Новости за 20.05.2016

Though colorful fantasies of lone-wolf vigilantism dominate movie screens in the form of super-powered comic book heroes, Steve Hoover’s documentary “Almost Holy” paints a picture of everyday avenging in the grim here-and-now. Its subject is Ukrainian pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, for nearly 15 years...

 Oklahoma lawmakers have passed a measure that effectively bans abortion, the latest and most extreme state restriction but one that – if it becomes law -- is unlikely to withstand court challenges.

A Russian court on Thursday convicted a radical artist with a penchant for self-mutilation on vandalism charges for a 2014 performance celebrating the mass street protests in Ukraine that helped topple pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovich.

CANNES, France – The opportunity to make a feature film is, for most directors, the ultimate grail, a pearl without price, but for Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, it’s always been an offer he felt he had to refuse. Until he couldn’t.

Once again, truth proves stranger than fiction in the raucous and provocative documentary “Weiner.”  This absorbing, entertaining film takes a decidedly warts-and-all look at disgraced, seven-term Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner and his propulsive if ill-fated 2013 run for mayor of New York...

Struggling retailer Gap Inc. said it will close 75 stores this year as it reported that sales continued to fall in its first quarter.

The operator of a pipeline that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil in Santa Barbara last year "failed on multiple levels to prevent, detect and respond to the incident," a federal pipeline administrator said Thursday.

Some of the identities of the passengers aboard EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, have begun to emerge. The plane carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo swerved abruptly and plunged thousands of feet before disappearing from radar screens. The Airbus A320...

Sobering and political, Stéphane Brizé’s quietly tragic social drama “The Measure of a Man” puts an unemployed, middle-aged husband and father (Vincent Lindon) into the kind of economic and moral quagmire reminiscent of the wrenching working-life stories told by Belgium’s Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne...

House Republicans and Democrats reached a rare election-year deal with the White House to try to rescue Puerto Rico from $70 billion in debt as millions of Americans in the cash-strapped U.S. territory struggle with the loss of basic services.

If you've ever played the mobile video game "Angry Birds," you might have found yourself wondering — why am I sling-shotting cartoon birds at grinning green pigs? Why are these birds so angry? What have the pigs done to deserve this destruction? "Angry Birds," the movie, is here to fill in that...

EgyptAir crash live updates: Officials backtrack, now say wreckage has not been found May 19, 2016, 2:39 p.m. An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar screens and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday. Read the full story here. Key details: The plane disappeared...

D'Angelo Russell is a second-team NBA all-rookie selection, the league announced Thursday.

Most Native Americans aren't bothered by the NFL team in Washington calls itself the Redskins.

Rebecca Miller, the writer and director of "Maggie’s Plan” seems to have a sixth sense for knowing just what her audience might like. If you’re interested in a dramedy starring Greta Gerwig about a young, single woman looking to become a mother, chances are the cameo from riot grrl Kathleen Hanna...

Stocks dropped Thursday as investors were getting used to idea that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates next month.

EgyptAir crash live updates: Officials backtrack, now say wreckage has not been found May 19, 2016, 2:39 p.m. An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar screens and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday. Read the full story here. Key details: The plane disappeared...

A jury on Thursday said movie theater chain Cinemark was not liable in the 2012 shooting at a multiplex in Aurora, Colo., that left a dozen people dead at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."