Новости за 21.03.2023

A Fox News producer claims the network “coerced” her testimony during a deposition in a libel lawsuit filed by a voting machine company. The $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems alleges that Fox amplified false allegations that its machines changed votes in the 2020 presidential election. Abby Grossberg, a former producer for Fox host Maria Bartiromo, has filed a separate lawsuit contending that Fox pressured her to give misleading testimony during her deposition in the Dominion case. Читать дальше...

Newly obtained surveillance video shows a group of sheriff’s deputies and other employees at a Virginia mental hospital pinning a patient to the ground until he was motionless and limp. The video shows unsuccessful resuscitation efforts then began on Irvo Otieno. Otieno's death at the hospital March 6 has led to second-degree murder charges against seven deputies and three hospital workers. The surveillance video was available through a link included in public court records. It shows the workers... Читать дальше...

Anderson received a five-year deal, according to multiple reports.

It took Iona only one day to replace Hall of Famer Rick Pitino, who resigned Monday to take over at St. John’s.

Anderson, who spent just one year at FDU, was a Siena assistant under Mitch Buonaguro from 2011-13. That staff was fired after an 8-24 season in 2012-13, but Anderson had a very successful nine-year tenure at Division II St. Thomas Aquinas before his Cinderella run at FDU this season.

Google has announced it’s allowing more people to interact with “Bard." That's the artificially intelligent chatbot the company is building to counter Microsoft’s early lead in a pivotal battleground of technology. In Bard’s next stage, Google is opening a waitlist to use an AI tool that’s similar to the ChatGPT technology that Microsoft began deploying in its Bing search engine to much fanfare last month. Until now, Bard had only been available to a small group of “trusted testers” hand-picked by Google. Читать дальше...

Google has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo on its app store after malware was discovered in versions of the app from other sources. Google said in a statement Tuesday that it suspended the Pinduoduo app on the Google Play app store out of “security concerns” and was investigating the matter. The suspension of the Pinduoduo app comes amid heightened U.S.-China tensions over Chinese-owned apps such as TikTok, which some U.S. lawmakers say could be a national security threat. They say such apps might be used to spy on American users. Читать дальше...

Wall Street is poised to open higher ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve this week on whether to raise interest rates again despite heightened anxiety over the stability of the global banking system.. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and futures for the S&P 500 each rose 0.8% before the bell. Mid-sized banks, rattled by the collapse of two tech-focused banks, are bouncing back. First Republic Bank has been particularly volatile this week because so many of its customers have deposits that exceed that $250,000 level. Читать дальше...

Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne are among the “John Wick: Chapter 4” stars honoring Lance Reddick, their co-star who died unexpectedly last week, at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. The 60-year-old actor died unexpectedly Friday. A visibly moved Fishburne described Reddick's death as like the loss of a brother and said many who worked on the film are still in shock. Reeves says he will cherish working with Reddick for the rest of his life. Many of those who worked on the film wore blue ribbons to honor Reddick... Читать дальше...

Asian stock markets are higher ahead of a Federal Reserve decision on another possible interest rate hike amid worries about global banks. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul advanced. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday. Oil prices declined. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose after U.S., European and Japanese central banks announced measures to ease strains on the financial system. The collapse of two U.S. banks and the takeover of troubled Credit Suisse raised fears other lenders might... Читать дальше...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it is assessing Sri Lanka’s governance in the first case of an Asian country facing scrutiny for corruption as part of a bailout program.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow goes on trial starting Tuesday in the Utah ski town of Park City where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier during a 2016 family ski vacation, leaving him with brain damage and four broken ribs. The retired optometrist suing the actress-turned-lifestyle influencer has accused her of skiing out of control at Deer Valley Resort. Paltrow has countered that he was actually the culprit in the collision, is overstating his injuries, and trying to exploit her celebrity and wealth. Читать дальше...

An Apache group battling a foreign firm that wants to build one of the largest U.S. copper mines on what tribal members say is sacred land is getting a new chance to make its point to a full federal appeals court panel. The 11-member panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals meets Tuesday to review the appeal by Apache Stronghold to save Oak Flat, a site east of Phoenix that the group considers sacred. A smaller 9th Circuit panel previously ruled 2-1 that the federal government could... Читать дальше...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his government will take steps to restore Japan’s preferential trade status. Yoon said leaving ties with Japan as fraught as they are would be a neglect of his presidential duty. He said greater bilateral cooperation is vital to resolve diverse challenges facing Seoul. The fraught relations stem from Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, and Yoon's bid to resolve their disputes has been met with domestic opposition. He said at a Cabinet Council meeting... Читать дальше...

A handful of red-state Democrats were instrumental in helping Republicans secure a rollback of banking regulations sought by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. Now those changes are being blamed for contributing to the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that prompted a federal rescue and stoked anxiety about a broader banking contagion. The rollback was leveraged with a lobbying campaign that cost tens of millions of dollars and drew an army of more than 1,000 lobbyists into the effort. Читать дальше...

A Virginia teacher who was shot and wounded by her 6-year-old student says she has had four surgeries and is going through a challenging recovery. First-grade teacher Abby Zwerner spoke publicly for the first time since the Jan. 6 shooting during an exclusive interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that partially aired Monday. Zwerner said she has some days when she “can’t get up out of bed." She said she also has days when she is able to go about her day and make it to her appointments. More of the... Читать дальше...

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state. The GM subsidiary is already running an autonomous ride-hailing service in its hometown of San Francisco after testing for more than two years. It doesn’t have specific plans yet to expand testing in California. But applying with the Department of Motor Vehicles is a step toward entering larger cities such as Los Angeles. If granted, the test permit won’t allow Cruise to carry... Читать дальше...

Two people who kidnapped a 3-month-old baby from his San Francisco Bay Area home last year have been sentenced to prison. Yesenia Ramirez was sentenced Monday to nearly 13.5 years in prison. Jose Portillo received five years. They earlier pleaded no contest to kidnapping Brandon Cuellar from his San Jose apartment last April. Prosecutors say Ramirez was a family friend and took the child because she'd lied to a boyfriend, claiming she'd given birth to his child and was going to bring the baby home from the hospital. Читать дальше...

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record. No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra for months and dozens died in the winter of 1846-47. But 56.4 feet has now fallen this season at the Central Sierra Snow Lab at Soda Springs, California. That tops the 56 feet in 1982-83. The biggest winter in its 77 years of official record-keeping was nearly 68... Читать дальше...

The White House is making the case for more government support for child care programs in an economic report being released Monday. The report draws on extensive research to say additional spending would improve kids’ lives, increase the quality of early childhood schooling and enable more women to hold jobs. The analysis dovetails with President Joe Biden’s political messaging as ideological lines are being drawn for the 2024 election. Democrats have sought to put a greater focus on Republican lawmakers... Читать дальше...