Новости за 16.05.2023

The U.S. Forest Service has reissued approval to build a controversial natural gas pipeline through national forest land in Virginia and West Virginia. That's despite past federal appeals court rulings determining developers had “inadequately considered” environmental impacts. Monday's decision will allow for construction of the $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline across a 3.5-mile corridor of the national forest. In previous litigation, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals twice vacated U.S. Forest Service... Читать дальше...

Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who had announced she would resign effective June 1, says she is leaving office immediately. In her statement Tuesday, Gardner, the city’s first Black circuit attorney, said the St. Louis County prosecutor will take over until Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appoints her replacement. Gardner, facing an ouster effort by Missouri’s attorney general and under scrutiny from Republican-led state lawmakers, announced on May 4 that she would resign effective June 1. Читать дальше...

Rivers swollen by days of downpours have flooded some towns in northern Italy. Meanwhile, Venice on Tuesday was preparing to activate the mobile barrier, known as MOSES, in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the city flooding by high-tides. Near Cesena, some people took to rooftops to await rescue by helicopters. In the tourist town of Ravenna, authorities urged residents to move to upper stories of buildings, while in Riccione, a beach resort on the Adriatic Sea, the mayor warned people to stay home. Читать дальше...

U.S. designer Rhuigi Villasenor is leaving his position as creative director of Swiss fashion house Bally. The was announced Tuesday as a joint decision. Villasenior has led the creative team at Bally since January 2022. He helped boost the brand’s visibility with a return to the runway and front-row celebrity guests including Adrien Brody and Ella Emhoff. The Filipino-American designer called his tenure at Bally “an incredible honor.” The 170-year-old brand fashion house says an in-house team will... Читать дальше...

The bullets that an 18-year-old man fired while meandering through a northwestern New Mexico neighborhood struck targets apparently picked at random, including cars, homes and passersby. Police responded to the scene Monday within minutes and swiftly killed the gunman, but not before he killed three people and wounded six others, including two officers. Authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what led to the attack in Farmington. Police hadn't released the name of the attacker or the victims as of Tuesday morning... Читать дальше...

Willie Nelson is coming to a theater near you. A concert film recorded last month at his 90th birthday celebration at the Hollywood Bowl will be getting a limited theatrical run this June. “Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” will include performances by Nelson, Keith Richards, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, George Strait, Miranda Lambert and many more. Nelson, who was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, is having a banner year as a nonagenarian. He was honored with an educational... Читать дальше...

LONDRES (AP) — La operadora de celulares Vodafone despedirá a 11.000 trabajadores dentro de una gran reestructuración para recortar gastos y aumentar su deslucido rendimiento financiero, según anunció la compañía el martes.

Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor has failed to appear before French prosecutors in Paris, questioning him in the ongoing European money-laundering and illicit enrichment probe. Gov. Riad Salmeh is a no-show in Paris Tuesday comes as a European judicial team from France, Germany, and Luxembourg continue to press with a corruption probe over a handful of financial crimes and the laundering of $330 million. A senior judicial official told The Associated Press that Salameh never received the summoning notice... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden will discuss the debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and congressional leaders at the White House. It's a high-profile Tuesday afternoon session with reverberations across the globe ahead of the president's trip to the Group of Seven summit in Japan. Early outlines of a potential deal are beginning to emerge despite the painstakingly slow negotiations. But expectations are low for an agreement as staff talks are expected to continue. McCarthy is prodding Biden to move faster toward a deal. Читать дальше...

An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media buzz. But it’s not American film director and Tel Aviv mainstay Quentin Tarantino or another celebrity. It’s Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal. The seal cow first appeared south of Tel Aviv’s main beachfront last Friday, drawing clusters of curious onlookers to the rocky beach south of Jaffa’s historic center on Tuesday. The Mediterranean monk seal is listed as endangered... Читать дальше...

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT is set to testify before Congress as lawmakers call for new rules to guide the rapid development of AI technology. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to speak at a Senate hearing Tuesday. His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after it released late last year ChatGPT, a free chatbot tool that answers questions with convincingly human-like responses. What started out as a panic among educators about ChatGPT’s... Читать дальше...

San Francisco’s district attorney has released surveillance video of the shooting death of a suspected shoplifter by an on-duty Walgreens security guard. DA Brooke Jenkins released the video and other evidence Monday, saying again that she will not file charges against the guard. She said there is no evidence to rebut his claim of self-defense. The April 27 shooting death of Banko Brown at a downtown San Francisco Walgreens has roiled a city dogged by brazen shoplifting and wide division over the appropriate responses to crime. Читать дальше...

The Republican-controlled South Carolina House is expected to debate a bill that would ban abortion as soon as cardiac activity is detected. The debate on Tuesday comes after the state Senate rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw the procedure as soon as conception. The chambers’ disagreement over restrictions epitomizes fault lines that have developed between Republicans nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The measure in the House would ban abortion when an ultrasound detects cardiac activity... Читать дальше...

The Cannes red carpet springs to life again Tuesday as the 76th Cannes Film Festival gets underway with the premiere of the Louis XV period drama “Jeanne du Barry,” with Johnny Depp. This year’s Cannes is unspooling against the backdrop of labor unrest. Protests that have roiled France in recent months over changes to its pension system are planned to run during the festival, albeit at a distance from the festival’s main hub. Meanwhile, a strike by screenwriters in ongoing in Hollywood. But with... Читать дальше...

Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces. It better reflects reality; nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors. Restaurants have been required to allow service dogs for decades. But it wasn’t until the mid-2000’s that states began allowing dogs in outdoor dining spaces. Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance saying restaurants can welcome... Читать дальше...

The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state is fighting back against the former president’s attempt to remove her from the case and exclude certain evidence. Trump’s Georgia legal team in March asked the court to toss out the report of a special grand jury that had been seated in the case and to prevent prosecutors from using any evidence or testimony stemming from the panel’s investigation. Читать дальше...

The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands is asking a federal judge to help it serve billionaire Elon Musk with a subpoena for documents in its lawsuit seeking to hold JPMorgan Chase liable for sex trafficking acts committed by businessman Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers asked Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Monday to let it serve the subpoena on Tesla Inc. because it has not been able to give the papers to Musk or his lawyers. The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands said it believes Epstein may have referred or tried to refer Musk to JPMorgan.

Members of several Texas groups on Monday demanded that authorities quickly acknowledge whether they believe the neo-Nazi who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall over a week ago was racially motivated in choosing his victims. More than a week after the May 6 attack at the Allen Premium Outlets, authorities haven’t released a motive for the attack, and a Texas Department of Public Safety official has said it appeared that 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia targeted the location rather than a specific group of people. Читать дальше...

Ja Morant still had his endorsement deals Monday. His latest gun video on social media is costing him plenty in public relations currency, but he hasn't lost any money because of it. That could change any day. Once again, Morant is in limbo. He's awaiting the outcome of yet another NBA investigation into what could end up becoming a cataclysmic off-court decision. The clock is ticking with Game 1 of the NBA Finals is scheduled for June 1. Commissioner Adam Silver traditionally holds a news conference before the Finals. Читать дальше...

Rescuers have evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 12 feet deep along western Myanmar’s coast after powerful Cyclone Mocha injured hundreds and cut off communications. Six deaths were reported, but the true impact was not yet clear in one of Asia’s least developed countries. Winds blowing up to 130 miles per hour injured more than 700 people among those sheltering in sturdier buildings on the highlands of Sittwe township in Rakhine state, where the cyclone blew ashore Sunday. The Rakhine... Читать дальше...

A federal appeals court says Elon Musk cannot back out of a settlement with securities regulators over 2018 tweets claiming he had the funding to take Tesla private. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Monday, just days after hearing arguments from lawyers in the case. Musk had challenged a lower court judge's ruling last year requiring him to abide by the deal. The settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission required that his tweets be first approved by a Tesla attorney. Читать дальше...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A series of suspected drug overdoses left at least eight people dead over the weekend in Portland, Oregon, according to the city's police bureau.

A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The report Monday from special counsel John Durham offers withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president’s prediction he would uncover the “crime of the century.” It represents the long-awaited culmination of an investigation that Trump and allies had claimed would expose... Читать дальше...

The impact of the writers strike was evident as major television networks began their annual week of sales presentations to advertisers. NBC was force to bring news personalities like Willie Geist and Stephanie Ruhle to hawk comedies and dramas, as entertainers stayed away from a Radio City Music Hall event where striking writers picketed. Fox said that due to the uncertainty of the strike, it would not announce a fall TV schedule yet. Members of the Writers Guild for America walked out some two weeks ago... Читать дальше...