Новости за 11.02.2017

LOS ANGELES (AP) — British TV personality Piers Morgan and British author J.K. Rowling are in a Twitter war over American politics.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — About two dozen people showed up Saturday to protest outside of Council Bluffs' Planned Parenthood clinic, carrying the same message as their counterparts nationwide: Cut off government payments to the organization.

A newly formed group hopes to buy out Whiteclay's beer stores and shut them down as part of an effort to redevelop the troubled, unincorporated village in northwest Nebraska.

James Corden's Grammy gig won't feature a Carpool Karaoke spoof because there "isn't time".

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Right-handed reliever Andy Bass has signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers, looking to earn a spot in their bullpen like he had before pitching in Japan last season.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 8-year-old daughter of actress and singer Jamie Lynn Spears is back at her home in Kentwood, Louisiana after a vehicle accident last week.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Conley and Marc Gasol have spent the last nine years in Memphis, their bond as strong as that of any NBA teammates. It is the foundation of the Grizzlies' identity.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With the Dundee Theater closed for restoration, many people who grew up watching movies in the theater's old seats are buying the chairs as a keepsake.

BERLIN (AP) — American director and actor Stanley Tucci is criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump for not backing the arts and arts education.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with dozens of brilliant, colorful mosaics, larger-than-life murals and towering sculptures.

BERLIN (AP) — A film about the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti shows the famous sculptor and painter driven by self-doubts and anger toward the end of his life, but also depicts his sense of humor and his obsession with women.

NEW YORK (AP) — Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan banned Charles Oakley from the arena Friday, though said he was open to reconciling with the former Knicks forward.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Protesters are slated to gather at Planned Parenthood offices in Iowa and Nebraska as part of a nationwide movement to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the agency of all federal funding.

At first I paid little attention but in the late 1960s when I first moved into our present home there were occasions when our electricity went out for one reason or another, but mysteriously the house directly across the street…

BERLIN (AP) — Senegalese director Alain Gomis has delighted viewers at the Berlin Film Festival with "Felicite," a movie about the life and struggles of a singer in the Congo city of Kinshasa.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A new TV series, based on the Marvel comic book series Cloak & Dagger, has started filming in the New Orleans area.

MIAMI (AP) — The families of the two men who were with Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez when his boat crashed into a Miami Beach jetty — killing all three — are suing the All-Star's estate.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission wants anglers to check the thickness of the ice before venturing out to catch a few fish this winter.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Nebraska girls are being honored as the top youth volunteers in the state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's a hint at what Elena Delle Donne's addition means to the Washington Mystics: All of 33 seconds into the 2015 WNBA MVP's introductory news conference Friday, coach and general manager Mike Thibault used the word "championship."

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A noted Ukrainian poet and novelist says he was seized by security agents in the middle of the night while visiting the capital of Belarus and ordered to leave the country.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Petty got his band the Heartbreakers back together for a high-class gig to launch Grammy weekend.

Housing sales have been red-hot in both Omaha and Lincoln, with homes often selling above their asking prices -- sometimes within days or even hours of going on the market.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — The authoritarian president of Turkmenistan is set to sail to victory in Sunday's election where eight other candidates are on the ballot, but all praise his polices.

A pair of trousers owned by Sir Mick Jagger are set to fetch more than $10,000 at auction.