Новости за 25.05.2017

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Costco shares rose in after-hours trading after the warehouse club company reported earnings that topped Wall Street expectations. The Issaquah, Washington-based company said Thursday that net income in its most recent quarter came to $700 million, or $1.59 per share, up from $545 million, or $1.24 per share, in the same period

OAKLAND, Calif. — Steve Kerr is involved in just about everything but the actual game-day coaching for the Golden State Warriors — film session, coaches meetings, game-planning and practice. He’s just not yet ready from a health standpoint to be back on the bench with the start of the NBA Finals a week away. General

WOLFSBURG, Germany — Wolfsburg’s struggle for Bundesliga survival remains a fraught affair after a 1-0 win over Eintracht Braunschweig in the first leg of their relegation/promotion playoff on Thursday. “We’ll manage it,” Wolfsburg coach Andries Jonker said of his side’s prospects. Mario Gomez scored the only goal 10 minutes before the break, a penalty awarded

CLEVELAND — A day after scoring the go-ahead run from first base on a ninth-inning single, Cincinnati’s Billy Hamilton arrived at Progressive Field and saw a quicksand sign had been placed on his locker-room chair along with a bag of drying agent used on infields. Cleveland’s front office already had tweeted a photo of his

ALBANY, N.Y. — Miles and Lyle Thompson became lacrosse rock stars during their college careers at the University at Albany, attracting long autograph lines after games — at home and on the road. Every kid loves a scorer, and the Native American brothers from the Onondaga Nation outside Syracuse rarely disappointed. They put up staggering

U.S. stocks climbed for the sixth day in a row Thursday as strong first-quarter results from retailers like Best Buy and PVH led indexes to record highs. That offset a plunge in oil prices. On Thursday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 10.68 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,415.07. The Dow Jones industrial average

CHICAGO — Sydney Leroux has returned to the U.S. national soccer team roster for the first time since giving birth. U.S. coach Jill Ellis announced the roster Thursday for matches in Europe next month against Sweden and Norway. Leroux took off much of last year after she gave birth to son Cassius. She is married

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard with a message on fighting inequality and taking risks in the name of innovation. Zuckerberg, who, like the graduates, is a millennial, started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. He dropped out the following year and returned Thursday to receive an honorary degree. Here are 10

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants ended their first week of voluntary organized team activities missing two of their biggest stars — wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and defensive end Olivier Vernon. The workout Thursday was third of the week, and Beckham missed them all. The team did not say whether Vernon missed

HOUSTON — A Texas appeals court panel on Thursday upheld a lower court’s order that the state’s prison agency must identify its execution drug supplier. The ruling from the 3rd Court of Appeals is in response to a lawsuit and has limited impact. Lawyers seeking to block the executions of two prisoners in early 2014

HARTFORD, Conn. — A woman who said she was assaulted at rapper 50 Cent’s Connecticut mansion in 2009 has dropped a lawsuit against him and his G-Unit Film & Television production company. Court records show Vasti Ortiz withdrew the lawsuit in Hartford Superior Court on Wednesday. There was no settlement or payout. Her lawyer did

NEW YORK — Seven ancient statues and pottery vessels are headed back to their homeland in Italy after authorities said they tracked down the stolen items in New York City. Dating back as far as the eighth century B.C., the artifacts were looted by Italian tomb raiders in the 1990s, then were smuggled out of

LONDON — He was quiet and withdrawn, a college dropout who liked soccer — and, some say, showed alarming signs of being radicalized years before he walked into a pop concert at Britain’s Manchester Arena and detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself and 22 others. While some claim Salman Abedi had been banned from the

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears added some salsa to the roster Thursday, signing former New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz to a one-year contract. The Bears were looking for help after former Pro Bowl receiver Alshon Jeffery signed with Philadelphia. They’re hoping Cruz can rediscover some of his old flair and give them

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Matt Andriese is pitching far better than most fifth starters. Andriese allowed six hits over eight innings, Colby Rasmus drove in four runs and the Rays salvaged a split of a four-game series with Los Angeles by beating the Angels 4-0 on Thursday. “He’s got plenty of stuff to be a

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand cricket player offered this explanation for another drunken driving offense — he was rushing home to console his girlfriend over a dead parrot. The lawyer for Doug Bracewell says the cricketer was attending a social function when his “distraught” girlfriend called. She says their pet cockatoo was killed

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues have hired Steve Ott to be an assistant coach on Mike Yeo’s staff. General manager Doug Armstrong announced the move Thursday, a little over a month after Ott’s final game as a player with the Montreal Canadiens. Ott had not even announced his retirement. The 34-year-old moves immediately

INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Castroneves has spent the past six years chasing history at the Indianapolis 500, trying in vain to join A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser Sr. in an exclusive club of four-time winners. He didn’t anticipate making a different kind of history last weekend. Like nearly everyone else in the Team Penske

NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom was scratched by the New York Mets from his scheduled start against the San Diego Padres on Thursday night because of discouraging weather reports. Rafael Montero was to start in deGrom’s place, and deGrom was rescheduled for Friday’s series opener at Pittsburgh, pushing the rest of the rotation back a

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Gavin Sheets’ two-run home run helped key a four-run ninth inning to rally Wake Forest past Georgia Tech 5-4 on Thursday in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament. The homer by the junior first baseman is his conference-leading 20th of the season. He also leads the nation in RBIs with 79. Keegan

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The body of a federal prosecutor has been found on a Florida beach with possible head trauma. Hollywood police spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said Thursday that the body of 37-year-old Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found early Wednesday by a passerby on the city’s beach. She said detectives are trying to determine if

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants have signed defensive end Devin Taylor and safety Duke Ihenacho. The Giants announced the moves Thursday, adding two veterans who have played in 102 NFL games. New York terminated the contract of safety Raheem Moore and waived linebacker Ishaq Williams to make room on their roster. Taylor

OMAHA, Neb. — Police say a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of pulling a gun on Iowa tight end Noah Fant. Fant, a graduate of Omaha South High School, told police he was threatened Tuesday night while he was in a northwest Omaha park near his home. Fant says a man he recognized

WASHINGTON — Mariners manager Scott Servais got ejected for the second time this season. Nelson Cruz came through with a big hit, just like he did when Servais was tossed from a game on April 16. “Our guys joke about it,” Servais said Thursday after Seattle rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 4-2. “They’d like

LOS ANGELES — Blake Lively is set to star in an adaptation of the best-seller “The Husband’s Secret,” from “Big Little Lies” author Liane Moriarty. CBS Films said Thursday that Lively will play Cecilia Fitzpatrick in the film and also executive produce. The character is a model wife and mother who discovers an unopened letter