Boeing CEO David Calhoun defended the company's safety record during a Senate hearing earlier this week, while lawmakers accused him of placing profits over safety, failing to protect whistleblowers and even getting paid too much. Relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners were in the room, some holding photos [...]
Facing upheaval on the way in college athletics, a handful of administrators and athletes from smaller schools have been working on a new model of governance. The hope by members of the Football Championship Subdivision and Division I-AAA (programs without football) is to give their athletes more of a say and essentially treat them more [...]
A southwest Ohio lawmaker is calling on the state’s chancellor of higher education to audit college programs intended to prepare teachers for classroom, behavior and mental-health management in response to attrition among teachers and decreased interest in the profession. Rep. Andrea White, R-Kettering, said the mandate expressed in House Bill 572 should provide the Department [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office earlier last week said it projects this year's federal budget deficit to be $400 billion higher, a 27 percent increase compared to its original estimate released in February. Government officials said some of the reasons for the change include: higher costs from the supplemental spending package signed in [...]
CAMDEN, Maine — Wealth and hubris fuel the tale of a politically connected Missouri couple who allegedly poisoned their neighbor’s trees to secure their million-dollar view of Camden Harbor. The incident that was unearthed by the victim herself — the philanthropic wife of L.L. Bean’s late president — has united local residents in outrage. To [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government has acknowledged its role during the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest to the detriment of Native Americans whose villages were inundated and sources of food reduced, while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities. In a new report, the Biden administration said [...]
MILAN — The post-pandemic surge in global sales of luxury handbags, shoes and apparel is set to stall this year amid a creativity crisis and price hikes as brands shift focus to the biggest spending customers, a new study by the Bain consultancy said. Bain is forecasting flat worldwide luxury sales in 2024 following a [...]