Новости за 04.08.2016

RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic leaders approved the addition of five sports to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, including the return of baseball-softball and the introduction of youth-oriented events such as skateboarding and surfing. The five were put forward for inclusion last year by Tokyo organizers, taking advantage of new IOC rules that allow host cities to propose the inclusion of additional sports for their Games. Baseball and softball — both highly popular in Japan — will... Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were: 0-4-3-0 (zero, four, three, zero)

Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin, who was handing out the fruits and veggies, acknowledged that police work is easier from the back of a horse than most other places. Gunny performed his last patrol about six months ago, about the same time his left rear foot began to go lame. [...] the Tennessee walker has been doing his walking slowly, in the police paddock in Golden Gate Park. [...] Gunny, under the terms of his golden parachute, need never fear the glue factory and need never again have a human on his back. Читать дальше...

Inside the drives he installed special software that would allow them to "call home" if plugged in. The figures are concerning to security professionals who have long worried that systems could be hacked if a hacker dropped malware-infected USB drives near the offices of a company they wanted to breach for workers to pick up. Kaminsky is co-founder and chief technologist of the cybersecurity firm White Ops and he encouraged those in attendance to stay curious, but to always remember the importance of keeping the internet safe for everyone. Читать дальше...

Virtually all of the reasons people dream of living in San Francisco exist at 158 Eighth Ave. Views, architectural beauty, convenience, luxury and entertainment all await inside the remodeled Edwardian in the city’s Lake district. [...] traditional design influenced decisions on finishes throughout the home. Professional appliances outfit the open chef’s kitchen, while dual sets of French doors in the living area open to a pair of Juliet balconies — one of which accesses the yard via an exterior staircase. Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — In a story Aug. 2 about a hot air balloon crash, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on inaccurate information from the Federal Aviation Administration, that the same balloon that crashed Saturday in central Texas, killing 16, had been involved in a 2014 crash. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the balloon that crashed in 2014 was owned by the same company and was similar in type and appearance, but was a different balloon. The pilot of a hot air... Читать дальше...

Tesla Motors on Wednesday reported rising sales of its luxury electric cars in this year’s second quarter — but not enough to turn a profit. The Palo Alto company suffered a net loss of $293.2 million ($2.09 per share), a 59 percent jump from the $184.2 million loss during the same period last year. [...] it was a substantial increase from the 11,532 vehicles delivered in the second quarter of 2015, when Tesla offered just one car — the Model S sedan. [...] on Wednesday, the company reported that its Fremont factory ... Читать дальше...

SYDNEY — The goalposts went up at Sydney’s Olympic stadium on Wednesday, more than three weeks before the opening U.S. college football game of the season between Cal and Hawaii on Aug. 27. Organizers are even promoting tailgate parties outside the stadium for the Saturday midday start locally, which is 7 p.m. PDT Friday to provide better viewing times in the States. There were a lot fewer than that Wednesday when some Australian football players, including rugby-union players Israel Folau and Bernard Foley... Читать дальше...

1 Missile nears Japan: A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 620 miles and landed near Japan’s territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile. The United States condemned the launches as violating U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban North Korea’s use of ballistic missile technology. Philippine police commandos clashed Wednesday with the armed bodyguards of a town mayor linked to illegal drugs,... Читать дальше...

Finance records show that challenger Roger Marshall loaned his campaign an additional $80,000 only four days before the Republican primary in the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas. Campaign finance reports also show that independent groups also spent more than $2.8 million, favoring Marshall by a significant margin. Five candidates in primary races for seats in the Kansas Legislature are leading their opponents by fewer than 100 votes in final, unofficial results. The Kansas... Читать дальше...

South Dakota’s top prosecutor charged two consultants who worked with an American Indian tribe on its plans to open the nation’s first marijuana resort with drug offenses, accusing them of having seeds shipped from the Netherlands hidden in CD cases and sewn into clothing. The charges announced Wednesday come eight months after the Flandreau Santee Sioux destroyed their crop amid fears of a federal raid, abandoning an ambitious scheme to develop “an adult playground” that they estimated could net as much as $2 million a month in profit. Читать дальше...

Tech companies have been criticized for having too many engineers who are white or Asian males. A lack of diverse perspectives, critics fear, could limit the types of products that companies create. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently cited his company’s lack of diversity as a reason it has struggled to deal with incidents of racial discrimination by hosts. Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, said Apple is making “major progress on all levels” from hiring diverse employees to... Читать дальше...

[...] the online discount retailer may instead be poised for a humbling sale to the biggest traditional store chain around. Founded by Marc Lore, an entrepreneur who founded the parent company of Diapers.com and later sold it to Amazon for $550 million, Jet.com has tried to chart a different course in the $350 billion U.S. e-commerce market. The approach may have seemed quixotic, but Lore raised more than $500 million from many investors, including venture capital firms like New Enterprise Associates and mutual fund company Fidelity. Читать дальше...

Having a gene that causes sickle cell disease does not increase a person’s risk of death, even from physical exertion, according to a Stanford University study of 48,000 active-duty soldiers released Wednesday. The results may counter widespread concerns that athletes and others with sickle cell trait — meaning they have a gene that causes sickle cell disease, but not the disease itself — are more likely to die from intense training than those without the gene. The Stanford paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Parts of the desert Southwest were getting a second soaking Wednesday, a day after monsoon rains swamped the region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues. The rains bring some relief to crews fighting wildfires, but also the potential for mudslides in areas blackened by flames. Because of the moisture, forest managers have been allowing wildfires to burn in areas where they didn't threaten structures or public safety. Water rescues or assists also were reported in Scottsdale and in the Tucson area... Читать дальше...

Giants hope to turn things around behind Cueto, plus lineup PHILADELPHIA — The Giants need to start winning behind their best pitchers. Heading into Wednesday night’s game against the Phillies, the Giants are 1-9 in the past 10 games started by Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija, who gets pushed back to Friday so newcomer Matt Moore can go Thursday. The one win in that stretch was their 2-1, 12-inning game at Yankee Stadium on July 23. The offense needs to support the pitching... Читать дальше...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's declaration of pornography as a public health crisis has created a backlash from sexually explicit publications, earning Republican Gov. Gary Herbert a mention on the latest cover of Penthouse magazine, which also sent copies of the issue to him and leaders in the Utah-based Mormon church. The cover of the magazine's issue for July and August features an image of a model against an American flag along with a sardonic headline teasing the cover story about Utah's pornography resolution, passed earlier this year. Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA - Somehow, the legend of Jeremy Affeldt and his frequent-guest card at the emergency room did not filter down to the home clubhouse in Milwaukee. New Giants reliever Will Smith had not heard about Affeldt's frozen hamburger, leaping child and water inflatable injuries. Smith was impressed, and Affeldt must be left wondering how he could get through 14 big-league seasons without getting hurt the way Smith did this spring training. Smith missed the first two months of the season recovering and wears a brace when he pitches. Читать дальше...

A massive effort in rural Oregon to find a 21-year-old missing hiker from Sonoma County reached its fourth day Wednesday as 60 search and rescue crew members traveled on foot, horseback and by air in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness southeast of Portland. The hiker, Riley Zickel, who has been missing for a week, is an undergraduate student at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and was born and raised in Sebastopol, where he graduated from Analy High School. The next day, last Friday, he was supposed... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The school board says it plans to formally ask the Supreme Court to review 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Grimm's case by the end of August and then it will be months before the justices decide whether to do so. The school board counters that allowing Grimm use the boys restroom raises privacy concerns and may cause some parents to pull their children out of school. Читать дальше...

There was the preening after many of his 160 career sacks, third most in NFL history. Greene says his image as a hell-raiser for four teams from 1985 through ’99 belied the ardent student underneath. The three-time World Cup champion says he was invited to light the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, but sponsorship deals could stop him from performing the task. Pele, 75, said he has a commitment to a sponsor that would make him travel on Friday, the day of the Opening Ceremony.

Aftershocks from the devastating South Napa earthquake two years ago are still rattling the ground, including another small one this week, which brought the total to more than 4,600 temblors, according to scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey. The damaging quake struck Aug. 24, 2014, with a magnitude of 6.0. Tuesday’s magnitude 3.0 aftershock in the North Bay was the latest of more than a dozen that size that have been detected on a line west of the original quake’s epicenter on the West Napa Fault zone... Читать дальше...

SEATTLE (AP) — Teachers unions, parents and other groups are suing over Washington's new charter school law, a measure that was enacted last spring after the state Supreme Court struck down the old law.

NEW YORK — Elliot Tiber, an artist, screen writer and designer best known as the businessman who helped enable the staging of the landmark 1969 Woodstock music festival, has died. In the summer of 1969, Woodstock concert organizers had been seeking a location after efforts in Woodstock and nearby Wallkill failed, with local residents fearing the prospect of thousands of hippies in their small communities. Mr. Tiber, who moved away from Woodstock soon after the concert, collaborated with Ernotte... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman was killed on an early evening run in a secluded section of a marshland park after her father warned her it might not be safe to go there without him, police said Wednesday. The father, retired firefighter Philip Vetrano, "asked her not to run this path, not without him," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Tuesday at a briefing near the scene of the crime. After police used cellphone signals to narrow the search area, her father spotted her body face down in the... Читать дальше...