Новости за 25.02.2020

Washington (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says the driver of a Tesla SUV who died in a Silicon Valley crash two years ago was playing a video game on his smartphone at the time.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A coalition of 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices, officials announced Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — La agencia que supervisa la seguridad en los transportes en Estados Unidos determinó que el conductor de una camioneta SUV Tesla que murió hace dos años al chocar en Silicon Valley, estaba jugando en su celular al momento del accidente.

Stocks slumped again on Wall Street Tuesday, piling on losses a day after the market's biggest drop in two years as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy.

The generic drugmaker Mallinckrodt has a tentative $1.6 billion deal to settle lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, it announced Tuesday.

BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China has sentenced a Swedish seller of books that took a skeptical look at the ruling Communist Party to 10 years in prison for “illegally providing intelligence overseas," in a further sign of Beijing’s hard line toward its critics.

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Home Depot reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter with strong comparable-store sales. The home improvement retailer also boosted its quarterly dividend by 10%.

BEIJING (AP) — Factories that make the world’s smartphones, toys and other goods are struggling to reopen after a virus outbreak idled China’s economy. But even with the ruling Communist Party promising help, companies and economists say it may be months before production is back to normal.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An investigation into legendary singer Plácido Domingo by the U.S. union representing opera performers found more than two dozen people who said they were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behavior by the superstar when he held senior management positions at Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera, according to people familiar with the findings.

Morgantown, W.Va.

Te'a Cooper scored 17 points and No. 2 Baylor clinched a share of its 10th consecutive Big 12 regular-season championship with a 64-39 victory over West Virginia on Monday night.

Baylor (26-1, 15-0 Big 12) cemented the top seed in the conference tournament and won its 56th straight regular-season conference game.

Baylor also won its 44th straight road game in the conference, the nation's third-longest such streak in the regular season.

The Lady Bears... Читать дальше...

Ballston Spa

As the 2014-15 school year drew to a close, Ben Eldridge had already completed his first season working with the junior varsity boys' basketball program at Ballston Spa. Before school let out, Eldridge made a proclamation. Seventh-grader Keegan Zoller took him up on it.

"I offered up to the whole program that after school, I teach in the high school, that I would open the shooting machine. He was the only kid that showed up. He came in, got his hundreds of shots up two or three days a week. Читать дальше...

Gail Purdy Brophy, a Saratoga Springs business owner who excelled in both speedskating and golf, died Sunday at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs.

Troy

By all accounts, the regular season for Christian Brothers Academy hockey was a success as the Brothers went 13-4-3 and finished third in the Capital District High School Hockey League.

Away from the action on the ice, the Brothers squad and booster club recently continued a tradition as part of its Senior Night. Along with honoring CBA's senior class of hockey players, proceeds from the night went to the family of Sergeant Herbert Reeves, a CBA instructor whose wife, Rosa, has been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Читать дальше...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police cleared an indigenous rail blockade in Ontario on Monday that has crippled freight and passenger rail traffic in most of eastern Canada for three weeks but tensions remained.

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC's Chris Matthews apologized Monday to Bernie Sanders for comparing the Democratic senator's win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi takeover of France.

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Republican congressman Fred Upton announced Monday he will seek re-election to his Sixth Congressional District seat located in the southwest corner of the state.

Los Angeles

Kobe Bryant's wife remembered him as a devoted father and husband who arrived early for school pickups and wrote heartfelt cards and letters.

Rob Pelinka, Bryant's longtime agent and closest friend, recalled getting a text from the NBA superstar moments before he was killed last month in a helicopter crash. The message asked for help in securing an internship for another friend's daughter.

Michael Jordan called Kobe "a little brother" and said when he died, "a... Читать дальше...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma launched an ad campaign Monday to tell people harmed by its powerful prescription opioid where to file claims against the company.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points Monday in the worst day for the stock market in two years as investors worry that the spread of a viral outbreak that began in China will weaken global economic growth.

Albuquerque, N.M.

A new Netflix series is tackling questions around the 1965 assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X.

"Who Killed Malcolm X?" dives into questions surrounding his accused killers and allegations of a botched investigation. The show available now on the streaming service comes as Friday marked the 55th anniversary of Malcolm X's death.

The series follows activist-scholar Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, who revisits the assassination through interviews and archives. Читать дальше...