Новости за 02.03.2023

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island. The statue is relatively small at 1.6 meters (5.2 feet), as compared with some of the other broadly featured heads and torsos that reach as tall as 22 meters (72 feet). It was found by researchers from the University of Chile and O’Higgins University. More statues might be found in the dry lake... Читать дальше...

French senators will start debating President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension plan. The centrist government hopes to find a compromise with the conservatives at the upper house of parliament to be able to push the bill through. Macron has vowed to go ahead with the bill that aims to raise the country’s minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. But nationwide demonstrations and strikes and opinion polls consistently show a majority of French people oppose the change. The debate starts in the French Senate on Thursday afternoon.

The foreign ministers of India and China have met on the sidelines of a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations and signaled a thawing of ties in their relationship, which has been tense since 2020. India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the discussion with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on Thursday focused on addressing challenges to the bilateral relationship, especially peace and tranquility in the border areas. Relations between New... Читать дальше...

Authorities say a Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun. Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown says the officer was shot several times Wednesday afternoon on the city’s Southwest Side. His name was not immediately released. Brown says the officer shot back and wounded the 18-year-old suspect in the head. The suspect was in critical condition Wednesday night. Brown says the officer had five... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden's administration is starting a push to get Congress to fund measures to help prosecute fraud in government coronavirus pandemic relief programs. The plans include measures to prevent future identity theft and help victims. The request is for $1.6 billion. A chunk of the money would go to hiring more prosecutors to pursue the cases. The Democratic administration also wants to lengthen statutes of limitations to give authorities more time to investigate and prosecute the cases.... Читать дальше...

A federal labor judge has ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven fired workers after finding that the company violated labor laws “hundreds of times” during a unionization campaign in Buffalo, New York. The decision was issued late Wednesday by Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas of the National Labor Relations Board. It requires Starbucks to post a 13-page notice listing its labor violations and workers’ rights in all U.S. stores. It also requires Starbucks’ interim CEO Howard Schultz to read a... Читать дальше...

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. The crew includes the first person from the Arab world going up for a monthslong stay. The Falcon rocket bolted from Florida's Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. The Dragon capsule should reach the space station Friday. NASA's two astronauts are joined by one Russian cosmonaut and only the second person from the United Arab Emirates to fly to space. They will replace a U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew up there since October.

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme. Misconceptions take especially strong hold where U.S. presidents are concerned. The idea that George Washington had wooden teeth is a popular myth. Mount Vernon says Washington paid enslaved persons to have them removed for his dentures. And Richard Nixon wasn't actually impeached. Myths about Jimmy Carter include the idea that Ronald Reagan freed the hostages in Iran — Carter's negotiators did that. Читать дальше...

Two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced for federal hate crime convictions in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. A jury in November found Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. guilty of a hate crime, agreeing with prosecutors that the two men were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman’s race when they punched, kicked and used a shovel to beat him in 2014. His injuries included a concussion, two broken ribs and head trauma. Читать дальше...

Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide than any other year on record in 2022. They did so as air travel rebounded from the pandemic and cities turned to coal to provide a cheap source of power. Extreme weather events contributed, too, as droughts reduced the amount of water available for hydropower, raising to the need to burn fossil fuels, and heat waves drove up demand for electricity. The news was disappointing to climate scientists who warn that energy users around the world... Читать дальше...

Asian stock markets are mixed after signs of enduring upward pressure on American prices added to expectations of higher interest rates for longer. Shanghai and Seoul advanced while Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street declined after a survey showed prices paid by United States manufacturers rose in February for the first time in five months, despite rate increases to cool economic activity and surging inflation. That prompted traders to raise expectations of how high... Читать дальше...

Tesla says it will cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles in half, largely by using innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories. CEO Elon Musk and other executives outlined the goals during a 3 1/2-hour investor day presentation at its Austin, Texas, headquarters Wednesday. The changes could bring the cost of a new generation of vehicles to around $25,000, although Tesla didn't show the new vehicle. Design chief Franz Von Holzhausen said the company has to make another step... Читать дальше...

Public access to most buildings at Michigan State University will be restricted at night, starting March 13. It's one in a series of security steps in response to shootings that killed three students and injured five more. Students, faculty and staff will need to use campus ID cards to get electronic access at buildings, between 6 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on weekdays. Michigan State plans to make it possible to lock 1,300 classrooms from the inside by the fall semester. Students, faculty and staff will... Читать дальше...

A California panel has denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan’s lawyer Angela Berry says the parole board decided the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968. Berry said she believes Sirhan has shown that awareness, however, and that his psychiatrists have said for decades that he is unlikely to reoffend. Two years ago, a different California parole board had voted to release Sirhan, but Gov. Читать дальше...

Three workers have been injured in a collapse at an underground coal mine in southern Montana with a history of safety violations. Musselshell County officials said Wednesday that the miners were about a mile inside Signal Peak Energy's Bull Mountain mine when the area where they were working collapsed for unknown reasons. Officials say one of the miners suffered serious injures and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Billings. The others suffered moderate injuries. Musselshell County disaster... Читать дальше...

The Empire are set to announce the deal, which has yet to be signed, at a press conference Thursday morning. WNYT (Ch. 13) first reported the news.

Franz's parents, John and Pauline, will be presented on the court with two photographs of their late son framed together. One picture is of Franz and graduate center Jackon Stormo holding the Albany Cup trophy after the Nov. 12 victory over the University at Albany. The other is a photo of Franz and Maciariello.

Both Democrats and Republicans are preparing for a prolonged political battle over student debt relief if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Joe Biden's plan to forgive federal loans. At stake is the loyalty of young, college-educated voters who are a critical part of the Democratic coalition. Conservative justices appeared deeply skeptical of the debt relief plan this week, and the White House wants to turn up the heat on Republicans and deflect disappointment from borrowers if the court rules against the administration.