Новости за 23.08.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on Amazon's deal to acquire Whole Foods (all times local): 4:45 p.m. The Federal Trade Commission says it will not block Amazon's $13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods Market. The agency said Wednesday that it had investigated to see if the deal would substantially lessen competition or constitute an unfair method of competition, and decided not to pursue the matter further. A union that represents food-industry workers has asked the FTC to scrutinize the proposed acquisition closely... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: Lowe's Cos., down $2.81 to $73.01 The home improvement retailer fell short of expectations in the second quarter and gave a weak profit forecast. Cree Inc., down 82 cents to $22.21 The energy efficient lighting maker disclosed a smaller-than-expected profit and its forecast was lower than expected. La-Z-Boy Inc., down $6.30 to $24.95 The furniture company had a weak fiscal first quarter as its upholstery manufacturing business struggled. Читать дальше...

Stocks retreated on Wednesday and gave back some of their gains from a day earlier, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index had one of its best days of the year. Advertising companies and retailers had some of the steepest drops on worries about their earnings, while prices for Treasury bonds and gold rose modestly as investors sought safer ground. It's the latest move lower for a stock market that's yo-yoed since setting a record high earlier this month. On Wednesday: The S&P 500 fell 8.47 points... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department is making another multimillion-dollar investment in high-energy lasers that have the potential to destroy enemy drones and mortars, disrupt communication systems and provide military forces with other portable, less costly options on the battlefield. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and longtime supporter of directed energy research, announced the $17 million investment during a news conference Wednesday... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Hollywood film yet again finds itself responding to a social-media outcry over the casting of a white actor in a role that was originally Asian-American. British actor Ed Skrein earlier this week joined the cast of the "Hellboy" reboot "Rise of the Blood Queen," which is to be the third film in the comic adaptation franchise previously helmed by Guillermo del Toro. The character, Ben Daimio, is Japanese-American in Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" comics and his heritage is central to his backstory. Читать дальше...

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a town meeting with Boeing workers in Everett early on Thursday morning.  The Speaker is in a rough spot, having to toss cold water on President Trump's threat to shut down the federal government, and explaining his refusal in 2015 to go to bat for renewing the U.S. Export Import Bank. 

A study from Seattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin predicts that First Hill will be the hottest, fastest-growing neighborhood in the country by the time 2017 comes to a close.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former Dutch justice minister was appointed Wednesday to lead an investigation into the illegal use of a pesticide on laying hens, which sparked a food scare in Europe and beyond and led to the destruction of millions of eggs. According to a government-commissioned report, the estimated direct economic cost of the scandal to affected Dutch egg farmers was around 33 million euros ($39 million), due to sales bans and measures to clean up contaminated farms. The true cost is likely much higher. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week into talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump is already threatening to abandon the 23-year-old pact with Canada and Mexico. At a high-profile campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, Trump predicted that the United States would "end up probably terminating" NAFTA "at some point," though he said he hadn't made a final decision. "Personally," Trump said, "I don't think we can make a deal because we have been so badly taken... Читать дальше...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Some 50 million people are at risk of arsenic poisoning from contaminated groundwater in Pakistan's Indus Valley — far more than previously thought, according to a new study. Pakistan is aware of the growing problem, with arsenic levels rising in some areas as people increasingly and indiscriminately draw from the country's underground aquifers, said Lubna Bukhari, who heads the government's Council for Research in Water Resources. "It's a real concern," she said. "Because of lack of rules and regulations... Читать дальше...

An animated "Flashdance" meets "Cinderella," ''LEAP !" isn't so much bad as it is bewildering. The feature about an orphan girl who dreams of dancing professionally is set very vaguely in the 1880s, in Brittany and Paris, and contains nods to that general time — like an under-construction Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower. (Never mind that when work started on the Eiffel Tower in 1887, the Statue of Liberty was already perched in the New York Harbor). But the characters talk like it's present day (or in some cases... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — State and city officials are hoping to get together with Waikiki business owners and the surfing community to brainstorm ways to fix a serious beach erosion problem. In 2012, the state took two concrete erosion barriers off of Waikiki beach because they were falling apart. But ever since then, the shore has been eroding to the point where water is now turning brown. "It's ugly," said Sabrina Kim, who was visiting the beach from California. "It's not what you really expect when you come to Hawaii. Читать дальше...

When "Death Note" begins, we learn that Seattle teenager Light Turner has a crush on a cheerleader at his high school. So when these two would-be lovebirds finally talk for the first time and really open up to each other, Turner has to be honest: "It's going to sound a little crazy," he tells her, "but I have a death god." Well, not to be too judgy, but, yeah, that actually does sound a little crazy. Even so, our hero manages to get his companion intrigued and not make a swift exit to calculus. If you don't have your own death god... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can't use it. Wilson launched the fundraiser last week, tweeting: "If @Twitter executives won't shut down Trump's violence and hate, then it's up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump." The GoFundMe page for the fundraiser says Trump's tweets "damage the country and put people in harm's way." As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of the billion-dollar goal. Читать дальше...

WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — A beach on Cape Cod has been closed after a shark bit a paddleboard as a man was standing on it. Kathy Tevyaw, acting superintendent at the Cape Cod National Seashore, tells the Cape Cod Times (http://bit.ly/2vYs1iM ) that the 69-year-old man was not bitten in Wednesday morning's incident at Marconi Beach. She says he was in about 3 feet (0.9 meters) of water when it happened. She says the beach was immediately closed after the call came in between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Several... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Kepnes had a desk job in health care with two weeks' vacation a year when he took a solo trip to Costa Rica and "fell in love with travel." The next year he went to Thailand and "met five backpackers who were living my dream." "I grew up in an environment where travel wasn't a thing for my family, it wasn't a thing for my friends," he said in an interview for the AP Travel podcast "Get Outta Here ." ''I had always assumed ... that travel was expensive. Here were five people proving... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks pulled back on Wednesday and gave back some of their gains from a day earlier, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index had one of its best days of the year. The market started the morning broadly lower, but the losses moderated as the day progressed. Prices for Treasury bonds and gold rose modestly as investors sought safer ground. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,448 shortly before noon Eastern time. It gave back a sixth of its big gain from Tuesday. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are slipping in midday trading on Wall Street as the market gives back some of the big gain it made a day earlier. The market started broadly lower Wednesday, but the losses moderated as the morning progressed. Retailers and health care companies did worse than the rest of the market. Lowe's sank 6 percent after reporting second-quarter earnings that were weaker than analysts expected. Johnson &... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump, at an event in Phoenix, said that the U.S. will "end up probably terminating" the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico "at some point." The U.S., Mexico and Canada began formal negotiations last week to rework the 23-year-old trade pact that Trump slammed during his campaign as the "worst" in history. The Canadian and Mexican negotiators believe NAFTA needs to be updated. But they have defended the pact, which eliminated most barriers on trade between the countries, as an economic success story. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung is trying to move past last year's disastrous Galaxy Note 7 launch with a successor sporting a dual-lens camera, animated messages, expanded note-taking — and lower battery capacity. The South Korean tech giant is no longer trying to squeeze more battery power into each phone. Last year's Note 7 had to be recalled after dozens spontaneously caught fire because of defective batteries. Samsung responded by subjecting new phones to multiple inspections, including X-rays and stress tests at extreme temperatures. Читать дальше...

GASPE, Quebec (AP) — Whether you take a clockwise or counter-clockwise route, and whether it's on motorcycle or bicycle, a two-wheeled tour of a loop around Quebec's Gaspe peninsula is certain to please. The sea is just to your side or in view for much of the route. Mountain vistas appear at turn after turn. The villages that dot the route delight and welcome riders. Jutting into the Atlantic at the south side of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Belgium-sized peninsula is a bucket-list destination for many bicyclists and motorcyclists. Читать дальше...

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