Новости за 19.01.2017

Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester by the Sea," which Amazon plunked down $10 million for at the Sundance Film Festival last year, is widely expected to be among the leading contenders at the Academy Awards. Netflix and Amazon are increasingly influencing the movie awards season, playing the role of both hero and villain in an industry where their entry into the movie business is welcomed and feared in equal measures. Though Netflix gave its 2015 Oscar horse, Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation," a wide theatrical release... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Minnesota would use state money to offset the health premium hikes for more than 100,000 residents under a measure legislators were considering Thursday, a novel approach as states across the country grapple with the rising costs and uncertain future of the Affordable Care Act. Even as President-elect Donald Trump plots a repeal of the law after taking office Friday, Minnesota officials from both parties agree they need to step in and help by tapping roughly $300 million in rainy day funds. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by denying an HIV-positive man a position as an emergency dispatcher, federal prosecutors said. Raymond Parker applied for a position as a police department technician in 2013 and was given a conditional offer of employment, prosecutors said. The lawsuit said Parker, 60, was qualified for the job, which includes serving as emergency call dispatcher and performing clerical and administrative work, according to the job posting filed with it.

A man charged with murder Thursday was turned in by his own father after he allegedly killed a man in his dad's South Seattle home.

PIORNAL, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people ran through the streets of this tiny southwestern Spanish town Thursday trying to pelt a beast-like figure representing a farm thief with, appropriately, tons of turnips. The so-called Jarramplas festival, celebrated every Feb. 19-20, centers around a town resident dressed up in a colorful costume and a horned helmet. Over the years the festival has seen some changes, and nowadays the chosen Jarramplas are well-protected by helmets, gloves and chest shields... Читать дальше...

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog.   Two Washington breweries teamed up to create a particularly treacherous beer. The post North Jetty Brewing and Heathen Brewing releasing a collaborative brew appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

Ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry no longer wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Energy, he tells Senate hearing on his nomination to become Energy Secretary.

The Seahawks could lose a second-round draft pick for failing to report a serious knee injury to cornerback Richard Sherman, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Ten years after the watershed environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" debuted, climate change is as dire as ever and yet the solutions are right in front of us, say directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, whose film "An Inconvenient Sequel" kicks off the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. The film, which follows former Vice President Al Gore on his continued quest to educate and inform the public and world leaders on climate change, is the first in a series of 14 environmentally... Читать дальше...

MOORESTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A company that runs a New Jersey preschool is defending itself against a federal complaint that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it expelled a child with Down syndrome because she wasn't potty-trained. The lawsuit, made public Wednesday, says Nobel Learning Communities didn't make reasonable modifications for the child who attended Chesterbrook Academy in Moorestown.

Trump was already taking on more of the trappings of the presidency, giving a salute to the Air Force officer who welcomed him as he stepped off the military plane with wife Melania at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, in a tweet, called Inauguration Eve "a momentous day before a historic day," as security barricades and blockades went up around Washington in preparation for Friday's swearing-in ceremony and all of the hoopla and hand-wringing that comes with it. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have closed an investigation into a fatal crash involving electric car maker Tesla Motors' Autopilot system without seeking a recall, but they criticized the way the company markets the semi-autonomous driving feature. The lack of a recall is good news for Tesla because the agency is either blaming the crash on human error or it doesn't see the recall as necessary because Tesla software updates have already addressed the problem, said Karl Brauer, executive publisher of Kelley Blue Book. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cereal makers have happily encouraged the belief that eating breakfast can help keep us thin and bring other benefits, partly by paying for studies that seem to support the idea. What it does show is how difficult it can be to sort the hype from reliable dietary advice when studies are funded by the makers of Froot Loops, nutrition science is often inconclusive, and gray areas can be spun for marketing. Take Special K. In the 1990s, Special K boxes featured findings that people... Читать дальше...

[...] that isn't enough, say lawyers for the families of terror victims, including a brother and sister killed in last year's bomb attacks in Brussels and an American college student slaughtered in Paris. In a string of lawsuits filed in New York, they say they want Twitter and Facebook to pay damages for failing to stop violent extremists from using their platforms to recruit followers, intimidate enemies and raise money. Another lawsuit filed last year on behalf of five people killed or injured... Читать дальше...

"Distance matters, and at some point the geographic barriers become insurmountable and constitute an undue burden," said Daniel Grossman, a study co-author and a member of a University of Texas research team that studies the impacts of the state's anti-abortion laws. The study examined data from the Texas Department of State Health Services and was partly funded by the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, a major supporter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion-rights groups. Before HB2 was struck down... Читать дальше...

Under a system introduced by the mayor last year, air quality alerts are displayed at bus stops and subway station entrances during times of elevated pollution. Some of the pollution comes from diesel vehicles, although Thursday's alert is partly due to industrial emissions from continental Europe.

NEW YORK (AP) — Pizza Hut is gearing up for the Super Bowl by hiring 11,000 people in the U.S. to cook up its pies, deliver them to hungry customers or manage its restaurants.

Indexes are trading mostly lower at midday on Wall Street as higher bond yields deal a blow to high-dividend stocks like real estate companies. Railroad stocks were the exception Thursday, and moved higher thanks to better results and indications of a possible management shakeup at CSX. CSX soared 18 percent following reports that an activist investor is planning to target the company. Railroad stocks posted solid gains in early trading Thursday.

The court said a Madrid judge questioned him by videoconference over charges of criminal conspiracy in connection with electronic and computer fraud for which he is wanted by the U.S. It said he was ordered jailed because of the seriousness of the offenses and the risk of him fleeing justice as he had done previously in the United States.

CHICAGO (AP) — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. [...] high-risk HPV can cause cancer in the mouth and upper throat, cervical cancer in women and other cancers. High-risk HPV poses cancer risks to people who are infected and to their sexual partners, who can catch HPV even when the infections are silent. HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Railroad stocks chugged higher Thursday, but drops for utilities and other companies that pay big dividends meant U.S. stock indexes dipped modestly. An activist investor is reportedly teaming up with the executive who turned around Canadian Pacific Railway to target CSX. Netflix jumped $7.07, or 5.3 percent, to $140.33 after the video-streaming service reported stronger fourth-quarter earnings than analysts expected and said that it added more customers during the quarter than ever before. Читать дальше...

Investors in Treasury bonds bid yield rates higher because they believe the president-elect's plans for tax cuts and higher spending on roads, bridges and airports will drive up economic growth and inflation. In the latest week, a government report showed that U.S. consumer prices, driven up by rising energy costs, rose moderately in December. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its consumer price index increased 0.3 percent last month, up from a 0.2 percent gain in November.

Citi research analyst Christian Wetherbee said Harrison's new approach to CSX could be much less contentious that the Norfolk Southern merger bid and offer significant upside potential. At Canadian Pacific, the railroad cut more than 6,000 positions and reduced the size of its locomotive fleet 40 percent by running trains on schedule. Since 2011, the average speed of Canadian Pacific's trains improved 40 percent to 23.5 mph, and its earnings per share more than doubled from 2012 to 2016 to $10.63... Читать дальше...

Interstate 90 remains closed in both directions from North Bend to Ellensburg Thursday morning after a storm Tuesday brought ice, snow, falling rocks and trees to the east-west highway.