Новости за 06.02.2020

Today, 44 Central Ave., Albany, is an office building, home to the Preservation League of New York State. Its exterior brick is worn, and its profile plain, especially compared to its immediate neighbor, 40 Central Ave., which boasts a fresh coat of burgundy paint, a fancy cornice and bay windows. But both four-story buildings, built circa 1817, play important roles in Albany history, and only 44 has remained largely unaltered as two centuries passed and the city changed radically around it.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers want to put the brakes on a lawsuit filed by an advice columnist who has accused him of raping her in the 1990s and is seeking his DNA as possible evidence.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health threat, with no guarantee one will arrive in time.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A powerful winter storm raked the Deep South on Thursday with high winds, rain and floods that killed one person and injured several more across a dozen states. Rescue crews repeatedly pulled people from cars that got stuck in high water, but couldn't reach a person whose vehicle disappeared into a rain-swollen creek.

NEW YORK (AP) — Now that they've already taken over our lives, big tech companies are taking over the stock market.

BEIJING (AP) — Scientists in the city at the center of China’s virus outbreak have applied to patent a drug made by U.S. company Gilead Sciences Inc. to treat the disease, possibly fueling conflict over technology policy that helped trigger Washington’s tariff war with Beijing.

MOSCÚ (AP) — La astronauta de la NASA Christina Koch, que tras casi 11 meses en órbita es la mujer que ha hecho una estancia espacial más larga, aterrizó el jueves en Kazajistán junto con dos de sus compañeros de tripulación en la Estación Espacial Internacional.

BEIJING (AP) — Las aerolíneas están extendiendo la suspensión de vuelos a China continental, al tiempo que aumenta el número de minoristas que calculan el potencial daño económico del brote de un nuevo virus en ese país asiático.

In the wake of revelations that scores of Roman Catholic priests and religious workers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living unsupervised in communities across the country, state officials face a quandary: Should they screen former clergy members who seek licenses for jobs that put them in contact with children? And, if so, how?

LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s finance minister resigned Thursday after revelations he had reportedly sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old boy on social media.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

MOSCOW (AP) — NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday along with two of her International Space Station crewmates.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Bernie Sanders says he raised a whopping $25 million in January and will use his presidential campaign's flush bank account to increase television and digital advertising in 10 states.

This should have been a good year for global tourism, with trade tensions gradually easing, certain economies growing and banner events like the Summer Olympics taking place in Tokyo. But the viral outbreak in China has thrown the travel industry into chaos, threatening billions in losses and keeping millions of would-be travelers at home.

BAGHDAD (AP) — A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of concrete to reinforce the barricades in beefed-up protections. The danger, soldiers there said, came not from the constellation of militant sleeper cells embedded in the landscape but further afield in Iran.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man is set to be executed Thursday evening after fatally shooting his wife, two children and two other relatives during a drug-fueled rage nearly 18 years ago.

New York

Caris LeVert scored 23 points and the Nets gave D'Angelo Russell a bruising welcome back to Brooklyn with a 129-88 rout of the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday.

On the eve of the NBA's trade deadline, the Warriors held out Glenn Robinson III and Alec Burks, who had been two of their most productive players lately.

Joe Harris added 17 points and Garrett Temple had 16 for the Nets, who beat the Warriors for the first time in nearly five years.

Russell scored 17 points but was 0-for-8 from 3-point range. Читать дальше...

New York

Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad scored in a six-second span late in the first period and the New York Rangers earned a 5-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night.

Kreider and Zibanejad each had a goal and an assist, Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and two assists and Filip Chytil and Greg McKegg also scored for the Rangers. Rookie goalie Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves to win for the fourth time in five starts this season.

Auston Matthews had two goals and... Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of students dressed in blue excitedly welcomed Hank Aaron to their Atlanta college campus Wednesday as the school named a building for the baseball icon on his 86th birthday.

Indianapolis

Kamar Baldwin made a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and scored 17 points, lifting No. 19 Butler over No. 10 Villanova 79-76 on Wednesday night.

The Bulldogs (18-5, 6-4 Big East) snapped a five-game losing streak in the series as Sean McDermott scored 21 points and Bryce Golden added a career-high 18 points. The game was delayed for nearly 15 minutes in the first half when the roof of 92-year-old Hinkle Fieldhouse sprung a leak.

Maintenance workers got the water stopped and the floor dried. Читать дальше...

Albany

A gathering of 1,739 fans at SEFCU Arena almost didn't believe what it saw Wednesday night with 9:53 to play in the first half.

Nick Fruscio, a senior walk-on guard whose career minutes have been limited to garbage time, was at the scorer's table. In the first half.

Such was the plight for the University at Albany basketball team, which got limited minutes from its top two scorers but still posted a comfortable 62-49 America East victory over Binghamton.

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Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected Communists and reigned for decades as a Hollywood maverick and patriarch, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 103.

The final accuser at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Wednesday that he stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast in a hotel bathroom in 2013, all the while telling her his lewd acts were part of the way things worked in Hollywood.

NEW YORK (AP) — The virus outbreak out of China has exposed a seeming disconnect between the financial markets and science.

NEW YORK (AP) — Epic Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff asked a federal judge Wednesday to grant him a “compassionate release” from his 150-year prison sentence, saying he has terminal kidney failure and less than 18 months to live.