fatal shooting of a man along a western Indiana highway. Police spokesman Sgt. Kim Riley said Monday the cruiser driven by the trooper who shot 56-year-old Glenn A. Rightsell of Linden didn’t have a dash camera, and Indiana’s

TULSA, Okla. — The number of magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma has declined for the third consecutive year after regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and reduce injection volumes in others. State seismologist Jake Walter tells the Tulsa World he’s optimistic the trend will continue, but says

RIO DE JANEIRO — Jair Bolsonaro was elected Brazil’s president on promises to overhaul many aspects of Latin America’s largest nation, from changing its international alliances to cracking down on endemic corruption and street crime. Here are five things the far-right leader will likely move to change in the first months of his administration: GUN

From Russian war games to lava flows on Hawaii to raging fires in California, images gathered from high above Earth by satellites in 2018 delivered a unique perspective on humanity, geopolitics, and the forces of nature that have upended lives and landscape. Here’s a look at eight of the most striking news images captured by

BRASILIA, Brazil — The Latest on the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s new president (all times local): 1:35 p.m. Journalists are complaining about how they are being treated in the hours ahead of the inauguration of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a vocal critic of the media. The organization of the event is severely limiting

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida sheriff’s dive team pulled a woman to safety early on New Year’s Day after another driver cut her off on Interstate 4 and her vehicle wound up upside down in a muddy ravine. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s spokesman Danny Alvarez says 33-year-old Amanda Antonio’s desperate 911 call came in at 3:48

MOSCOW — The Latest on the collapse of a building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Rescuers have pulled an infant girl alive from the rubble of a Russian apartment building collapse that killed at least seven people and left dozens missing. The rescue came about 35 hours after a

PARIS — French firefighters say three adults and five teenagers were trapped high in the air on a broken fairground ride for more than eight hours from New Year’s Eve into the early hours of 2019. The revelers — the youngest aged 13 — were stuck about 52 meters (170 feet) above the ground in

PERTH, Australia — Roger Federer celebrated the New Year in style with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Frances Tiafoe to give defending Hopman Cup champion Switzerland an early lead over the United States, ahead of his showpiece mixed doubles game featuring fellow tennis great Serena Williams. The 37-year-old Federer was made to work during a