Новости за 13.12.2017

Amgen late Tuesday announced that its board of directors declared a dividend of $1.32 a share for the first quarter of 2018. The dividend will be paid on March 8 to stockholders of record as of Feb. 15, the biotech company said. That's a 15% increase from the dividend paid in each of the previous four quarters, Amgen said. Shares of Amgen were flat in late trading after ending the regular session down 0.3%.

Former world No. 1 Jason Day and his wife, Ellie, announced the tragic news they have suffered a miscarriage. The couple was expecting their third child before the heartbreaking loss. They already have a son Dash, 5, and Lucy, 2. Ellie, who was four months pregnant, revealed on Instagram alongside a picture of her cuddling...

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The S&P 500 and Dow industrials advanced to end at records on Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve kicked off its two-day meeting. However, weakness in tech stocks weighed on the Nasdaq Composite. The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee is widely expected to announce its third and final interest-rate hike of 2017 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 closed at a record, rising 4.15 points, or 0.2%, to 2,664.14. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also ended at a fresh all-time high, after adding 118.57 points... Читать дальше...

Alyssa Milano, Kerry Washington and Mark Ruffalo are just a few of the celebrities who have endorsed Jones.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Johns Hopkins University will stop buying stocks and bonds of companies that produce coal for electric power as a major part of their business. The university's board of trustees voted last week to divest the university from separately managed investments in thermal coal. The board voted for the divestment due to concerns related to the environment and public health effects of climate change. The university in Baltimore says it's only the third time in Johns Hopkins' history that... Читать дальше...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world’s smallest gender-equality gap, and for about as long gender studies Professor Gyda Margret Petursdottir has been asked how the Nordic island nation became such a paradise for women. Her reply: “It isn’t.” Iceland has a female prime minister and some of the world’s strongest laws on workplace equality and equal pay. It also has one of Europe’s... Читать дальше...

Dresden (dpa) - Deutschlands Wasserballer haben zum Auftakt der Weltliga nur hauchdünn eine Überraschung verpasst. Die Mannschaft des Deutschen Schwimm-Verbandes (DSV) unterlag in der Europa-Gruppe B in Dresden dem favorisierten WM-Achten Russland erst im Fünfmeterwerfen mit 11:12 (1:3, 2:2, 3:2, 2:1/3:4) Toren.Vor 600 Zuschauern hatte die DSV-Auswahl kurz vor Schluss knapp im Rückstand gelegen, doch mit der Schlusssirene erzielte der Neu-Hannoveraner Julian Real den 8:8-Gleichstand. In dem in Weltliga-Spielen... Читать дальше...

Should alarms be sounded in New England by the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins on Monday night? The loss, New England’s first on the road this season, dropped the Patriots to 10-3 and a game behind the 11-2 Steelers in the race for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. But the Patriots, who play the Steelers...

With Winnipeg City council set to vote on the 2018 budget Tuesday, two key points have received criticism - parking and transit fees.

In March 1990, NASA’s Roy Spencer and University of Alabama-Huntsville’s (UAH) John Christy dropped quite a bomb when they published the first record of lower atmospheric temperatures sensed by satellites’ microwave sounding units (MSUs). While they only had ten years of data, it was crystal clear there was no significant warming trend.

State leaders have the opportunity to enact two measures to improve the lives of Vermonters.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced the "fabricated stories" of women who have accused him of sexual harassment, and attacked a Democratic female US senator in a crude tweet after she demanded his resignation over the claims.

Let’s be plain: there are not many good Chanukah movies. For the children, there is the Rugrats Chanukah special. For the adults… It’s A Wonderful Life? (One can only imagine a restless Jewish station manager conspiring to schedule as the yearly Christmas viewing a movie that is 98% human misery and only 2% Christmas.) However, blessed is the Disney Channel, for from this unlikely place came one of our only modern Chanukah classics (the other, of course, being The Hebrew Hammer in all its exploitation glory), Full-Court Miracle. Читать дальше...

The trademark for Atlantic Schooners — one of the prospective names for a Canadian Football League franchise in Halifax — has officially been registered by an organization known to be interested in bringing a football franchise to the East Coast.

The jobs are there, and the local economy needs hardworking, skilled people to fill them.

The USMNT legend almost came to RSL. What would 2017 have looked like if he had?

Brian Ortega, the Rener Gracie-trained featherweight who emerged as the star of Saturday night's UFC show and as a legitimate undefeated championship contender, has shown two things about his fights.

Tyron Woodley has high praise for former ONE FC and Bellator welterweight champ Ben Askren.

The Democrat has raised an astonishing sum from donors in his conservative state.

The recent rise of natural disasters worldwide has sparked a heated debate. Is climate change to blame?

The United States government will soon be spending more on interest payments than on national defense.

Plain and simple: Hair is just hair. No matter how many bad hair cuts we get or shaving mishaps we endure, hair will never be the end-all be-all mark of true beauty. And that's exactly what a young girl named Riley learned in a video posted to the Love What Matters' Facebook page this week. Riley has Alopecia, an auto-immune disease that causes hair loss in people of all ages and genders. But, as she came to discover in this video, her hair loss should not (and does not) define her beauty.

(Morocco World News) Rabat – It appeared that Morocco’s Royal Football Federation’s (FRMF) ambition to make the Belgian national football team a sparring partner for the Atlas Lions will not pan out. Youssef Hijoub, a Moroccan FIFA agent, has said that the Belgian team declined FRMF’s invitation due to security concerns.