Новости за 13.09.2023

Surveillance video shows U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and another guest being kicked out of a Sunday “Beetlejuice” show in Denver. The theater says the surveillance video shows the guests being kicked out after audience members accused them of vaping, singing, using phones and causing a disturbance. Boebert's campaign manager says Boebert enjoyed the show and denies allegations of vaping. The security footage provided to The Associated Press does not appear to show Boebert vaping. Boebert is the Republican... Читать дальше...

Some analysts are questioning whether Russia would be willing to share secret weapons technologies with North Korea. Moscow has always closely guarded them even from key partners like China. Reports from a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia have hinted at Pyongyang exchanging ammunition for technology from Moscow. The two leaders met for several hours on Wednesday. The talks reflect a change in the nature of the countries' complicated relationship. Читать дальше...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon. GOP presidential hopefuls including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former President Donald Trump have spread this narrative in the last week. And yet there is no sign that anyone in federal or state leadership is even considering widespread COVID-19 restrictions or mask requirements despite the recent rise in hospitalizations. Читать дальше...

A Missouri judge has upheld the constitutionality of the state's Senate districts. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem rejected claims that the districts drawn by a judicial panel after the 2020 census unlawfully divided a St. Louis suburb and a western Missouri county into multiple districts. Attorney Chuck Hatfield said Wednesday that he would like to appeal to the state Supreme Court, if his clients are willing. It was the first legal test of revised redistricting standards approved by voters in the 2020 elections. Читать дальше...

The HBCU Transformation Project, a coalition of 40 historically Black colleges and universities, on Wednesday announced a $124 million gift from philanthropic funders Blue Meridian Partners to increase enrollment, graduation rates and employment rates for the schools’ graduates. Michael Lomax, the president and CEO of UNCF, which is acting as an intermediary overseeing the funding, said the grant signals to the philanthropic community that HBCUs are a strong investment. The donation will expand the work of the project... Читать дальше...

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s office has announced that the congresswoman’s husband died in an airplane crash in Alaska. No further details have been made immediately available about the crash. Her husband Eugene Peltola Jr. also went by the name “Buzzy.” Peltola’s chief of staff says she was returning to Alaska from Washington, D.C., to be with family. Peltola is an Alaska Democrat who was elected to a full term in the U.S. House months last November. She won a special election following the death of... Читать дальше...

The National 4-H Council is growing in a new direction – online – by launching its e-learning platform Clover with a collaboration with Netflix and its new movie “Spy Kids: Armageddon.” Jill Bramble, who took over as president and CEO of The National 4-H Council in July, said she wants the new platform to be the digital equivalent of the in-person experience that 4-H has provided to young people for more than 120 years. Clover features more than 220 online educational activities for students, ages 5 to 18... Читать дальше...

Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader says he’s created a panel to investigate the criteria for impeachment against a liberal state Supreme Court justice. The step against Justice Janet Protasiewicz would be unprecedented. She’s being targeted over comments she made during her winning campaign about redistricting and donations from the state Democratic Party. The donations total nearly $10 million. The impeachment criteria panel being created by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will consist of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices. Читать дальше...

Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting USB-C, a more widely used connection standard. A big part of the reason is a European Union common charging rule that’s coming soon for the 27-nation bloc. The USB-C's slim and elongated oval shape is symmetrical and reversible, eliminating one of the common gripes about previous USB versions because there’s no wrong way to plug it in. It also enables faster data transfer speeds... Читать дальше...

A spike in gas prices pushed up inflation in August, yet most other costs rose at a more modest pace, evidence that consumer price increases overall are still cooling. In a set of conflicting data on Wednesday, the Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 3.7% in August from a year ago, up from a 3.2% annual pace in July. Yet excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices rose 4.3%, down from 4.7% in July and the smallest increase in nearly two years. It is still far from the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

The Russian space launch facility where President Vladimir Putin has hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reflects an ambitious attempt by Moscow to burnish its scientific glory that faded after the Soviet collapse. The Vostochny project cost billions of dollars but has been dogged by continuous delays, workers’ protests over wage arrears and allegations of rampant corruption. Top managers of several companies involved in the project were convicted on charges of embezzling state funds. The mayor... Читать дальше...

A Connecticut mayor who regained his office after serving prison time for corruption has won another Democratic primary, this time defeating a former aide. Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim on Tuesday defeated John Gomes, the city’s former chief administrative officer. Gomes ran for mayor after losing his job last year during a restructuring. Ganim was first elected mayor in 1991. He was in office for 12 years, then was sentenced to prison in 2003 for accepting bribes and kickbacks. He served seven years behind bars... Читать дальше...

The British economy shrank by 0.5% in July after a series of strikes, particularly by doctors at the start of their careers, and unseasonably wet weather. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the strikes by so-called junior doctors weighed on health sector activity, while the sixth wettest July on record hit retailers. It comes after a buoyant June, when business was brisk as a result of the warm weather. Most economists downplayed the prospect that the British economy would fall... Читать дальше...

Ending a global guessing game on when and where they would meet, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held talks at a rocket launch facility in the Russian Far East. The two isolated, nuclear-armed leaders were expected to discuss expanding military cooperation amid their intensifying confrontations with the West. The decision to meet at Vostochny Cosmodrome, a major satellite launch facility, on Wednesday may have signaled what Kim sees as the crucial next steps... Читать дальше...

The prospect of an auto workers strike could test Joe Biden’s treasured assertion he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. A work stoppage against the Big Three U.S. automakers has the potential to reshape the political landscape in the battleground state of Michigan. It could unleash economic shockwaves that might eventually reverberate nationwide. The Democratic president says he hopes negotiations can lead to a win-win for both sides. The United Auto Workers union says a strike will... Читать дальше...

Stocks fell Wednesday in Asia after a slide in technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower ahead of a key report on U.S. inflation.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned.

Friends and admirers of former Gov. Bill Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe, from mountain villages of northern New Mexico as a youthful congressman, to the United Nations and a litany of countries on unofficial diplomatic missions that often helped free imprisoned Americans. Richardson’s casket was scheduled to lie in state Wednesday in the rotunda of the New Mexico Statehouse. Final memorials and funeral services were scheduled in the state capital... Читать дальше...

Qantas Airways has lost its challenge to a court ruling that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions. Seven High Court judges on Wednesday unanimously rejected Qantas’ appeal against a Federal Court full-bench decision. That court upheld a Federal Court judge’s ruling that the sacking of Qantas staff at 10 Australian airports in 2020 was illegal. The ruling is another major blow for the airline... Читать дальше...

People in flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island are cleaning up even as they brace for more rain Wednesday. Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in six hours Monday. Two communities declared a state of emergency and officials ordered evacuations out of concern for a dam listed in poor condition. Northwest of Boston, a mayor urged residents not to venture outside as roads flooded Monday night, but some were evacuated as water came into their basements. Weather officials described the rainfall as... Читать дальше...

A jury is set to hear closing arguments in Michigan in the fourth trial connected to a scheme by anti-government extremists to kidnap the governor just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. William Null, twin brother Michael Null and Eric Molitor are the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. They’re charged with having a supporting role by participating in militia-style drills and taking rides with others to see Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home. The Null brothers and Molitor deny committing crimes. Читать дальше...

A company seeking to restart a southwestern Michigan nuclear power plant says it has taken a major step forward with the signing of a power purchase agreement. Holtec International said Tuesday that a subsidiary, Palisades Energy LLC, signed the deal this week with Wolverine Power Cooperative, a not-for-profit energy provider serving rural communities across Michigan. Under the agreement, Wolverine agrees to purchase up to two-thirds of the power generated by Palisades for its Michigan-based member rural electric cooperatives. Читать дальше...

Leaders of the United Auto Workers union are considering targeted strikes at a small number of factories run by each of Detroit’s three automakers if they can’t reach contract agreements by a Thursday night deadline. The union’s leadership discussed smaller-scale strikes at a meeting on Friday, and local union leaders were told about the strategy on Tuesday afternoon, two people with knowledge of the moves said. The people didn’t want to be identified because they weren’t authorized to disclose details... Читать дальше...

Prosecutors who have accused former President Donald Trump and 18 others of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia maintain that all the defendants should be tried together, citing efficiency and fairness. They wrote in a brief they said was filed Tuesday that the case was brought under the state’s anti-racketeering law, meaning the same witnesses and evidence will be used in any trial. They argued that holding several lengthy trials instead would... Читать дальше...