Новости за 31.05.2023

Strawberry, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1980 MLB Draft, hit 335 homers with 1,000 RBI with eight All-Star appearances over 17 seasons with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees. He played on World Series champions with the Mets in 1986 and the Yankees in 1996, 1998 and 1999.

On Tuesday, the Patroons advanced by beating the Reading Rebels 111-96 in a TBL opening-round game. Meanwhile, Atlantic City handled the Syracuse Stallions 102-88.

A civil rights attorney and a local NAACP president are calling for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what they're calling the systemic abuse of detainees at a county jail in Georgia. Attorney Harry Daniels represents two former detainees who were recorded by security cameras being punched by staff at the Camden County jail. Four jail workers have been charged with crimes. Local NAACP President Timothy Bessent told a news conference Wednesday he's heard from several other detainees whose... Читать дальше...

Testimony has resumed in the trial of a suburban truck driver charged with carrying out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Carol Black told a federal jury in Pittsburgh on Wednesday about how she and her fellow New Light congregants, including her 65-year-old brother, Richard Gottfried, heard loud noises as they started Sabbath services in the basement of the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. She says they quickly realized it was gunfire and that some of them hid. Black says... Читать дальше...

A former Connecticut state representative has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city of West Haven, most of it federal-related coronavirus aid. Michael DiMassa used a chunk of the money to fuel his gambling addiction. He apologized Wednesday in federal court in Hartford for conspiring with others to bill the city for services never rendered. The West Haven Democrat also must repay the city nearly $866,000. Three co-defendants including DiMassa's wife also got prison time earlier. Читать дальше...

Toyota will invest another $2.1 billion in an electric and hybrid vehicle battery factory that’s under construction near Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will supply batteries to Toyota’s huge complex in Georgetown, Kentucky, which will build Toyota’s first U.S.-made electric vehicle, a new SUV with three rows of seats. The plans announced Wednesday won’t immediately create any more jobs at either factory. Toyota plans to have 2,100 employees at the battery factory. The investment will prepare infrastructure to expand for growth. Читать дальше...

Thirteen coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice are being sued over unpaid penalties for previous federal mining law violations. The U.S. Justice Department filed the lawsuit Tuesday. It says that over the past five years, the companies were cited for more than 130 violations and issued more than 50 cessation orders. It says the total amount owed by the defendants is about $7.6 million. The lawsuit does not name Justice as a defendant but lists his son, Jay Justice.... Читать дальше...

A group of corporate Amazon workers upset about the company’s environmental impact, recent layoffs and a return-to-office mandate is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters. The lunchtime protest on Wednesday comes a week after the company’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to return to the office three days per week. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said as of Wednesday morning, more than 1,900 employees had pledged to walk out around the world, with about 900 in Seattle. Читать дальше...

CBS News says it is hiring veteran journalist Lisa Ling as a Los Angeles-based reporter starting later this summer. Ling spent the past eight years producing and reporting the immersive documentary series ‘This is Life’ for CNN before it ended in a cost-cutting move. She's also hosted ‘National Geographic Ultimate Explorer,’ did a show for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network and spent three years as a panelist on ‘The View.’ CBS News President Neeraj Khemlani says he admires Ling's authentic and revealing interviews. Читать дальше...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The former monastery on a quiet residential street in Rome once sheltered Jews fearing deportation during World War II. Purchased by the Vatican in 2021 as a dormitory for foreign nuns studying at Rome’s pontifical universities, the building now stands empty, a collateral victim of the latest financial scandal to hit the Holy See.

U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in April a sign the American labor market remians surprisingly resilient as the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates higher to combat inflation. Employers posted 10.1 million job openings last month, up from 9.7 million in March and the most since January. Economists had expected vacancies to slip below 9.5 million. Layoffs fell, but the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence that they can find better pay or working conditions elsewhere — slid last month.

China has responded to complaints from the United States about a Chinese fighter jet's dangerous interception of an American Air Force plane in international airspace over the South China Sea by demanding an end to such flights. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters at a daily briefing Wednesday that China would keep taking measures it deems necessary to safeguard its sovereignty. China says it owns the strategic waterway. But that claim is not recognized internationally and is directly... Читать дальше...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to begin his first full day of presidential campaigning with a four-stop blitz through Iowa. DeSantis is trying to prioritize personally connecting with voters while proving he has the mettle to take on former President Donald Trump. He has appearances in Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Pella and Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. DeSantis is packing in early events in the state whose caucus kicks off GOP White House primary voting as part of a leadoff sprint that... Читать дальше...

A Republican attempt to expand work requirements for federal food aid in debt legislation moving through Congress would increase federal spending by $2.1 billion over 10 years. That's far from the cuts GOP lawmakers had envisioned. A compromise on the food aid requirements between House Republicans and President Joe Biden as the nation nears a disastrous government default appears to have backfired for GOP lawmakers, who won the new work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program... Читать дальше...

A private crew is back on Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station. The SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudis and two Americans parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico late Tuesday night, just off the Florida panhandle. The Saudi government picked up the multimillion-dollar tab for its two astronauts, including the first Saudi woman in space. And a Tennessee businessman bought his own ticket. They were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for the Houston company that chartered the flight. Читать дальше...

BEIJING (AP) — El Partido Comunista chino, que gobierna el país, pidió el martes medidas más fuertes de seguridad nacional y recalcó los riesgos que plantean los avances en inteligencia artificial.

Asian stock markets are lower ahead of a vote by Congress on a deal to avert a government debt default while China factory activity weakened. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney retreated. Oil prices declined. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index edged up less than 0.1% as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tried to line up votes in support of their deal to allow the government to borrow more. Officials warn the government will run out of money as soon as next week, which would roil the economy and financial markets. Читать дальше...

China's ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting risks from artificial intelligence. The official Xinhua News Agency said a meeting headed by party leader and President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged “dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence.” China already dedicates vast resources to suppressing any perceived political threats to the party's dominance. However, worries... Читать дальше...

Hard-fought to the end, the debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward a crucial U.S. House vote. President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy are working to assemble a coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans to push it to passage over fierce blowback from conservatives and some progressive dissent. They are rushing to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default in less than week. Despite deep disappointment from hard-right Republicans that budget cuts don't go far enough, McCarthy... Читать дальше...

An Associated Press examination found that more than half of state legislatures in recent years have passed changes to their state victim compensation programs, where thousands of people turn each year for help with funeral costs, medical bills or other expenses after becoming the victim of a violent crime. It’s also where the AP found that a disproportionate number of Black families and victims were denied help in many states, often for subjective reasons rooted in racial bias. Those denied victims... Читать дальше...

Republicans in Congress are locked in an escalating fight with the director of the FBI. The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says he plans to hold Wray in contempt of Congress over a record related to President Joe Biden and his family. Rep. James Comer says the FBI is withholding the record, which he claims is related to “an alleged criminal scheme” involving Biden and a foreign national. The FBI says it has made an “extraordinary" offer to let Republicans view the record under certain conditions. Читать дальше...

Arrington signed with the franchise less than three weeks ago after being granted his release from the Kalamazoo Galaxy, who didn’t qualify for the TBL playoffs.

Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors are in a tug of war with the former president’s legal team over precisely where he will be tried. Trump’s lawyers are angling to have the hush money case moved to federal court, while the Manhattan district attorney’s office said in court papers Tuesday that it should remain in state court where it began. Ultimately a federal judge in Manhattan will have to decide whether... Читать дальше...

Malaysia’s maritime agency says a detained Chinese barge likely plundered two World War II British shipwrecks in the South China Sea after discovering another 100 old artillery shells on it. Malaysian media reported that illegal salvage operators are believed to have targeted the HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, which were sunk in 1941 by Japanese torpedoes. Over 800 sailors perished, and the shipwrecks are designated war graves. The agency detained the barge on Sunday for anchoring without a permit. Читать дальше...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has kicked off his presidential campaign in Iowa with a call for “a revival of American greatness.” DeSantis is testing his pitch as the most formidable Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump at the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states. DeSantis says, “Our country is going in the wrong direction," but he says American decline is avoidable and is offering himself as the alternative. DeSantis' Iowa travel will be followed by... Читать дальше...