Новости за 05.06.2019

Stocks finished higher on Wall Street for the second straight day Wednesday, extending the market’s strong gains from the previous day. Technology, industrial and health care companies accounted for much of the broad gains, which were tempered by a slide in energy stocks following a 3.4% plunge in the price of U.S. crude oil. On

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jarrett Stidham doesn’t have time to listen to the talk about him being a possible successor for a Hall of Fame-bound quarterback. For the Patriots’ rookie, every day of the team’s offseason program is simply another opportunity for self-improvement. “Every single day I wake up and I say, I’ve got to get

LONDON — Crystal Dunn was among the last cuts from the U.S. national team roster for the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada. That just made her all the more determined to get to France. Dunn is expected to start for the defending champions, one of 24 teams competing in this year’s tournament. The Americans

NEW YORK — The San Francisco Giants have placed All-Star catcher Buster Posey on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. The team announced the move before a game Wednesday night against the New York Mets. Posey injured his hamstring running out a grounder Saturday, and his IL stint is retroactive to then.

BOSTON — Kyrie Irving can opt out of his Celtics contract and become a free agent. Gordon Hayward might never play like he did before his injury. It’s possible Brad Stevens won’t figure out a way to deploy all of the team’s talent. There’s one thing, though, that Boston boss Danny Ainge was able to

FAIR OAKS, Ind. — The Latest on an animal rights group’s video of showing workers kicking and throwing young calves at an Indiana dairy farm. (all times local): 4:20 p.m. At least three retailers are pulling Fairlife products from their shelves after an animal rights group released video showing workers kicking and throwing young calves

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities say they have arrested a New Mexico teenager accused of using social media to peddle fentanyl, assault weapons and other firearms. Bernalillo District Attorney Raul Torrez on Wednesday announced the 17-year-old’s arrest. Authorities said it came after a multi-agency investigation that involved the FBI and state police. The teen is expected

Sam Farmer, now in his 25th year of NFL coverage and his 19th at the Los Angeles Times, has been selected as the 2019 Dick McCann Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America. Farmer, the 51st McCann Award honoree, is the second member of the LA Times to receive the McCann Award, joining

TORONTO — American defender Omar Gonzalez is transferring to Toronto from Mexico’s Atlas. The 30-year-old center back will join Toronto on July 9 when the summer transfer window opens, subject to a successful physical. He is with the U.S. national team ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. “I feel like with the team that we

NEW YORK — Chiney Ogwumike doesn’t know what kind of reception she’ll get from the Connecticut Sun fans when her new team, the Los Angeles Sparks, visits Uncasville on Thursday. She’ll understand if the fans boo her after she asked for a trade to Los Angeles in the offseason so she could play with her

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City’s 25,500-seat home has been renamed Exploria Stadium. The Major League Soccer franchise, which will host the MLS All-Star game in July, announced a naming rights agreement on Tuesday with Central Florida-based Exploria Resorts — a timeshare and vacation rental company. The stadium in downtown Orlando opened in March 2017 and

DECATUR, Ind. — Police rescued an Indiana woman after three deer crashed through a window, trapping her inside her apartment with the skittish animals. Decatur police say the 74-year-old woman was in her retirement home apartment Tuesday night when the deer crashed through a bedroom window. The woman called 911. Officers found her trapped on

GUIMARAES, Portugal — England is aiming to translate the recent European dominance of its clubs to the international stage when it meets the Netherlands on Thursday in UEFA’s inaugural Nations League tournament. England is looking for its first international trophy since winning the 1966 World Cup, but a resurgent Dutch squad stands in its path

INDIANAPOLIS — The 3-point line is moving back in college basketball. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel announced Wednesday that the arc will be moved to 22 feet, 1 ¾ inches for the 2019-20 season, matching the international distance. The change will not go into effect in Division II and III until 2020-21 due to

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rather than focus on what’s gone wrong in the past, new Sabres coach Ralph Krueger arrived in Buffalo intent on building a better future with the underperforming team he inherited. Most important, Krueger expressed confidence that leading scorer Jeff Skinner will be part of that future based on a lengthy phone conversation

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Lionel Messi has downplayed Argentina’s chances of winning the Copa America in Brazil. Argentina lost the final to Chile in the last two editions of the competition but Messi insisted the team shouldn’t be considered one of the favorites this time as the squad has plenty of young players entering their

Watching “Late Night,” an enjoyably zippy if scattershot comedy about a veteran late-night host and her fresh-faced new writing hire, a persistent thought runs through your head: How have we been abiding without a steady supply of leading roles like this for Emma Thompson, and why haven’t we by now elected her ruler of all

Avicii, “TIM” (Universal) The first words from the first single of Avicii’s latest album are a gut-punch: “Can you hear me? SOS.” Not long after he wrote the lyric, the Swedish DJ-producer was dead. The hardest part is that his posthumous album, “TIM,” is a farewell wave from an artist who clearly was at the

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s new street sweeping program has hit a road bump: The trucks are too wide to fit down some of the city’s narrow, colonial-era streets. Philadelphia has been trying for decades to tackle its litter problem. WHYY reports that the 10 new street sweeping trucks can’t fit down 10% of streets in the

WASHINGTON — The government says it’ll start posting a list of some 400 troubled nursing homes , in a turnabout days after senators publicly released the “secret” document , along with a report questioning oversight of poor-quality facilities. Dr. Kate Goodrich, chief medical officer with the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, says the agency

Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard has withdrawn from the Women’s World Cup after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The 42-year-old from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, refereed the final of the 2016 Olympic women’s soccer tournament. She worked three matches at the 2011 Women’s World Cup, including Japan’s semifinal win over Sweden, and four games at

INDIANAPOLIS — General manager Chris Ballard says the Indianapolis Colts knew about a sexual assault allegation against Bobby Okereke before drafting the Stanford linebacker in April. Ballard said Okereke told team officials about the allegation from 2015 during their first meeting in January. Ballard says the Colts contacted officials at Stanford and others close to

LONDON — U.S. writer Tayari Jones has won the Women’s Prize for fiction with her novel “An American Marriage.” Jones’ best-selling novel — selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club — centers on a successful African-American couple in Atlanta whose marriage is tested by when the husband is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal jury in Kentucky has convicted a man of leaking a database of HIV patients from the Singapore government. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports jurors returned the verdict Tuesday for Mikhy Farrera-Brochez of Winchester after a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Lexington. Farrera-Brochez was convicted on two counts of sending

Jamie Cullum, “Taller” (Blue Note) Eight albums into his career, Jamie Cullum still deploys the vast musical repertoire of a cruise ship pianist, which he once was. Name a song; he’ll play it. Eager to please and hard to stump, Cullum willingly tackles any genre. As a result, “Taller” is a grab bag that doesn’t