Новости за 11.05.2022

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's second-largest school district had “vague, overbroad and unconstitutional" restrictions on educators' freedom of speech, a judge ruled.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegal voting after filling out a provisional ballot while on parole in 2016 won a key ruling Wednesday in her effort to have the conviction overturned.

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was scheduled Wednesday to become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal by the prisoner to halt it.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb said Wednesday it is overhauling the way that consumers search for rental listings, adding dozens of categories including “chef's kitchens” and “historical homes” to its current listings, which are mostly searched by location.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Two people were shot and wounded after someone fired at a church in North Carolina, and shots were fired into a car while it was at a police station, authorities said.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former state Supreme Court justice hired to investigate the 2020 election in battleground Wisconsin will receive only half of his taxpayer-funded salary while he pauses the review to fight five lawsuits, the Assembly speaker said Wednesday.

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A 28-year-old man who was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank awaited arraignment Wednesday on charges he killed his mother at sea to inherit the family’s estate.

LONDON (AP) — Google said Wednesday that it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lawmakers investigating the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene voted unanimously Wednesday to hold the former head of the Louisiana State Police in contempt for defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the handwritten journals he kept while leading the state's premier law enforcement agency.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools that were supported by the U.S. government and more than 50 associated burial sites, a figure that could grow exponentially as research continues.

WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 11, 2022

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Revenue is reminding people that the state income tax filing deadline is almost here. A news release notes that the deadline is Monday, and anyone who wants an extension must ask before then.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are stumbling mostly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after inflation slowed last month but still came in worse than feared.

POLO, Mo. (AP) — An elderly woman died in one of three fires early Tuesday near a small northwest Missouri town that apparently were intentionally set, authorities said.

"How are we a fun place? We have these awesome meme makers that make the coolest cartoons you've ever seen," Devin Nunes said of Truth Social.

Officials seized a massive load of illicit drugs, including 15 pounds of fentanyl, from a car at a high school parking lot, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said.

Statistics say the way to stop crime is to increase public spaces. So why is one Central California police department determined to take over the town’s library? 

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — After an outcry from students and parents over yearbook censorship, a Florida school board overruled their superintendent's plan to cover up a page showing students waving rainbow flags and a “love is love” sign during a walkout against the state's so-called “Don't Say Gay" law.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities arrested a Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and two others on Wednesday on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China's national security, reports said.

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A Florida man has pleaded guilty in connection with the theft of more than 2,600 checks intended for religious institutions in several states that were deposited into fake bank accounts, a federal prosecutor in Maryland said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Winkler is busy as ever these days, but the actor is still making time to write a memoir.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators have determined that an oil company’s failure to take adequate safety precautions contributed to a drilling site explosion near Grassy Butte last November that permanently disabled one worker and left two others with serious injuries.

The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Morris will attempt to step further into the smoke-free tobacco market, offering to buy the chewing tobacco company Swedish Match for about $16 billion in cash.

HONG KONG (AP) — Reports: Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others arrested in Hong Kong on foreign collusion, national security charges.