Новости за 29.06.2015

BOSTON (AP) — The group trying to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston released the most detailed look yet at its bid for the Summer Games on Monday, unveiling a $4.6 billion plan it says would create thousands of jobs and housing units, expand the city's tax base and leave behind a vastly-improved regional transit system — all with a $210 million surplus. The announcement was designed to answer critics who say the privately funded Boston 2024 has withheld details of the bid to prevent the public from assessing whether the games could be staged... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The three people killed when their small plane crashed into a Massachusetts home over the weekend have been tentatively identified as a Tennessee doctor, his wife and college-age daughter, authorities said Monday. Plainville police Chief Jim Alfred said the victims are believed to be Joseph Richard Kalister, an emergency room physician; his wife, Betty; and daughter, Nicole, who was 18 or 19. Shortly before the Beechcraft BE36 crashed into the house crash on Sunday evening, the pilot calmly... Читать дальше...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece's financial woes as it closes its banks and limits money withdrawals (all times local): Protesters in Trafalgar Square held up letters spelling "Drop Greece's Debt" and included left-wing lawmakers, trade unionist activists and Greeks worried about the crisis in their homeland. Green Party legislator Caroline Lucas called for an end to austerity and said the Greek crisis was a human-made disaster "deliberately designed behind closed doors in Brussels."... Читать дальше...

The airport in Gary could model itself after Chicago/Rockford International Airport, which has seen success with leisure airlines and has ranked nationally as a top 25 cargo airport, said Joseph Schwieterman, a professor at DePaul University and director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. Strategic plans drawn up over the past five years don't predict a boom in regularly scheduled commercial passenger airlines at the airport any time soon, The (Munster) Times (http://bit.ly/1FK3TKB ) reported. Читать дальше...

WEST KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) — A $41 million project to build new platforms at Kingston train station and an additional section of track so Amtrak's high-speed train can bypass regional rail service will create new jobs and attract businesses to Rhode Island, state officials said Monday. The state Department of Transportation is partnering with Amtrak to build the 1 ½ mile track that will allow the Acela to bypass regional trains, thereby shortening its already faster commutes. The funds will also... Читать дальше...

The justices voted 5-4 to grant an emergency appeal from the clinics after a federal appeals court upheld new regulations, refusing to keep them on hold while the clinics appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court order will remain in effect at least until the court decides whether to hear the clinics' appeal of the lower court ruling, not before the fall. Abortion rights groups say the regulations have only one aim: to make it harder, if not impossible, for women to get abortions in Texas.

New guidelines endorse using a removable stent to open clogged arteries causing a stroke. The guidelines, issued Monday by the American Heart Association, are the first time the group has recommended a device for treating strokes, and it's the first new stroke treatment in two decades to win the group's strongest backing. Earlier this year, several major studies found these devices dramatically cut the risk of death or disability in people whose clots persisted after treatment with tPA. The guidelines... Читать дальше...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Workers are closing a lane on Interstate 85 north near Spartanburg for emergency repairs after a concrete slab fell apart. The South Carolina Department of Transportation said the problems are happening near where the north end of Business 85 meets I-85. Crews were already working at night to repair the concrete on the three-lane highway. The DOT says it has asked the contractor to finish the project as quickly as possible. Data from DOT indicates about 85,000 vehicles pass through the area on an average day.

PARIS (AP) — WikiLeaks has released documents that it says show that the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on France's top finance officials and high-stakes French export bids over a decade in what the group called targeted economic espionage. The new reports say NSA intercepts between 2004 and 2012 show the agency eavesdropped on two finance ministers and three other senior officials.

The financial guarantee insurance company's shares fell as Puerto Rico's governor warns that the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt. The bank's shares tumbled as the Greek government issued banking controls after talks with the nation's creditors break down. The pharmaceutical company is buying stem cell storage company Cord Blood Registry from private equity firm GTCR for $700 million.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit June 2618,112,975Statutory debt limit18,113,000Total public debt outstanding June 2618,152,701Operating balance June 26225,955Interest fiscal year 2015 thru May159,485Interest same period pvs fiscal year169,136Deficit fiscal year 2015 thru May365,156Deficit same period pvs fiscal year436,384Receipts fiscal year 2015... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Lawmakers could start voting as early as Monday night on a $16.1 billion transportation revenue package that includes an 11.9-cent gas tax increase that would be phased in over two years. Details on the 16-year package were released Monday afternoon, a day after House and Senate transportation leaders said they had reached a bipartisan agreement after months of negotiations. In a news release sent Sunday morning, Inslee wrote that even though the current bill "has a poison pill that pits... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing with their biggest losses of the year as investors worry about fallout from Greece's worsening debt crisis. Greece is moving closer to defaulting on its debt and could be forced to abandon the euro currency. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 350 points, or 2 percent, to 17,596 Monday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney is merging its consumer product and interactive divisions, a move that acknowledges the shared goals of important product lines like the Disney Infinity video game franchise and the upcoming line of wearable toys called Playmation. The division finally became consistently profitable starting in the quarter through September 2013, lifted by the launch of Disney Infinity, a video game series that links real-world toys with on-screen virtual worlds and spans characters from Disney... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — US stocks have worst day of the year as investors worry about fallout from Greek debt crisis.

Jones, who lives in Brooklyn, currently tops a list of supercentenarians, or people who have lived past 110, which is maintained by Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. [...] 115, she resides in a neat one-room apartment in Verbania, a mountain town overlooking Lake Major in northwest Italy. Three raw eggs a day (now two raw eggs and 150 grams of raw steak after a bout of anemia) — a diet she's been on for decades after a sickly childhood. "From a strictly medical and scientific point of view... Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of a businessman killed when a speeding passenger train derailed near Philadelphia accused Amtrak of negligence and outrageous conduct in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed Monday. The 45-year-old Gildersleeve was sitting in the lead passenger car, which was mangled when the train crashed as it approached a sharp curve at more than 100 mph. The National Transportation and Safety Board still hopes to learn what caused the engineer to hit speeds as high as 106 mph near the curve, where the speed limit is 50 mph.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers pass school vaccine bill that would be among strictest in the country.

The Stranger’s editorial director Dan Savage, learning that Bristol Palin is pregnant again. could not resist taking a sharp poke at Fox News, where “mama Grizzly” Sarah Palin was a pundit until let go earlier this month. What he could not predict was that Fox pundit Geraldo Rivera would react with a rant using the “f” word — which Savage is famous for deploying. The younger Palin was once paid $262,000 by the Candie Foundation was an ambassador for teenage abstinence. The gig came after it was revealed... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court blocks Texas from enforcing some abortion-clinic restrictions. .

Incomes for the bottom 99 percent of American families rose 3.3 percent last year to $47,213, the biggest annual gain in the past 15 years, according to data compiled by economist Emmanuel Saez and released Monday by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. "For the bottom 99 percent of income earners, this marks the first year of real recovery from the income losses sparked by the Great Recession," Saez, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said in a summary of his findings. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China announced on Monday the temporary shutdown of a massive database used to update and store background investigation records after newly discovering a flaw that left the system vulnerable to additional breaches. There is no evidence the vulnerability has been exploited by hackers, agency spokesman Samuel Schumach said in a statement, adding that the Office of Personnel Management took the step protectively.

Hope Solo is many things: Two-time Olympic gold medalist, goalkeeper for U.S. Women’s National Team and Seattle Reign, “Dancing with the Stars” semi-finalist and lightening rod, among others. Now, Solo can add “Lady Beast Mode” to the list. On Thursday, Solo tweeted a picture saying as much; a gift from Seattle Seahawks’ running back Marshawn Lynch, aka “Beast Mode,” ahead of the USWNT’s 1-0 win over China in the quarterfinals of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Thanks @moneylynch for the Lady Beast Mode shirts! Читать дальше...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A man has died after a kayaking accident in the East Gallatin Recreation Area in Bozeman. Bozeman Police Patrol Capt. Cory Klumb said Monday that 55-year-old Kevin R. Franklin of Bozeman died at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Sunday night. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1Hq7uTE ) the man was pulled out of the water at 5:45 p.m. Saturday after bystanders spotted his flipped kayak at the Bozeman Beach area. Emergency responders arrived within minutes. ___ This... Читать дальше...

Several reported having some anxious moments over the weekend thanks to empty ATMs and merchants refusing credit cards, but the inconveniences eased as ATMs were replenished Monday. The tour group company smarTours, which is sending several groups to Greece in a few weeks, is not seeing cancellations and is simply advising clients to bring euros. The biggest issue, he said, will be safeguarding the cash. "Because we'll be staying with family, it's less of a concern," he said. Nikolitsa Katsoulias... Читать дальше...