Новости за 29.06.2016

MINNEAPOLIS — General Mills’ fiscal fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations and the food company boosted its quarterly dividend by 4 percent. Shares rose slightly in Wednesday premarket trading. For the period ended May 29, the maker of Cheerios cereal, Yoplait yogurt and other packaged foods earned $379.6 million, or 62 cents per share. A year

JERUSALEM — In a Lithuanian forest, an international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The tunnel, located in the Ponar forest, known today as Paneriai, outside

NEW YORK — Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards, “Hamilton” is a cultural phenomenon that stands as the most celebrated work of art ever inspired by the American Revolution. The competition is remarkably thin. While the Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War have inspired acclaimed movies, plays, poems and

WASHINGTON — Americans went shopping this spring, increasing their spending in May for the second straight month and delivering good news for economic growth. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that consumer spending increased 0.4 percent in May on top of a 1.1 percent surge in April. Spending on durable goods such as autos and appliances

WILLOW GROVE, Pa. — Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is weighing in on concerns residents are raising about drinking water contamination near two former U.S. Navy bases near Philadelphia. Brockovich spoke by Skype Tuesday night to hundreds of residents who turned out for a public meeting organized by the New York law firm of Weitz &

BOSTON — A second member of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration is being charged in extorting a music festival production company. Timothy Sullivan, the city’s Chief of Staff of Intergovernmental Affairs, was arrested Wednesday morning following a federal grand jury indictment, the U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office announced. The 36-year-old Boston resident faces conspiracy to

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The NCAA wants to question two men who claim they were sexually abused in the 1970s by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The NCAA says it needs that information to defend itself from a defamation lawsuit filed by the family of Joe Paterno, the team’s late head coach. One

OMAHA, Neb. — The Latest on Olympic events ahead of the Rio Games (all times local): ____ 8:15 a.m. Australia’s Sally Pearson will not defend her Olympic hurdles title in Rio de Janeiro after tearing a tendon in her hamstring, yet another setback in a year beset by injuries. Pearson, the 100-meter hurdles Olympic gold

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai has awarded a French, Spanish and Turkish consortium a $2.9 billion contract to extend the city’s metro system ahead of its hosting of the 2020 World Expo. The 15-kilometer (9-mile) expansion stretch awarded on Wednesday will link the desert expo site with the emirate’s existing metro Red Line. The

WILLMAR, Minn. — Two young boys who had been missing since going out to play after dinner were found dead hours later in a Minnesota lake, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The bodies of Idris Hussein,10, and Ahmed Sahane Hashi, 11, were found at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, submerged in shallow water near the entrance

NEW YORK — Kellogg is opening a cafe in New York as it pushes to reinvent cereal’s soggy image. The company based in Battle Creek, Michigan, says bowls will cost $6.50 to $7.50 and combine cereals like Special K and Frosted Flakes with ingredients like pistachios and lemon zest. The move comes as Kellogg Co.

DUDLEY, England — Former England player Paul Gascoigne will stand trial after pleading not guilty to a racially-aggravated public order offense. The former Tottenham and Lazio midfielder is alleged to have directed the abuse at a black security guard in November at his stage show, “An Evening with Gazza,” in Wolverhampton, central England. The 49-year-old

ANDERSON, Ind. — At 81 years old, George Leisure was looking to try something new. He had just entered into a new marriage a couple of months ago and his wife encouraged him to try to play the organ. She’d played for years, Leisure said, and figured he’d enjoy it too. “I couldn’t even whistle

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has a birthday present for Windows 10 users: more capabilities for its Cortana digital assistant and new ways to ditch passwords. The company is also changing the notices it sends to users of previous versions, following complaints that it was too aggressive in pushing them to get the free Windows 10

HOMINY, Okla. — Inmates at an Oklahoma prison have been drinking bottled water and using buckets of water to fill their toilets after a waterline break. Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terri Watkins tells The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/291UHsY ) that the approximately 1,200 inmates at the Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy were able to shower

BEIJING — China has replaced its internet regulator Lu Wei, the hard-liner responsible for leading the government’s efforts to tighten control over domestic cyberspace and export the ruling Communist Party’s philosophy of web control. Lu wielded expansive powers as head of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs since 2014, dictating what 700 million Chinese

NEW HAVEN, Ind. — The Butterfly Project took flight when East Allen Alternative School science teacher Jan Hipskind read a newspaper article about the plight of monarch butterflies. Then the idea came to her like a “little flutter of butterfly wings. “It made me think, if we could do one little thing, maybe we could

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court has suspended former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White’s law license after he was convicted in 2012 of felony charges. The court issued the suspension Tuesday for two years without automatic reinstatement. The state high court said the disciplinary penalty usually would be stiffer but noted that White’s license

BRUSSELS — Britain’s departure from the European Union will deprive the bloc of one of its few truly heavyweight members, a diplomatic, economic and military powerhouse. Britain accounts for more than 60 million of the EU’s 500 million people, has the world’s fifth-biggest economy and is a nuclear power. Its exit will shift the power

PARIS — The Latest from soccer’s European Championship (all times local): 2:50 p.m. Iceland’s co-coach Lars Lagerback is not letting standards slip in the wake of his team’s 2-1 victory over England, and has even criticized some of his players for turning up late for dinner. At the team’s tournament base in southeastern French city

BEIRUT — Islamic State militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, dealing a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants’ transit link between Syria and Iraq, a rebel spokesman said. The Islamic State-linked Amaq news agency said IS militants repelled

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police dispatchers heard repeated gunfire, screaming and moaning from patrons of the Pulse nightclub who called to report that gunman Omar Mateen was opening fire inside the club, according to written logs released Tuesday. The first call of “shots fired” came in at 2:02 a.m. and the caller reported “multiple people down.”

HANOVER, Va. — Virginia residents are helping out their neighbors in West Virginia after devastating floods swept through the state last week. WRIC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/291keCD ) that Jessica Pittman, whose husband is a West Virginia native, is collecting money to buy baby food and other necessities for the survivors. So far, the Hanover County family

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Officials say a car dealership employee in the Atlanta area has been arrested and fired after he led Johns Creek police on a high-speed chase in a dealership’s Mercedes-Benz car. News outlets report that Frederick Spry was hired a few months ago to drive cars between dealerships, but later lost his

RYE, N.H. — A necropsy will be performed on an 18-year-old dead humpback whale, named Snow Plow, days after she washed ashore in New Hampshire. Snow Plow had been studied by scientists since she was a calf in the southern Gulf of Maine. Fishermen had reported seeing the whale’s corpse floating 20 miles out to