Category: AP

Mar 16

Former Tesla worker settles discrimination case, ending appeals over lowered $3.2 million verdict

Article content SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla and a Black man who worked at the company’s California factory have settled a long-running discrimination case that drew attention to the electric vehicle maker’s treatment of minorities. Owen Diaz, who was awarded nearly $3.2 million by a federal jury last April, reached a “final, binding settlement agreement […]
Mar 16

US to investigate Texas fatal crash that may have involved Ford partially automated driving system

Article content DETROIT (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system. The agency said in a statement Friday that a team of investigators from its Office of Highway Safety will travel to […]
Mar 12

As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Haleluya Hadero Published Mar 12, 2024  •  4 minute read Join the conversation Article content WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress […]
Mar 10

Police remove 34 bodies from English funeral home and arrest 2 for fraud and preventing burial

Article content LONDON (AP) — Nearly three dozen bodies were removed from a funeral home in northern England, and a man and woman were arrested Sunday on suspicion of fraud and preventing a lawful burial, police said. Humberside Police announced the developments after five days of investigation at three branches of Legacy Funeral Directors in […]
Mar 6

US official says Boeing hasn’t turned over records about work on the panel that blew off a jetliner

Article content Boeing has refused to tell investigators who worked on the door plug that later blew off a jetliner during flight in January, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The company also hasn’t provided documentation about a repair job that included removing and reinstalling the panel on the Boeing 737 […]
Mar 2

Norway’s hospitalized king gets a pacemaker in Malaysia after falling ill during vacation

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Jari Tanner Published Mar 02, 2024  •  2 minute read Join the conversation Article content HELSINKI (AP) — King Harald of Norway was implanted with a temporary pacemaker Saturday at a hospital in Malaysia’s resort island of Langkawi, where Europe’s oldest monarch was […]