Новости за 13.07.2023

Wildlife officials are trying to capture a wayward sea otter that has been wrestling surfboards away from surfers and aggressively approaching kayakers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the 5-year-old female otter has shown aggression toward people for several weeks and poses a public safety risk. Video and photographs shared on social media, show the marine mammal on at least one occasion biting and tearing chunks off a board as well as aggressively... Читать дальше...

Actors will join screenwriters in a combined strike that will have huge consequences for Hollywood. Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents the actors, voted Thursday to strike after contract talks collapsed with the studios and streaming services that hire them. It’s the first time actors from film and television shows have gone on strike since 1980. And the first time both actors and writers have been on strike since 1960. Industry leaders expressed disappointment in a walkout they said comes at the worst possible time. Читать дальше...

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has told federal legislators that his government plans to pay $10 every month to poor households to ease the hardship caused by his administration’s removal of subsidies for gasoline. The handout will have a “multiplier effect” on 60 million Nigerians, according to Tinubu's letter to the Nigerian Senate, which was read during plenary on Thursday. Some Nigerians have said the handout is inadequate, citing the increased cost of transportation and of goods as a result of the subsidy removal. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry defended his negotiations with China — and angrily rebuffed what he called a “stupid” lie that he routinely travels by private jet — during a grilling by House Republicans on Thursday before he sets out on his next climate mission to Beijing.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Georgia’s most populous county, with officials citing violence, filthy conditions and the death last year of a man whose body was found covered in insects. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said during a news conference Thursday that investigators will look at living conditions, access to medical and mental health care, use of excessive force by... Читать дальше...

Lobbyist Matt Borges is contesting his 5-year sentence in the $60 million bribery scheme that also took down former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder. The 51-year-old former Ohio Republican Party chair appealed his punishment to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday. After showing remorse, Borges received the lightest sentence recommended by federal prosecutors. The decision came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black gave Householder 20 years, a sentence also has appealed. Читать дальше...

NUEVA YORK (AP) — OpenAI, el creador del ChatGPT, y The Associated Press anunciaron el jueves un trato para que la compañía de inteligencia artificial tenga licencia sobre el archivo de noticias de AP.

Pakistan's finance minister says the International Monetary Fund has deposited the much-awaited first installment of $1.2 billion with the country's central bank under a new bailout deal. The financial infusion — part of a $3 billion new deal — comes ahead of parliamentary elections due later this year. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the development in a live address to the nation on Thursday. The day before, the IMF's executive board approved $3 billion for Pakistan to enable it to avoid defaulting on its debt repayments. Читать дальше...

The gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 is eligible for the death penalty. A federal jury announced its decision Thursday, setting the stage for further evidence and testimony on whether Robert Bowers should be sentenced to death or life in prison. Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons in the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack. The defense is trying to persuade jurors to spare his life. Testimony is now expected to shift to the... Читать дальше...

The day Christopher Nolan called Cillian Murphy about his new film, “Oppenheimer,” Murphy hung up the phone in disbelief. The Irish actor has been a regular presence in Nolan films going back almost two decades. But he had always been a supporting player. This time Nolan wanted him to be the titular character, the iconic, charismatic, controversial theoretical physicist who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. “Oppenheimer” opens in theaters on July 21 and features a starry cast including Emily Blunt... Читать дальше...

No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in the West Wing lobby last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn’t identify a suspect, according to summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press. There are no leads on who brought the drugs into the White House. U.S. Secret Service agents found the white powder during a routine White House sweep on July 2, in a heavily trafficked West Wing lobby... Читать дальше...

Christopher Nolan has never been one to take the easy or straightforward route while making a movie. He prefers practical effects over computer generated ones and real locations over soundstages. He shoots on large format film with large, cumbersome, and sometimes impractical cameras to get the best possible cinematic image. And in the matter of the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography that provided the inspiration for his new film, in theaters July 21, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s “American Prometheus,” a riveting linear narrative in itself... Читать дальше...

U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, a major change that will broaden access for women and teenagers. The Food and Drug Administration decision on Thursday means drugmaker Perrigo can sell its once-a-day Opill without a prescription. Previously all birth control pills required a doctor's note. Perrigo won’t start selling the pill until early next year. Hormone-based pills have long been the most common form of birth control in the U.S. Medical societies and... Читать дальше...

The British government has offered millions of public sector workers pay raises in a bid to end an array of strikes, including a five-day walkout from doctors in Britain’s publicly funded health service. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed Thursday that the government was accepting the recommendations from pay review bodies. That means 7% rise for police, 6.5% for teachers and 6% for the striking junior doctors, who are at the early stages of their careers in the National Health Service. Sunak said the offers... Читать дальше...

More than one third of all U.S. energy consumption, and thus a significant source of climate change, is from heating and cooling homes and buildings. Air source heat pumps are a trending topic as a solution, but experts say geothermal pumps are a more efficient option. For the geothermal pumps, loops of flexible piping are installed several hundred feet deep in yards and water in the loops brings up heat from the earth and absorbs heat from inside homes. Industry experts see the technology becoming increasingly popular in coming years... Читать дальше...

After a historically wet winter and a cloudy spring, California’s summer is in full swing. A heat wave that’s been scorching much of the U.S. Southwest is bringing triple digit temperatures and an increased risk of wildfires. Forecasters say blistering conditions Thursday will build throughout the weekend in the central and southern parts of California, where many residents should prepare for the hottest weather of the year. An excessive heat watch is in effect through Sunday for interior Los Angeles... Читать дальше...

Officials say that record monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people in northern India this week. Authorities said Thursday that they used helicopters to rescue nearly 300 people who were stranded in the Chandertal area in the worst-hit Himalayan Himachal Pradesh state. Most of those rescued were tourists. The water level of the Jamuna River flowing through the Indian capital topped a 40-year record and reached 207.71 meters on Wednesday evening. India regularly witnesses severe floods during... Читать дальше...

China and Southeast Asian nations have agreed to try to conclude within three years a long-delayed nonaggression pact aimed at preventing frequent territorial spats in the busy South China Sea from turning into a major armed conflict. The contested territory has long been feared as an Asian flashpoint and has become a sensitive front in the U.S.-China rivalry in the region. China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Thursday to guidelines to complete their code of conduct negotiations before fall 2026. Читать дальше...

China has reported its exports tumbled 12.4% in June from a year earlier as demand weakened after central banks raised interest rates to curb inflation. Customs data released Thursday showed imports slid 6.8%. Trade weakness adds to downward pressure on the world’s second-largest economy. Global consumer demand has weakened after the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia raised interest rates to bring inflation down from near multi-decade highs by reining in business and consumer activity. Читать дальше...

Asian shares have opened higher, boosted by Wall Street’s return to its highest level in more than a year after a report showed U.S. consumer inflation cooled a bit more than expected last month. Benchmarks surged in Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai. U.S. futures and oil prices also gained. Investors are watching for China’s trade data for signs of how the world’s second largest economy is faring after the country ended pandemic controls. China’s exports tumbled 12.4% in June from a year earlier, according to customs data. Читать дальше...

Crowds are packing the Colosseum, the Louvre, the Acropolis and other major attractions as tourism exceeds 2019 records in some of Europe’s most popular destinations. While European tourists helped the industry on the road to recovery last year, the upswing this summer is led largely by Americans, who are lifted by a strong dollar and in some cases pandemic savings. The return of mass tourism is a boon to hotels and restaurants, which suffered under the pandemic restrictions. But there is a downside... Читать дальше...

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death. Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, the Black teen was the earliest symbol of a movement that now wields influence over national politics, law enforcement and broader conversations about racial progress in and outside the U.S. This weekend, national organizations and local organizers across the nation have planned events to mark 10 years of BLM. Читать дальше...

House Republicans who say the Federal Trade Commission has been overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden are set to interrogate agency head Lina Khan on Thursday. They are bringing her before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time amid her court battles with big technology companies. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has criticized Khan in recent months on a multitude of issues, including what he says are politically motivated actions directed at Elon Musk since he acquired Twitter last year... Читать дальше...

Una nueva investigación deja entrever que los seres humanos fueron contemporáneos de los extintos megaterios en Sudamérica, lo que refuerza la evidencia de que el hombre llegó al continente antes de lo que se pensaba.

A judge says there is enough evidence for a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife to move toward a trial. The ruling came Wednesday after a hearing on the evidence gathered against James Craig. Authorities say, shortly after beginning an affair, he searched online for answers to questions such as “is arsenic detectable in an autopsy?” and “how to make murder look like a heart attack. The coroner testified that Angela Craig died as the result of poisoning with cyanide and a substance that is found in eye drops. Читать дальше...