Новости за 23.07.2015

NEW YORK - A year after Ikea chests tipped over and fatally injured two boys, the Swedish furniture giant and safety regulators say consumers should keep the furniture - 27 million chests and dressers - away from children unless the products are mounted to a wall.

SEATTLE - The annual July tally of endangered orcas is complete, and researchers have counted 81 whales, including four babies born since last winter.

ASPEN, Colorado - The Islamic State group's effort to inspire troubled Americans to violence has become more of a terror threat to the U.S. than an external attack by al-Qaida, the FBI director said Wednesday.

CHICAGO - Paul Freeman, the founder of the Chicago Sinfonetta, is dead at age 79.

LENOIR, North Carolina - Investigators following up on leads going back 43 years have found human remains in a 1968 Pontiac recovered from a lake in North Carolina.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - An American Indian man remains in critical condition after a weekend shooting at a Wyoming detox center that has spurred his tribe to demand federal hate crime charges.

CHICAGO - Wisconsin authorities say a suspect in the shooting death of a 7-year-old Chicago boy has been arrested.

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee - The latest on the Chattanooga shootings at two military facilities:

LAFAYETTE, Indiana - Authorities say that an explosion leveled a Benton County home may have been touched off by a gas leak.

JACKSON, Mississippi - Mississippi NAACP officials want further investigation of a small-town police force and one of its officers following the death of a black man after an encounter with the officer.

CHICAGO - Federal judges who tossed several of Rod Blagojevich's corruption convictions endeavored to answer a question legal observers said Wednesday had gone largely unanswered: Just when does an elected official cross the line between legal and illegal political horse-trading?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a marine reptile fossil in the Talkeetna Mountains, the University of Alaska Museum of the North announced Wednesday.

SAN ANTONIO - Texas health officials on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by immigrant parents who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children because local authorities refused to recognize as valid certain forms of identification.

NEW YORK - Bank of America's second-in-command is out of a job following a management shake-up announced late Wednesday.

RAPID CITY, South Dakota - Native Americans and activists packed into a theater doubling as a courtroom on Wednesday in part to protest what they view as lenient treatment of a South Dakota man accused of harassing American Indian children with racial slurs and spilling beer on them at a hockey game.

Discover Financial Services on Wednesday reported a 7 percent drop in second-quarter earnings, due largely to higher expenses.

NEW YORK - Sebastian Junger's next book will continue his reporting on veterans, this time on what happens when they return home.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana - The Office of the Indiana State Chemist is investigating after a pesticide dropped from a crop duster hit more than two dozen agricultural workers last week in Williamsport.

NEW YORK - Campbell Soup's cost-cutting plan is paying off faster than it expected. The soup maker raised its profit forecast for fiscal 2015 Wednesday and its shares rose nearly 2 percent amid a broad market sell-off.

WASHINGTON - Defying a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday approved a bill granting states authority to regulate waste generated from coal burned for electricity.

LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas Sands Corp. on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $469.2 million, a 30 percent drop compared to the same period a year ago.

ROCHESTER, New York - The Department of Defense has picked Rochester as the location for a sought-after manufacturing hub focused on the field of integrated photonics, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday, ahead of an official announcement.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A fire broke out on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship Wednesday as it approached Jamaica, burning one crew member and causing passengers to be sent to evacuation stations with life jackets.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming - Yellowstone National Park officials are warning tourists to keep their distance after a bison flipped a woman into the air as she posed for a selfie with the massive beast.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - One of Puerto Rico's biggest and best known casinos closed Wednesday after 40 years of operation in another blow to the U.S. territory's struggling economy.