Новости за 18.05.2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are moving higher in midday trading Wednesday as investors wait for minutes from the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting for clues as to whether it may raise interest rates next month. Banks rose in anticipation…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The planting of corn and soybeans in Ohio is off to a slow start, with only about a third of the corn crop and 10 percent of soybeans in the ground, so far, according to agricultural…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish aircraft maker Saab has unveiled the latest version of its Gripen fighter jet.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators have fined Raymond James $17 million, accusing the financial services firm of widespread failures in its controls against money laundering.

NEW YORK (AP) — The spot month contract for light sweet crude was $48.66 per barrel at 12 p.m. Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More pay could become a reality for millions of U.S. workers who now toil long hours without overtime under a new rule issued Wednesday by the Obama administration.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men are approaching 30 percent to 40 percent in some southern U.S. cities, a new report finds.

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease may breathe easier when they're given hydroxyurea -- an effective, but underused, drug for the disease, new research suggests.

WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A new British study suggests that attention-deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may often develop in the young adult years.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A Florida woman was convicted Wednesday of killing her 5-year-old son in New Jersey in 1991, capping a trial in which prosecutors painted her as a young mother who dumped his body in a ditch…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charter Communications is closing on its $67 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The deals make Charter the second-largest home Internet provider and third-largest video provider in the U.S.

In a story May 17 about investigation into the sinking of the freighter El Faro, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the ship was sailing from Puerto Rico to Jacksonville when it was caught in Hurricane Joaquin. The ship was…

NEW YORK (AP) — Commuters into and out of New York's famed Grand Central Terminal faced crippling delays Wednesday, a day after a raging fire broke out beneath elevated train tracks in the city, officials said.

Ford's long-running Explorer SUV goes upscale in a big way with the new-for-2016 Platinum model that rivals traditional luxury SUVs with its numerous high-tech features, quilted-stitched leather seats and exclusive sound system.

Police in a south Alabama town say a mystery solved itself when a man, alerted by news reports, stopped by the station to claim a small pine box containing his father's ashes, found beside a country road with a neatly…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal financial documents that Donald Trump filed with the Federal Election Commission are now public.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's comptroller says Best Buy and Nordstrom have agreed to increasingly use renewable energy in their operations and supply chains.

LONDON (AP) — The latest allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia could lead to suspension of entire national federations, heavy fines and lifetime Olympic bans, IOC President Thomas Bach said Wednesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — All coal-ash pits in North Carolina maintained by Duke Energy power plants pose enough of an environmental risk that they should be excavated and moved by 2024, state environmental regulators said Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on efforts to restore service to three Metro-North rail lines into and out of New York City after a fire halted service and stranded commuters (all times local):

HELSINKI (AP) — The Nokia mobile phone is coming back.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonian lawmakers on Wednesday convened in an urgent session on whether to delay a general election scheduled for June 5, after a top court temporarily suspended all electoral activities.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman's obituary says she chose death over voting in the upcoming presidential election.

HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia is back in the game.