Новости за 02.05.2024

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ) on Thursday reported a loss of $1.1 million in its first quarter.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, returned to court Thursday with Planned Parenthood and the state arguing over what could be two different ways to define a heartbeat in the law.

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — LAREDO, Texas (AP) — International Bancshares Corp. (IBOC) on Thursday reported net income of $97.3 million in its first quarter.

A North Carolina man is charged with mailing an antisemitic threat to a rabbi in Georgia. A federal indictment unsealed Thursday says that Macon Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar received a threatening postcard in February after she testified before Georgia lawmakers to support defining antisemitism in state law. The postcard referenced the name of the gas to execute Jews during World War II and included the words “Jews are rats.” A grand jury indicted Ariel Collazo Ramos of High Point, North Carolina, on a charge of mailing threatening communications. Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden has detoured to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job. The visit Thursday comes just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in upstate New York. His Charlotte visit is taking place with little fanfare behind closed doors, because the White House aims to respect the privacy of grieving families and avoid the appearance of using grief for political purposes.

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Global Forecast as of 18:00 GMT Thursday, May 2, 2024

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Abidjan, Ivory Coast;A t-storm around;90;79;A stray p.m. t-storm;90;81;S;7;76%;57%;12

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;Downpours;88;76;Hazy... Читать дальше...

Alabama lawmakers gave final approval to legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot. The House of Representatives voted 93-0 for the legislation that now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey for her signature. Alabama has one of the earliest candidate certification deadlines in the country which has caused difficulties for whichever political party has the later convention date that year. The legislation mirrors changes made four years ago to allow then-President Donald Trump to appear on the ballot.

A fire at a historic San Francisco building prompted a major response on Thursday.

The Calif. maker of a cyberpunk-looking COVID-19 mask has to pay big.

Authorities lowered the creek's water level during the rescue attempt. 

Headed to USC, former Razorbacks basketball coach Eric Musselman is selling his luxurious, five-bedroom home in Arkansas.

Both sides of I-95, the East Coast’s main north-south highway, have been shut down in southwestern Connecticut. It follows an early morning crash Thursday involving a passenger car, tractor trailer truck and a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline, which caught fire under a bridge overpass. Connecticut Ned Lamont says there were no serious injuries. However, he's warning drivers of massive traffic jams near the Norwalk crash site and urged people to avoid the area or stay home. State officials... Читать дальше...

Lawyer Keith Davidson has returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money trial following a contempt hearing over whether Trump has again violated his gag order. The judge did not immediately rule Thursday on four more alleged violations of the mandate barring Trump from speaking publicly about witnesses and others in the case. Prosecutors say Trump and his associates orchestrated a scheme to buy and bury stories that might hurt his 2016 campaign. He is accused of falsifying internal business... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. 

Biden says campus protests haven't prompted him to rethink Mideast policies, and he opposes sending in National Guard.

Pakistani police say double land mine blasts have killed one person and wounded at least 18 in the southwest. The first mine exploded when a truck was passing through a valley in coal-rich Duki district, in Baluchistan province. The second detonated when counter-terrorism officials and civilians were examining the initial blast site. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but Baluch separatist groups have previously struck security personnel or infrastructure in the southwest. They initially wanted a greater share of provincial resources... Читать дальше...

Biden says ‘dissent must never lead to disorder’ as he condemns campus pro-Palestinian protests that have turned violent.

President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration. The remarks from the U.S. president were made at a campaign fundraiser Wednesday evening at the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. At the event, where the audience was largely Asian-American, Biden said the... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden has expanded two culturally significant California landscapes: the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California. The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land. The U.S. National Park Service notes that the action is allowed under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Читать дальше...

Prosecutors in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump are seeking additional sanctions over his out-of-court comments as testimony soon resumes.

Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant. It's the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild. In 2022, scientists in Indonesia observed an adult male orangutan pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. He used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek, then pressed the chewed plant to cover the open wound like a makeshift bandage. Читать дальше...

Latest forecast shows a storm may impact the Bay Area more than originally expected.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week and remains historically low as the labor market continues to show resiliency in the face of high interest rates and elevated inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 27 was 208,000, the same as the previous week. That’s the fewest since mid-February. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week. In total... Читать дальше...