Новости за 07.04.2016

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Ernie Els was 2 feet from a par to start the Masters.

Billionaire Steven Cohen is creating as many as 25 clinics nationally to offer free mental health services to veterans, pledging $275 million to the effort.

The Reds boss was given a warm welcome on his return to Signal Iduna Park and his side will be cheerful too despite Mats Hummels negating their lead on the night

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama responded on Thursday to concerns that by selecting "a white guy" for the Supreme Court, he was reneging on his promise to promote diversity with his judicial nominees.

Searchers on Thursday found four of the six crew members from a Japanese military jet that disappeared a day earlier while flying over southern mountains.

Three men who lost their lawsuit against a former state university administrator over allegations he sexually abused them are taking their case to a federal appeals court. The judge prevented jurors from seeing the official report of an extensive administrative investigation into the students' sexual misconduct allegations, which corroborated their claims, the appeal said. The judge also erred when he dismissed East Stroudsburg and top university officials as defendants; prevented some of the plaintiffs'... Читать дальше...

Six-time finalist Jimmy White loses 10-9 to Gerard Greene in World Championship qualifying, but Graeme Dott advances.

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland - Maryland forward Robert Carter Jr. will skip his senior season to enter the NBA draft.

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Rapper 50 Cent got slapped on the wrist from his bankruptcy judge for bringing his phone into the courthouse, where it appeared he had taken a photo of himself with stacks of fake cash tucked into his belt and posted it to Instagram.

The reigning champions will fancy their chances of progressing to the semi-finals after picking up an away win against the Basque side in Thursday's first-leg clash

The Rams will open their preseason schedule against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 5 p.m. PDT, in a nationally televised game on ESPN, the NFL announced Thursday.

Islamic State fighters have kidnapped scores of workers in an area northeast of Damascus after launching an attack on government forces there this week, Syrian state television and a monitoring group said on Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court once praised the unique qualities of higher education by describing our classrooms as "peculiarly the marketplace of ideas." Just last week at the University of Michigan, however, chalked anti-Islam messages in the center of our campus gave a different impression-- that we are in danger of becoming a marketplace of labels, epithets and petty attacks. Indeed, compelling evidence suggests we are already well down this path.

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Mircea Lucescu's men are now in a strong position to reach the last four after scoring two vital away goals in the first leg of their quarter-final tie against the Arsenalistas

Teresa Giudice is obviously missing Joe Giudice as he serves out his 41-month prison sentence, but the Real Housewives of New Jersey star is holding it together for the whole family's...

With a new, 20,000-seat arena open on the Strip, and Manny Pacquiao capable of an impressive victory Saturday that could ignite talks of a rematch against Floyd Mayweather Jr., would the unbeaten retired fighter consider a return?

We live in a country that, while flawed in some ways, gives us some many fundamental freedoms that allow us to live our lives in ways that those in other parts of the world cannot imagine. If you take these freedoms for granted, please don’t. They are wonderful things, and they have been fought/earned over many painful periods of history. When the first amendment states that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” it protects all sorts of speech, not just speech with which we agree. Читать дальше...

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Twenty business, education and community leaders concerned about Terre Haute's financial challenges want the city's mayor to create a commission to evaluate local government efficiency.

AALTEN - De zaak rond het zonder vergunning gebouwde mestbassin van wethouder Erik Luiten is in Aalten "op correcte wijze opgepakt. Het proces wordt goed doorlopen."

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he disagrees with an independent report by the Parliamentary Budget Office saying the Liberals were not as transparent as they should have been when they tabled their first budget last month.

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LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) -- "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?" co-stars Tori Spelling and Ivan Sergei are to appear in James Franco's re-imagining of the iconic TV movie.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that at least 44 civilians have been killed and 74 wounded in the past two weeks in Syria as terrorist groups have increased the number of provocations around Aleppo amid the general ceasefire.