Новости за 27.04.2018

Shares of U.S. Steel Corp. fell more than 6% late Thursday after the steel maker swung to a profit in the first quarter but results fell short of expectations. U.S. Steel also said it could continue to experience "operational volatility." The company said it earned $18 million, or 10 cents a share, in the quarter, versus a net loss of $180 million, or $1.03 a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted for one-time items, the company earned $57 million, or 32 cents a share, versus a loss of $145 million, or 83 cents a share, a year ago. Читать дальше...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — To the beat of electronic dance music, men and women inside a slate-gray building harvested marijuana plants festooned with radio-frequency identification tags. In another room, an employee entered the tag numbers into a government database. The cannabis tracking system used by Avitas, a marijuana company with a production facility in Salem, is the backbone of Oregon's regulatory system to ensure businesses with marijuana licenses obey the rules and don't divert their product into the black market. Читать дальше...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — To the beat of electronic dance music, men and women inside a slate-gray building harvested marijuana plants festooned with radio-frequency identification tags. In another room, an employee entered the tag numbers into a government database. The cannabis tracking system used by Avitas, a marijuana company with a production facility in Salem, is the backbone of Oregon's regulatory system to ensure businesses with marijuana licenses obey the rules and don't divert their product into the black market. Читать дальше...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair strained ties at a summit on Friday after an intense border dispute marred relations last year.

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The 2018 NFL Draft is here! With the first round taking place on Thursday, the NFL world is ripe with rumors of which players will get drafted to which team and where, with plenty of talk of trade-ups and trade-downs. 

To get a sense of how the first round might go, we surveyed 11 NFL Draft experts who have released mock drafts recently to get a sense for which players teams might be considering with all 32 first-round picks.

While many experts predicted trades that shake up the order... Читать дальше...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's president Moon Jae-in were to meet at the Demilitarized Zone that divides their countries on Friday for a historic summit.

Salzburg will have to overturn a two-goal first-leg deficit for the second round in a row if they are to reach the Europa League final.

For Microsoft, Windows is no longer a core business so much as a complement to the company's other offerings. The company still makes money from Windows, the computer operating system that helped catapult the Microsoft brand to success more than three decades ago. But Windows' share of the business has shrunk. The company on Thursday reported third-quarter revenue of $26.8 billion, an increase of 16 percent over the previous year. By contrast, Windows licensing revenue grew by just 4 percent. The... Читать дальше...

For Microsoft, Windows is no longer a core business so much as a complement to the company's other offerings. The company still makes money from Windows, the computer operating system that helped catapult the Microsoft brand to success more than three decades ago. But Windows' share of the business has shrunk. The company on Thursday reported third-quarter revenue of $26.8 billion, an increase of 16 percent over the previous year. By contrast, Windows licensing revenue grew by just 4 percent. The... Читать дальше...

Atletico Madrid defender Sime Vrsaljko was sent off inside 10 minutes against Arsenal but Antoine Griezmann still grabbed a 1-1 draw.

HENRY COUNTY, Ind. – An Indiana detective and a 6-year-old boy share a special bond. They’ve both had the same rare form of cancer, three times. Brantley Taber is battling a rare pediatric cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma. Elkhart Police Detective Scott Hupp heard about Brantley’s illness and wanted to do something to help. Detective Hupp has also battled cancer three times in the last five years. He reached out to Brantley’s mother, Kira Rayburn, and discovered that he and Brantley share […]

Tiger Woods confirmed Thursday he will return to competition at next week's Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow.

Last Tuesday I heard this fascinating episode of Code Switch, an NPR podcast “cover[ing] race, ethnicity and culture.” For this round, they looked at the place that Jews occupy in America’s odd definitions of all those things. Ultimately, it…

Rivalry match marks the first of four in a row at the RioT

Last week was good, but not great.

Utah Royals FC survived their opening stretch that included three away matches and came out with a draw and a point from each of those. Outside of the loss to Chicago in the home opener, it was a respectable set of games for the newly-formed club.

There will be gold

If anything can help the team turn things in the right direction, an extended stay at home should help a lot. Читать дальше...

Big Maple vs. Mike Clevinger

It’s a gorgeous afternoon for Mariners baseball! Or it would be if they weren’t playing in Cleveland. Although they’re getting some sun, too, it’ll be a chilly evening at Jacobs Field:

The M’s are trotting out their projected starting lineup for the first time this season, and folks,,,,, it is good.

#Mariners vs. #Indians lineups .... Really the first time that Seattle rolled out their expected starting lineup. pic.twitter.com/bJBv7efE7n

A former MMA fighter, who once served time over a fatal road rage incident, has been charged with second-degree sex abuse in Oregon.

Twenty-two prospects will be in Arlington for Day 1 of the three-day event.

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