Nearly three years later, former Nissan executive Greg Kelly is still wondering why the questions that led to his arrest and trial in Japan weren’t simply taken up in the automaker’s corporate boardroom. Kelly, an American lawyer who worked for three decades for Nissan Motor Co., is awaiting a verdict… Read More
Tensions grow over aid as more than 2K are counted dead from quake
Tensions have been growing over the slow pace of aid reaching victims of a powerful weekend earthquake that killed more than 2,100 people in Haiti and was trailed by a drenching tropical depression. At the small airport in the southwestern community of Les Cayes, throngs of people gathered outside the… Read More
Stock market mixed as investors wait on Federal Reserve
Stocks were wavering between gains and losses in morning trading Wednesday, a day after the S&P 500 had its biggest drop in four weeks and broke a five-day winning streak. Investors are waiting to hear from the Federal Reserve, which will release the minutes from its latest policy meeting in… Read More
T-Mobile confirms data breach, says it’s investigating scope
T-Mobile says it is investigating a leak of its data after someone took to an online forum offering to sell the personal information of cellphone users. The company said Monday that it has confirmed there was unauthorized access to “some T-Mobile data” but was still determining the scope of the… Read More
US investigates Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles
The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.ga The investigation covers 765,000 vehicles, almost everything that Tesla has sold in the U.S. since the start of the 2014 model year. Of the crashes identified… Read More
Rural population loss contributes to farm labor shortage
Rural America lost more population in the latest census, highlighting an already severe worker shortage in the nation’s farming and ranching regions and drawing calls from those industries for immigration reform to help ease the problem. The census data released last week showed that population gains in many rural areas… Read More
The air travel industry isn’t in the clear just yet!
Southwest Airlines said Wednesday that it no longer expects to turn a profit in the third quarter as a surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the highly contagious delta variant darkens the outlook for travel. The disclosure comes just three weeks after Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said the airline had… Read More
History expert conducts dig for infamous Boeing hijacker
Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.B. Cooper vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 into freezing Northwest rain — wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in cash — a crime historian is conducting a dig on the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver,… Read More
Hiring spree? Job growth report exceeds expectations
Despite an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a shortage of available workers, the U.S. economy likely enjoyed a burst of job growth last month as it bounced back with surprising vigor from last year’s coronavirus shutdown. The Labor Department’s July jobs report Friday is expected to show that the United… Read More
States giving away $15k bonuses — here’s why
Faced with a labor shortage and a growing number of vacancies, Nebraska state officials are offering bigger incentive packages to try to get people to work in the state’s prisons, veterans homes and other facilities that require around-the-clock staffing. State officials said the new, more generous bonuses are a short-term… Read More
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