Новости за 08.08.2023

Campbell Soup is set to buy Sovos Brands, the maker of Rao’s pasta sauces. In a Monday announcement, the two companies said they had entered an agreement for Campbell’s to acquire Sovos for $23 per share in cash — reflecting a total value of about $2.7 billion. The transaction will help diversify and strengthen Campbell’s Meals & Beverages division, Campbell’s President and CEO Mark Clouse said in a statement. Campbell intends to finance the Sovos acquisition with the issuance of new debt. The transaction’s closing is expected for December... Читать дальше...

A St. Paul man has been sentenced to nearly 37 years for his role in a mass shooting at a bar that left one person dead and 14 others injured. Jurors found 35-year-old Terry Lorenzo Brown Jr. guilty in June of second-degree intentional murder and other counts. Ramsey County Judge Carolina Lamas sentenced him Tuesday to 36 years and nine months. The Star Tribune reports that Lamas handed down the sentence in a courtroom packed with family and friends of Marquisha “Kiki” Wiley, the 27-year-old veterinary... Читать дальше...

Bill Clinton’s presidential center is planning a major expansion that will include a new Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute holding personal archives from the former Democratic presidential nominee and first lady. The Clinton Foundation did not release information on the size or cost of the planned expansion of the center, saying it expected to unveil more details next year. The center, which opened in 2004, features the former president’s library and museum and is located in a 29-acre park in downtown Little Rock. Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Tensions rose in contract talks between the United Auto Workers union and Stellantis on Tuesday with the union president accusing the company of seeking concessions in contract talks when the union wants gains, as a September strike threat looms.

The White House held its first-ever cybersecurity “summit” on the ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools. Tuesday's event was hosted by first lady Jill Biden and Education Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, among others, to address the attacks, which have included the online leaking of sensitive student data. Education tech experts praised the Biden administration for Tuesday's consciousness-raising event, but they lamented that limited federal funds currently exist for them to tackle a scourge that... Читать дальше...

The United Nations says Syria has agreed to keep two crossings open from Turkey to its rebel-held northwest for the delivery of aid for another three months. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the U.N. “greatly welcomes” the Syrian government’s decision to keep the Bab al-Salameh and al-Rai border crossings open until Nov. 13. The most convenient crossing to the area, Bab al-Hawa, remains closed, though Haq said the United Nations is in talks with the Syrian government and remains ready to reopen it if “obstacles” can be overcome. Читать дальше...

A Colombian man once seen as one of the world’s most dangerous drug lords has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in the U.S. Dairo Antonio Úsuga — known as Otoniel — was sentenced Tuesday in a federal court in New York. He pleaded guilty in January to high-level drug trafficking charges. Úsuga headed the Gulf Clan, a cartel and paramilitary group with a blood-drenched grip on much of northern Colombia. Úsuga was Colombia’s most-wanted kingpin before his arrest in 2021. When pleading guilty, he... Читать дальше...

Communities across the eastern United States are clearing away downed trees and power lines after severe storms killed at least two people, knocked out power to more than 1.1 million homes and businesses and canceled or delayed thousands of flights. Forecasters received more than 900 reports of wind damage Monday from storms in the eastern U.S with nearly 300 of those reports of powerlines and trees down or damage to buildings coming from North Carolina and South Carolina. In South Carolina, officials... Читать дальше...

A federal judge is heaping sanctions on Southwest Airlines for, he says, failing to follow his orders in a case involving a fired flight attendant's free-speech rights. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr said Southwest acted as if its own policy limiting what employees can say is more important than a federal law protecting religious speech. The judge, who was nominated for the bench by former President Donald Trump, is ordering three Southwest lawyers to undergo “religious-liberty training” from a conservative Christian legal-advocacy group. Читать дальше...

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.

Eli Lilly’s diabetes treatment Mounjaro, which is widely used for weight loss, raked in nearly $1 billion in second-quarter sales, or more than $200 million above what Wall Street had expected. Shares of the drugmaker soared to a new all-time-high price early Tuesday after Lilly said Mounjaro sales swelled more than 70% since the first quarter to $980 million. Almost all of that came from the U.S., and the company said significant demand was leading to delays in filling orders for some doses. FactSet... Читать дальше...

Wall Street futures tumbled after data showed Chinese exports fell sharply and Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings for several U.S. banks. Futures for the S&P 500 slid 0.7% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% before the bell Tuesday. Data showed that China’s exports plunged by 14.5% in July compared with a year earlier, adding to pressure on the ruling Communist Party to reverse an economic slump. Bank stocks broadly declined after Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings 10 mid-size banks. Читать дальше...

Revenue declined at UPS in the second quarter and the package delivery company lowered its full-year revenue expectations by $4 billion, primarily due to a tentative labor contract reached late last month with its 340,000 unionized workers. Shares for the Atlanta company are more than 5% before the opening bell Tuesday. UPS reached a tentative deal with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide. Читать дальше...

Thousands of Los Angeles city employees, including sanitation workers, engineers and traffic officers, walked off the job for a 24-hour strike alleging unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up before dawn Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport and other locations and a rally was planned for later in the day at City Hall. SEIU Local 721 said more than 11,000 workers are striking. The union said its members voted to authorize the walkout because the city has failed to bargain in good faith. Читать дальше...

Ohio’s voters will decide Tuesday whether to make their state constitution harder to amend, as a highly charged special election that has direct bearing on a November ballot question over abortion rights comes to a close. If Issue 1 passes, the threshold for voters being able to change the state constitution would rise from a simple majority to 60%. That would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the fall proposal to succeed, based on polling figures. Voters in several states, even deeply conservative ones... Читать дальше...

Lottery players will have another shot at a massive Mega Millions jackpot. The estimated $1.55 billion prize up for grabs Tuesday night has been building for months thanks to 31 straight drawings without a jackpot winner. It now ranks as the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Mega Millions jackpot winners are so rare thanks to incredibly long odds of 1 in 302.6 million. The last time someone won the game’s top prize was April 18. The $1.55 billion payout is for a winner who opts for an annuity, doled out over 30 years. Читать дальше...

Over the past year, inflation in the United States has tumbled from 9% all the way to 3%, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years. Now comes the hard part. Squeezing out the last bit of excess inflation and reducing it to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate is expected to be a much harder and slower grind. The stickiness of inflation could endanger the possibility that the Fed will achieve a rare “soft landing” — a scenario in which it manages to... Читать дальше...

At least two people have died, thousands of U.S. flights have been canceled and more than 1 million have lost power as destructively strong storms move through the eastern U.S. Residents were warned to stay indoors Monday and prepare for the worst. The threat of severe thunderstorms and tornados stretched from Alabama to New York. Officials say a 15-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree in South Carolina and a 28-year-old man was killed by lightning in Alabama. Homes and businesses in nearly... Читать дальше...

The destruction that resulted from a glacial dam bursting in Alaska's capital highlights the danger such flooding poses around the world. Authorities say several homes, including two condo buildings, have been condemned after the levels of the Mendenhall River in Juneau rose to unprecedented levels. Two homes fell into the river completely Saturday after an ice dam on the Mendenhall Glacier gave way, sending torrents of water downstream. Researchers say such glacial floods could threaten about 15 million people around the world.

A federal judge recently ordered the release of three of the “Newburgh Four,” who were arrested in 2009 in a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and New York synagogues. But the order resonated with defendants and attorneys in a strikingly similar case from several years earlier that led to the conviction of two men involved with an Albany mosque. Agents in both cases relied on the same Pakistani immigrant as an informant. And in both cases, federal government has been accused of entrapping... Читать дальше...

China's exports tumbled by double digits in July, adding to pressure on the ruling Communist Party to reverse an economic slump. Customs data show exports plunged 14.5% from a year earlier to $281.8 billion. Imports fell 12.4% to $201.2 billion in a sign of weak domestic demand. Chinese leaders are trying to shore up business and consumer activity after the world’s second-largest economy grew by only 0.8% in the second quarter of 2023 from the previous three-month period. The ruling party has promised... Читать дальше...

New Zealand’s government says it will partner with U.S. investment giant BlackRock as it aims to become one of the first nations in the world to have its electricity grid run entirely from renewable energy. The government said it was helping BlackRock launch a $1.2 billion fund to ramp up investments in wind and solar generation, as well as battery storage. Some of the investment is expected to come from government-owned companies. New Zealand’s electricity grid already runs off about 82% renewable energy. Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden will use his visit to Arizona to formally announce a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon. National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi confirmed a day earlier that Biden is visiting the area Tuesday and is expected to announce plans to preserve more than 1,500 square miles just outside Grand Canyon National Park. This would be Biden's fifth monument designation. Representatives of various northern Arizona tribes have been invited to attend the president’s remarks. Читать дальше...

Washington has never been a particularly friendly place for Donald Trump. And after pleading not guilty to federal charges he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump was quick to show the feeling was mutual. Trump told reporters he was “very sad” to see “the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings” during his drive through the nation's capital to the federal courthouse. Washington defenders feel Trump has always had a personal issue with the district. Heavily Democratic... Читать дальше...

Elon Musk says he may need to get surgery before a proposed “cage match” with Mark Zuckerberg. The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to an in-person face-off in late June. It’s unclear if a physical fight will actually end up happening, but Musk and Zuckerberg have continued to fuel interest in the potential match through online jabs at one another — most recently on Sunday, when Musk said the fight would be live-streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. In a response, Zuckerberg said that he was ready for a fight... Читать дальше...