Новости за 21.02.2023

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating. A federal court jury in New York reached a verdict Tuesday in the drug trafficking case against Genaro García Luna. He is the highest-ranking current or former Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States. He denied the allegations. His lawyers said the charges were based on lies from criminals seeking sentencing breaks for themselves by helping prosecutors. Читать дальше...

Microsoft’s Xbox video game division has announced new partnerships with Nintendo and chipmaker Nvidia. The moves come as Microsoft is trying to persuade European regulators to approve its planned $68.7 billion takeover of game publishing giant Activision Blizzard. A key audience for the announcements were the European Union antitrust regulators who held a closed-door meeting Tuesday with executives from Microsoft and some of their competitors, including Sony and Google. Microsoft announced a 10-year... Читать дальше...

The nation’s housing slump deepened in January as home sales fell for the 12th month in a row to the slowest pace in more than a dozen years. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that existing U.S. home sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million properties last month. January’s sales cratered by nearly 37% from a year earlier, but slipped 0.7% from December, while the median U.S. home price edged up 1.3% from January last year. The latest data suggest home may be “bottoming out,” said Lawrence Yun... Читать дальше...

MSNBC says former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will debut a Sunday political show on the network next month. Her show, “Inside with Jen Psaki,” will air at noon each Sunday and feature newsmaker interviews and policy discussions. She will also profile newsmakers, showing them going about their daily lives. Her show debuts March 19. Since exiting as President Joe Biden's first press secretary and joining MSNBC, Psaki has appeared frequently on various network programs, including “Morning... Читать дальше...

Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker, announced Tuesday that 2022 was another record-setting year, with $11.2 billion in grants awarded by its donor-advised fund holders, up 9% over 2021. What makes the new record even more notable was that the donations came during a year of high inflation and recession worries. In fact, 2022 was a rare year when grants flowing out of Fidelity Charitable’s donor-advised funds outpaced the investments going into them. According to Fidelity Charitable’s report... Читать дальше...

It's Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — in New Orleans and the annual, ebullient climax of the city's Carnival season comes this year with some political intrigue. Celebrations in some parts of the city began before dawn. And revelers lined St. Charles Avenue and adjoining streets for parades that began at 8 a.m. Some among this year's revelers have politics in mind. They're gathering signatures to try to force a recall election for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. There's also an undercurrent of worry about recurring violent crime. Читать дальше...

A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that most employees are less stressed, burned out and have better work-life balance. Findings from the University of Cambridge, Boston College and other researchers released this week show that most of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours. They say revenue largely stayed the same over the trial period and even grew compared with the same six months a year earlier. Читать дальше...

The Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol has a book deal. The Open Field announced Tuesday that former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s “Renegade: My Life in Faith, the Military, and Defending America from Trump’s Attack on Democracy” is scheduled for on release Oct. 17. The Penguin Random House imprint is overseen by Maria Shriver. Kinzinger was first elected to Congress in 2010 and became a leading GOP critic of Trump and his Republican colleagues. Читать дальше...

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

A Japanese startup is planning to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down to Earth. In the tour's unveiling Tuesday, the company said it has developed an airtight two-seat cabin and a balloon capable of rising to a 15-mile altitude. That puts passengers in roughly the middle of the stratosphere, where they’ll be higher than a jet plane flies and have an unobstructed view of space. Japanese space ventures have fallen behind American companies like SpaceX... Читать дальше...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of a fiery derailment in Ohio that forced evacuations when toxic chemicals were released and burned. Buttigieg announced the reforms Tuesday — two days after he warned Norfolk Southern to fulfill its promises to clean up the mess just outside East Palestine, Ohio, and help the town recover. The railroad reiterated its commitment... Читать дальше...

CNN chief executive Chris Licht said in an email to employees Monday night that anchor Don Lemon will return to work Wednesday after he receives formal training for his comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on “CNN This Morning." Lemon has not been on the air since Thursday, when during a discussion about the ages of politicians he said that the 51-year-old Haley was not “in her prime.” He said a woman was considered in her prime “in her 20s, 30s and maybe her 40s.” Lemon has since apologized... Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday in quiet trading after U.S. markets were closed for Presidents Day.

The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet. The law shields Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of a terrorism victim can sue Google for helping extremists spread their message and attract new recruits. The case is the court’s first look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act... Читать дальше...

British luxury brand Burberry has unveiled its first catwalk show under new creative director Daniel Lee at London Fashion Week on Monday. The heritage brand is best known for its elegant, functional trench coats, first invented during World War I. But Lee, who joined Burberry in September, took the fashion house in a brand new direction with a debut collection featuring faux fur and feathers, slogan T-shirts and playful duck prints. The 37-year-old British designer was credited with revitalizing... Читать дальше...

Authorities say a man has been arrested in the weekend killing of a Catholic auxiliary bishop that shocked Los Angeles religious and immigrant communities. The suspect arrested Monday was identified as the husband of the victim’s housekeeper. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says 69-year-old Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was shot at least once Saturday in his home in Hacienda Heights, about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. He says a SWAT team on Monday arrested Carlos Medina, the husband of O’Connell’s housekeeper. Читать дальше...

Michigan State University students and faculty have returned to the East Lansing campus, one week after a gunman killed three students and injured five others. With many professors allowing students to attend class virtually, the campus at the 50,000 student university remained relatively quiet Monday. The shootings happened last Monday during evening classes at Berkey Hall and nearby at the MSU Union, a student social hub. Students across the vast campus were ordered to shelter in place for several hours while police hunted for Anthony McRae. Читать дальше...

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said in a speech posted online Monday that he has been removed as the right-wing group’s leader. O’Keefe said in a speech that appeared to have been given to staff at a Project Veritas’ office that the board had stripped of all decision-making. The move comes after the board reportedly put him on leave from his role as chairman amid complaints about his treatment of staff. Project Veritas is known for using hidden cameras and hiding identities to try to ensnare... Читать дальше...