Новости за 11.03.2023

When students don’t have enough to eat, it can affect their ability to learn and perform up to their ability. Schools typically are places where kids can count on access to meals, but there is growing concern about children going hungry, especially since the lapse of pandemic-era federal benefit programs. School meals were free for all students under the federal program, but since that ended this school year most states have gone back to charging all but the neediest kids for meals. Educators around... Читать дальше...

Documents from a defamation lawsuit against Fox News illustrate the pressures its journalists faced in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election. The network was on a collision course between giving its conservative audience what it wanted and reporting uncomfortable truths about then-President Donald Trump and his false fraud claims. In one extraordinary text conversation, Fox stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham express their disdain for their journalistic colleagues. As details... Читать дальше...

A bill addressing child marriage in West Virginia has passed the state Senate. The Senate easily passed the bill after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married. It now goes to the House of Delegates, which previously passed its own version. The legislative session ends Saturday. Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent, and anyone younger can get married with a judge’s waiver. The Senate bill would remove the possibility that anyone younger than 16 could marry. Читать дальше...

China has named Li Qiang, a close confidant of top leader Xi Jinping, as the country’s next premier nominally in charge of the world's second-largest economy. Li was nominated by Xi and appointed to the position at Saturday morning's session of the National People's Congress, China's ceremonial parliament. Li is best known for having enforced a brutal “zero-COVID” lockdown on Shanghai last spring as party boss of the Chinese financial hub, proving his loyalty to Xi in the face of complaints from residents over their lack of access to food... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is sticking with a blue-and-white color scheme for the exterior of the new version of Air Force One. The Air Force says the light blue on the new model of the modified 747s that transport the president will be a little bit deeper and more modern in tone than the robin's egg blue on the aircraft currently in use. Boeing is currently modifying two of its 747-800 aircraft that will use the Air Force One call sign when the president is aboard. They will replace the existing fleet... Читать дальше...

U.S. authorities say three women haven’t been heard from since they traveled from Texas into Mexico two weeks ago. Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said Friday the women crossed the border to sell clothes at a Mexican flea market on Feb. 24. Two of the women are sisters: 47-year-old Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios and 48-year-old Marina Perez Rios. They were accompanied by their friend, 53-year-old Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz. Bermea said the sisters lived in Peñitas, a small border city. He did not know where the other woman lived. Читать дальше...

Not one but two volcanoes on the same island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain were showing signs of unrest on Friday, rocked by seismic activity. Elevated earthquake activity at both Tanaga and Takawangha volcanoes on uninhabited Tanaga Island hundreds of miles from Anchorage could indicate a possible eruption. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says if an eruption were to occur, it's uncertain at this point which volcano it would come from. The observatory raised the alert level for both. Seismic activity diminished a bit Friday... Читать дальше...

Maciariello, who concluded his fourth season, said he wants to add players in the mold of what you might call his core four: sophomore point guard Javian McCollum, a third-team all-MAAC selection, sophomore guard Jared Billups, freshman guard Michael Eley, the MAAC Rookie of the Year, and freshman forward Killian Gribben.

More than six years later after Donald Trump's lawyer paid off a porn star, New York prosecutors appear to be close to deciding whether the former president should face charges in connection with that payoff. Thursday’s news that the Manhattan district attorney had invited Trump to testify before a grand jury next week suggested prosecutors were serious about bringing charges in a probe that looked like yesterday’s news just a few months ago. Trump has denied wrongdoing or any affairs and blasted... Читать дальше...

U.S. government regulators have stopped allowing a large part of the Keystone oil pipeline to operate at higher-than-normal pressures following a massive oil spill in northeastern Kansas in December. The order this week from the U.S. Department of Transportation covers 1,220 miles of the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois. Regulators already were requiring lower pressures for 96 miles of the pipeline from southern Nebraska into central Kansas... Читать дальше...

More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday in California after a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways during the morning commute. In Santa Cruz County, a creek bloated by rain destroyed a portion of Main Street and isolated several neighborhoods in Soquel, a town of 10,000 people. The atmospheric river is known as a “Pineapple Express” because it has brought warm subtropical moisture across the Pacific from Hawaii. Читать дальше...

Connecticut is suing the operator of the state’s 23 highway rest stops. The state alleges that New Haven-based Project Service is refusing to pay more than $2.7 million in back wages to food service workers for Subway, Dunkin’ and other restaurant chains. State Attorney General William Tong announced the lawsuit Friday. Project Service runs the service plazas along interstates 95 and 395 and Route 15. The lawsuit alleges that from 2017 to 2019, workers were not paid the state’s “standard wage,” an... Читать дальше...