Новости за 21.03.2024

A New York City police officer once charged with spying for China says he is fighting the commissioner's decision to fire him. Baimadajie Angwang was arrested by federal agents in 2020 and charged with feeding information about New York's Tibetan community to the Chinese consulate in New York. Prosecutors dropped the case against him last year, after he had spent six months in detention. In a decision recently made public, Police Commissioner Edward Caban fired Angwang, saying he refused to cooperate... Читать дальше...

Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas. That's according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday. The investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Chao’s death was an “unfortunate accident.” The 50-year-old died the night of Feb. 10 after having dinner at a ranch in Johnson City. That's located west of Austin. The report describes a frantic... Читать дальше...

Top legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates are disputing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's claim that an independent consultant gave the thumbs-up to his proposal to lure two sports teams to the state. In speeches given across the state, Youngkin has said that an outside review commissioned by the House gave the proposal a clean bill of health. Lawmakers say that's not the case. They say they hired an outside consultant but the review didn't get far because talks around the deal fell apart. Читать дальше...

Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4 billion. The social media platform’s initial public offering was priced at $34 per share Wednesday. The price came in at the top end of the target range set by Reddit’s investment bankers as they spent the past few weeks gauging investor demand for the stock. It sets the stage for Reddit’s shares to begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT” in a debut likely to spur a flurry of commentary on Reddit’s own platform... Читать дальше...

The chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Sam Bankman-Fried founded attacked the onetime crypto power player in a letter to a federal judge, saying his claim that customers, lenders and investors were not harmed was callously false. FTX Trading Limited CEO John J. Ray III told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Wednesday that Bankman-Fried's victims have suffered and continue to suffer from his crimes. Bankman-Fried is scheduled to be sentenced next week after his conviction last year on charges that... Читать дальше...

Great Danes open the WNIT with a road contest at Colgate, which had its second winning season since 2004.

Georgia lawmakers have made it harder for workers at companies getting state economic incentives to unionize, in what could be a violation of federal law. The state House voted 96 to 78 Wednesday for Senate Bill 362, which would bar companies that accept state incentives from recognizing unions without a formal secret-ballot election. The measure now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp, who has promised to sign it. Democrats say the bill is really about making it harder for unions to organize and for companies to accept them. Читать дальше...

A jury has found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty of misconduct in office and fraud. The jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday on all four counts. Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata in November 2022 with one felony misconduct count and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. A criminal complaint says Zapata was deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she obtained three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers. Читать дальше...

A third former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has each been sentenced for his part in torturing two Black men.