Two-term Maine governor and former U.S. Rep. Joe Brennan has died at age 89. Brennan was a Democrat whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views. He was also an Army veteran who attended Boston College under the G.I. Bill and graduated from the University of Maine Law School. A longtime friend says Brennan died Friday evening at his home in Portland with his wife at his side. That was just a few blocks from the third-floor tenement housing on Munjoy Hill where his Irish immigrant parents raised a family of eight children. Читать дальше...
Small town businesses are embracing the eclipse crowds, as weekend festivities heat up before Monday's big event. Overcast skies are forecast for Monday's cosmic wonder across Texas, already packing in eclipse chasers. Daytime darkness will follow a narrow corridor from Mexico's Pacific coast to Texas and 14 other states all the way to Maine and the eastern fringes of Canada. Waxahachie, a half-hour's drive south of Dallas, is pulling out all the stops with eclipse-themed soap and other goodies.... Читать дальше...
CONWAY, Arkansas (AP) — Police in central Arkansas shot a man after he fired at officers from inside a business at a shopping mall Saturday morning.
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Power restoration efforts in Maine and New Hampshire have entered yet another day as more than 100,000 homes and businesses remain in the dark several days after a powerful spring storm. Maine’s largest electric utility warned on Saturday that service will not be restored for some customers until Monday or Tuesday despite the efforts of 1,125 line crews and 400 tree-trimming crews. The bulk of the power outages are in southern Maine. New Hampshire had more than 10,000 homes and businesses without electricity. Читать дальше...
New York City's skyscrapers might seem especially vulnerable to earthquakes like the one Friday. But engineering experts say skyscrapers are built with enough flexibility to withstand them. Experts say New York’s skyscrapers have been generally built to withstand winds and other impacts far greater than the earthquakes generally seen on the East Coast. The 4.8 magnitude quake Friday morning was centered about 45 miles west of the city in New Jersey. Aftershocks continued, with a 2.5 magnitude quake on Saturday morning. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump’s campaign is expecting to raise more than $40 million on Saturday when major donors gather for his biggest fundraiser yet. The event at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson is expected to bring in $43 million, according to the host. It's expected to top the single-event fundraising record recently set by Democratic President Joe Biden, who raised $26 million at a gathering with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Trump and the Republican Party... Читать дальше...
Procter & Gamble is recalling more than 8 million bags of Tide, Gain, Ace and Ariel laundry detergent packets sold in the U.S. and Canada. That's because there's a defect in the products’ child-resistant packaging. According to P&G and regulators in both the U.S. and Canada, the outer packaging meant to prevent easy access to the liquid laundry detergent pods can split open near the zipper track — posing serious risks to children and others who may ingest them. It could also lead to possible skin or eye injuries. Читать дальше...
Authorities are seeking a suspect who allegedly started a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The small blaze Friday caused minor damage but no injuries. Police in Burlington say a male suspect sprayed something on the office door, lit it on fire and fled. The Burlington Fire Department responded Friday morning and found a fire between the vestibule, the elevator and the entrance door of Sanders' third-floor office. The fire was extinguished and no one was injured, though... Читать дальше...
As the presidential election draws nearer, the spread of bogus information online is getting a huge boost from social media accounts that have been created anonymously. A post this past week about a surge in new voters registering without photo ID is the latest example of how these accounts have come to dominate right-wing political discussion online. The post was intended to imply that people who are in the United States illegally were planning to vote this year. The accounts enjoy a massive reach... Читать дальше...
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee report raising more than $90 million in March and ending the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand. They're further stretching their money advantage over Donald Trump and the Republicans. The Biden campaign and its affiliated entities reported collecting $187 million from January through March. Trump and the Republican National Committee have said they raised about $65.5 million in March and had... Читать дальше...
MOSCÚ (AP) — Una cápsula espacial rusa con dos mujeres y un hombre a bordo aterrizó el sábado en la estepa de Kazajistán tras sus misiones en la Estación Espacial Internacional.
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Ever since the Federal Reserve signaled last fall that it was likely done raising interest rates, Wall Street traders, economists, would-be homeowners — pretty much everyone — began obsessing over a single question: When will the Fed start cutting rates? But now, with the U.S. economy showing surprising vigor, a different question has arisen: Will the central bank really cut rates three times this year, as the Fed itself has predicted — or even cut at all? A blockbuster March jobs report reinforced... Читать дальше...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a new semiconductor plant for which his government has pledged more than $7 billion of support to secure a steady supply of chips. The new plant on the southwestern island of Kyushu, majority owned by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is the Taiwanese semiconductor giant’s first in Japan. Kishida expressed his sympathies over the earthquake that recently hit Taiwan as he was given a tour of the plant Saturday. Japan has recently earmarked about $33 billion to revive its chips industry... Читать дальше...
Efforts to ban TikTok from government devices have picked up steam in the past year in state legislatures and Congress even as politicians continue to use it to connect with and expand their base. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is a prolific poster, but legislation seeking to ban the app from state networks and devices could reach his desk soon. Researchers say using social media to connect with constituents has a long history. And it's largely Democrats having the internal debate about using TikTok... Читать дальше...
Lottery players are getting another shot at a Powerball jackpot that has grown to an estimated $1.3 billion after more than three months without a winner. There have been 40 consecutive drawings since the last time someone won Powerball’s top prize on New Year’s Day. The jackpot ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history and has grown so large because the long odds of 1 in 292.2 million make winning so difficult. The $1.3 billion prize is for a sole winner who is paid through an annuity. Читать дальше...
The northwestern Indiana city of Gary sued several big-name gun manufacturers and retailers in 1999, saying they could do more to prevent illegal firearm sales. In November, a judge finally ordered the companies to turn over years of business records. At that point, Republican state lawmakers intervened. A law signed by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb in March prohibits anyone but the state from bringing civil action against the firearms industry. The law is applied retroactively, meaning Gary's lawsuit is effectively moot. Читать дальше...
Southest Asian finance ministers and central bank governors have ended meetings in the Laotian city of Luang Prabang citing progress in building stronger regional institutions, but also noting serious challenges due to geopolitical tensions and volatile commodity prices. Laos’ Finance Minister Santiphab Phomvihane read out a joint statement after the meetings at a hotel outside the city, a UNESCO heritage site, but made no other remarks and took no questions. Estimates for economic growth in members... Читать дальше...
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeals to Chinese leaders to change their domestic manufacturing policies on the second day of an official visit, state media are receiving her message with skepticism, and anxiety about more U.S. tariffs on green energy products. Yellen started her five-day visit in Guangzhou and has focused the trip on what the U.S. considers to be unfair Chinese trade practices. The official Xinhua News Agency wrote Saturday that "talking up ‘Chinese overcapacity’ in the... Читать дальше...
A migrant farmworker who survived a mass shooting at a Northern California mushroom farm has filed a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners. The lawsuit filed this week says the owner failed to keep him safe from the co-worker who authorities say committed the killings last year. Prosecutors say Chunli Zhao barged into the shipping container that was home to Pedro Romero Perez and his brother Jose Romero Perez and opened fire, killing Jose and wounding Pedro. Prosecutors say Zhao killed three other colleagues at the farm on Jan... Читать дальше...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suggesting that the prosecution of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may be politically motivated. Kennedy’s statement, issued by his campaign on Friday, further aligns him with former President Donald Trump’s narrative of the attack that delayed the certification of his 2020 loss and led to his impeachment. It comes a day after he came under fire for a fundraising email that painted a sympathetic portrait... Читать дальше...
Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal case is set to go to trial, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. Trump’s lawyers urged Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan to step aside from the case, alleging a conflict of interest and bias because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant. The judge rejected a similar request last August. In court papers made public Friday... Читать дальше...
A man found guilty but mentally ill in the killing of an Indianapolis police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting his then-girlfriend but to time served for killing the officer. The city’s police chief calls the sentence “deeply” disappointing. Thirty-one-year-old Elliahs Dorsey was found guilty but mentally ill of reckless homicide in February of killing Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Breann Leath in 2020 as she responded to a domestic violence call. Читать дальше...
California-based 99 Cents Only Stores says it will close all 371 of its outlets effective Friday. The shuttering ends the chain's 42-year run of selling an assortment of bargain-basement merchandise. The company has stores across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas. Interim CEO Mike Simoncic said in a statement that the retailer has struggled for years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in consumer demand, inflation and rising levels of product “shrink” — a measure that encompasses losses from employee theft... Читать дальше...
President Joe Biden has written to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel. The letters come one day after Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to redouble efforts to reach a cease-fire in the six-month-old war in Gaza. A senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private letters, says Biden’s national security adviser will meet Monday with family members of some of the estimated... Читать дальше...
A federal judge in North Dakota has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured during a chaotic protest of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016. Sophia Wilansky alleged officers “attacked her with less-lethal and explosive munitions” and nearly severed her hand. She sought millions of dollars in damages. She filed her lawsuit in 2018, followed by years of legal wrangling. The judge on Wednesday granted motions to dismiss the case. The controversial pipeline has been transporting oil since 2017.
