Новости за 29.03.2023

A career criminal whose rap sheet includes bank robberies and a murder conspiracy was sentenced to 16 years for killing a New Jersey political consultant in exchange for money in 2014. George Bratsenis, 74, pleaded guilty a year ago to a charge that he and another man accepted thousands of dollars from another political consultant, Sean Caddle, in exchange for killing Michael Galdieri. Galdieri was stabbed to death in his Jersey City apartment, which was then set on fire. U.S. District Judge John... Читать дальше...

Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans?

Details from the rich, full lives of the three adults killed Monday at a Nashville elementary school have quickly emerged. But information on the three 9-year-old children who died has been slower to surface from a community buried in grief. The children who died at The Covenant School were Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney. Evelyn was described as the Dieckhaus family’s “shining light” on a GoFundMe page. A woman who identified herself as Hallie’s aunt wrote on Facebook thatHallie... Читать дальше...

A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota. The order came Monday, even as a legal battle continues over the Biden administration’s decision to pause the leasing program two years ago in an effort to combat climate change. North Dakota's attorney general says the canceled lease sales have cost the state over $100 million in revenue each year. A U.S. Department of Justice attorney argued that ordering lease sales before the lawsuit is... Читать дальше...

A Massachusetts man whose SUV crashed through the glass storefront of an Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, has been charged with murder. Prosecutors say 53-year-old Bradley Rein was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on second-degree murder and 22 counts of assault and battery charges in connection with the Nov. 21 crash at a shopping plaza in the Boston suburb of Hingham. Kevin Bradley, a 65-year-old Wayne, New Jersey, man who was working construction at the site was killed. Читать дальше...

Millinghaus, 29, hasn't played professionally since the 2019-20 Patroons season ended prematurely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — South Korea and the United States have requested the extradition from Montenegro of Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, who is wanted in connection with a $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency that devastated retail investors around the world, Montenegro's justice minister said Wednesday.

Macy’s says Chairman and CEO Jeff Gennette plans to retire and will be succeeded by Bloomingdale’s Chairman and CEO Tony Spring in February. Gennette, 61, has served as Macy’s CEO since March 2017 and became chairman in February 2018. Spring, 58, will become president and CEO-Elect of Macy’s, effective immediately, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. He’s served as an executive vice president at Macy’s since 2021.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York, working with her as a teacher's aide and participating with her in an arts rehabilitation program.

The Biden administration is auctioning oil and gas leases across more than 114,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico in a sale mandated by last year's climate bill. Wednesday's Department of Interior auction could further test the loyalty of environmentalists and young voters frustrated by this month’s approval of the huge Willow drilling project in northern Alaska. The Gulf of Mexico leases cover an area the size of Arizona. Developing them could produce more than 1 billion barrels of oil over 50 years. Читать дальше...

Wall Street was pointing higher as anxiety about the global financial system began to fade following three high-profile bank failures. Futures for the benchmark S&P 500 index were up 0.9% before the bell on Wednesday and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7%. Fears that banks around the world might be cracking under the strain of interest rate hikes to cool inflation temporarily pushed aside unease about slowing economic growth. Some calm has returned after regulators announced measures to shore up the system. Читать дальше...

U.S. lawmakers say Credit Suisse has kept allowing wealthy Americans to dodge tax payments. The Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that a two-year investigation found that the embattled Swiss bank violated a 2014 plea agreement for allowing tax evasion by its clients. The committee pointed to a possible criminal conspiracy tied to nearly $100 million in secret offshore accounts belonging to a family of American taxpayers that the bank didn’t disclose. The committee said its findings show that... Читать дальше...

Renewable energy investors who lost subsidies promised by Spain are heading to a London court to try to claw back $125 million from the government. It's a decadelong dispute with ramifications for clean energy financing across the European Union. The case will be closely watched by investors after the U.S. passed a new law offering incentives for homegrown green technology. Experts say the Inflation Reduction Act is already drawing clean energy investment away from EU countries like Spain, leaving... Читать дальше...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — If U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has a favorite number on her trip to Africa, it's undoubtedly 19. That's the median age on this continent, and she repeats the fact at every opportunity.

China has threatened “resolute countermeasures" over a planned meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming transit visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy China claims as its own territory. A spokesperson for the Cabinet's Taiwan Affairs Office did not give details at a news conference Wednesday, other than to demand that no U.S. officials meet with her. Tsai is scheduled to transit through New York... Читать дальше...

Asian stocks are higher after anxiety about the global financial system began to fade following three high-profile bank failures. Tokyo and Sydney advanced while Shanghai edged lower. Hong Kong rose after e-commerce giant Alibaba announced plans to split into six business units. Oil prices gained. Fears global banks might be cracking under the strain of interest rate hikes to cool inflation temporarily pushed aside unease about slowing economic growth. Some calm has returned after regulators announced measures to shore up the system. Читать дальше...

Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans. They also sometimes lack access to government programs to bolster security. Still, amid widespread concerns about mass shootings, experts say private schools have invested similarly in violence prevention. Surveillance footage of the shooting Monday at a private Christian school in Nashville showed many familiar security measures, including the double set of locked glass doors... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the group allegedly harassed a pod of wild dolphins in waters off the Big Island.

Greece’s center-right prime minister has called a May 21 general election as his party’s long-standing lead in opinion polls has declined in the aftermath of the country’s worst train disaster. A Feb. 28 collision between a passenger train and a freight train left 57 people dead. The disaster stirred public anger, cutting the conservative New Democracy party’s support by a half-point to 4 points over its left-wing main rival, Syriza, according to opinion polls. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... Читать дальше...

Federal safety officials are investigating the role of a natural gas pipeline in a fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory. The National Transportation Safety Board announced the probe late Tuesday afternoon, calling the incident a “natural gas” explosion and fire. The powerful explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. killed seven people, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings. Some workers told relatives they smelled natural gas before the blast. Pennsylvania State Police have said... Читать дальше...

Skier’s etiquette has emerged as a sticking point in a highly publicized trial where Gwyneth Paltrow is accused of causing a 2016 ski collision. Nearly every witness who has testified so far has been questioned about the tenets of a ubiquitous but mostly unknown skier’s responsibility code. Both Paltrow and the man who is suing her have claimed they were downhill on the slope, claiming they had the right of way when the crash happened. The trial has made “uphill” synonymous with “guilty,” and shone... Читать дальше...

An Arkansas bathroom bill that had been criticized as the most extreme in the country has been revamped to address concerns it would criminalize transgender people using public restrooms matching gender identity. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday endorsed the bathroom bill after it was amended. The bill allows someone to be charged with a misdemeanor for using a public restroom of the opposite sex when a minor is present. It was changed to make it only a crime if the person enters the restroom for sexual purposes. Читать дальше...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law that could penalize oil companies for making too much money. The law is in response to record high gas prices last summer while oil companies made enormous profits. Newsom is scheduled to sign the bill into law Tuesday. It's the latest in a string of legislative defeats for the oil industry. California was once one of the leading oil producers in the United States. Today, a separate California law requires the state to be carbon neutral by 2045. California... Читать дальше...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has personally opened his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria. The state is seeking more than $100 million in damages. It's the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial. In opening statement Tuesday, Ellison accused Juul of unlawfully targeting young people with vaping products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine. But David Bernick, an attorney for Juul, said its purpose was always to convert... Читать дальше...