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☆ Analysis: After Tucker Carlson’s softball interview, Putin walks away with propaganda victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It’s evident now why Vladimir Putin granted an interview to Tucker Carlson. At times, between the airing of grievances, Putin appeared to school Carlson on historical events as the host looked on in bewilderment. It was a massive propaganda victory for Putin, who can — and will – now twist the encounter for his own ends. “VLADIMIR PUTIN’S INTERVIEW GAINS OVER 20 MILLION VIEWERS IN FIRST TWO HOURS,” RT boasted in one on-screen graphic. At the end of the interview, Carlson asked Putin if he would be “willing to release” Evan Gershkovich, the imprisoned reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Persons: CNN —, Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Tucker, Putin, Alexei Navalny, Carlson, Putin’s, Clarissa Ward, “, ” Carlson, ” Putin, Putin’s mouthpieces, VLADIMIR PUTIN’S, Volodymyr Zelensky, Dmitry Peskov, ” Evan Gershkovich, Gershkovich, he’s, ”, Ted Mann, Evan, ’, ” Mann, “ Carlson, “ Evan Organizations: CNN, Fox News, Central Intelligence Agency, TASS, Wall Street Journal Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia, bewilderment, Kiev

☆ Delays in Acela Upgrade Have Cost Amtrak $140 Million…and Counting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The three-year wait for Amtrak ’s overdue new Acela train fleet has cost the railroad $140 million and counting, documents show, a setback for a company that has vowed to improve its stewardship of taxpayer money. As France-based trainmaker Alstom struggles with testing requirements and production defects on the $2.3 billion program to replace the Acela trains, Amtrak has had to spend millions of dollars in maintenance costs to keep its aging, existing fleet in operation.

Organizations: Amtrak, Alstom Locations: France

☆ Thomas Gryta — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Thomas Gryta | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Thomas GrytaThomas Gryta covers General Electric and corporate news for The Wall Street Journal in New York. His coverage spans how companies navigate the changing economy and society along with financial and operational challenges. He later covered the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry, then moved to the Journal in 2013 to cover telecommunications before shifting to the industrials beat in 2017. Tom is a former Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and studied history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. With Journal colleague Ted Mann, he is co-author of the book “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric,” which details the decline of the former titan of American business.

Persons: Thomas Gryta Thomas Gryta, Dow Jones, Tom, Ted Mann Organizations: Electric, Wall Street, Dow, Columbia University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, General Electric Locations: New York, London

All in all, Amtrak’s current plans call for a massive boost in annual capital investment, rising from $785 million in 2019 to more than $6.5 billion in 2025. The majority of that funding will go to infrastructure such as the tracks, switches, ballast and overhead wire that keep trains moving at high speeds, as well as plans to replace swaths of the railroad’s train fleet.

☆ It’s DeSantis and Ramaswamy vs. Their Alma Maters—Yale and Harvard
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Julie Bykowicz | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, 7ed771d3 Organizations: ramaswamy, harvard, yale

☆ On the Campaign Trail, It’s DeSantis and Ramaswamy vs. Harvard and Yale
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Julie Bykowicz | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Dow Jones, 7ed771d3 Organizations: ramaswamy, harvard, yale

☆ Whose Rail Line Is It Anyway? Freight Carriers Could Be Forced to Share Tracks With Competitors
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones

☆ European Rail Giants Fight for Slice of U.S. High-Speed Train Line
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones

☆ New York State Built Elon Musk a $1 Billion Factory. ‘It Was a Bad Deal.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Julie Bykowicz | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: elon

☆ Amtrak’s New $2 Billion High-Speed Acela Fleet Slowed by Century-Old Tracks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Ted Mann | Photographs Rachel Wisniewski For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Facebook, Twitter Rebuffed Sandy Hook Families’ Request for Data in Alex Jones Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alex Jones, accompanied by private security guards, arrived in October at the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn.Twitter and Facebook rebuffed subpoenas from families of the Sandy Hook school massacre victims, who were seeking internal company data to show how conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s false claims about the killings spread on social media, according to court documents and lawyers for the families. The fight last year over access to the social-media platforms’ data played out largely behind the scenes of the legal battle to hold Mr. Jones liable for his claims. The families of the victims in the 2012 massacre, in which a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, sued Mr. Jones and his companies, including the website Infowars, for defamation. Mr. Jones had claimed the shooting was an elaborate hoax.

BASTROP, TEXAS—Elon Musk’s companies are opening facilities across the country that come with promises of skilled jobs and economic growth. But some residents of this mostly rural area near Austin are watching with alarm as farmland turns into industrial development. Mr. Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company , and space-transportation company known as SpaceX, are constructing massive buildings and digging tunnels on more than 200 acres of unincorporated land along the Colorado River. The billionaire’s ambitions there also include a company town, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

☆ Military Contractors Square Off Over F-35 Jet Engine Program
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Brody Mullins | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

GE is lobbying Congress to fund an alternative engine for the Pentagon’s F-35 jet fighter. WASHINGTON—One of the biggest lobbying clashes in recent years is heating up again: the fight to fund an alternate engine to power the Pentagon’s F-35 jet fighter. More than a decade ago, engine-maker Pratt & Whitney and its allies in Congress won out over General Electric Co. to be the exclusive supplier for the next-generation fighter. Now GE is once again lobbying Congress to provide billions of dollars to fund an alternative engine it would build, citing what it calls the flaws in Pratt’s engine.

☆ U.S. vs. China: How Nuclear Capabilities Stack Up Across Land, Sea and Air
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Why Amtrak Service Is Slow in Most of the U.S. Amtrak says increasing service in cities like Phoenix and Atlanta will lead to more riders and more revenue. But one thing stands in the way: freight rail. WSJ’s Ted Mann explains why it's Amtrak’s biggest obstacle to expansion and improvement. Illustration: Ryan Trefes

☆ WWE’s Vince McMahon Settles With Ex-Wrestling Referee Who Accused Him of Rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Joe Palazzolo | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Vince McMahon , the executive chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., has agreed to a multimillion-dollar legal settlement with a former wrestling referee who accused him of raping her in 1986, according to people familiar with the agreement. Mr. McMahon’s settlement with Rita Chatterton, completed last month, averts a public legal fight over her allegations as Mr. McMahon pursues a possible sale of the company.

☆ As Infrastructure Windfall Approaches, Transit Agencies Grapple With How to Spend It
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Ted Mann | Julie Bykowicz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BOSTON—Federal money for big transit projects is on its way, and with it a new problem for transit agencies: balancing the need to repair with demands to expand service, while ensuring a windfall doesn’t go to waste. The $1 trillion infrastructure law has raised hopes among the agencies for new railcars, new buses and new lines stretching into underserved communities. But figuring out what to invest in could be harder than ever, with generations of neglect to address and commuter habits warped by the pandemic.

"The World Cup is an immense joy that revives us after suffering economic crisis for so long," Victorica said. "But soon we will have to fall back into reality and face the situations that weigh us down every day." "The World Cup gives us hope and the desire to believe," said Osvaldo Hassan, a 62-year-old merchant in Buenos Aires. World Cup wins can give a small boost to a country's economy in the months following, an academic paper from Britain's University of Surrey found, helping raise exports. Reporting by Rodrigo Campos in New York and Belen Liotti in Buenos Aires; Writing by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Amtrak Calls for Investigation Over Freight-Caused Delays in Southwest
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Amtrak is seeking to use new federal funds to boost the frequency of train service outside its traditional Northeast stronghold; a train in New Orleans. WASHINGTON—Amtrak is asking federal regulators to investigate Union Pacific Corp. over delays its freight trains have inflicted on the Sunset Limited, a long-distance passenger route from New Orleans to Los Angeles that is its worst-performing route in the country. In a Thursday filing to the Surface Transportation Board, Amtrak blamed interference from Union Pacific’s freight trains for delays along much of the 1,997-mile route and requested economic damages as well as other penalties.

☆ Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Ted Mann | Julie Bykowicz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ONTARIO, Calif.—The unsolicited proposal from Elon Musk’s tunnel-building venture arrived in January 2020. To the local transportation authority, it felt like finding Willy Wonka’s golden ticket. Officials had started planning for a street-level rail connection between booming Ontario International Airport and a commuter train station 4 miles away, with an estimated cost north of $1 billion. For just $45 million, Mr. Musk’s Boring Co. offered to instead build an underground tunnel through which travelers could zip back and forth in autonomous electric vehicles.

☆ GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Thomas Gryta | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

They came by the dozens in luxury sedans, black Ubers and sleek helicopters. As they did each August, General Electric’s most important executives descended on a hilltop above the Hudson River for their annual leadership gathering. Just an hour’s drive from New York City or a short flight from Boston, Crotonville, N.Y., is the home of GE’s management academy, famed for culling and cultivating a cadre of leaders the company saw as its most valuable product.

☆ Jan. 6, 2021: How It Unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-12 | by ( Andrew Restuccia | Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This timeline of events on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., is based on public statements, eyewitness accounts from Wall Street Journal reporters, authenticated videos, testimony at the Senate impeachment trial and interviews with participants. 1 a.m. President Trump tweets: “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be.) Mike can send it back!”

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