Новости за 16.09.2016

BOSTON — Major League Baseball suspended Padres general manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay on Thursday, hitting the San Diego executive with an unprecedented punishment for failing to disclose medical information when pitcher Drew Pomeranz was traded to the Boston Red Sox in July. The commissioner’s office announced the discipline on Thursday without

PULLMAN, Wash. — Leaders of Washington State University met Thursday with Pullman’s police chief to discuss recent incidents involving Cougar football players, with both sides saying the meeting was productive. Washington State President Kirk Schulz and Director of Athletics Bill Moos met with Chief Gary Jenkins in Schulz’s office. The meeting came two days after

TORONTO — Don’t blink or you might miss four teams at the World Cup of Hockey. Unlike the Olympics or world championships, pool play at the World Cup is limited to three games for each team. In under a week, half will be eliminated, and that has ratcheted up the urgency for favorites and underdogs

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday: Apple Inc., up $3.80 to $115.57 The stock rose to its highest price in 10 months on reports of strong preorders for the new iPhones it introduced last week. V.F. Corp., down $1.84 to $56.20 Retailers including the parent of North Face and Wrangler

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday called for an independent review of allegations that the National Football League sought to improperly influence a government study into the link between football and brain disease. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general, GOP leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee said

ERIE, Pa. — Julia Potter won the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur for the second time in four years Thursday, beating Shannon Johnson 2 and 1 at The Kahkwa Club. Potter, a 28-year-old reinstated amateur from Indianapolis, also won the 2013 event for players 25 and older and finished second in 2014. “When you get to the

NEW YORK — Otherworldly goddesses? Looking-for-some-fun ’90s ravers? Your basic acid trip — but a happy one?! Marc Jacobs had it all at his New York Fashion Week show Thursday, including models who walked in sky-high platform kinky boots beneath hues of purple and blue, with strings of raw, twinkly lightbulbs hanging down and splotches

Researchers identified lightning bolts in Oklahoma and France as the longest on record and warn that their discovery could alter traditional thinking of when it’s safe to go outside after a storm passes. A 2007 storm in Oklahoma produced a lightning bolt nearly 200 miles (321.85 kilometers) long, while a 2012 storm in southern France