Новости за 06.10.2023

A New York appeals judge has declined to halt Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial. The ruling came Friday, five days into the closely watched trial. The former president asked to postpone it while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of control of such assets as Trump Tower. The appeals judge agreed that control over the holdings will stay as-is for now. Trump is being sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Her office said the trial should continue.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway continued selling off more of its HP Inc. shares this week at a loss and dropped its stake below 10% of the maker of printers and computers. Berkshire sold another 3 million shares Tuesday. HP’s shares have been selling around $26 dollars this week after taking a sharp fall of nearly 14% over the past month. The stock of the Palo Alto, California-based company was selling in the mid $30s last spring when Berkshire first bought it. It’s still not clear whether Buffett... Читать дальше...

The United Auto Workers union says it will not expand its strikes against Detroit’s three automakers after General Motors made a breakthrough concession on unionizing electric vehicle battery plants. Union President Shawn Fain told workers in a video appearance Friday that additional plants could be added later. The delay came shortly after GM agreed to bring electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW’s national contract, essentially assuring that they will be unionized. Fain said GM’s move will... Читать дальше...

Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged. Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Christian said Friday that he found that the troopers' use of deadly force was “objectively reasonable.” Christian was appointed to review the Georgia Bureau of Investigation file on the Jan. 18 shooting of Manuel Paez Terán after DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston recused herself from the case. Читать дальше...

Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores have gathered outside a military hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs to collect the bodies of their loved ones. Thursday’s strike on the Homs Military Academy was the deadliest in years, killing 89 people and wounding as many as 277. The death toll could rise as some of the wounded are in critical condition. Syria announced a three-day state of mourning starting Friday. Читать дальше...

Newly released police body camera video shows the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis on suspicion of murder in the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip. Davis was walking near his home in a residential area outside Las Vegas when Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers approached to arrest him. Later, while in a police vehicle, someone asked why he was being arrested. Davis replied, “Biggest case in Las Vegas history.” He later added “September 7th, 1996.” Authorities allege... Читать дальше...

Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. The strikes late on Thursday came after the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops in Syria. Turkey said its jets targeted some 30 sites, destroying caves, bunkers, shelters and warehouses. Turkey has been carrying out strikes on Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria following a suicide attack outside the Interior Ministry building earlier this week. Читать дальше...

Starting next year, people who want to buy a new or used electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle will be able to get U.S. income tax credits at the time of purchase. The Treasury Department says the near-instant credits of up to $7,500 for an eligible new vehicle and $4,000 for a qualifying used vehicle should lower purchasing costs for consumers. This year eligible buyers can receive the credits, but they have to wait until they file their 2023 federal income tax returns to get the money. Under the Inflation... Читать дальше...

Shares in the troubled British lender Metro Bank have bounced back by a third on reports that it has been sounding out bigger rivals to buy a chunk of its assets. Sky News reported Friday that advisers to the bank have contacted Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group among others. That helped the company’s share price rally by 30% to 48.5 pence on the London Stock Exchange. The bank has now recouped the losses sustained Thursday, when it acknowledged the need to raise new capital. Analysts have said... Читать дальше...

Georgia's state taxes on gasoline and diesel will be suspended for another month. Gov. Brian Kemp extended the tax rollback in a Friday executive order. The suspension will now last at least through Nov. 11. The Republican governor last month revived the fuel tax suspension after he and lawmakers rolled back the taxes for 10 months during his 2022 reelection campaign. Georgia can afford to forgo its taxes of 31.2 cents per gallon of gasoline and 35 cents per gallon of diesel because it has a multibillion-dollar surplus. Читать дальше...

Taiwan's economy minister has confirmed that regulators are investigating four Taiwanese companies suspected of helping China’s Huawei Technologies to build semiconductor facilities. The Ministry of Economic Affairs has summoned the semiconductor and factory services suppliers for questioning after a Bloomberg report. The report said the companies allegedly were working with Huawei as it builds a network of semiconductor plants, despite U.S. sanctions prohibiting such business. The companies provide... Читать дальше...

A massive health care strike over wages and staff shortages is heading into its final day without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. The three-day strike will officially end on Saturday morning. Workers are scheduled to return to their jobs in Kaiser’s hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. The two sides did not have any bargaining sessions scheduled after concluding their talks midday Wednesday. Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Friday in cautious trading ahead of an update on the U.S. jobs market.

Many states are shifting their approach to sex education in K-12 schools with stricter regulations on when and what students learn about their bodies. It's a move that has further complicated and polarized sex education. A dozen state or county agencies recently parted ways with federal grants that help monitor teenagers’ sexual behaviors and lower rates of STDs. Several states have pushed back the grade level at which sex education begins. Experts say they are concerned students won’t reliably learn about adolescence... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump is in talks to make a trip to Capitol Hill next week. 

Authorities say they're investigating the improper storage of human remains at a Colorado funeral home that performs “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets. The investigation centers on the Return to Nature Funeral Home outside Colorado Springs. The local sheriff’s office said Thursday that it's working with state and federal officials on the investigation. Family members who used the funeral home were asked to contact the sheriff’s office, and officials said they would release more details at a news conference Friday. Читать дальше...

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania’s support has raised Pennsylvania’s profile in the national voucher debate and given advocates optimism that the program will eventually become law. He put his weight behind a $100 million Republican-backed private-school voucher proposal over the summer, before backing off amid opposition by House Democrats. His stance was unusual among governors. In the partisan politics of education funding, the “school choice” movement had long had to concentrate its... Читать дальше...

Job growth in the United States has remained resilient for the past 2 1/2 years even after high inflation flared and the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates at the fastest pace in four decades. The September jobs report that the Labor Department will issue Friday will show just how much of that durability remains. Additional threats to the economy have emerged in recent weeks, including much higher long-term interest rates, rising energy prices, the resumption of student loan payments, widening... Читать дальше...

Bangladesh has received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow. Once finished, the Rooppur plant is expected to boost Bangladesh’s national electrical grid and help the South Asian nation's growing economy. The plant is being constructed by Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation. Moscow has funded the construction with a $11.38 billion loan, to be repaid over two decades, starting from 2027. The uranium... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is defending his administration’s decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall. He says he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico. Biden told reporters on Thursday that the money was "appropriated for the border wall. I can’t stop that.” When he was asked whether he thought such walls work, he said flatly, “No.” Biden said he tried to get Congress... Читать дальше...