Новости за 03.11.2023

The White House Historical Association is working on a new experience for tourists in Washington starting next fall. The association plans to open The People’s House. It's an educational center that will use technology to provide tourists with a deeper learning experience than what they get on a public tour of the White House. The $30 million center, announced publicly Friday, is slated to open in the fall of 2024. It will occupy three floors of a building one block from the White House. Its features... Читать дальше...

A toddler with a bandaged head, limp and dusty, is carried into a Gaza hospital for treatment after an Israeli airstrike. Mourners bid farewell to a woman who was killed in southern Israel in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on a kibbutz.

CABO CAÑAVERAL, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — El pequeño asteroide que recibió la visita de la nave espacial Lucy de la NASA esta semana brindó una gran sorpresa a los científicos.

Outrage over the price of basic housing is spurring calls for a tax on mansions in a Southwestern city cherished by tourists and second-home owners for its adobe architecture and Rocky Mountain vistas. A Nov. 7 ballot initiative would place a 3% tax on home sales after the first $1 million. The money would go into an affordable housing trust. The tax is being pitched as a lifeline to teachers, service-sector workers and young professionals who can’t afford mortgages or struggle with rent. The Santa... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a ban on gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns violates federal law. The justices said Friday they'll hear arguments next year over a gun bump stocks regulation the Justice Department implemented after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions about whether the regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun comports with federal law. The justices say they'll... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slightly changed the format of its second public meeting on the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline after complaints about the first night. The Corps held two meetings in Bismarck, on Wednesday and Thursday. Pipeline opponents criticized the private nature of oral comments being given Wednesday in a curtained area to stenographers. The Corps on Thursday allowed attendees to make speeches in a public space as their official comment, The Bismarck Tribune reported. Читать дальше...

Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciarán pushed into Italy overnight. At least six people were killed in that central Italian region. And a motorist died in Albania. The new deaths on Friday brought the storm's overall death toll in Europe to 14 this week. Italian Civil Protection authorities said that nearly eight inches of rain fell in a three-hour period from the coastal city of Livorno to the inland Mugello valley. Floodwaters trapped residents in their homes, inundated hospitals and overturned cars. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience, a new initiative to establish an international touring circuit on the continent of Africa launching with a concert in Kigali, Rwanda on Dec. 6.

After nearly three decades, Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle. In a Instagram post, the Amazon founder announced plans to return to Miami — where he spent his high school years — to be closer to his parents and his partner, Lauren Sánchez. Bezos, 59, added that operations for his rocket company, Blue Origin, are increasingly shifting to Cape Canaveral. While sharing excitement about the move, Bezos said it was also an emotional decision. Seattle has been Bezos' home since 1994, when he started Amazon out of his garage. Читать дальше...

Archaeologists have unearthed more ancient ruins of what they believe was once a bustling port city near the capital of modern-day Morocco. Researchers from Morocco’s National Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Heritage on Friday presented new discoveries made this year at Chellah. The site is a 1.2-square-mile or 3.15 square kilometer UNESCO World Heritage Site. They showed new evidence of thermal baths and working class neighborhoods near the ancient necropolis. Morocco hopes the expansive... Читать дальше...

State prosecutors have added hate-crime allegations to charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon against a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador in public. At court proceedings Thursday in northern New Mexico, defendant Ryan David Martinez of Sandia Park pleaded not guilty to all charges. A prosecutor indicated that the office will pursue sentence enhancements... Читать дальше...

Warm, late fall day in Shawangunks yields larger crowds but also wider variety of faces not often seen on hikes.

The husband of former Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg will not face investigation over his stock trading during her two terms in office, Norway's economic crimes agency announced Friday, saying it had found no indications that he had benefited from inside information.

Brunch dates and flag football games might be a little easier to get to this Sunday, when phones grace early-risers with an extra hour of rest before alarm clocks go off. Come Nov. 5, daylight saving time is out and standard time is in, and will last until March 10, 2024. The sun will be setting next week well before many folks step foot out of the office. But besides scheduling stumbles and sleep habit disruptions, experts say the twice-yearly ritual can have more serious effects on human health. Читать дальше...

Authorities in Hawaii say a wildfire that has burned forestlands in a remote mountainous area of Central Oahu has moved eastward and away from population centers as firefighters continue to battle it. The flames aren't threatening homes or property, and no evacuations have been ordered. But they have scorched some native koa and ohia trees. Three Army helicopters were dropping water on the blaze Thursday, along with Honolulu Fire Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service aircraft. Firefighters have been battling the blaze since Monday. Читать дальше...

Legal settlements could provide local and state governments $50 billion to fight the deadly U.S. opioid overdose crisis. What could that look like? One Ohio community is already doing many of the things advocates say should be considered. Hancock County funds harm reduction efforts such as a needle exchange and naloxone distribution. It also has a recovery community center, a drug court intended to get people into treatment rather than jail, housing for some people in recovery and aggressive outreach... Читать дальше...

Asian shares have advanced after Wall Street roared higher on hopes that market-rattling hikes to interest rates are coming to an end. On Thursday, the S&P 500 leaped 1.9%, on pace for its best week in nearly a year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.7%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.8% to 13,294.19. Investors have taken comments by the Fed’s chair to mean that recent jumps in longer-term Treasury yields could make more increases unnecessary. The 10-year yield fell further also relieving pressure that had built on Wall Street. Читать дальше...

A Dubai-based television network broadcasting across the Mideast cut substantial portions of an episode of the satiric news program “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” over references to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince being implicated in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The decision by OSN highlights the continued limits of speech in both the United Arab Emirates as well as neighboring Saudi Arabia. It also highlights just how sensitive Khashoggi’s killing inside the Saudi... Читать дальше...

The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base. Meanwhile, the foundation said it’s furthering its own efforts to address the problem. It announced Friday it is appointing Renée Ferranti as a special assistant to the director to focus on sexual assault and harassment prevention and response. An Associated Press investigation in August uncovered... Читать дальше...

Anthony Albanese will soon become the first Australian prime minister in seven years to visit China in recognition of improving bilateral relations. Ties between the nations crashed to unprecedented depths during those years over trade and security. The election of Albanese’s center-left government last year created an opportunity for a reset. He arrives Saturday in Shanghai and will later meet with China's Xi Jinping in Beijing. China had curbed diplomatic contacts in reaction to Australian national... Читать дальше...

A New York jury has convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud charges. The 31-year-old California man was convicted Thursday in Manhattan federal court by jurors who rejected his testimony that he didn’t defraud thousands of customers worldwide who counted on him to safeguard the billions of dollars they deposited in accounts. Bankman-Fried has been jailed since August, when a judge concluded he’d tried to influence prospective trial witnesses. He was extradited to the United States last December from the Bahamas... Читать дальше...

International authorities say there is growing evidence that shows Beijing is helping cash-strapped North Korea evade a range of international sanctions designed to hamper Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. China has long maintained it enforces the sanctions it has supported since North Korea started testing nuclear weapons and forcefully pushed back on any suggestions to the contrary. But there is evidence of China's help from Chinese middlemen laundering the proceeds of North Korean hackers’... Читать дальше...

U.S. support for Israel's offensive against Hamas is being closely watched in South Florida's Jewish community. It is one of the most important areas for Jews in the country. Rabbis and community leaders are pushing their congregations to call their lawmakers and insist they back Israel as it ramps up its offensive. If Florida is to regain its status as a perennial battleground, how Jewish voters perceive President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war will be critical. South Florida used... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is heading to Lewiston, Maine to mourn with the community after 18 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in state history. It’s the type of trip that is becoming far too familiar. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says that Biden and first lady Jill Biden have traveled to communities “torn apart by gun violence” too many times. The president is expected to pay respects to the victims, meet with first responders and grieve with families and community members impacted by the Oct. Читать дальше...

According to data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, an American company is among the key beef suppliers and distributors contributing to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A little-known Utah-based meat trader, PMI Foods, has shipped more than $1.7 billion in Brazilian beef over the last decade, almost all of it to China. PMI’s role provides a window into how the growing international beef trade is fueling destruction of the world’s largest rainforest... Читать дальше...