Новости за 18.04.2023

As 16-year-old Ralph Yarl struggles to come to grips with being shot for going to the wrong house to pick up his brothers, the white Kansas City, Missouri homeowner who shot the Black teenager is now in custody. Eighty-four-year-old Andrew Lester surrendered at the Clay County Detention Center Tuesday, a day after being charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Meanwhile, Yarl is home recovering from his wounds. His mother, Cleo Nagbe, told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King on... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers. But the White House said Tuesday the directives in the order would be funded out of existing commitments. That likely means the directives' impact would be limited and they'd carry more of a symbolic weight. The Democratic president was more ambitious in 2021 by calling to provide $425 billion to expand child care, improve its affordability and boost wages for caregivers. Читать дальше...

Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” The move is raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender for someone as a form of harassment, in 2018. TikTok and Meta both have similar policies on the books.

Emejuru fills an obvious need for the Saints, who lose starting center Jackson Stormo and backup Eduardo Lane to graduation. Stormo had also played sparingly at Pepperdine before transferring to Siena and becoming a second-team all-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference selection.

Certain Americans at high risk from COVID-19 can get an extra vaccine booster this spring. The Food and Drug Administration is allowing an extra dose of the omicron-targeted vaccine for anyone 65 and older if it's been four months since their last shot. Most people with weak immune systems can choose another shot at least two months later. The FDA also said Tuesday that the original versions of the Pfizer and Moderna shots are outdated and only the newer combo shots that add omicron protection will be used for everyone.

Authorities in Spain’s parched northeast have warned that Barcelona and a surrounding area that's home to some 6 million people could face even tighter restrictions of water use in the coming months. The head of Catalonia’s Water Agency said Tuesday that the area would likely be declared a “drought emergency” by September unless forecasts for scant rain prove incorrect. Spain’s government says that the reservoirs serving Barcelona and beyond have shrunk to 27% of capacity. Authorities successfully... Читать дальше...

Stocks are mostly higher on Wall Street following a mixed set of earnings results from big companies and a stronger-than-expected report from the world’s second-largest economy. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in early Tuesday trading. The Nasdaq also rose while the Dow was slightly lower. Lockheed Martin rose after reporting a bigger profit than expected. It was one of the strongest forces lifting the market. Goldman Sachs dropped after its revenue fell short of ’ forecasts, though earnings topped expectations. Читать дальше...

Opening statements are expected in a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing groundless claims of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems claims its business was devastated when Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. falsely implicated it in a made-up conspiracy to rig the election against Republican then-President Donald Trump. New York-based Fox says it was just reporting on the important news of Trump's challenge to the election results. Читать дальше...

Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the company’s growing aspirations to expand in the country it also hopes to turn into a potential manufacturing hub. Located in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, the store’s design is inspired by the iconic black-and-yellow cabs unique to the city. A second store will open Thursday in the national capital, New Delhi. The company’s CEO Tim Cook said Apple was excited for the openings, noting India's... Читать дальше...

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped CBC’s account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility.

Where is the line between art, and advertising? The unresolved question is testing the direct democracy of a small New England town, where a painting of pastries has led to zoning dispute, a First Amendment lawsuit and a local vote. It started with a well-intentioned high school art project, covering a blank wall over a roadside bakery in Conway, New Hampshire. The mural above Leavitt’s Country Bakery shows the sun shining over mountains made of chocolate and strawberry donuts, a cinnamon roll and a blueberry muffin. Читать дальше...

Norfolk Southern’s CEO is set to testify before an Ohio Senate rail safety panel on Tuesday, more than two months after a fiery train derailment rocked the village of East Palestine. CEO Alan Shaw has promised millions of dollars to help the Ohio-Pennsylvania border community recover. The company is facing lawsuits, including one from Ohio’s attorney general over environmental cleanup costs. No one was hurt in the Feb. 3 derailment, but half of the nearly 5,000 East Palestine residents were evacuated for days. Читать дальше...

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming, without evidence, that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with an alternative. Musk told conservative TV host Tucker Carlson in a segment aired Monday night that he plans to create an alternative to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT that he is calling “TruthGPT.” The idea, Musk said, is that an AI that wants to understand humanity is less likely to destroy it.

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide under what circumstances businesses must accommodate the needs of religious employees. A case before the justices Tuesday involves a Christian mail carrier in rural Pennsylvania. He was told that as part of his job he’d need to start delivering Amazon.com packages on Sundays. He declined, saying his Sundays are for church and family. U.S. Postal Service officials initially tried to get substitutes for the man’s shifts, but they couldn’t always. When he didn’t show, that meant more work for others. Читать дальше...

SpaceX has called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket. Elon Musk's company had planned to fly the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket Monday morning from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. But SpaceX postponed the launch after a problem cropped up during fueling of the first-stage booster. No people or satellites were aboard for this attempt. There won't be another try until at least Thursday. The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, ultimately, Mars.

Alabama law enforcement officials are again asking for the public's help investigating Saturday's fatal shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama. Gunfire killed four young people and another 32 were injured at the scene in a small town in the eastern part of the state. The dead include two seniors from Dadeville High School in Tallapoosa County. The Saturday night shooting took place at a birthday party for the sister of one of the slain victims. It’s not clear how many of those hurt were shot. Читать дальше...

Officials say a rail line where three locomotives and six train cars derailed over the weekend has reopened after track repairs. Canadian Pacific Kansas City says safety inspections were completed by late Monday morning, two days after the derailment and fire sent three workers to the hospital for evaluation. Tragedy was averted because two of the derailed cars that were carrying flammable liquids did not spill their loads or ignite. Canadian Pacific Kansas City is leading cleanup, salvage and repair... Читать дальше...

The deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, by eight officers last summer sparked protests in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and led to calls for a federal investigation. His family called it a brutal and senseless shooting, but a police union official said the officers thought there was an immediate threat and that their actions were in line with their training. Police body camera footage shows Walker wearing a ski mask, jumping out of his car and running into a parking lot. Читать дальше...

Writers of film and television have voted overwhelmingly to give their union leadership the authority to call a strike if a new contract agreement is not reached with producers. In an email to members Monday, leaders of the Writers Guild of America said nearly 98% of voters said yes to the strike authorization. The writers' current contract expires May 1, and leaders could call for a walkout as soon as the following day. Issues include pay and writers' ability to work for multiple projects. The group... Читать дальше...