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The northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them has been denied pretrial release. A judge in the city of Rockford ruled Tuesday that Christian Soto must remain in jail pending trial. The judge scheduled an April 15 arraignment for the 22-year-old. Authorities have said Soto was behind a series of frenzied attacks Wednesday at multiple addresses in a Rockford neighborhood. Authorities have not determined a motive. The... Читать дальше...

Comedian Joe Flaherty has died. He was a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,″ He was 82. His daughter says Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of the border to help establish the theater’s Toronto outpost. He went on to star alongside John Candy and Catherine O’Hara in ”SCTV,″ about a fictional TV station known as Second City Television that was stacked with buffoons in front of and behind the cameras.

Greek authorities say another 29 migrants have been rescued off a crippled boat in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete, on an increasingly busy migration route from North Africa to Europe. A coast guard statement says the boat was located south of Gavdos, a small island off Crete’s southern coast, by a passing merchant ship after passengers made an emergency call for assistance. Southern Crete and Gavdos have seen a substantial increase in migrant arrivals this year. Most leave from the eastern Libyan port of Tobruk... Читать дальше...

Anti-smoking groups are suing the U.S. government over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been stalled at the White House for months. The lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to force federal officials to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, which are mostly used by Black smokers and young people. Health officials under President Joe Biden initially targeted last August to publish the rule. Then the date slipped until late 2023 and then March this year. Three anti-smoking groups filed... Читать дальше...

Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to stop using AI “to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists." The letter acknowledges the creative possibilities of new AI technology but addresses some of its threats to human artistry. Читать дальше...

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Tuesday: Tesla, UnitedHealth Group fall; Roivant, Valero rise.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixed Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May was up 5.25 cents at $5.5975 a bushel; May corn lost .25 cent at $4.33 a bushel; May oats fell 1cent at $3.5525 a bushel; while May soybeans rose 7.75 cents at $11.9525 a bushel.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have discussed Taiwan, artificial intelligence and security issues in a call meant to demonstrate a return to regular leader-to-leader dialogue between the two powers. Tuesday’s call was their first conversation since their November summit in California produced renewed ties between their militaries and a promise of enhanced cooperation on stemming the flow of fentanyl from China. The call kicks off weeks of high-level engagements between the countries... Читать дальше...

A prize-winning author from Guadeloupe who was known as the ‘grande dame' of Caribbean literature has died. Maryse Condé was 90. Condé was a world traveler who probed the conflicts between and within Western culture, African culture and Caribbean culture. With her husband Richard Philcox often serving as her English-language translator, Condé wrote dozens of books, ranging from historical explorations such as “Segu” to the autobiographical stories in “Tales from the Heart” to fresh takes on Western literature. Читать дальше...

Biden and Xi discuss Taiwan, AI, counternarcotics and security issues in their first call since a November summit.

Xi and Biden hold first phone call since their November summit, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports.

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Mexico’s president says he is mourning a mayoral candidate killed the day before, just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday the killing of one of his own party’s candidates “hurts a lot,” but he did not announce any increase in security for politicians. Candidate Bertha Gaytán was gunned down on a street in a town just outside the city of Celaya, in the north-central state of Guanajuato. Gaytán had just launched her campaign... Читать дальше...

Three people were shot and injured in parking lot of a Safeway in American Canyon.

President Joe Biden is hosting a small group of Muslim American community leaders at the White House for a meeting and a scaled-down Iftar dinner. Biden is seeking to relieve tensions over his Democratic administration’s support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Tuesday's meeting is the most high-profile engagement yet between the White House and the Muslim American community since the war began six months ago. The White House hasn’t named the community members joining the meeting. Biden held... Читать дальше...

Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales growth slowed, and price cuts failed to draw more buyers. The Austin, Texas, company said it delivered 386,810 vehicles from January through March, almost 9% below the 423,000 it sold in the same quarter of last year. Sales also fell short of Wall Street expectations. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the company to deliver 457,000 vehicles. The slowing sales will make it difficult for the company to... Читать дальше...

A fire broke out at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations, killing at least 29 people. One person was injured. The nightclub was on the ground and basement floors of a 16-story residential building on the European side of the city. The fire has been extinguished. Gov. Davut Gul says the cause of the fire is under investigation. The victims were believed to be involved in the renovation work. Authorities have detained five people for questioning, including managers of the club and one person in charge of the renovations.

Jon Jon Briones had the best vantage point to watch his daughter, Isa, make her Broadway debut. He wasn’t sitting in the front row or hovering backstage. He was beside her. Both Briones stepped into the musical “Hadestown” last week, he playing Hermes and she Eurydice. It was the first time they’ve shared a stage. The tears came easily at curtain call. All of the Briones family are actors, including mom, Megan Johnson Briones, and younger brother, Teo. Megan and Jon Jon Briones actually met while... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks are sinking, as worries about interest rates staying high continue to hit Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 1% lower Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 445 points, and the Nasdaq composite was down 1.4%. Worries about the economy remaining too resilient have raised concerns that the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates fewer times than expected this year. Health care stocks were leading the market lower after the U.S. government announced 2025 rates for Medicare Advantage. Читать дальше...

U.S. job openings barely changed in February, staying at historically high levels in a sign that the American job market remains strong. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8.76 million job vacancies in February, up modestly from 8.75 million in January and about what economists had forecast. But the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, showed that layoffs ticked up to 1.7 million in February from 1.6 million in January. Monthly job openings are down from a peak... Читать дальше...

The IRS says it’s making progress with initiatives to claw back money improperly distributed under the Employee Retention Credit. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Its complex eligibility rules allowed scammers to target small businesses, offering help applying for the ERC for a fee — even if the business didn’t qualify. The IRS said it received $225 million from a voluntary disclosure program that let... Читать дальше...

Authorities say a house fire in Boston that spread to multiple buildings has killed one person and injured several others. The blaze was reported about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a multifamily home in the East Boston neighborhood. Firefighters say they used ladder trucks to rescue five people as the fire spread to at least two other buildings. Officials say a child was among six people and a firefighter who were brought to hospitals. About 30 people were displaced from their homes, and damages were estimated at around $5 million. Читать дальше...

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