Новости за 25.08.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Autodesk Inc., up $4.36 to $114.97 The design software company had a better second quarter than analysts expected. Ulta Beauty Inc., down $21.35 to $212.36 The beauty products retailer had a solid quarter, but an important sales measurement didn't grow as much as investors hoped. Kroger Co., up 64 cents to $21.74 Grocery stores and supermarkets made a partial recovery after a big skid Thursday, when Amazon said it will cut prices at Whole Foods. Читать дальше...

Stocks rose on Friday, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index cruised to its first winning week in the last three. It was a relatively quiet week, with fewer shares trading hands than usual. On Friday: The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 4.08 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,443.05. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 30.27 points, or 0.1 percent, to 21,813.67. The Nasdaq composite dipped 5.68, or 0.1 percent, to 6,265.64. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks rose 3.58, or 0.3 percent... Читать дальше...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Tyson Foods says a federal investigation into allegations of price-fixing has ended and that it likely won't face disciplinary action. Arkansas Business reported Friday that the Springdale, Arkansas-based meat producer had received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission that the investigation was over and that enforcement action was not likely. Tyson said in a regulatory filing last winter that investigators had subpoenaed some records. At the time... Читать дальше...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, said Friday that the global economy is strengthening but warned that countries must work together to resist a growing backlash against open trade. Draghi told an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole that multi-lateral cooperation is crucial to reassuring workers who worry that free trade puts their jobs at risk. He said advanced economies need to ensure that an open global economy preserves fairness, safety and equity for their labor forces. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. decreased by six this week to 940. A year ago, just 489 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 759 rigs sought oil and 180 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as miscellaneous. Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Louisiana, North Dakota and Ohio each added one rig. Pennsylvania and Texas each lost three rigs. Alaska, Oklahoma and Utah were down by one apiece. Читать дальше...

Sound Transit blames soaring construction costs and changes to the project for new estimates that are significantly higher than officials expected.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the bribery case involving the heir to the Samsung empire (all times local): 4:05 a.m. Saturday A technology analyst doubts the imprisonment of Samsung's scandalized chief will knock the company off its perch as the world's leading maker of smartphones. That's because key decisions about Samsung's smartphones are already being made by DJ Koh, president of the company's mobile division. Koh will remain in that role even as Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong serves a... Читать дальше...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A public water board under scrutiny for a discharge that turned the water below Niagara Falls black and smelly violated quality standards for another discharge 17 days later, state officials said Friday. The Department of Environmental Conservation said it cited the Niagara Falls Water Board for the Aug. 15 discharge caused by a sewer overflow. DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos told The Associated Press the sewage discharge of more than 3.3 million gallons turned the water of the Niagara River "a very murky gray.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on sewage overflows below Niagara Falls (all times local): 2:55 p.m. A public agency under scrutiny for a discharge that turned water below Niagara Falls black says heavy rain and outdated infrastructure is to blame for another spill that prompted a violation notice from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The board said Friday the Aug. 15 sewer overflow was immediately reported, as required by the Sewage Pollution Right To Know law. On July 29, a discharge... Читать дальше...

BERLIN (AP) — Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to have it demolished. He shipped it across the Atlantic Ocean and rebuilt it in the German capital of Berlin, saving the home and creating a new tourist attraction. The house has been up in Berlin less than a year, but after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese national has been charged in California with distributing a type of computer malware that has been linked to attacks on U.S. businesses and to the theft of personnel records of millions of U.S. government employees, authorities said. Defendant Yu Pingan, 36, knew the rare malware known as "Sakula" would be used to hack U.S. companies, the FBI said in court documents obtained Friday. The malware has also been linked to hacks at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2014 and 2015... Читать дальше...

A wildfire near Cle Elum is burning west and officials have closed National Forest lands in anticipation of a possible evacuation.

A group calling itself Operation Unicorn said it glued a sex toy to the head of Fremont's Lenin statue Thursday evening.

As Idaho governor, and Interior Secretary, Cecil Andrus did more to protect land in the West than any other political figure in the latter half of the 20th Century.  He died Thursday, at the age of 85, in Boise.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say a former baggage handler at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport must serve 18 months in federal prison for stealing handguns from checked luggage. Ja'Quan Johnson was sentenced Friday in Austin. The 26-year-old Austin man in June pleaded guilty to theft from an interstate shipment and to possession of a stolen firearm. Police recovered seven stolen guns. Prosecutors say Johnson acknowledged stealing numerous handguns, from checked passenger bags, between late November and early February. Читать дальше...

MILAN (AP) — Italian mountain rescue crews have recovered the remains of two — or possibly three — hikers on a glacier on Mont Blanc's southern face likely dating from the 1980s or 1990s, officials said Friday. The remains were discovered this week by a hiker who was searching for artifacts from decades-old crashes of two Air India flights, one in 1966 that killed more than 100 people and another in 1950 with nearly 50 fatalities, Alpine rescue commander Delfino Viglione said Friday. "We have many missing people in that area," Viglione said... Читать дальше...

It has genuinely been a hot summer in Seattle — in at least one way, the hottest.

GENEVA (AP) — A new mudslide on Friday plowed into houses in the same Swiss Alpine village that was cleaning up from a devastating landslide two days ago that left eight people missing. Video from Bondo showed images of mud, rocks and debris tumbling down from a mountainside at a walking pace into the village along the Italian border. At least two or three houses were hit by the new mudslide, Michael Kirthner, director of the Bregaglia regional tourism authority, said by telephone from Bondo. The... Читать дальше...

Starting jobs and roster spots are still very much up for grabs with just over a week until teams must cut down their roster from 90 to 53 players. So which position battles should you be paying special attention to Friday evening when the Seahawks play the Chiefs?

GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on landslide in a Swiss mountain village (all times local): 6:20 p.m. A new landslide has swept through a Swiss Alpine village that was already cleaning up from a devastating one days earlier that left eight people missing. Video from the village of Bondo along the Italian border showed images of mud, rocks and debris moving down a mountainside into the village Friday at a walking pace. Michael Kirthner, director of the Bregaglia tourism authority, said from Bondo that he... Читать дальше...

New technology is helping local government create "smarter" cities in a variety of ways, from adaptive traffic lights to open data platforms to advanced utility meters. But with innovation comes complication. Privacy, security, and equality challenges are inevitable when the public sector tries to implement technology with the help of private companies.

CLEVELAND (AP) — E-commerce giant Amazon plans to build a massive warehouse outside Cleveland on the site of a closed shopping mall. The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/2wN51UA ) Amazon finalized a lease deal Thursday to build an 855,000-square-foot (79,431-sq. meter) warehouse in North Randall, a village of just over 1,000 people. The newspaper reports Amazon will create more than 2,000 full-time jobs. Construction costs are estimated at $177 million. Randall Park Mall was billed as the world's largest indoor mall when it opened in 1976. Читать дальше...

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