Новости за 25.10.2017

INDIANAPOLIS — Chip Ganassi Racing has hired British driver Ed Jones to join its IndyCar lineup next season. The team is going from four cars to two, and Jones will be teamed with four-time series champion Scott Dixon. Jones will drive the No. 10 NTT Data Honda. Jones was rookie of the year in IndyCar

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is offering praise for Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, calling her “terrific” but also acknowledging his conflicting desire to make his own mark on the Fed. Trump says in an interview with the Fox Business Network that when Yellen met with him last week, she was “very impressive. I like

NEW YORK — NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart says the league expects Colin Kaepernick to be invited to the next meeting between owners and players to discuss social justice initiatives. Lockhart adds that the meeting probably will take place next week. The players’ union and its members decide who attends such gatherings; the league and players

WASHINGTON — Singapore’s prime minister has raised doubts over the Trump administration’s trade policy, saying a hasty push to get countries to open their markets may “come to grief.” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the United States’ withdrawal from a trans-Pacific trade agreement has hurt U.S. credibility in negotiations and many countries will be

Rising bond yields and a string of weak company reports and forecasts pushed stocks lower Wednesday as major indexes retreated from their recent record highs. Industrial and technology companies and banks fared the worst. On Wednesday : The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 11.98 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,557.15. The Dow Jones industrial

MADISON, Wis. — A top aide to Bishop Robert Morlino has issued guidance to priests in the Catholic Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, that critics say could limit the availability of funeral rites within the church for gay people. Vicar General James Bartylla emailed a newsletter to priests Saturday, with the bishop’s approval, that says rites

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame senior Mychal Johnson, who was expected to play a key role at point guard, will miss the 2017-18 season after tearing an ACL during practice. The 5-foot-7 Johnson, whose career at Notre Dame has been slowed by numerous injuries, was one of the players coach Muffet McGraw was counting

LOS ANGELES — George Springer circled the bases after hitting a two-run homer off Brandon McCarthy in the 11th inning. Would it be enough? Was this the final plot twist in one of the wildest World Series games ever? Yes, it was — barely — and the Houston Astros won a World Series game for

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has rejected a request by 18 states to force the federal government to immediately resume paying health care subsidies that President Donald Trump cut off. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco on Wednesday denied an injunction sought by the states. The payments reimburse insurers for reducing out-of-pocket

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: AT&T Inc., down $1.37 to $33.49 The telecom giant reported disappointing quarterly results. Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., down $4.19 to $85.52 The 7Up maker struggled with higher expenses and cut its annual profit forecast. Nielsen Holdings PLC, down $2.57 to $38.56 The

NEW YORK — In a story Oct. 25 about media-ownership rules, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Dennis Wharton was the head of the National Association of Broadcasters. He is executive vice president of communications. A corrected version of the story is below: FCC plans vote over loosening limits on media ownership The Federal Communications

OGDEN, Utah — A teen girl agreed to a plea deal Wednesday after being accused of speeding into another car and killing two people last year when police tried to pull her over on her way to carry out a suicide pact. The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to a reduced count of attempted murder and will

USA Luge has called off its remaining two seeding races and national championships because of warm weather, adding difficulty to the process of picking the sliders who will be eligible for spots on the team competing at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The seeding races, which were to continue this weekend in Lake Placid, New York, decide

SANTIAGO, Chile — A Chilean court has acquitted 11 Mapuche Indians in the arson killing of an elderly couple, saying there is insufficient evidence they attacked the pair’s home located on land the indigenous group claims as their ancestral territory. The ruling announced Wednesday in the southern city of Temuco also said there’s not enough

DENVER — Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground, similar to human-caused quakes in Oklahoma and other states. A paper published last week by researchers at the University of

GOSHEN, N.Y. — A Legoland amusement park is set to open north of New York City in 2020. Merlin Entertainments and local officials announced the timetable Wednesday near where the 170-acre (0.27-square-mile) park will be built in the Hudson Valley. Officials said $350 million will be invested in the project, which is expected to create

WASHINGTON — With over a third of the Washington Redskins’ offensive touchdowns, third-down back Chris Thompson is a must-start, fantasy football dream. Thompson is enjoying a breakout season and is a major reason Washington (3-3) and staying competitive amid a lot of injuries. His performance is also masking a host of offensive woes. As Kirk

With six teams on a bye this week, fantasy football players are going to have a hard time fielding an ideal lineup. We’ll get through it together by analyzing the matchups to determine who to start and sit in Week 8. START ‘EM Quarterback — Andy Dalton, Cincinnati vs. Indianapolis Dalton faces the Colts, who

LAS VEGAS — A laptop found inside the Las Vegas gunman’s hotel suite after he carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was missing a hard drive, a federal official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Investigators suspect gunman Stephen Paddock removed the hard drive from the laptop after opened fire from

PORTLAND, Maine — Police say an absent-minded shopper at a Maine grocery store took somebody else’s cart with a sleeping baby inside, causing a lockdown and a police investigation. Portland police say the shopper was mortified when he realized his mistake but didn’t bother to alert anyone on Friday. Instead, the shopper left the cart

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals has ordered a trial court to grant a permanent injunction barring the state from arresting serious sex offenders for attending churches that hold Sunday schools or offer child care. The court on Tuesday ruled in favor of three unnamed sex offenders in overturning a Boone County court decision

TULSA, Okla. — A judge has removed a manslaughter case from a white former Oklahoma police officer’s record after she asked to have it expunged. District Judge William LaFortune ruled Wednesday that all documents in former Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby’s case in the 2016 shooting death of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher will be sealed. Shelby

SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on the Trump administration opposing a massive California water project (all times local): 3 p.m. The Trump administration says it doesn’t support a $16 billion California water project as it is now proposed but will keep working with the state as it develops the twin tunnels plan. Interior Department Deputy

TORONTO — Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ movies aren’t the sort that typically attract a stampede of Hollywood A-listers. His films, which he writes with Efthymis Filippou, are deadpan, midnight-black comedies that carry out grim allegorical absurdities to extreme ends. Characters speak stiltedly in cliches while an intensifying menace envelopes them. Things get weird and then

FRANKFURT, Germany — Eintracht Frankfurt defender Timmy Chandler has been ruled out for the rest of the year after undergoing surgery for his knee injury on Wednesday. Frankfurt says the American right-back twisted his knee in the first half of the side’s 2-2 draw with Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga on Saturday. He was later