Новости за 18.07.2017

How major US stock market indexes fared on Tuesday NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were divided Tuesday as health insurers declined after the failure of the latest Republican health care bills while a big jump in subscribers for Netflix gave technology and consumer-focused companies a lift. The Nasdaq composite advanced 29.87 points, or 0.5 percent, to 6,344.31.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Atkin, the Canadian actor who played the summer camp director Morty in "Meatballs," has died. Atkin's longtime agent Larry Goldhar said Tuesday that Atkin died Monday night following a battle with cancer.

Petty much? When neighbors didn't like a house color, they used Google to get back at the new neighbor.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the company's drug Nerlynx, which is intended to keep breast cancer from coming back. The online retailer has begun selling ready-to-cook meal packages in a bid to expand its groceries business. The Mexican food chain said it temporarily closed a Virginia location after reports of customers getting ill.

Amazon-branded meal kits come with raw ingredients needed to prepare such meals as chicken tikka masala and falafel patties. The development comes as Amazon is also buying the organic grocer Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, a deal that would give the company a foothold in both groceries and brick-and-mortar retailing. Amazon could ultimately use Whole Foods' more than 400 locations as distribution centers for all food services, including meal kits. Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities... Читать дальше...

In the ninth installment of a 12-part pre-training camp series addressing key offseason questions, we look at the career arc of kicker Blair Walsh, who is looking to have a bounce-back year in 2017. 

A 19-year-old man is charged with fatally striking a man on the shoulder of an Auburn highway and later torching the very car involved.

The latest faceoff between Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D--Wash.  Murray wants head of DOE's Office of Civil Rights fired, after remarks suggesting that 90 percent of sexual assault complaints on campus stem from drinking or relationship breakups.

Insurers slump as health care bill fails; tech stocks rise NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are little changed Tuesday as banks and energy companies slump. Technology and consumer-focused companies are rising, and streaming video company Netflix is surging after it gained more than 5 million subscribers in the second quarter. Health insurers are slipping after the latest Republican health care efforts failed in the Senate. The Nasdaq composite climbed 20 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,334 as technology companies like Facebook and Alphabet... Читать дальше...

Mayor Ed Murray must be fed up with staring at the hole in the ground across from City Hall as he inked a deal to see the property finally developed.

The Seahawks no longer have Marshawn Lynch but they've got a potentially dangerous three-man running back group in Eddie Lacy, Thomas Rawls and C.J. Prosise. 

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store App Store Official Charts for the week ending July 16, 2017: Top Paid iPhone Apps: Heads Up!, Warner Bros. Story Mode - Season Two, Telltale Inc MONOPOLY Game, Electronic Arts Tabs & Chords by Ultimate Gear - learn and play, Ultimate Guitar Top Free iPhone Apps: YouTube - Watch Videos, Music, and Live Streams, Google Inc. Google Maps - Navigation & Transit, Google, Inc. Story Mode - Season Two, Telltale Inc SpongeBob Moves In, Nickelodeon Goat Simulator PAYDAY... Читать дальше...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German automaker Daimler will voluntarily recall 3 million Mercedes-Benz brand cars with diesel engines in Europe to improve their emissions performance, the company said Tuesday, in the wake of widespread public debate over the future of diesel. Diesels have been under a cloud since Daimler's competitor Volkswagen admitted equipping vehicles with illegal software that meant they passed emissions tests, but then exceeded limits in everyday driving. "The public debate about diesel engines is creating uncertainty ... Читать дальше...

The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending July 16, 2017: iTunes Movies US Charts: The Fate of the Furious Beauty and the Beast (2017) The Zookeeper's Wife iTunes Movies US Charts - Independent Personal Shopper

There's an eye-popping scene in the new film "Landline" when our heroine is walking around New York City and decides to check her phone messages. Technology back then may have been slow and adorably primitive but "Landline " proves personal relationships were just as messy and complicated. At the core of this film is three women at different stages of life confronting fidelity, with Slate playing a suddenly hesitant fiancee, her mother (Edie Falco, superb) simmering in what seems a broken marriage... Читать дальше...

The company, however, expects continued pressure to hold down prices and a weaker market for consumer health products. With the failure this week to win consensus for the Republican health care plan, CEO Alex Gorsky said Congress needs to create a more stable environment for the industry. "Medicines represent only about 15 percent of health care spending" in the U.S., Gorsky said. [...] this year, however, those in the pharmaceutical industry stressed that prescription drugs accounted for only... Читать дальше...

Besson hopes 'Valerian' is a remedy for your sequel fatigue Valerian and Laureline are the lead characters of Besson's sci-fi epic, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" which hits theaters Friday. The filmmakers are seated in their shared office inside the Beverly Hills outpost of Besson's company EuropaCorp about a month before the "Valerian's" stateside debut. [...] they have three children, ages 15, 14 and 11, and have found they actually enjoy being partners at the office and home. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says Republicans should 'let Obamacare fail,' says, 'I'm not going to own it'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski to oppose moving ahead on repealing health care law, leaving Republicans short of votes.

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): Stocks are broadly lower in midday trading on Wall Street as banks and industrial companies post losses. Netflix soared 9 percent after reporting big gains in subscribers. Stocks are getting off to a weak start on Wall Street, led by declines in technology companies and banks.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government has condemned what it calls tit-for-tat violence between drivers of metered taxis and those driving for companies that use ride-hailing apps, one day after an Uber driver died from injuries suffered in an attack.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Clinic says a 21-year-old woman disfigured by a gunshot as a teenager has received a face transplant. A hospital statement on Tuesday quoted the recipient as saying recovery has sometimes been difficult but she's thankful for the medical staff and the "incredible gift" from the donor and the donor's family.

Three months after President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, shared chocolate cake at an amiable summit in Florida, tensions between the world's two biggest economies are flaring again. Just as officials of the two nations prepare to meet Wednesday in Washington, the Trump administration is considering slapping tariffs on steel imports, a step that risks igniting a trade war. At a White House event Monday, Trump suggested that the relationship is so strong that he asked during... Читать дальше...

Watching "Valerian" is to simultaneously and acutely realize what's missing from so many other big films (visual inventiveness, freewheeling unpredictability) and appreciate what the more controlled studio project does so much better (precision pacing, half-decent writing). Had "Valerian" — a lifelong passion project for the French filmmaker that's been called the most expensive indie film ever made — been produced in the studio system, it would have been better. "Valerian and the City of a Thousand... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury's decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said. The jury in Savannah decided in a civil verdict Monday that CSX Transportation shared in the blame for the deadly freight train collision even though the film crew was trespassing. The 27-year-old camera assistant died in the crash Feb. 20, 2014, during the first day of shooting "Midnight Rider," an... Читать дальше...