Новости за 23.01.2018

SWANSEA, Wales — A week after inflicting Manchester City’s first loss in the English Premier League, Liverpool lost at last-place Swansea 1-0 on Monday and ended its 18-match unbeaten run in all competitions. Alfie Mawson’s 40th-minute strike secured one of the most surprising results of the season on a night Liverpool’s usually lethal attack toiled

CHICAGO — Left-hander Brian Duensing and Chicago have finalized a $7 million, two-year contract for the reliever to remain with the Cubs. Duensing gets $3.5 million in each of the next two seasons as part of the agreement announced Monday. His 2019 salary can escalate by up to $1.25 million based on pitching appearances this

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s governor says he is privatizing the island’s government-owned power company following decades of mismanagement, corruption and blackouts. Monday’s surprise announcement comes as nearly 30 percent of power customers remain in the dark more than four months after Hurricane Maria. Gov. Ricardo Rossello says the move will help attract

NEW YORK — Bacardi Limited plans to swallow the rest of Patron Spirits in a deal that values the tequila maker at $5.1 billion. Bacardi has held a minority stake in Patron since 2008. The two private companies on Monday didn’t disclose terms of the deal for the remainder of Patron. The acquisition is expected

TURIN, Italy — Juventus closed the gap on Serie A leader Napoli back to just one point as the six-time defending champion eased past Genoa 1-0 on Monday. Douglas Costa scored in the 16th minute, the first conceded by Genoa in five league matches. Juventus was never really troubled, as goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny — standing

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.S. Embassy in the Haitian capital closed Monday as demonstrators gathered outside to protest President Donald Trump. More than a 1,000 people marched toward the embassy. They were prevented from reaching the gates by barricades set up by Haitian police. Officers in helmets and carrying shields eventually fired several rounds of

PARK CITY, Utah — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she has experienced sexual harassment. The 84-year-old told a crowd at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday that women her age are familiar with sexual harassment but didn’t have a name for it. When Ginsburg was a student at Cornell University in the 1950s,

MILWAUKEE — Seeking change amid midseason struggles, the Milwaukee Bucks fired coach Jason Kidd on Monday after a slide that left a team with designs on challenging the NBA’s best in eighth place in the Eastern Conference. It was a surprising end to Kidd’s three-plus-season tenure in Milwaukee, during which the Bucks made the playoffs

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks have fired coach Jason Kidd following a midseason slide that left the playoff hopeful in eighth place in the Eastern Conference. Assistant coach Joe Prunty was serving as head coach for Monday night’s game against Phoenix. It was a surprising end to Kidd’s three-plus season tenure in Milwaukee, when the

BOSTON — Boston Bruins rookie Charlie McAvoy has been treated for an abnormal heart rhythm and is expected to need about two weeks to recover. The 20-year-old defenseman first reported heart palpitations to team doctors on Nov. 26. He was diagnosed with an abnormally fast heart rate. Team internist David Finn says it is not

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Eric Washington has been named the Carolina Panthers new defensive coordinator. He will replace Steve Wilks, who was hired earlier Monday as the next head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. Washington has served as the Panthers defensive line coach for the past seven seasons. During that span the Panthers defensive line has

MANCHESTER, England — Kevin De Bruyne has signed a new five-year deal with Manchester City, tying him to the English Premier League leader until 2023. The Belgium midfielder joined City in the summer of 2015 from Wolfsburg and has set up more league goals — 38 — than any other player in that period. De

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State has added future football series with BYU, South Florida and Louisiana Tech. Athletic director Debbie Yow announced the total of seven games Monday. N.C. State will play host to BYU in 2024 and visit Provo, Utah, in 2030, in a pair of games the Atlantic Coast Conference will count

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia Eagles fan whose attempt to rally subway passengers for a playoff game ended with him running into a concrete pole says he’s doing OK and a viral video shows the “passion” of Philly fans. Jigar Desai said his pain eased with the Eagles’ 38-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the

PHILADELPHIA — An overzealous Philadelphia Eagles fan whose attempt to rally subway passengers went viral when he ran into a concrete pole says he’s doing OK. Jigar (JIG’-gur) Desai told The Associated Press that his pain eased after the Eagles’ 38-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship game Sunday night. The mishap

JACKMAN, Maine — Officials in a rural Maine community are reaching out for help regarding what to do about their town manager, who has publicly espoused white separatist views. Jackman Town Manager Tom Kawczynski (kuh-ZIN’-skee) operates a website that promotes racial segregation. Many social media users are calling for him to quit or be fired.

WASHINGTON — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday’s auction with rates on three-month bills unchanged while rates on six-month bills rose to their highest level in more than nine years. The Treasury Department auctioned $48 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.430 percent, unchanged from last week. Another

NEW CARLISLE, Ohio — A silo collapse has sent about 10,000 tons (9,070 metric tons) of corn onto an Ohio road, shutting it down for days. WHIO-TV reports emergency crews first responded to calls of an explosion at the Miami Valley Feed & Grain Co. in New Carlisle late Sunday night. Fire officials say there

DETROIT — A former Fiat Chrysler executive who handled labor relations has pleaded guilty to showering more than $1.5 million in cash and gifts on high-ranking members of the United Auto Workers. Al Iacobelli (IKE’-uh-belly) admits that he was trying to gain an advantage for Fiat Chrysler during his relationship with the union. He pleaded

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana House has approved a bill that would limit regulation of short term rentals by local governments. The measure by Republican Rep. Matt Lehman of Berne is significantly scaled back from his bill last year, which would have drastically curtailed the authority of local governments. Lehman’s current bill would guarantee homeowners the

MINNEAPOLIS — Heavy snow and strong winds are pushing through the Midwest, closing highways in Kansas and South Dakota and snarling flights in Denver and Minneapolis. The National Weather Service says more than 10 inches (26 centimeters) of snow has already fallen on North Platte in western Nebraska. In southern Minnesota, the storm dumped 9