Новости за 29.04.2020

DETROIT — Tesla eked out a small first-quarter net profit just as the coronavirus started to affect the electric car and solar panel maker. The company said it made $16 million from January through March, or 8 cents per share. It was the third straight profitable quarter for the Palo Alto, California, company. It appears

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s Orthodox Church on Wednesday criticized a billboard campaign showing doctors dealing with the coronavirus epidemic as saints with halos shaped like the virus. According to a church spokesman, the “blasphemous” campaign created by international advertising agency McCann Worldgroup in conjunction with local artist Wanda Hutira is “a visual abuse of Christian

The St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox announced ticket refund policies on Wednesday for games not played through May because of the virus outbreak, with some Major League Baseball teams offering plans for cash returns and bonus credit. A day after MLB told clubs they could decide their own ticket refund policies, several did.

The Detroit Red Wings have signed left wing Mathias Brome to a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday, adding one of the leading scorers from the Swedish Hockey League last season. The 25-year-old Brome had a career-high 43 points last season. He led Orebro HK with 17 goals and 26 assists. Brome averaged 33 points

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts now have two kickers under contract for next season while the NFL’s career scoring leader, Adam Vinatieri, remains a free agent. On Wednesday, team officials announced they had signed 10 undrafted rookies, including Rodrigo Blankenship of Georgia, one of last season’s top college kickers. Blankenship will now battle Chase McLaughlin,

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A surge in unemployment stemming from the coronavirus shutdown of large parts of the U.S. economy is starting to push some state jobless funds toward insolvency. At least a half-dozen states already have notified the federal government that they could need to borrow billions of dollars to pay unemployment benefits because

OAKLAND, Calif. — Facebook on Tuesday reported its slowest quarterly growth as a public company, pressured by a global slowdown in the digital advertising market due to the coronavirus pandemic. The social network, like Google on Monday, said it’s feeling the squeeze from the global pandemic but expects to weather it with modest long-term effects.

When terrorists struck the United States on Sept. 11, Nicholas Burns was the U.S. ambassador to NATO, and one memory still stands out: how swiftly America’s allies invoked Article Five of the organization’s charter, that an attack on one member was an attack on all. It was a kinship among nations nurtured over decades and

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a a postal worker, authorities said Wednesday. Indianapolis police homicide detectives along with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and FBI agents arrested Tony Cushingberry, 21, on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in the death of Angela Summers, 45. Federal prosecutors

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday: Brinker International Inc., up $5.70 to $24.84. The owner of Chili’s Grill & Bar and Maggiano’s Little Italy handily beat analysts’ fiscal third-quarter profit forecasts. Alphabet Inc., up $109.59 to $1,342.18. Google’s parent company reported a surprising jump in first-quarter revenue. Gilead Sciences

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus’ president unveiled a road-map Wednesday for gradually lifting a strict, stay-at-home order over the next month that has until now helped to contain the spread of the coronavirus. But Nicos Anastasiades said that the “danger hasn’t passed,” as health experts note that the virus won’t completely go away any time soon.

NEW YORK — Gleaming new tent hospitals sit empty on two suburban New York college campuses, never having treated a single coronavirus patient. Convention centers that were turned into temporary hospitals in other cities went mostly unused. And a Navy hospital ship that offered help in Manhattan is soon to depart. When virus infections slowed

RIO DE JANEIRO — Work had already dried up for Ivanilson Gervásio when the coronavirus first emerged in Brazil in late February. As cases now surge amid a simultaneous implosion of Latin America’s largest economy, hope of finding a job is gone, forcing Gervásio to line up for hours outside a state-owned bank for a

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose $2.72, or 22%, to close at $15.06 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose $2.08, or 10.2%, to $22.54 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline rose 6 cents to 73 cents a gallon. Heating oil rose 6 cents to 69 cents a gallon. Natural gas fell

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have exercised the fifth-year option on All-Pro cornerback Marlon Humphrey, keeping him under contract through 2021. Drafted 16th overall out of Alabama in 2017, Humphrey has seven career interceptions and returned two fumbles for touchdowns last season. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2019 after a

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is still all-in on getting reelected, but he’s also set to take the first steps to formally prepare someone else to take over if he loses on Nov. 3. Trump is standing up a council under the first deployment of the Presidential Transition Act by an incumbent running for another

England is scrambling to find a solution to the billion-pound question: How to restart the Premier League? However, the competition with the most to lose financially if the season is abandoned is unlikely to see a clear path forward if it looks across to its European counterparts. So far, European countries have taken very different

The top women’s indoor volleyball players in the U.S. will now have their own professional league at home, giving more players an opportunity to prolong their careers past college without having to go overseas. They will get to help govern the league themselves, too. Athletes Unlimited, in partnership with USA Volleyball, announced plans Wednesday for

Tae Crowder is going to have to settle for being Mr. Irrelevant without the frills for now. To be honest, the Georgia linebacker is just happy he was picked by the New York Giants in the NFL draft Saturday, even if it was with the 255th and last selection of the three-day event that was

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Kenseth had a blissful year of retirement. He had time to travel with his wife and four daughters, made his first visit to Europe and took up marathon running. It was free time he never had in 22 years of racing at NASCAR’s national level. “It was really just spending time

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons say they are taking a “wait-and-see approach” with defensive end Takk McKinley’s future with the team. The Falcons say they are declining their fifth-year option with McKinley for 2021 “at this time.” If the team had exercised the fifth-year option, McKinley could have been an unrestricted free agent

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Sealing some Salvadoran prisoners’ cells with sheet metal is a draconian measure sure to draw accusations of human rights violations, but President Nayib Bukele circulated photos of the cell modifications himself, counting on the support of a population traumatized by gang violence. Still, experts warn that the popular president’s harsh

NEW YORK — WNBA rookies will start receiving health benefits beginning this week, a move that comes while camps and the season remain suspended indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Medical benefits usually are offered once training camp starts, but first-year players will be covered starting Friday. “Given the unique nature of this crisis, rookies

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s government has failed to tap into millions of federal dollars set aside for the island as a growing number of unemployed parents struggle to feed their children in a U.S. territory where nearly 70% of public school students are poor. The roughly $290 million that the U.S. government

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi teenager with a talent for writing is receiving a full-ride college scholarship named for the author of “The Hate U Give.” Belhaven University is awarding its first Angie Thomas Writers Scholarship to Imani Skipwith of Jackson, the university announced Tuesday. Skipwith will be graduating from the Mississippi School of the