Новости за 20.07.2017

LONDON — The Tennis Integrity Unit says a total of four matches at Wimbledon and the French Open have been flagged for unusual betting patterns. The TIU’s quarterly report, released Wednesday, says a total of 53 match alerts were received from April to June out of a total of more than 31,000 professional matches. There

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has withdrawn or delayed 860 proposed regulations in its first five months, the beginnings of a regulatory overhaul meant to bolster economic growth. Federal agencies have withdrawn 469 proposed regulations compared to a fall 2016 report when Barack Obama was president, according to figures the White House budget office. This

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is getting a minor league soccer team. City officials on Wednesday approved a 15-year lease agreement that allows a United Soccer League expansion team to use Cashman Field starting next year. The yet-to-be-named club will become the 33rd team in the USL. It will share the facility with the Las

CINCINNATI — J.D. Martinez bruised his left hand while striking out Wednesday night, forcing him out of his debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The right fielder was hit on the side of the left hand while swinging at a two-strike pitch from Cincinnati’s Tim Adleman in the fourth inning. Martinez’s hand was shaking as it

SAN FRANCISCO — Their worst season in years has afforded the San Francisco Giants few light-hearted moments. A second straight dramatic win against a pennant contender gave them one such moment, and it happened to coincide with a Game of Thrones promotion they were plugging anyway. “It’s comfortable,” a chuckling manager Bruce Bochy said, seated

TOKYO — Japan’s exports rose nearly 10 percent in June from a year earlier, while imports jumped 15.5 percent, biting into its trade surplus. A recovery in exports to China and the rest of Asia is helping sustain growth of the world’s third-largest economy. The customs figures reported Thursday showed exports to China surged 20

WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexes his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, his office said in a statement Wednesday. The 80-year-old lawmaker has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, where McCain

PHILADELPHIA — Anibal Godoy headed David Guzman’s free kick into his own net in the 77th minute, giving Costa Rica a 1-0 victory over Panama on Wednesday night and a berth in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals. Guzman took a free kick from about 35 yards out, and the ball swerved slightly and went off

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has agreed to repay motorists more than $62 million it collected in excessive fees to settle a class-action lawsuit. Attorney Irwin Levin represented motorists in the lawsuit. He says the settlement includes $28.5 million in refunds for customers who were overcharged between 2002 and mid-2006 for driver

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. coach Bruce Arena changed all 11 starters for the second straight game, inserting forwards Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore into the lineup for Wednesday night’s CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal against El Salvador. After using a junior varsity roster in the group phase, Arena included five veterans among six additions for the knockout

IRVING, Texas — Two-time defending Conference USA champion Western Kentucky and Louisiana Tech are the preseason picks to win their divisions again this season. WKU won the East Division title last season for the second year in a row, then beat the West Division-winning Bulldogs 58-44 in the C-USA title game. In a preseason media

MUNCIE, Ind. — A two-story-tall dinosaur sculpture that’s long loomed over a central Indiana school is getting a new home now that the school has closed its doors. Muncie city crews plan to move the steel-framed, concrete-coated Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture to the city’s Heekin Park using a crane. Parks Superintendent Harvey Wright tells The Star

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Personnel Department Director Brandye Hendrickson is leaving state government for position in Donald Trump’s presidential administration. A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb says Hendrickson is taking a job as a deputy administrator with the Federal Highway Administration. Her last day is Friday. Hendrickson was commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation

NEWPORT, R.I. — Defending champion Ivo Karlovic of Croatia beat American Denis Kudla 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday in his Hall of Fame Tennis Championships opener to reach the quarterfinals in the grass-court event. The 38-year-old Karlovic had 16 aces and broke Kudla’s serve three times. Karlovic will face Germany’s Peter Gojowczyk, a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

BOSTON — A former Massachusetts sheriff’s deputy has been convicted of helping a fishing mogul known as “The Codfather” smuggle profits out of the country. A federal jury in Boston found 47-year-old Antonio Freitas guilty Wednesday of charges of bulk cash smuggling and structuring the export of U.S. currency. The former Bristol County sheriff’s deputy

DENVER — Nolan Arenado lined three homers as part of his five-hit afternoon and tied a career-high with seven RBIs, helping the Colorado Rockies complete a three-game sweep of the San Diego Padres with an 18-4 victory Wednesday. Trevor Story and Charlie Blackmon also homered on a scorching day when the Rockies had a season-high

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on California approving reopening of gas storage field (all times local): 5 p.m. An attorney for Los Angeles County says it plans to ask a court as soon as Friday to block the reopening of a major natural gas storage facility. County counsel Scott Kuhn told The Associated Press on

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. — A jury has convicted a western Michigan woman of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man’s pet parrot. The Newaygo County jury deliberated about eight hours before finding 49-year-old Glenna Duram guilty Wednesday of killing 46-year-old Martin Duram. He was shot

The African Cup might be going out of Africa. The United States, China or Qatar could be asked to host the African Cup of Nations in radical changes proposed Wednesday to give the continent’s biggest soccer tournament the global exposure it craves. The proposals were set out in a presentation to the Confederation of African

WASHINGTON — Travelers flying to the U.S. from nearly 300 international airports, including those in Mexico and Canada, are now subject to stepped-up security measures that include stricter screening for electronic devices larger than cellphones. The regulations could include asking passengers to present larger electronic devices for inspection and prove that they can be powered

PHILADELPHIA — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy is in critical condition with a severed leg after he tried to jump on a train in Philadelphia and missed. Police say the accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday in northeast Philadelphia. A police spokeswoman says the boy was trying to jump on a CSX train that

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s attorney general’s office has confirmed Spanish authorities requested the arrest of former Brazilian football confederation chairman Ricardo Teixeira. The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor on Wednesday said it requested those documents for a possible investigation into Teixeira. A prosecutor told The Associated Press that Teixeira might be investigated in Brazil, but

SAN FRANCISCO — Buster Posey pinch hit a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-4 on Wednesday. Posey, on a scheduled rest day, doubled off the wall on a 3-2 slider on the seventh offering from Indians reliever Bryan Shaw (2-4). Indians

CHICAGO — Yoan Moncada has a friend from his hometown to show him all about life in the big leagues in his new town. The first lesson from new Chicago White Sox teammate Jose Abreu, a fellow product of Cienfuegos, Cuba, was on Chicago traffic. Despite some construction and delays, the road to Guaranteed Rate

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies have signed guard Mario Chalmers, nearly 1 1/2 years after he ruptured his right Achilles tendon playing for the team. The Grizzlies announced the deal Wednesday. Terms of the contract weren’t disclosed. The 31-year-old Chalmers was injured in March 2016. During the 2015-16 season, Chalmers played 61 games for