Новости за 11.02.2019

Illinois' attorney general is holding a news conference with the prosecutor who won a conviction against the white Chicago police officer who killed black teenager Laquan McDonald.

Neomi Rao is President Trump’s nominee for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal court that is generally recognized as the second-most important court in the nation. Four sitting Supreme Court justices previously sat on the D.C. Circuit.

A private prisoner transport company is shutting down after an MMA fighter accused in two killings escaped from one of its vans while being escorted to a jail in Southeast Texas.

Nearly 100 children have died in an Ebola outbreak ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo as health workers warn it could be far from over.

McDonald’s confirmed rumored plans to debut “Donut Sticks” on Feb. 20.

Late "Young and the Restless" actor Kristoff St. John's ex-wife revealed that she was hospitalized after his death.

While Russia has deftly used the internet to advance its own interests, it is apparently concerned about other countries deploying its own tactics, so it is preparing to "disconnect" from the internet, ZDNet reports.

An Italian aid group is reporting that a migrant smuggling ship with an estimated 150 people on board is in distress off Libya.

Hooters wants to restore customers' "faith in love," apparently via free chicken wings.

California Sen. Kamala Harris, reiterating her support for marijuana legalization at the federal level, acknowledged Monday that she's smoked pot in the past, saying: “I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale.”

Dating sites have joined the growing list of places — banks, credit card companies and hospitals — targeted by hackers.

Authorities in Paris have launched an investigation after anti-Semitic graffiti was found Saturday sprayed across a bagel shop in the city's old Jewish quarter.

As President Trump gets set to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to prioritize research and development in artificial intelligence, tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and others are warning about the risks AI may hold.

Michelle Rodriguez apologized on Saturday after she said actor Liam Neeson, who stirred up controversy after revealing he once sought to kill a black person for revenge, couldn’t be a racist because “racists don’t make out with the race that they hate.”

Christina Ricci knows a thing or two about growing up in the spotlight -- and now the former child actress is speaking out against parents who try to 'make [their] child famous."

Family treasure.

The estate of Michael Jackson has sent a stern letter to UK’s Channel 4 warning that a documentary on two men who accused the late singer of molesting them as children violates the network’s guidelines.

A 24-year-old man was arrested Sunday in the shooting death of a beloved businessman and philanthropist who was gunned down while he waited for his wife in a CVS parking lot, Georgia police announced.

Recycled gold will be a thing of the future – at least that’s what Olympic organizers in Tokyo are banking on.

It was truly a "miracle on ice" when a North Carolina doctor saved a fellow hockey player's life during a pickup game.

The Latest on the arraignment for the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter (all times local): 9:40 a.m.

A court in Estonia has found a former military officer and his father guilty of committing treason by spying for Russia.

A man in Wisconsin was arrested Saturday after allegedly trying to kill his wife and himself by crashing their car into a tree, officials said

“Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik has a few theories about why she was turned away from her United Airlines flight on Sunday evening.