Новости за 30.04.2024

CHICAGO (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC) on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit of $374 million.

Brytann Busick and Tim Moreno bought an old Victorian in Ferndale, CA. The house is rough, but they are determined to renovate it themselves.

Officials from Hamas have left Cairo after talks with Egyptian officials on a new cease-fire proposal in Gaza. Egypt’s state-owned Al-Qahera News satellite channel said Tuesday that a Hamas delegation will return to Cairo with a written response to the cease-fire proposal, without saying when. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his seventh diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war began. It was sparked Oct. 7 by a raid into southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people... Читать дальше...

A Taliban official says a gunman opened fire inside a mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least six people as they were praying. Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan say the mosque was frequented by members of the country's Shiite Muslim minority. A spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry says in post on the social media platform X that the attack happened on Monday night in the district of Guzara in Herat province. A seventh person was wounded in the attack. No one... Читать дальше...

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Virologist Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Monday that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020. The move shows how the Chinese government continues to pressure and control scientists, seeking... Читать дальше...

A growing number of cities are passing tax increases to expand access to child care. Last year, New Orleans added more than 1,000 child care seats for low-income families after voters approved a historic property tax increase. In Whatcom County, Washington, a property tax increase added $10 million for child care and children’s mental health to the annual budget. A marijuana sales tax approved last year by voters in Anchorage, Alaska, will generate more than $5 million for early childhood programs. Читать дальше...

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China protests after being locked out of his lab.

A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore from the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation. The Pentagon said on Monday that the construction and operation of the pier and aid delivery will cost at least $320 million. U.S. officials have confirmed the ongoing construction off the Gaza coast. The U.S. and Israel have said they hope to have the mobile pier in place and operations underway by early May. Читать дальше...

Dozens of protesters haven taken over a building at Columbia University in New York, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war. Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in front of Hamilton Hall early Tuesday and carrying furniture and metal barricades to the building. Demonstrators are sparring over the Israel-Hamas war and its mounting death toll, and the number... Читать дальше...

Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year. The 1938 nationalization is a point of pride for millions, including President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The popular president hails from the oil industry’s heartland. And 16 years ago, he led a fight against energy reforms aimed at drawing private investment to Mexico’s massive state-run oil company, Pemex. Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum and the other two candidates to replace López... Читать дальше...

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory. The front-runner in the June 2 presidential election is an environmental engineer who helped produce the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. She is a protege of the current president, who led a 2008 fight against energy reform. An AP story from March 18, 1938, reported on the expropriation of foreign oil companies.

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country. That's according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who was visiting the country and met Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday. Nadella said the company will also invest in AI training for 840,000 people, as well as the support to Indonesia’s growing developer community. The company sees Southeast... Читать дальше...

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum in Mexico. The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted asylum to former Vice President Jorge Glas, spiked tensions between the two countries that had been brewing since Glas, a convicted criminal and fugitive, took refuge at the embassy in December. Leaders across Latin America condemned the... Читать дальше...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last weekend's by-elections was largely due to a political fundraising scandal and that he will not resign or replace party executives to take responsibility. Kishida said Tuesday he will instead push anti-corruption measures and political reforms. Kishida’s conservative party lost all three seats in Sunday’s parliamentary by-elections. The party is unlikely to lose power because the opposition is fractured. But Sunday’s defeat marked a further setback for Kishida... Читать дальше...

Winterhawks 4, Cougars 1

First Period

1. Portland, Nguyen 2 (Danielson) 1:13.

2. Portland, Nguyen 3 (Danielson, Jugnauth) 7:10.

3. Portland, Alscher 2 (Danielson) 9:40.

Penalties — Shtrom Pg (high sticking) 9:42; Lajoie Pg, Chyzowski Por (roughing) 14:47; Foster Pg (boarding) 14:47; Zakreski Por (high sticking) 18:29.

Second Period

No Scoring.

Penalties — Foster Pg (roughing) 2:23; Dumanski Pg (delay of game) 6:04; Sotheran Por (interference)... Читать дальше...

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Winterhawks pounced on the visiting Prince George Cougars with three goals before the game was 10 minutes old and then coasted to a 4-1 victory in the third game of the Western Hockey League Western Conference final.

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces sentencing in a Seattle courtroom. U.S. prosecutors are asking a judge on Tuesday to give him a three-year prison term for allowing rampant money laundering on the platform. Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as Binance CEO in November as the company agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle related allegations. U.S. officials said Zhao deliberately looked the other way as illicit actors conducted transactions that supported child sex abuse... Читать дальше...

The United Nations’ top court is set to rule on a request by Nicaragua for judges to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel. The central American nation argues that Berlin’s support enables acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. Nicaragua’s case is the latest legal bid by a country with historic ties to the Palestinian people to stop Israel’s offensive. Late last year, South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the court. Israel strongly denies the allegation. Читать дальше...

A Taliban-run tourism and hotel management institute has opened its doors to students. What they lack in hospitality experience, they make up for in their enthusiasm to promote a positive side of Afghanistan. The Taliban are happy to help. Afghanistan’s rulers are pariahs on the global stage. The economy is struggling, infrastructure is poor, and poverty is rife. Yet foreigners are visiting the country, encouraged by the sharp drop in violence, increased flight connections with hubs like Dubai, and... Читать дальше...

Democrats believe young Florida voters will come to the polls in November because of the abortion and marijuana measures on the ballot. If they do, President Joe Biden will likely get their support even though many are lukewarm to a second term for him. Still his stance on the issues, especially abortion, is more in line with them than former President Donald Trump. The presumptive Republican nominee has tried to straddle the abortion issue by leaving it to the states. In Florida, that means a ban after six weeks.

Voters are casting ballots in a special election to fill the upstate New York congressional seat vacated earlier this year by Democrat Brian Higgins. The race for the 26th Congressional District features state Sen. Timothy Kennedy, a Democrat viewed by many as Higgins’ natural successor, and Gary Dickson, a Republican town supervisor with crossover appeal. Higgins resigned during his 10th term in February to become president of Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. The district spans Erie and Niagara counties... Читать дальше...

He jumped into the swift and dangerous Trinity River to rescue another swimmer. 

A Japanese town is fed up with tourist swarms taking one particular photo. 

BART riders using some East Bay lines may have noticed delays with Clipper.

A prominent company is relocating from Austin, and another is laying off thousands.