Новости за 22.10.2023

Mikayla Cowling, a Cal alum who plays for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music club in Gdansk, a city in northern Poland. She suffered a fractured eye socket.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say the United States is ready to protect American forces or personnel in the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war escalate as they expect. Blinken says the U.S. doesn't want to see escalation but he adds “we're ready for it." The pair of top U.S. officials delivered the warnings as the war that followed a deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel entered its third week. The U.S. State Department has ordered... Читать дальше...

The police chief issued a statement Saturday confirming his son was the suspect in the shooting. 

Funeral services are set for a Detroit synagogue president who was found fatally stabbed at her home while police continue their investigation into the motive. Samantha Woll is being remembered as a community leader and for her interfaith work. Her funeral is Sunday afternoon in suburban Detroit. Woll was found dead at her home Saturday. Officers “observed a trail of blood" that led them to the victim’s residence, which is where the crime is believed to have occurred. The 40-year-old Woll had led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue since 2022. Читать дальше...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean, U.S. and Japanese militaries conducted their first-ever trilateral aerial exercise on Sunday in response to evolving North Korean nuclear threats, South Korea’s air force said.

Local election offices have been understaffed for years. But the 2020 election became a tipping point, with all the pandemic-related challenges before the presidential election and the hostility and death threats afterward that were fueled by the false claims of a stolen election. A wave of retirements and resignations has followed across the country, creating a vacuum of institutional knowledge in an environment in which the slightest mistake can be twisted by conspiracy theorists into a nefarious plot to subvert the vote. Читать дальше...

Aid deliveries have begun moving into the besieged Gaza Strip, two weeks after the militant group Hamas rampaged through southern Israel and Israel responded with airstrikes. Separately, Israel said Hamas freed two American hostages who had been held in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes have continued in southern Gaza, an area swelled by civilians who fled there from the north on Israeli instructions. Israel says it is also stepping up its attacks, coming amid growing expectations of a ground offensive. The war is in its 16th day on Sunday.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will visit China in early November. He also said Sunday that China has agreed to review the crippling tariffs it placed on Australian wine that have effectively blocked trade with the winemakers’ biggest export market since 2020. Albanese will become the first Australian prime minister to visit China in seven years when he travels to Beijing and Shanghai on Nov. 4-7. He will meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang in Beijing and attend... Читать дальше...

North Dakota's Republican-controlled Legislature is scheduled to convene to fix a budget mess. The special session set for Monday will address a major budget bill struck down last month by the state Supreme Court. The bill has traditionally been used a catchall or cleanup bill passed at the end of the biennial session. Fourteen bills would resurrect the voided bill's provisions. A top legislative panel on Friday heard nearly 30 proposals from lawmakers for additional legislation to propose in the special session. Читать дальше...

A K-9 police dog's attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics. Jadarrius Rose was driving his 18-wheeler through rural Ohio July 4 when a missing mudflap caught the eye of a highway patrol officer. Rose was attacked by a police dog after he eventually pulled over. Since then, some say the images reminded them of the Civil Rights Movement, when authorities turned dogs on peaceful Black protesters. Rose required hospital care. The police... Читать дальше...

BANGKOK (AP) — Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company known globally for making Apple iPhones, was recently subjected to searches by Chinese tax authorities, state media reported Sunday.

Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record. Figures released Saturday also show that September was the second-highest month for arrests of all nationalities. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says arrests for the government’s budget year ended Sept. 30 topped 2 million for the second year in a row. Venezuelans were arrested nearly 55,000 times by the Border Patrol after entering from Mexico in September. Читать дальше...

Seniors honored prior to the team’s 4-0 victory against Bridgeport.

Police say a Detroit synagogue president has been found stabbed to death outside her home. Cpl. Dan Donakowski says a statement from Mayor Mike Duggan identified the victim as Samantha Woll. Donakowski says Woll was found dead at the scene Saturday morning. The motive isn't known. He says officers “observed a trail of blood leading officers to the victim’s residence, which is where the crime is believed to have occurred.” The 40-year-old Woll had led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue since 2022. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's TV and film actors have been striking for 100 days now, and there's no end in sight.

An Iowa woman who falsely claimed to have cancer will stay out of prison after a judge gave her probation and a suspended sentence. Twenty-year-old Madison Russo never had pancreatic cancer, leukemia nor the football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine she that claimed in postings on TikTok, GoFundMe, Facebook and LinkedIn. But over 400 people sent her donations. As part of the 10-year suspended sentence handed down Friday, she was ordered to pay $39,000 in restitution and a $1,370 fine. She apologized... Читать дальше...

A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta. Susan Hodgson said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that she found a pile of rubble where her longtime family property used to be when she returned from vacation last month. Hodgson says she's in shock and furious. Hodgson asked a relative to check out the situation after a neighbor confirmed she hadn’t hired anyone to tear down the home. Hodgson says a person in charge admitted he was at the wrong address. Читать дальше...