Новости за 08.03.2023

Siena needs three wins in three days to capture the MAAC title and play in its first NCAA Tournament since 2010. In 2020, the regular-season champion Saints were awarded the trophy when the tournament was canceled because of COVID-19. The NCAA Tournament was called off.

Nebraska could join 48 other states in offering public money for private school tuition under a bill advanced by the state Legislature on Wednesday. Rather than appropriating taxpayer dollars directly toward private school vouchers, the bill would allow businesses and individuals to donate a portion of their state tax bill to be used for scholarships covering private school tuition. The bill, introduced by Omaha Sen. Lou Ann Linehan at the request of Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, sets up a priority system for the scholarships... Читать дальше...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stressed Wednesday that the central bank’s policymakers have yet to decide how large an interest rate hike to impose at its next meeting in two weeks in its drive to defeat high inflation. Powell had made a similar comment on Tuesday to a Senate panel but had not included the caveat that “no decision has been made.” Powell’s more nuanced remarks Wednesday appeared to be an effort to quell any assumption that the Fed has already decided to raise rates more aggressively... Читать дальше...

The War and Treaty’s Michael Trotter never really considered missing the chance to perform at the Love Rocks NYC 2023 benefit for God’s Love We Deliver on Thursday, even though he was knocked unconscious and broke his leg in a fall onstage in Nashville last week. The funds raised by the Love Rocks NYC benefit are intensely needed this year. In the first six months of this fiscal year, the New York charity has delivered 33% more meals than the same period last year, which means it will need to fund about 1 million more meals. Читать дальше...

A former executive utility who gave rosy projections on the progress of two nuclear power plants in South Carolina while they were hopelessly behind will spend 15 months in prison for the doomed project. Ex-SCANA Corp. Executive Vice President Stephen Byrne apologized in court Wednesday, saying he thinks about how he let down customers, shareholders, employees, taxpayers and his family almost every day. Byrne is the second SCANA executive to head to prison for the nuclear debacle. Former CEO Kevin... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police engaged in discrimination and a pattern of violating constitutional rights, after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The announcement was made Wednesday by Attorney General Merrick Garland. A Justice Department report found the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department “engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution... Читать дальше...

The defamation lawsuit against Fox News by a voting machine company is revealing some bluntly negative behind-the-scenes Fox attitudes toward Donald Trump. One text message from Fox prime-time host Tucker Carlson says outright, “I hate him passionately.” Carlson also says, in what he believed was a private conversation on Jan. 4, 2021, that “there really isn’t an upside to Trump.” The messages, contained in court filings, were released at the same time the former president was praising Carlson on... Читать дальше...

Incluso si usted no ha probado las herramientas en línea de Inteligencia Artificial (IA) que pueden escribir ensayos y poemas o conjurar imágenes nuevas según sus órdenes, es probable que las empresas que fabrican los productos que usa en el hogar ya hayan comenzado a hacerlo.

It’s the first time in program history Siena freshmen have taken the men’s and women’s honor in the same year.

The maker of an unproven drug intended to prevent premature births says it will voluntarily remove the product from the United States. The late Tuesday announcement comes after regulators planned to move ahead with a long-delayed effort to force it from the market. More than four years ago, Switzerland-based Covis Pharma's drug, Makena, failed to show a benefit in helping mothers carry their pregnancies to term. The injectable drug has become an example of the challenges the Food and Drug Administration... Читать дальше...

U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s Model Y SUV after getting two complaints that the steering wheels can come off while being driven. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers an estimated 120,000 vehicles from the 2023 model year. The agency says in both cases the Model Ys were delivered to customers with a missing bolt that holds the wheel to the steering column. A friction fit held the steering wheels on, but they separated when force was exerted. Читать дальше...

Denmark pushed the button Wednesday on an ambitious project that aims to bury vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide gas beneath the North Sea floor in the hope that it can help the Nordic nation and others meet climate targets. An international consortium of companies says Project Greensand will see 1.5 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas buried in a sandstone reservoir more than a mile below the seabed each year. In a recent report the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others were holding further strikes on Wednesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in efforts to keep up pressure on the government amid the ongoing parliamentary debate.

Global shares are mostly lower as investors fret that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster if pressure stays high on inflation. Shares fell in early trading in France, Germany and Britain. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 finished higher, but shares sank in Sydney, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Chinese shares fell after officials in Beijing announced plans for a regulatory shakeup. Oil prices slipped. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has told lawmakers that the central bank would keep interest rates higher if need be to fight inflation. Читать дальше...

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. says it's ready to rebuild as Hong Kong opens up to global visitors, despite reporting wider losses in 2022. In a filing, the airline reported an annual loss of $834.4 million for the year ending Dec. 31. That's an 18.5% increase in losses from 2021. Hong Kong had strict entry restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is heavily promoting tourism since opening up. However, revenue grew 12% to $6.5 billion. The airline's CEO Ronald Lam said he's encouraged by the positive momentum. Читать дальше...

Peterson Zah, who guided one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. through a politically tumultuous time, has died. Navajo Nation officials say Zah died late Tuesday at a hospital in Fort Defiance, Arizona, following a lengthy illness. He was 85. Zah served as the tribal chairman in the 1980s and later was elected as its first president in 1990 after the government was restructured into three branches to prevent power from being concentrated in the chairman's office. Under his tenure... Читать дальше...

The best bourbons are buttery, smooth and oaky, and a growing cult of aficionados is willing to pay an astonishing sum to score even a shot of these premium spirits. Some are even willing to bend or break laws. In Oregon, a criminal investigation is under way after an internal probe concluded several state liquor officials used their clout to obtain scarce bourbons, including Pappy Van Winkle. That brand is so popular that it became the focus of crimes in at least three other states. The cases underscore... Читать дальше...

On the eve of International Women’s Day, leading women’s rights campaigners at the United Nations and the African Union and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate criticized male-dominated governments for excluding women from peace negotiations. They said governments are ignoring a U.N. resolution adopted in 2000 demanding equal participation for women in talks to end conflicts. Sima Bahous is head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality and she lamented Tuesday about “the regression in women’s rights”... Читать дальше...

Four of the candidates running in Kentucky's Republican gubernatorial primary have faced off in a televised debate in which they took turns advocating conservative themes. Participants in the Tuesday night debate were Daniel Cameron, Ryan Quarles, Alan Keck and Mike Harmon. The four endorsed work by Kentucky’s GOP-dominated legislature to cut the state individual income tax. They also praised efforts to give parents a greater voice in education. And they took potshots at Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and President Joe Biden. Читать дальше...

Oklahoma Republicans have formally censured their nonbinary Democratic colleague after state troopers said the lawmaker blocked them from questioning a transgender rights activist accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest over anti-trans legislation. The House voted along party lines Tuesday to censure Rep. Mauree Turner. The Legislature's effort to prohibit gender affirming medical care for trans children this year has prompted several protests at the Capitol. After one protest, troopers... Читать дальше...

Sri Lanka’s president says China has given crucial debt restructuring assurances that mean the bankrupt nation could get its bailout package approved soon. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on Tuesday that he has sent a letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund, which he expected to act this month. China owns about 10% of Sri Lanka's foreign debt, and its delayed assurances were seen as the last hurdle to securing the $2.9 billion bailout package. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis... Читать дальше...

Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes because of severe mental illness was delayed by a judge. Andre Thomas had been set to be executed on April 5. He was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his estranged wife, their 4-year-old son and her 13-month-old daughter. State District Judge Jim Fallon issued an order Tuesday withdrawing the execution date. Fallon’s decision came after Thomas’ lawyers had requested additional time... Читать дальше...

Siena head coach Carmen Maciariello was asked if he felt the quintet of fifth-year seniors and graduate students hit a figurative wall during the team’s five-game losing streak to close the season.

A passenger who helped restrain a threatening man on a weekend flight from Los Angeles to Boston says the entire chaotic episode was over within seconds thanks to teamwork. Federal authorities say the man tried to open an airliner’s emergency exit and then tried to stab a flight attendant. Speaking Tuesday, passenger Simik Ghookasian says he heard the suspect make loud threats. Ghookasian says he was among five or six passengers who piled onto the suspect and took a modified metal spoon from him. Читать дальше...

A Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws has been struck down as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes on Tuesday tossed the law. The law forbid local police from enforcing federal gun laws that don't have an equivalent state law. The U.S. Justice Department says the law wreaked havoc with crime-fighting partnerships with Missouri law enforcement. The state's Republican-led legislature passed the law in 2021. GOP lawmakers who pushed the law said they were motivated... Читать дальше...