Новости за 20.02.2017

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Should injured pro athletes be allowed to earn worker compensation benefits until they are 67 years old, like other workers, even if their athletic careers normally would have ended more than 30 years earlier?

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Mitch Moreland knows he's likely the only new player in Boston's lineup since David Ortiz retired at the end of last season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference after his attempt to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men fell flat with organizers.

For all Trevor Story accomplished in a record rookie season, his biggest takeaway is this: Slide feet first.

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA All-Star game drew an average audience of 7.8 million viewers, making it the most-viewed All-Star broadcast since 2013.

ROME (AP) — The museums of the Vatican and Rome's ancient Jewish community are hosting their first joint exhibit, building on decades of improved Catholic-Jewish relations following centuries of mistrust.

GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) — Scott Schebler needed a year to settle in. Now he's ready to win.

Nebraska's Hannah Whitish earned the first Big Ten women's basketball freshman-of-the-week award of her career after helping the Huskers to a 67-64 victory against Indiana on Sunday.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Team captain David Wright isn't sure how an intangible issue like character factors into wins and losses and the divisional race in the National League East.

LONDON (AP) — Steve Hewlett, a British journalist who described his battle with cancer in moving dispatches heard by millions of radio listeners, has died. He was 58.

It’s speculation season in the NFL. In the case of the Bears, the next few weeks will focus on the quarterback position and Alshon Jeffery.

Lauryn Hill has become a grandmother after her son Zion Marley and his girlfriend welcomed their son Zephaniah into the world over the weekend.

Betsy Riot, which calls itself a "decentralized neo-suffragette, punk-patriot resistance movement," marked George Washington’s birthday Monday by hanging banners from bridges in 10 cities nationwide, including Lincoln.

Kirk Cousins decision could impact Washington for years to come

PARIS (AP) — An agile thief nicknamed "Spiderman," an antiques dealer and an art expert were sentenced to prison Monday and ordered to pay Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city's Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros ($110…

FREMONT-- A 23-year-old man died in early Monday morning when his car was hit by a truck on U.S. 30 on the west side of Fremont.

NEW YORK (AP) — Angelina Jolie says that she and her family have been going through a "difficult time" since the breakup of her marriage to Brad Pitt, but added that hopefully they would come out "stronger for it."

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jahlil Okafor viewed New Orleans during All-Star weekend with a different lens than usual, since he thought there was a chance it may have been his next home.

Kris Jenner thinks filming 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' helped her daughter Kim Kardashian West come to terms with being robbed at gunpoint.

Charli XCX - who was out enjoying herself at the Diesel #MakeLoveNotWalls cocktail party - has spilled that her track 'Gravity' that features on Blondie's new album 'Pollinator' was written when she was just 15.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Eric Church has been battling ticket scalpers for years as his popularity grew and he began selling out arenas. But he's taken his biggest step yet by cancelling more than 25,000 tickets to his…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Charismatic, whose bid for the Triple Crown ended with a dramatic leg injury as he neared the finish line in the Belmont Stakes, has died at a thoroughbred retirement…

The Bears' former director of college scouting, Greg Gabriel has over 30 years of experience in NFL scouting and he'll be breaking down the NFL Draft each week here at Pro Football Weekly. You can follow Greg on Twitter @greggabe

NEW YORK (AP) — The screenplay for "Moonlight" and the scripts for "The Americans" and "Atlanta" were among the winners of this year's Writers Guild Awards.