Новости за 30.06.2016

ST. LOUIS — Lorenzo Cain’s hamstring injury led to a big lineup shift for the Kansas City Royals, with Kendrys Morales starting in right field for the first time since 2008 against the St. Louis Cardinals. Morales, the Royals’ principal designated hitter, batted third and played right field Wednesday night. Jarrod Dyson started in center

AMARILLO, Texas — The Latest on the head-on train collision in the Texas Panhandle (all times local): 6 p.m. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is urging the railroad industry “to move as fast” as it possibly can to put new safety technology called positive train control systems into operation. His comments Wednesday came a day after

NEW YORK (AP) — Two more men have been charged with mortally wounding an aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) in the hours before the city's West Indian Day Parade.

Jason Roy fell five runs short of setting a new batting record but his superb 162 still helped England win the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka and take an unassailable 2-0 series lead on Wednesday.

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NEW YORK, June 29 (UPI) -- A federal judge has dismissed a defamation suit filed by three former fraternity members against Rolling Stone magazine, over a retracted story two years ago.

The 45-year-old is not interested in taking the role, even on an interim basis, while Glenn Hoddle has been linked with succeeding the 68-year-old

Miss Teen USA is making a modern swap to its storied pageant.

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Ransomware infections on computers have skyrocketed in recent years, but that doesn't mean the criminals have forgotten about your smartphone.

Kaspersky Lab released a report on Wednesday demonstrating a four-fold increase in ransomware attacks hitting Android mobile users in just a year, which it called a "worrying trend."

"The extortion model is here to stay," Roman Unuchek, mobile security expert at Kaspersky Lab, said in a statement.

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden threatened Wednesday to pull federal funding for cancer studies that fail to publicly disclose their results, putting pressure on researchers, clinicians and drug companies to speed up progress toward cancer cures. For months, Biden has been imploring cancer researchers to share their data and trial results more freely, so that scientists can build on each other’s progress and more readily identify treatments that might work for individual patients. There’s... Читать дальше...

Terrorism is not innovative. It is imitative. From targets to weapons, terrorist groups have strong, repetitive...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A friend of the man accused of gunning down nine black parishioners during a Bible study in a South Carolina church wants to delay his own sentencing. Joey Meek has pleaded guilty to lying to authorities and failing to report a crime regarding what he knew about Dylann Roof’s violent plot. An

Last month, Wiz Khalifa filed a lawsuit against his former manager Benjy Grinberg and his ex-label, Rostrum Records, citing mismanagement and...

The Federal Reserve has given the green light to major banks in the U.S. to raise dividends and buy back shares, judging them to have a sturdy enough financial foundation to withstand a major economic downturn.

As romantic couples go, Daisy and Frank are as unlikely as they come.

Daisy, a French bulldog, and Frank, a koi, are madly in love -- and they have no problem with PDA. At least that's what it looks like from the precious videos posted to Instagram by their owner, Carrie Bredy.

Wednesday’s top personal finance stories

NEW YORK — The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Mississippi-based BancorpSouth $10.6 million, alleging the bank deliberately discriminated against minorities in its lending practices. BancorpSouth, a medium-sized regional bank with $13.9 billion in assets and 239 branches in eight states, deliberately avoided building branches in minority neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee

Alvin Toffler, author of the influential 1970 futurist bestseller “Future Shock” died Monday in his sleep at his home in Bel Air, according to Yvonne Merkel, a spokeswoman for his Reston, Va.-based consulting firm, Toffler Associates. He was 87.

An accused brother-sister drug trafficking team is behind bars after Miami-Dade police seized at least $24 million in cash during a raid.

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President Barack Obama unloaded on Donald Trump in a lengthy rant during a Wednesday press conference in Canada, implying that Trump is not really a "populist" and is instead exploiting people for his own gain.

Without ever mentioning the presumptive Republican presidential nominee by name, Obama implicitly attacked Trump for using the populist label to mask his appeals to what he described as nativist and xenophobic sentiments within the US electorate.

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Can you PLEASE just close the door?

This constant reminder:

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This moment of pride:

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This feeling:

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This lack of privacy:

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Bill McBride at Calculated Risk put out a fascinating table on his blog recently that shows the coming changes in the demographics in the United States:

ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — A central Alabama mayor has been found guilty of assault in an attack on a councilman during a meeting in late April.

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Joey King waves to photographers on the red carpet while attending the premiere of Captain Fantastic held at the Harmony Gold Theater on Tuesday (June 28) in Hollywood, Calif. The 16-year-old actress was joined at the event by the stars of the film, her BFF Annalise Basso, Viggo Mortensen, Kathryn Hahn, writer-director Matt Ross, Trin [...]

LONDON — Turns out the largest diamond discovered in over a century may not be worth all that much. The tennis ball-sized Lesedi la Rona failed to find a buyer Tuesday, a disappointing result for a stone which had described as “the find of a lifetime” by David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby’s jewelry division. The