Новости за 18.12.2023

The largest nursing home in St. Louis has closed suddenly, forcing about 170 residents to be bused to other facilities. Many patients left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. An ombudsman for families of area nursing home residents says Northview Village Nursing Home closed abruptly on Friday after employees realized they weren’t going to be paid and walked out. The situation created confusion for residents and their relatives. Some families gathered outside the facility seeking information about their loved ones. Читать дальше...

Liberals are calling for former President Donald Trump’s Wisconsin lawyer to step down from a state judicial ethics panel. They say Jim Troupis is unsuitable for the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee due to his role advising the fake Republican electors who admitted to taking part in an effort to overturn the 2020 election. Troupis is a former judge who was deeply involved in Trump’s efforts to overturn Wisconsin’s 2020 election results. He remains a defendant in a lawsuit filed against him, Trump’s... Читать дальше...

San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Hundreds of demonstrators held a news conference outside the court before the arraignments of those charged began. Seventeen people appeared in court on Monday to face charges such as false imprisonment, refusing to comply with a peace officer, unlawful public assembly, and more. Their arraignments were continued to February. Читать дальше...

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It's part of a broader Biden administration effort to reinvigorate environmental enforcement. Budget cuts imposed more than a decade ago slashed enforcement staff by roughly 950 positions. The EPA is moving to add about 300 positions. The increase also follows the Trump administration's push to roll back environmental regulations. Some efforts still lag... Читать дальше...

A deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe continues to grow. Health officials in the U.S. and Canada have confirmed at least 10 deaths, dozens of hospitalizations and hundreds of illnesses since the outbreak began in mid-October. More than 36,000 boxes or cases of cantaloupe grown in Mexico have been recalled. Cantaloupe can become contaminated in the field and during processing, shipping and storage. Many people who got sick ate pre-cut cantaloupe... Читать дальше...

A storm moving up the East Coast has brought heavy rain and high winds to the Northeast, flooding roads, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closings. The National Weather Service says more than 5 inches of rain have fallen in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. More than 500,000 power outages have been reported from Virginia to Maine. Wind gusts of nearly 70 mph were recorded in southeastern New England. The weather service issued flood warnings... Читать дальше...

The holidays can be a challenging time if you're on a budget. This year, millions of people have had to start paying back their student loans, adding to the financial pressure and making gift-giving even more stressful. Experts say that the first step is to acknowledge that you're feeling pressure and have candid conversations with your family and friends about what you can afford. You can also be proactive about making a budget so you're not spending more than you have and be creative about giving... Читать дальше...

The longtime president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer, will step down from his role at the end of 2023. In an interview with The Associated Press, Kramer talks about how Hewlett became the largest climate funder in the world for a decade starting in 2007. He also led new bodies of work at the foundation around cybersecurity, political polarization in the context of democracy and reimagining capitalism. An expert in constitutional law, Kramer will go on to be the president... Читать дальше...

Oil and natural gas giant BP has joined the growing list of companies that have halted their shipments through the Red Sea because of the risk of attack from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. London-based BP said Monday that it has “decided to temporarily pause all transits through the Red Sea” including shipments of oil, liquid natural gas and other energy supplies. Oil prices rose partly over market nerves about attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis. They have targeted container ships and oil tankers passing... Читать дальше...

Adobe’s planned $20 billion acquisition of online design company Figma is being called off due to pushback in Europe over antitrust concerns. The companies announced the cash-and-stock deal in September 2022, seeking a path with Figma’s web-based, multi-player capabilities to accelerate the delivery of Adobe’s creative cloud technologies on the web. Last month the UK Competition and Markets Authority said an early review of a potential tie-up between the two would lead to “substantial lessening of... Читать дальше...

A collaboration between The Associated Press and CNHI News has found it’s getting harder for the public to access information at the local government level in many states, including among school districts, townships and county boards. Open government advocates say high fees, delays and outright refusals from local governments to release information are among the common complaints. Researchers say local agencies generally lack sufficient staff and infrastructure to efficiently process records requests. Читать дальше...

Southwest Airlines is paying a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement with the government over a meltdown last holiday season. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday the settlement shows his department will hold airlines accountable if they fail to treat customers properly. The airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights as a winter storm paralyzed operations in Denver and Chicago and then snowballed when a crew rescheduling system couldn’t keep up. Southwest says it didn't... Читать дальше...

German farmers are gathering in Berlin to protest against planned cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture, part of a deal reached by the government to plug a hole in the country’s budget. Leaders of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition last week agreed on measures to fill a 17 billion-euro ($18.5 billion) hole in next year’s budget. They said they would achieve that by reducing climate-damaging subsidies and slightly reducing some ministries’ spending, among other measures. As... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs.

The man who will oversee elections in one rural county in Nevada next year is scheduled to be arraigned Monday along with five fellow Republicans on charges that they submitted false paperwork claiming Donald Trump had won the state in 2020. Jim Hindle said he has no plans to step down from his post in Storey County. He’s not alone. Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania also have Republicans who have been swept up in the fake electors scheme and continue to play roles in elections in their communities next year. Читать дальше...

The first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Monday. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona native who served as an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more than two decades, died Dec. 1 at age 93. Her casket will be carried by Supreme Court police officers and honorary pallbearers to the court’s Great Hall, where it will be placed near a 1999 portrait of O’Connor. C-SPAN will broadcast a private ceremony held just before the hall is open to the public... Читать дальше...

Bryant Gumbel's “Real Sports” airs its final episode on HBO after 29 years this week, and an era in sports journalism ends with it. The newsmagazine used sports as a lens to look through all manners of social issues, and won awards for stories on concussions, camel jockeys and labor abuses in Qatar. For its last few years of operation, it taped episodes on the same Manhattan block that houses the offices of CBS' “60 Minutes,” with which it shares a sensibility. At age 75, Gumbel takes pride in never having missed a taping and... Читать дальше...

Asian shares are mostly lower, while U.S. futures and oil prices edged higher. The Bank of Japan began a 2-day meeting that is being watched for hints of a change to the central bank's longstanding near-zero interest rate policy. Selling of property shares pulled Chinese shares lower. On Friday, Wall Street drifted through mixed trading to end the week on a quiet note. The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1% but was still hanging within 1.6% of its all-time high set early last year. It was its seventh straight winning week... Читать дальше...

Nikki Haley has denounced Republican presidential rival Ron DeSantis in Iowa for campaigning in the state with Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie. Massie was the lone House Republican who voted last week against a GOP resolution condemning antisemitism on university campuses. Coming at the end of a campaign event Saturday at a suburban Des Moines bar and grill, Haley called out DeSantis and said, “You can’t be pro-Israel and bring the most anti-Israel Republican into this state, who voted against fighting... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump called out three of Nevada’s fake electors during a rally in Reno. The former president said Sunday the fake electors are being treated unfairly. He spoke less than 24 hours before they are scheduled to be arraigned for signing certificates falsely stating Trump won Nevada in 2020. Trump’s sympathy for the fake electors comes amid growing alarm about his authoritarian rhetoric as he looks to return to the White House. Nevada is the fourth state to choose delegates for the Republican presidential nomination... Читать дальше...

A longtime Associated Press writer, whose deep knowledge of the presidency, Congress and American history made him an institution in his own right, has died. Lawrence L. Knutson was 87. His cousin, representing the family, says Knutson died Saturday night in hospice care at a memory care facility in Washington. Knutson had prostate cancer and other health problems. His AP career spanned 37 years and the terms of eight presidents before his retirement in 2003. Knutson brought a keen interest in history... Читать дальше...