Gov. Bill Richardson on North Korea, Technology and the Sony Hack
Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric talked live with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson about his view on the Sony hack and North Korean involvement.
Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric talked live with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson about his view on the Sony hack and North Korean involvement.
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial fined the former president on Tuesday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could see him thrown in jail.Lamenting that he could not impose a fine "more commensurate with the wealth of the contemnor," the judge warned the former president that he could be sent to jail if he continues to violate the gag order.
Protesters from a Palestinian university chased a group of European diplomats out of a museum in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday over what activists said was their position on the Gaza war.The national Palestinian Museum is located in the West Bank city of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, next to Birzeit University.
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Lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year, authorities said Tuesday, claiming success against people who were “gaming the system” by submitting multiple, sometimes dubious, applications to unfairly increase chances of being selected. Major technology companies that use H-1B visas sought changes after massive increases in bids left their employees and prospective hires with slimmer chances of winning the random lottery. Bids tripled from 2021 to 2023 after the government said it would no longer require people to mail bulky paperwork to be eligible for the lottery, saying that time-consuming, expensive task could wait until they won one of up to 85,000 slots awarded annually.
Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations committed Tuesday to phase out coal power by 2035, marking the first time the G7 has explicitly referenced a phase-out, but left flexibility for countries heavily reliant on coal. Italy’s environment and energy security minister, Gilberto Picchetto Fratin, emphasized the significance of targeting coal, “the source of most emissions.” The communique puts a timeline to countries' commitments made at the COP 28 conference last year in Dubai, which called for accelerating the phase-down of so-called unabated coal power, where emissions have not been captured.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez got back to work on Tuesday, a day after he announced he would stay on following days of weighing his future in response to a graft probe targeting his wife.- 'Manipulated and insulted' - In a sombre televised address on Monday, Sanchez announced he had "decided to stay" on as prime minister and would lead a fight back against "toxic" politics and spur the "democratic renewal which our country needs".
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Jurors on Tuesday will hear more from Gary Farro, a banker who once worked with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
G7 ministers agreed a timeframe Tuesday for phasing out coal-fired power plants, setting as a goal the mid-2030s, in a move hailed as significant by some environmentalists but slammed as "too late" by others.Some countries, and many environmentalists, had been pushing for a 2030 limit, but Japan -- which relies heavily on coal -- was reluctant to set a date.
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The White House denounced non-peaceful efforts to protest the war in Gaza on Tuesday as students at Columbia University occupied a campus building, saying it was "the wrong approach." White House spokesman John Kirby said the White House was watching the escalating protests on U.S. campuses carefully, even as protests also spread in Europe and the region.
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Investors marked time ahead of the Fed's rate decision, with earnings from Amazon on deck to test prospects for a Big Tech-fueled bump.
US forces were expected to complete a floating pier on Gaza's coast later this week, allowing more aid deliveries into the besieged Palestinian territory, the president of Cyprus said Tuesday. Aid will be taken by commercial vessels to a floating platform off the Gaza coast, then transferred to smaller vessels and brought to the pier for distribution on land.
A mom has gone viral on TikTok after sharing her toddler was hearing "monster" in her bedroom walls. What they found was "like a horror movie."
The U.S. State Department unveiled its proposal to reduce licensing requirements for transferring military equipment and sensitive technology to Australia and Britain as part of the AUKUS defense project. AUKUS, formed in 2021 to address shared worries about China's growing power, would involve Australia acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines, among other items of defense cooperation. Under the rule change proposed by the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday, the Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) will no longer be required to license or approve defense articles, which will reduce some administrative burdens for companies seeking to make defense products in Australia or the UK.
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Argentina grains ports were being impacted by strike action against government reforms for a second day on Tuesday, industry officials told Reuters, hitting shipments of soy, corn and wheat from one of the world's top grains exporting countries. Gustavo Idígoras, head of the CIARA-CEC chamber of grain exporters and processors, told Reuters that "there are no operations in the ports".
Hours after Columbia University's deadline for students to disband their encampment to avoid suspension, emboldened protesters have taken over a hall.