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CA: LYFT DRIVER ASSAULTED BY UNRULY PASSENGER
A Lyft driver Wednesday credited employees at a La Puente gas station for saving him from a passenger after a ride turned violent.
Continue ReadingA Lyft driver Wednesday credited employees at a La Puente gas station for saving him from a passenger after a ride turned violent.
Continue ReadingTech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google could be forced to make sweeping changes to their businesses under a series of new bills introduced Friday by House lawmakers targeting the companies’ economic dominance. The bipartisan legislation marks Congress’s most significant push to date to rein in Silicon Valley, in some cases taking direct aim
Continue ReadingIf you were to judge Newsmax’s views about Facebook by what its hosts say on-air, you would probably be under the impression that the right-wing channel sees the social media company as an enemy of the conservative movement. Greg Kelly has described Facebook as a “liberal group” that is “trying to skew the next election”
Continue ReadingA new cleaning regimen is cutting back on flight delays as the skies grow busier this summer. But the new procedures aren’t for planes or even airport terminals — they’re for air traffic control towers. The cleaning methods are being instituted in Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control towers and facilities around the country, federal
Continue ReadingCar dealer lots have only a fraction of the vehicles — both new and used — that they typically have. That’s helping send prices to record levels and lifting the nation’s overall inflation rate. And the price increases aren’t over yet. The average new car price hit a record $38,255 in May, according to JD
Continue ReadingThe Pulitzer Prizes recognize some of the year’s most important journalism. This year, someone who isn’t a professional journalist, but whose actions had as much impact as any, is among those being honored. Darnella Frazier, who filmed the death of George Floyd, received a special citation, Aminda Marqués González, co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board,
Continue ReadingVertical Aerospace, a UK electric aircraft manufacturer, has won the backing of American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Microsoft in its bid to make urban air travel a reality. The startup revealed on Thursday that it has pre-orders for up to 1,000 of its zero-emissions VA-X4 vertical takeoff aircraft, worth as much as $4 billion, as
Continue ReadingMcDonald’s is the latest high-profile company to be affected by a data breach, leading to the exposure of private information of customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan. The burger chain said in a statement Friday that an investigation revealed a “small number of files were accessed,” some of which had personal data. McDonald’s
Continue ReadingGovernment data help policymakers find and fix problems for people in need. But that’s tricky if some groups aren’t represented in the stats. This is the case for the LGBTQ+ community, and it’s a huge problem. Here’s an example: The government’s monthly jobs report shows how many men and women, Black, White, Asian and Hispanic
Continue ReadingThe theater industry has gotten help from a lot of sources so far this year. First, it was a radioactive lizard fighting a giant ape, then it was Emily Blunt quietly outrunning monsters. Now it’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s turn to save the box office. “In the Heights,” a film based on Miranda’s Tony Award-winning 2008 musical
Continue ReadingAs leaders of most of the world’s largest economies gather in Cornwall, England, expect political fanfare and lots of attention on US President Joe Biden, who is seeking to reassert America’s dominance on the global stage. But there are plenty of issues up for discussion among the Group of Seven — which includes Canada, France,
Continue ReadingDidi, China’s giant ride-hailing company, filed paperwork for an initial public offering in the United States with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The company, which describes itself as the world’s largest mobility platform, offers ride hailing, taxi and carpooling services in China and other countries, including Brazil and Mexico. Didi is also investing
Continue ReadingIt was supposed to be an exciting trip home to surprise his parents in the United States, his family said. But on May 24, before he boarded the plane at Yangon International Airport, in Myanmar’s biggest city, Danny Fenster, 37, was stopped by security forces and inexplicably taken into custody. Four months earlier, Myanmar’s military
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Thursday night was the end of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” on E! and the end of a reality TV era. The show “reinvented pop culture and changed the definition of celebrity,” Variety’s Elizabeth Wagmeister
Continue ReadingTaiwanese officials are fretting about whether a severe outbreak of Covid-19 could jeopardize the island’s critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain. But there’s another threat to the industry that experts worry may have even more drastic consequences: the climate crisis. Taiwan — which accounts for more than half of the world’s output of
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-4 Thursday in favor of a new six-story hotel near the corner of Cherry Street and Hitt Street. In January of 2020, the commission voted 6-1 to approve the potential new hotel called the Cherry Street Hotel. The hotel would sit at 1005 Cherry Street
Continue ReadingJeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as the network’s chief legal analyst on Thursday, eight months after he exposed himself during a Zoom call with colleagues at The New Yorker. Toobin was interviewed by anchor Alisyn Camerota on “CNN Newsroom” about that incident, and about recent legal news. “I feel like we should address what’s happened
Continue ReadingHackers have broken into the systems of Electronic Arts, one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, and stolen source code used in company games, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN Business on Thursday. Online forum posts reviewed by CNN Business and vetted by an independent cybersecurity expert show that on June 6, hackers claimed to
Continue ReadingColumbia city leaders, residents, participants and vendors say they are thrilled to see large-scale events like the Show-Me State Games and Missouri State Senior Games return to Columbia.
Continue ReadingNew York’s local businesses were hit hard by the pandemic, so one Israeli immigrant, now a Brooklyn resident, created an online marketplace to bring life back to the city’s struggling stores. When Covid-19 hit the United States last year, Maya Komerov saw shoppers flock to Amazon at the expense of the small businesses in their
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