Новости за 23.06.2016

NEW YORK — Time has nearly run out to see the original “Hamilton” cast on Broadway, but a PBS special this fall on the Tony Award-winning musical will feature at least 15 minutes of performance footage with creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and his team. PBS announced its “Great Performances” series episode featuring “Hamilton” months ago, but

NEW YORK — The Nets will acquire Michigan shooting guard Caris LeVert from the Indiana Pacers after Brooklyn traded Thaddeus Young to Indiana earlier in the day for the No. 20 draft pick. The Pacers sent their first-round pick to the Nets on Thursday, hours before the draft began, a person with knowledge of the

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Barnes & Noble Inc., up 82 cents to $11.26 The book seller reported stronger-than-expected quarterly sales. Macy’s Inc., up 57 cents to $33.38 The department store chain said CEO Terry Lundgren will step down early next year after about 13 years in charge.

LAS VEGAS — A day after Las Vegas won a bid for an NHL expansion team, a governor’s panel studying a proposed 65,000-seat domed stadium to lure a pro football franchise was greeted Thursday with a pep talk and changing financial figures. “We are going to find a way to make this work,” declared Andy

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a man in his front yard could have used pepper spray or a stun gun and didn’t need deadly force to subdue him, the man’s stepfather said Thursday. Daryl Carpenter is disputing the official report from the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office. He said

NEW YORK — The U.S.’s largest financial institutions have enough armor to withstand the turmoil of a major and prolonged U.S. and global recession, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. The annual “stress tests” show that the 33 largest financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, all hold more capital than

MINNEAPOLIS — Struggling Freddy Galvis homered as part of a career-high five RBI day and the Philadelphia Phillies ended a nine-game losing streak Thursday afternoon with a 7-3 win over the Minnesota Twins. Cesar Hernandez tied a career-high with four hits and Ryan Howard homered as part of his third multiple-hit game of the season,

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks made their biggest gain in a month Thursday as investors grew more optimistic that Britons will vote to stay in the European Union. Investors bought stocks and sold bonds, sending bond yields and banks higher. On Thursday: The Dow Jones industrial average gained 230.24 points, or 1.3 percent, to 18,011.07.

Flatulence is a key element of “Swiss Army Man ,” but the film isn’t exactly a comedy. The feature debut of writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan doesn’t really know what it wants to be. There’s a running theme of farts and erections, but also one of loneliness and alienation. There are elements of magical

JERUSALEM — Israel has granted refugee status to a Sudanese asylum seeker from Darfur for the first time. Population and Immigration Authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad says Darfur-born Mutasim Ali is the first national of Sudan — an enemy state of Israel — to gain temporary residency according to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. Ali

Television newscasters are increasingly playing themselves in movies like “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice” and in TV dramas like “House of Cards.” Not everyone in TV news has gotten into the business of movie cameos; CBS and ABC have largely eschewed such appearances. So the likes of Tom Brokaw, David Muir, Scott Pelley and

LOS ANGELES — A judge on Thursday ordered the release of a former security guard after prosecutors said new evidence cast doubt on his conviction for killing a college student 16 years ago in California. Raymond Lee Jennings, 42, will be released on his own recognizance but must wear an electronic monitoring device. It wasn’t

DETROIT — Seattle Mariners scheduled starter Adrian Sampson has left Thursday’s game against the Detroit Tigers before throwing an official pitch. It was supposed to be the right-hander’s second major league start. But after coming to the mound and making a warmup pitch, catcher Chris Iannetta signaled to the dugout and Sampson came out. Manager

ST. LOUIS — Maggie Nichols gets the question pretty frequently, usually from one of her high school classmates and usually with a very specific caveat. “They say, ‘Who do you think is going to be on the Olympic team?'” the 18-year-old gymnast said with a laugh. “Then it’s like, ‘Well, who besides you?'” Out of

OMAHA, Neb. — Attorneys representing the city of Omaha say the city’s restaurant tax does not favor food trucks and a lawsuit challenging the tax should be dismissed. The Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/28PCXnn ) reports that the city’s legal department filed court documents Monday in response to a lawsuit filed in Douglas County District Court last

PITTSBURGH — Joe Panik hit a bases-loaded triple, Mac Williamson launched a 446-foot home run and the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 Thursday for their 12th win in 14 games. The Giants took three of four at PNC Park. Pittsburgh has lost 11 of 14, dropped to 5-17 in June and fell

ARDMORE, Okla. — An Oklahoma sheriff accused of requesting a sexual relationship with a female deputy in exchange for hiring her husband has been charged with receiving a bribe. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the employee’s husband was hired shortly after sexual contact started, and that it continued for several months. When the

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The country’s oldest brewery has installed an $8 million wastewater pretreatment system and will pay a $2.8 million fine to settle allegations that it sent pollutants to a municipal wastewater treatment plant. D.G. Yuengling & Son agreed to the penalty to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act numerous times

NEW YORK — Godzilla is rampaging. Aliens are invading. Batman and Superman are having a tiff. Quick, turn on CNN. To explain extravagant disasters and superhero showdowns to awed moviegoers, Hollywood relies on the men and women who frame breaking stories for real. Increasingly, the summer big-budget movies resemble a media scrum, full of real

LONDON — With turnout set to be a crucial factor in Britain’s European Union membership referendum, heavy rain and thunderstorms were causing slow journeys home Thursday evening for thousands of London commuters. Southeast England was hammered by up to 1.75 inches (4.6 centimeters) of rain overnight — roughly the average for all of June —

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday strongly condemned two North Korean ballistic missile launches this week, calling them a “grave violation” of a ban on all ballistic missile activity that is contributing to the country’s nuclear weapons program. The council reiterated its demand that North Korea end its “flagrant” violations, halt all

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Fort Wayne’s bus service was within its rights to bar a local group opposed to abortion from displaying an advertisement on city buses. The Journal Gazette (http://bit.ly/28TbK5p ) reports Wednesday’s ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

NEW YORK — Fans of Jenny Mollen don’t want her to hold back — and she doesn’t disappoint. Her new book, “Live Fast Die Hot,” is a follow-up to her best-selling “I Like You Just the Way I Am.” The 37-year-old actress-writer shares her thoughts on social media, spouting off hilarious — and often politically

HOUSTON — Houston police have charged a 52-year-old man in the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in a strip mall parking lot. Christopher Bert Taylor of Houston was being held Thursday on a murder charge, with bond set at $50,000. Online court records do not list an attorney for Taylor, who was arrested Wednesday.

PICKENS, S.C. — When Suzanna Simpson spent six days in the hospital for severe mental illness, doctors urged her husband to get all of the guns out of their house for safety. About a year later, Simpson woke up at 4 a.m., put on a headband with a small light, worked the combination on the