Новости за 29.10.2024

An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Prosecutors said Arthur Ray Hanson made the calls because he was angry over Willis' investigation into former President Donald Trump. The calls were made just over a week before Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County in August 2023 over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge... Читать дальше...

A Grateful Dead scholar pens a loving tribute to the recently deceased bassist.

With early voting underway, false and misleading reports have emerged online. A woman who was shown in a video shouting at a young girl in a stroller outside the rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday was falsely identified. She was not a former employee of the Harris County Democratic Party.

Four German shepherd puppies were found dead on the roadside.

For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows’ Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country, but not in Des Moines. In Iowa’s capital city, residents took a different approach more than seven decades ago in hopes of tamping down on hooliganism. Instead, Des Moines children don their costumes on Beggars’ Night, typically the day before Halloween. And besides screaming, “Trick-or-Treat,” children... Читать дальше...

The Associated Press has been calling elections for decades. In this episode of The Story Behind The AP Story, we peel back the curtain and take a look at what goes into calling those races and polling the electorate on the issues that matter to them.

Counties in Philadelphia’s suburbs are being asked to reject the mail-in ballot applications of hundreds of voters in what the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said are illegal challenges. The challenges question the voter’s residence based on a supposed match with a U.S. Postal Service change-of-address database. Diane Houser, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, says the challenges are nonpartisan and target people who moved out of state. However, the ACLU says voters can... Читать дальше...

Pennsylvania voters are expected to play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress and the state Legislature hanging in the balance. With its 19 electoral votes, the commonwealth is the largest prize among the battleground states and an important piece of both campaigns’ paths to victory. Both Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump have made frequent visits to the state since becoming their parties’ nominees... Читать дальше...

Aiyuk won't play again in 2024 and has a long road to recover in time for 2025, too.

Amani Joy Ward was 23 months old.

Feds "forced" a California tribe to take a name. Now it's casino branding.

The teenager accused in a stabbing rampage that killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and faces a terror offense. Merseyside Police say Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is charged with murdering three girls and stabbing 10 other people in July, had produced ricin that was later found in his home. Police say he also had an Al-Qaida jihad training manual. Rudakubana already faces three counts of murder over the deaths of Alice Dasilva Aguiar... Читать дальше...

"Full disclosure, this is the watered-down version of the original column."

A 15-year-old Colorado girl is hospitalized with severe complications of E. coli food poisoning in an outbreak linked to McDonald's. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, ate Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before the outbreak was detected. She was infected with a strain of E. coli that can cause severe kidney damage. The high school freshman is among at least 75 people sickened and 22 hospitalized in the outbreak tentatively tied to contaminated onions. One person has died. Kamberlyn's... Читать дальше...

That's a term the former president also has used to reference the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe. The Advocate reports the consent agreement between DuPont and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was filed Sept. 25. That's about 2½ years after an unannounced inspection found several releases of benzene at levels greater than federal rules allowed. A DuPont Specialty Products spokesperson says the... Читать дальше...

An electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. A preliminary report released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board report describes the Oct. 5 flight from San Diego. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured. Federal investigators say crew members declared an emergency about 19 minutes before the landing. Читать дальше...

MADRID (AP) — MADRID (AP) — Banco Santander SA (SAN) on Tuesday reported net income of $3.57 billion in its third quarter.

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. That's the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. The agency's new report was released Tuesday. It also says that TB has likely returned to being the world’s leading infectious disease killer after being replaced by COVID-19. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year. WHO says TB continues to mostly affect people in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Western Pacific. Читать дальше...

A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student. Court records show that Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged in September with forcible sodomy and attempted forcible rape. He is accused of forcing a teenage girl to perform sex acts in the late 2000s when she was a student at Lighthouse Christian Academy in Piedmont. Smith faces a court hearing on Thursday. Messages were left Tuesday with Smith and his attorney. Читать дальше...

It's as if Mother Nature shut off the rain faucet in the United States in October. More than 100 cities across the nation are reporting their driest October so far. In June, less than 12% of the US was in drought. Now it's nearly half and growing. Meteorologists say the country is going through a flash drought, something the world is seeing more of as Earth's climate changes. No rain was measured in October in New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and many other places. Читать дальше...

Global Forecast as of 18:00 GMT Tuesday, October 29, 2024

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City/Town, Country;Tuesday's Weather Condition;Tuesday's High Temp (C);Tuesday's Low Temp (C);Wednesday's Weather Condition;Wednesday's High Temp (C);Wednesday's Low Temp (C);Wednesday's Wind Direction;Wednesday's Wind Speed (KPH);Wednesday's Humidity (%);Wednesday's Chance of Precip. (%);Wednesday's UV Index

Abidjan, Ivory Coast;A shower or two;29;24;A t-storm around;30;25;SSW;12;81%;76%;9

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Global Forecast as of 18:00 GMT Tuesday, October 29, 2024

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City/Town, Country;Tuesday's Weather Condition;Tuesday's High Temp (F);Tuesday's Low Temp (F);Wednesday's Weather Condition;Wednesday's High Temp (F);Wednesday's Low Temp (F);Wednesday's Wind Direction;Wednesday's Wind Speed (MPH);Wednesday's Humidity (%);Wednesday's Chance of Precip. (%);Wednesday's UV Index

Abidjan, Ivory Coast;A shower or two;84;76;A t-storm around;86;76;SSW;8;81%;76%;9

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CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue:

Snow dusted the summits of Maunakea and Mauna Loa on Sunday and Monday.