Новости за 19.11.2023

Federal safety officials investigating a Chicago commuter train crash that injured nearly 40 people when it slammed into snow-removal equipment are focusing on a “design problem” with its braking system. National Transportation Safety Board Chairperson Jennifer Homendy said Saturday initial calculations based on the train’s speed and other factors indicate it was designed to stop within 1,780 feet to avoid something its path. But that didn’t happen and it crashed into the snow-removal equipment.... Читать дальше...

Israel says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized an Israeli-linked ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route and taken the 25-member crew hostage. The Iran-backed Houthis confirmed they hijacked the ship over its connection to Israel and took the crew as hostages on Sunday. The group warned that it would continue to target ships in international waters that were linked to or owned by Israelis until the end of Israel’s campaign against Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump is returning to the U.S.-Mexico border for a visit as he promotes a hard-line immigration agenda. Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks in Edinburg, Texas, later on Sunday after serving meals to National Guard soldiers, troopers and others who will be stationed at the border over Thanksgiving. He'll be joined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who's expected to endorse Trump. The former president has been previewing immigration proposals for a possible second term that would mark a dramatic... Читать дальше...

The National Weather Service has issued advisories along the California-Nevada line ahead of an early winter storm.

President Joe Biden and Congress are facing some unusually public challenges over their support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas. Hundreds of staffers in the administration and on Capitol Hill are signing on to open letters, speaking to reporters and holding vigils. It's all in an effort to shift U.S. policy toward more urgent action to stem Palestinian casualties. Organizers of one open letter say it's been endorsed by 650 staffers of many faiths from more than 30 federal agencies. Another open... Читать дальше...

The statewide battles over abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line across the country. And that's the commitment to democracy. Opponents of abortion rights are being accused of ignoring the will of voters by acting with defiance toward democratic processes and institutions they perceive as aligned against their cause. Some Republican elected officials and anti-abortion activists have responded to ballot box losses by challenging... Читать дальше...

Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s. And the U.S. economy has repeatedly defied predictions of a coming recession. Yet according to a raft of polls and surveys, most Americans hold a glum view of the economy. The disparity has led to befuddlement, exasperation and curiosity on social media and in opinion columns. Many factors lie behind the disconnect, but economists increasingly point to one in particular... Читать дальше...

Police in Tennessee have launched a manhunt for a suspect believed to have fatally shot three women and a teenage girl and critically wounded another teen girl at three separate locations during a deadly outbreak of domestic violence. The Memphis Police Department says officers responded to a report of a shooting at 9:22 p.m. Saturday on Howard Drive, where a woman was found dead. Investigators determined there were two other connected fatal shootings. At Field Lark Drive, a woman and a 13-year-old... Читать дальше...

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is visiting Hawaii to meet with senior U.S. military leaders and members of Hawaii’s large Filipino community. Marcos is due to meet Sunday with the top U.S. military commander in the Indo-Pacific region, Adm. John Aquilino. He's also expected to deliver a talk about his nation’s security challenges and the role of the Philippines-U.S. alliance. He's visiting Hawaii after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco and meeting Filipino community members in Los Angeles. Читать дальше...

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish. Over the last five years, agencies have worked to capture invasive carp in Lake Erie and the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and implant them with transmitters. Floating receivers powered by the sun send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Agency workers and commercial anglers then target those areas for carp round-ups. The strategy has helped... Читать дальше...

A year-long suspension of the legal time limit to sue over sexual assaults against adults in New York has led to a tidal wave of claims on behalf of women who were incarcerated. Headline-grabbing lawsuits filed under the Adult Survivors Act name famous people like former President Donald Trump and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Prominent hospitals are among the institutions accused of negligence during the “look-back” window allowing survivors to file civil suits even if the abuse happened long ago. Читать дальше...

Some Democratic cities are spending taxpayer dollars on bus, plane and train tickets for migrants to move on to other places. Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who have arrived in Denver since November 2022 have received a ticket from the city to travel onward. In New York and Illinois, taxpayer dollars are also being spent on tickets out of town, creating a shuffle of migrants in the interior U.S. who need shelter, food and medical assistance as they await rulings on asylum cases. This has happened... Читать дальше...

Some states are steadily chipping away at longstanding bans on Sunday game hunting, and there's a push to overturn the laws in the final two states with full bans. The bans stem from so-called “blue laws” in Maine and Massachusetts that also regulate which businesses can remain open and where alcohol can be sold on Sundays. Maine’s highest court is considering a lawsuit asking whether the state’s law preventing hunting deer, moose and turkeys on Sundays is still necessary. Maine and Massachusetts... Читать дальше...

Sugar prices are soaring in many places. That's largely due to production shortfalls in key exporters India and Thailand that are partly blamed on the El Nino. The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization is predicting a 2% decline in production this year. Increasingly, sugar is being used for biofuels like ethanol, so global sugar buffer stocks are at their lowest since 2009. Brazil's harvest next year will help, but that's months away. Experts say the concern is over shortfalls in the next few months... Читать дальше...

Republicans in Louisiana have swept three runoff races for powerful statewide offices: attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer. The GOP success secures control over all of Louisiana's statewide elected positions. Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general Saturday, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that come January, Republicans will control the... Читать дальше...

A library book that is more than a century overdue has been returned to St. Paul Public Library. Titled “Famous Composers” and featuring the likes of Bach and Mozart, the tome turned up while someone was sorting through a relative’s belongings. Minnesota Public Radio reports that it had last been checked out in 1919. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter joked in a tweet on Saturday that there would be no fine. The library, like many across the country, stopped charging late fees in 2019. The St. Paul Public... Читать дальше...

People in southwest Iceland are on edge, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes peninsula will erupt. Civil protection authorities say it will likely be months before residents evacuated from the danger zone can go home. The town of Grindavik was evacuated a week ago as magma rumbled and snaked under the earth amid thousands of tremors. It has left a jagged crack running through the community, thrusting the ground upwards by 1 meter (3 feet) or more in places. The Icelandic... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.” In an op-ed published Saturday in the Washington Post, Biden reiterated his position of recent weeks that a temporary halt to the fighting wasn’t a real possibility and wouldn’t advance greater U.S. objectives. The president and top U.S. officials have... Читать дальше...

Investigators have identified a “person of interest” in the Los Angeles freeway arson fire last week that closed the roadway for days, snarling traffic as crews to work around the clock to fix it. The state agency known as Cal Fire released two photos of the individual Saturday, saying it is seeking the public’s help to identify the person. All lanes of Interstate 10 near downtown are expected to reopen by Tuesday, far ahead of the initial three-to-five week schedule. Crews were brought in to shore... Читать дальше...