Новости за 28.07.2015

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a man who led officers on a wild two-hour chase spanning two states had been facing charges of stealing $21 worth of underwear from a supermarket. Police records show 54-year-old Robert Ritter was accused of stealing a pack of underwear and a package of T-shirts on July 9 from a supermarket in Brooklawn, New Jersey. Authorities say he also shoved a security officer. He also faces stalking charges in Gloucester Township, New Jersey. Ritter had two warrants out for his arrest... Читать дальше...

The beloved Britpop veteran stops by the Tiny Desk with songs from his new album, Saturns Pattern — and one from his best-known record, Stanley Road.

Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, will be released from prison on Nov. 21.

The single engine plane crashed into a field on Monday evening.

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NEW YORK, July 28 (UPI) -- With just two weeks left until he signs off as "The Daily Show" host, Stewart decided to do things a little differently.

More than 700 fines handed to motorists using Belfast bus lanes are cancelled because of a "timing issue" with detection cameras.

Jonathan Pollard, the former Naval intelligence analyst whose conviction of spying for Israel stoked fierce international passions, has been granted parole and will be released from prison in November after nearly 30 years.

On News Desk today, Edwidge Danticat writes about the legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti, which began a hundred years ago, on July 28, 1915. “It is very hard to figure out what to commemorate, what to remember and what to forget, during a nineteen-year-long occupation,” she writes. “In my own family, there were many stories.”

The University of Nebraska Press will donate books to six of Lincoln’s Little Free Libraries.

A man is jailed for trying to blackmail US heiress Haley Meijer out of £2m by posting pornographic pictures of her online.

Here's a look at some of the top deals from another busy day across Europe.

NEW YORK - A North Korean ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday said that he is not precluding the prospe...

The first Aaron Hernandez trial ended in a conviction. But that still may not be the end of it. Via the Associated Press, lawyer James Sultan now knows the name of a tipster who claims that one of the jurors in the Odin Lloyd murder case participated in discussions about the other double murder case…

Excuse level = champion.

Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, passed in 1991, but the beloved children’s author lives on through the ridiculous rhymes and illustrations featured in dozens of books read by children throughout the world. And today a newly discovered illustrated book arrives in bookstores. “What Pet Should I Get?” captures that classic childhood moment of

Athens stock exchange given the green light to resume trading after European Commission denies Varoufakis plot allegations

The Washington Huskies are used to being the underdogs on the field in the Pac-12 the past few seasons, but this offseason, they were dubbed the favorites in a recruiting race against some of the top football programs in the country — including Ole Miss, Nebraska, Arizona and Arizona State — to land four-star offensive guard Michael Eletise. However, when Eletise’s live TV decision came around Monday night, the Huskies’ hopes took a big hit. The anticipated celebration of landing the top offensive... Читать дальше...

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 28 (UPI) -- A mashup published on Youtube pits Katniss Everdeen of {i:The Hunger Games} versus Jon Snow of {i:Game of Thrones} fame.

The New Horizons Pluto flyby mission set records for NASA's social media and web metrics——but why do we care so much?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The End of The Tour" is the story of two Davids meeting at a crossroads.

LOS ANGELES - "The End of The Tour" is the story of two Davids meeting at a crossroads.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The End of The Tour" is the story of two Davids meeting at a crossroads. One, acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, is at the peak of his success. The other, fellow writer David Lipsky, isn't unsuccessful, but idly longs for Wallace's talent and fame while on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine to profile the author. The story went unpublished, but the recorded discussions between the men during the "Infinite Jest" press tour in 1996 were turned into a memoir after Wallace hung himself in 2008. Читать дальше...

A Virginia judge said it is "highly unlikely" that he'll force a high school to allow a transgender teen to use the boy's room this fall.

Perhaps the least-deserved vote of confidence this offseason came when Jets offensive coordinator Chan Gailey said it wasn’t really a competition, and the starting quarterback job was Geno Smith’s to lose. New head coach Todd Bowles moved quickly to cut that talk off in May, and on the eve of his first training camp, made…

The victim was standing outside an apartment building on Wortman Ave., part of the Linden Houses, when an unidentified gunman opened fire.