Новости за 15.02.2024

The Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl celebration has become the latest backdrop for a mass shooting as gunfire sent fans scrambling for cover and left 21 people wounded and one woman dead.

A watchdog report has found that the kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners in recent years. The scathing report found mental health care, emergency responses and the detection of contraband drugs and weapons were all lacking. It's the latest sign of crisis at the federal Bureau of Prisons, which is also dealing with widespread staffing shortages. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump has arrived at a New York court for a hearing that could decide whether the former president’s first criminal trial begins in late March.

Ford's top executive says that last fall’s contentious United Auto Workers’ strike changed the company's relationship with the union to the point where it will “think carefully” about where it builds future vehicles. CEO Jim Farley told the Wolfe Research Global Auto Conference in New York Thursday that the company always took pride in its relationship with the UAW, having avoided strikes since the 1970s. But last year, Ford’s highly profitable factory in Louisville, Kentucky, was the first truck plant that the UAW shut down with a strike. Читать дальше...

Elon Musk is looking to move the legal home of SpaceX to Texas from Delaware after a judge in that state voided the billionaire's $55.8 billion Tesla pay package.

Americans pulled back their spending in January after splurging during the holiday season. Retail sales fell 0.8% from the strong pace in December when retail sales were up a revised 0.4%, according to the Commerce Department. The decline was bigger than the 0.10% drop that economists expected and marked the lowest monthly figure since March of last year. Economists had expected consumers to pull back on spending late last year under the weight of credit card debt and delinquencies and lower savings. Читать дальше...

Japan's economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.4% in October to December, though it grew 1.9% for all of 2023. Japan's economy was the 2nd largest until 2010, when it was overtaken by China’s. Japan’s nominal GDP totaled $4.2 trillion last year, while Germany's was $4.4 trillion, or $4.5 trillion, depending on the currency conversion. A weak yen was a key factor in the drop to fourth place... Читать дальше...

CABO CAÑAVERAL, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Otra compañía privada despegó hacia la Luna el jueves, un mes después de que el módulo lunar de un competidor errase la trayectoria y acabara regresando antes de acabar destruido.

The Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee is urging the Biden administration to declassify information about what he calls a serious national security threat.

Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades. The successful move of 21 eastern black rhinos to a new home will give them space to breed and could help increase the population of the critically endangered animals. It was Kenya’s biggest rhino relocation ever. The rhinos were moved over the course of nearly three weeks from three parks where their numbers are increasing to a private conservancy where herds were wiped out by poaching decades ago. Читать дальше...

A trial is scheduled to begin Thursday in North Dakota's years-old lawsuit seeking $38 million from the federal government for policing protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-17. The state filed the lawsuit in 2019, followed by years of legal wrangling before a judge set the trial date in December. The lawsuit relates to the state and local law enforcement response to the sometimes chaotic protests that occurred from about August 2016 to February 2017. The oil pipeline's controversial Missouri... Читать дальше...

The former mother-in-law of the woman who opened fire at a Houston megachurch says she tried for years to alert authorities and other, including church staff, to her ex-daughter-in-law’s mental health struggles. But Walli Carranza says no one seemed listen or take action. Carranza told The Associated Press on Wednesday she believes systemic failures and lax gun laws led to Sunday’s shooting at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. Police say Genesse Moreno entered the church with her 7-year-old son and opened fire in a hallway. Читать дальше...