Новости за 05.07.2018

As educational debt continues to mushroom, younger workers often have to choose between paying off their student loans and saving for retirement. Companies are starting to offer student loan payment benefits, in part to attract and keep workers in a strong economy. Abbott, the pharmaceutical and medical products company, recently announced a benefit to help its employees pay off their student debt while still building their retirement nest eggs.

Until last week, none of the 170 employees working at Verve, a marketing company, knew what anyone else made. Now everyone’s salary is listed on an internal document for everyone to see. By 2019, all 1,100 employees at CareHere, a Nashville health care company, will know the pay ranges for all positions. Fog Creek, a New York software company with about three dozen employees, did the same last year. As did Hired, an online job search network in San Francisco that employs 200 people. Читать дальше...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas will hire former Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long to lead its athletics department. Kansas announced Thursday that Long will replace former athletic director Sheahon Zenger, who was fired May 21. Long was athletic director at Arkansas from 2008 to 2017 before being fired last November amid criticism over the football team's performance. Kansas said Long agreed to a five-year contract paying $1.5 million per year. Private funds from Kansas Athletics will pay $1.3 million... Читать дальше...

LONDRES (AP) — Las autoridades en Londres autorizaron el jueves a manifestantes volar sobre el Parlamento un dirigible con la forma de Donald Trump como un gigantesco bebé anaranjado durante la visita del presidente estadounidense a Gran Bretaña la semana próxima. El inflable de seis metros (20 pies) podrá volar durante dos horas el 13 de julio. El activista Leo Murray, uno de los organizadores, dijo el jueves que la alcaldía “nos dijo al principio que no reconocía al Bebé Trump como una protesta legítima. Читать дальше...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Southern University System students in Louisiana will pay hundreds of dollars more a semester in the upcoming school year, to generate $4.2 million for campuses, under a package of fee hikes approved by the system governing board Thursday. Fee increases on students are rankling lawmakers, who protected Louisiana's colleges from budget cuts for the 2018-19 school year by renewing part of an expiring sales tax last month. The LSU System Board of Supervisors also voted last week to boost its student fees... Читать дальше...

“Grey Gardens,” the 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, was a one-of-a-kind film that profiled the strange lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie Bouvier Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy who were former society dames living as eccentric hermits in a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons on Long Island. The film, considered to be one of the Maysles brothers’ masterpieces, has been marked for preservation by the Library of Congress, and spawned an Albert Maysles sequel... Читать дальше...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Newsrooms across the US hold a moment of silence in memory of the 5 people killed at a Maryland newspaper last week.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Libertarian Party of New Mexico is requesting a recount of primary election ballots in 15 counties after its write-in candidates for governor and lieutenant governor failed to garner enough votes to compete in the November general election. Libertarian Party attorney A. Blair Dunn on Thursday said he believes many Libertarian voters wrote down candidate names without also filling in an oval to complete the selection. Libertarians could lose their major party status without a gubernatorial candidate. Читать дальше...

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Public Safety said they remain committed to protecting victims of domestic violence after an employee was killed by her former boyfriend Wednesday. Courtney Gaboriault, 29, died outside her apartment in Barre on Wednesday from gunshot wounds in what police are describing as a homicide and suicide related to domestic violence. Her former boyfriend, Luke Lacroix, 30, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Gaboriault worked for the department for five years... Читать дальше...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California school district has agreed to pay $825,000 to two families of disabled students who were allegedly tube-fed bleach at school. The Fresno Bee reported Thursday that two families whose children were poisoned in 2016 through improperly cleaned feeding tubes will receive the settlement from Fresno Unified School District. The first settlement was reached in April. The error damaged the organs of a boy and a girl at Addicott Elementary School. In separate lawsuits... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gunfire killed three people and wounded three others at a house party early Thursday near downtown Los Angeles, police said. Officers responding to a report of shots fired around 12:30 a.m. found the victims at a Westlake-area residence where 10 to 15 people had gathered, Detective Meghan Aguilar said. The motive was not known but gang activity was a possibility, Aguilar said. "There were words exchanged — I can't get into the details of those words right now — but there was some... Читать дальше...

So many stand-up specials are released these days that it is easy to miss how radically the art form has evolved. Part of the reason Ali Wong’s “Hard Knock Wife” and Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” have made such an impact is that they were thematically and structurally coherent, their jokes integrated into the special the way that scenes fit into the plot of a play. The status and ambition of the specials’ directors have also grown, shifting from craftsmen for hire to stylists to the auteur Bo Burnham... Читать дальше...

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were: 1-2-8-2 (one, two, eight, two)

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were: 7-4-6 (seven, four, six)

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lucky Links Day" game were: 01-07-08-09-10-15-20-21 (one, seven, eight, nine, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-one)

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign-style rallies have found a receptive audience at Fox News Channel, which unlike the other cable news networks often carries his speeches live and in their entirety. Four times in the past few weeks, Fox has set aside its usual prime-time programming to air the president speaking live to supporters at events in South Carolina, Minnesota, North Dakota and West Virginia. The network also promised live coverage of a Trump rally Thursday in Montana, where Democratic Sen. Читать дальше...

When we first see Scott Lang, a.k.a. Ant-Man, in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” he is crawling on all fours with his daughter Cassie through a maze of cardboard boxes in an Indiana Jones-like adventure, complete with tunnels, Silly String cobwebs, cardboard skeletons and painted string lasers in a quest for buried treasure — an old, cheap trophy. Escape means a roller-coaster finish, and with this delightful sequence achieved without the aid of computer effects, this “Ant-Man” entry stakes... Читать дальше...

Filmmaker James Gunn has spoken out against overzealous “Star Wars” fans who have used “their hate as a reason to be cruel.” The “Guardians of the Galaxy” director is defending himself on Twitter after speaking his mind earlier in the week about Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in the “Star Wars” prequels and who recently shared that negative fan reaction made him suicidal. The picture Gunn retweeted was of Best with his son at New York Harbor, where Best said he contemplated taking his own life. Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says its Mossad spy agency has recovered the wristwatch of Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who became a national hero after he was executed by Syria five decades ago. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Thursday the wristwatch was returned "in a special Mossad operation which took place recently." It said the watch had been held by an "enemy state" and that agents confirmed its authenticity. Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said the watch was part of the spy's "fabricated Arab... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Thu: OpenHighLowLastChg.WHEAT5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushelJul507508¾503¼506+14½Sep496½508½496½506¾+15¾Dec511523511520¾+14¼Mar526¼537526¼534¾+13¼May537546537544+12Jul540¾549¾540¾546½+9½Sep549558549554½+9Dec562¾569¼562¾567¼+10¼Est. sales 114,533. Tue.'s sales 89,327Tue.'s open int 473,605, up 931CORN5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushelJul345½348¾342¼342¾Sep354357¾350¼352Dec366¾370362½364¼Mar376¾380373374¾+¼May383½386½379¾381½+¼Jul389½392¾386388+¼Sep388390½385¾385¾—¾Dec393¼396391392

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's attorney general is supporting a request by news organizations that the state Supreme Court allow publication of an extensive report into child sexual abuse and attempts to cover it up in several Roman Catholic dioceses. Attorney General Josh Shapiro also wrote in a court filing Thursday he opposes requests by unnamed parties to present their own evidence, question witnesses and rewrite the grand jury report "in accordance with their preferred view of the facts."... Читать дальше...

MOUNDVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A prosecutor has ordered autopsies for two people killed in a July 4 boating crash in Alabama. District Attorney Michael Jackson says a man and a woman died in the accident, which happened on the Black Warrior River near Moundville. Jackson says neither victim appeared to be the driver of two boats that collided Wednesday afternoon. Three others were injured. Marine Police officer Freddie Ingram tells WIAT-TV a ski boat struck a bass boat, ejecting six people. Ingram says... Читать дальше...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Western wear retailer Drysdales Inc. has been acquired by California-based Boot Barn Holdings Inc . Terms weren't released on the cash purchase of Drysdales, which opened in 1981 and has two stores in Tulsa. The agreement was announced Tuesday. Boot Barn, based in Irvine, California, says it's purchased the inventory of Drysdales and offered jobs to employees at both stores. The Drysdales website on Thursday said the business was now part of the "Boot Barn Family" and directed customers to the larger company's website. Читать дальше...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission says a former vice president and former minister have been arrested as the West African nation's new leader takes aim at graft. Commission spokesman Abubakarr Turay says former Vice President Victor Foh and former Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources Minkailu Mansaray were detained Thursday. The arrests are related to allegations of corruption linked to a pilgrimage last year to the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Mansaray was head of the Hajj committee... Читать дальше...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has more than doubled the number of workers assigned to logging and restoration projects on federal lands within the state with the goal of doubling timber harvest and restoration treatments on federal lands by 2025. The Idaho Department of Lands starting this week is increasing from five to 13 the number of workers taking part in a federal-state partnership allowing state workers to manage timber sales on U.S. Forest Service land. One of the eight new workers is for projects... Читать дальше...