Новости за 20.02.2024

A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island homes is before a Georgia judge, who must decide whether to allow lawyers to amend the civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed. Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island sat in court Tuesday as an attorney for McIntosh County's government argued that their lawsuit must be thrown out because of technical errors that clash with a 2020 change to Georgia's state constitution. The residents' lawyers want a chance to fix those problems. Читать дальше...

Nikki Haley's allies are bracing for a big loss in her home state’s primary election in South Carolina on Saturday. And there are no primary wins on the horizon in other states either. Haley tells The Associated Press that she will not leave the Republican primary election regardless of Saturday’s result. And she vowed to stay in the fight against Donald Trump at least until after Super Tuesday’s slate of 16 contests on March 5. Haley later told supporters in a speech outlining her rationale for... Читать дальше...

Arkhouse Management is nominating nine people for Macy’s board of directors, igniting a proxy battle after the department store operator rejected a $5.8 billion takeover offer from the investment firm and Brigade Capital Management. Macy’s Inc. said Tuesday that it had been seeking additional financing information from Arkhouse and Brigade to possibly advance talks with its board. But Macy’s said instead of making an attempt to provide additional information, Arkhouse sent a letter earlier this month... Читать дальше...

Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry. After graduating from Stanford University, Mayer joined Google in 1999 when the internet search giant was still a startup and then went on to design breakthrough products such as Gmail. She left Google in 2012 to become CEO of Yahoo in an unsuccessful to turn around the fading internet pioneer. The 48-year-old Mayer now runs an artificial intelligence... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021. The justices did not comment Tuesday in leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. The mask requirement was part of the House’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mandate remained in place even after the U.S. Centers for... Читать дальше...

Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports. The one-day strike by the Ver.di labor union runs until Wednesday morning and affects several hundred flights at Lufthansa’s main hubs in Frankfurt and Munich as well as airports in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart. Germany's rail and local transport sectors also have seen strikes this year. Unions want higher wages and better... Читать дальше...

A court in the Russian capital has ruled to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody pending his trial on espionage charges that he denies. The Moscow City Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal against Gershkovich’s detention filed by his lawyers, upholding an earlier ruling to keep him behind bars until the end of March. The court’s order means that Gershkovich, who's 32, will spend at least a year behind bars in Russia after his arrest in March 2023. Speaking in an interview... Читать дальше...

Home Depot’s sales continued to weaken in its fiscal fourth quarter, as the country’s largest home improvement retailer deals with Americans who remain concerned about high mortgage rates and inflation. While its quarterly results topped analysts’ expectations, it provided a soft sales forecast for fiscal 2024. Shares slipped before the market open on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden is California-bound as he looks to soak up more cash for his reelection bid with a three-day swing through the state. Biden heads first to Los Angeles on Tuesday, where he will take part in a fundraiser as he tries to fortify his campaign war chest for what is likely to be a costly rematch with former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner. Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee say they collected $42 million in contributions during January from 422,000 donors. Читать дальше...

The Biden administration says it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid for by one of its key legislative victories. The money will go to projects in all 50 states, bringing the total awarded to states for water infrastructure projects to $22 billion. It comes from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed into law during his first year in office. Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection... Читать дальше...

China's central bank has cut its five-year loan prime rate while leaving its one-year rate unchanged. It was the first time the five-year rate, which is a benchmark for mortgage rates, was cut since May. The five year rate was lowered by 0.25 basis points to 3.95% while the one-year rate remains at 3.45%. There was scant immediate reaction in markets to the decision, with the Shanghai Composite index remaining nearly unchanged by midday Tuesday. As markets reopened after a weeklong Lunar New Year holiday break... Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday on the second day Chinese markets were open after the Lunar New Year break.

South Korean trainee doctors have collectively walked off their jobs to protest a government medical policy, triggering cancellations of surgeries and other medical treatments at hospitals. The Health Ministry on Tuesday urged them to return to work immediately, saying they must not endanger the lives of patients to fight the government. The ministry said as of Monday night more than half of the 13,000 trainee doctors in South Korea were confirmed to have submitted resignations and that 1,630 of them have left their work sites. Читать дальше...

A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged in the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is due in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing. Prosecutors and Duane Davis' new defense attorney are expected to provide an update on the case following a judge's ruling last month on Davis' custody status while he awaits a June trial date. The judge decided that Davis can be placed on house arrest if posts $750,000 bail and proves that the source of his bail money is legal. Davis has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Читать дальше...

The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin, when a South Carolina man will face charges that he killed a Black transgender woman by shooting her three times in the head. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter coaxed her into driving to a sparsely populated rural county. In recent years there has been a surge in attacks on the LGBTQ+ community with transgender women of color facing disproportionately high rates of violence. Читать дальше...

Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s biggest lenders and credit card issuers. Discover Financial shareholders will receive Capital One shares valued at nearly $140, according to a news release issued by the companies Monday. Discover shares closed Friday trading at $110.49. Virginia-based Capital One was the 12th largest U.S. bank as of the third quarter. Illinois-based Discover was the 33rd biggest. Both... Читать дальше...

A study has found more than 57% of Argentina's people are considered poor, the worst poverty level in 20 years. The findings unleashed accusations between former Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the government of President Javier Milei. The study was done by the social debt observatory at the Catholic University of Argentina. Its reports on poverty cover a larger area than those done by the national statistics agency and its findings are seldom questioned. The study released over... Читать дальше...

Court records show that a man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded suburban-Minneapolis neighborhood wasn’t legally allowed to have guns. He also was entangled in a yearslong dispute over the custody and financial support of his three oldest children. Authorities on Monday identified 38-year-old Shannon Gooden as the man who opened fire on police in the affluent suburb of Burnsville after they responded to a domestic disturbance call early Sunday. The... Читать дальше...

Eleven suspects have been arrested in an investigation into illegal drugs allegedly delivered by drones into a federal prison in southern West Virginia. McDowell County Sheriff James Muncy says his office was contacted in November by officials at the medium-security Federal Correctional Facility, McDowell in Welch to help with increased drone use in the area. Muncy says the arrests were made from mid-December through early February. The sheriff says one of the suspects is a juvenile. Another man who fled officers on foot was later found dead. Читать дальше...