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☆ UK parliament considers recalling Amazon exec after lawmaker "unhappy" with testimony
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Martin Coulter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

An Amazon spokesperson strongly denied the executive - European policy chief Brian Palmer - misled the committee. It cited legal filings related to U.S. court cases and testimony from workers at five warehouses in the UK. "We were extremely unhappy with his testimony," McDonald told Reuters. An Amazon spokesperson said that Amazon used CCTV cameras "to ensure the safety of employees and security of products". "To suggest that the use of these standard business practices amount to surveillance of employees is wrong," the Amazon spokesperson added.

☆ Luck, Tesla design likely saved family that plunged off cliff, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Four people were rescued after a Tesla plunged over a cliff in Calif., on Monday. Patel, a 41-year-old woman and two children ages 4 and 7 — both of whom were in car seats — were also in the SUV, California Highway Patrol spokesman Mark Andrews said. Nor is it clear what driving mode Patel was using before the SUV careened off the cliff, the California Highway Patrol said. “In my 35 years of working on vehicle safety, I’ve never had an automaker say, 'Look at this crash test we’re doing for extra credit,'” he said. Helicopters were dispatched, and the family was hoisted from the vehicle using rescue baskets, he said.

☆ Watch video of the helicopter rescue of the 4 Tesla passengers who survived a 250-foot plunge off a cliff
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Four Tesla passengers survived a 250-foot drop off the "Devil's Slide" cliff on Monday. California Highway Patrol posted a video of the helicopter rescue on Facebook on Tuesday. The video shows first responders dropping from a helicopter amid rough surf. The video shows first responders dropping from a helicopter to rescue the passengers from the wreckage amid rough surf and placing the passengers in gurneys that were raised into the air one-by-one. The two children were still secured in their car seats at the time of rescue, Pottenger said.

☆ Tesla driver who plunged his family off California cliff did so on purpose, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A California man intentionally drove a Tesla off a 250-foot cliff in an attempt to kill himself and his family, officials said Tuesday. The driver and his wife and children survived and were rescued Monday at Devil's Slide in San Mateo County, the California Highway Patrol said. Four people were rescued after a Tesla plunged over a cliff in Calif., on Monday. Brian Pottenger, incident commander for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said that witnesses called 911 after the crash around 10:50 a.m. The car was traveling south on State Route 1 when it went over the cliff at Devil’s Slide, south of the Tom Lantos Tunnels, and landed near the water’s edge, the fire department said.

☆ Salesforce's cost-cutting plan is a much-needed move for an economic downturn
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Salesforce (CRM) laid out a cost-cutting plan on Wednesday that is a step in the right direction for the banged-up Club holding. I know that Starboard would've liked double that [number of layoffs] because that's how bloated they think that Salesforce became." Salesforce is the latest tech company to slash headcount as business slows down from Covid-fueled growth and recession fears mount. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

☆ California doctor who drove Tesla off cliff to be charged with attempted murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Industry Insight | Saw Law Firms Move Past The Pandemic Into A More Client-Focused Service Environment | Thomson Reuters Institute | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Patel was transported to hospital with serious injuries on Monday, the California Highway Patrol said. The children, who had minor injuries, were the first to be rescued, after which a helicopter hoisted the adults, who had more serious injuries, Pottenger said. "The children were secured properly in proper car seats, and the car seats were secured properly into the vehicle," Pottenger said. "The car seats saved the lives of those two kids, in our opinion." The Tesla driven by Patel was traveling on the main part of the roadway before it veered off the cliff, he said.

☆ A doctor accused of intentionally driving a Tesla off a 250-foot California cliff with another adult and 2 kids inside the car has been arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A doctor has been arrested after police accused him of intentionally driving a Tesla off a cliff. The man's wife and two kids were reportedly inside the vehicle at the time of the incident. They all miraculously survived and were rescued via helicopter after the Monday car wreck. The passengers inside the car were reportedly Patel's wife, his 7-year-old daughter, and 4-year-old son, KABC-TV reported. Robin Johnson, who said she witnessed the crash, told NBC on Monday that she saw the Tesla "driving extremely fast" toward an exit on California Highway 1 before the electric car went "over the edge and straight down" the cliff.

☆ Two children and two adults survive after Tesla plunges 250 feet off California cliff
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Two adults and two children were rescued from a Tesla that plunged 250 feet off a cliff Monday morning in San Mateo County, California, officials said. The car flipped and landed on its wheels in the fall, CAL FIRE/Coastside Fire Incident Commander Brian Pottenger said. As they waited, firefighters rappelled to the scene and rescued the two children. The California Highway Patrol shared video on social media showing helicopters lower first responders to the scene to extricate and rescue two adults inside. The San Mateo Sheriff's Office said the two adults suffered non-life-threatening injuries and the two children were unharmed.

☆ 4 Tesla passengers survived a 250-foot plunge down a cliff called Devil's Slide
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Tesla plunged down a 250-foot cliff called Devil's Slide om Monday, Cal Fire said. A rescuer told Fox News it was "nothing short of a miracle" the four passengers survived the incident. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyFour Tesla passengers survived a 250-foot drop off a cliff known as Devil's Slide on Monday, according to Cal Fire. A Tesla that was carrying two adults and two minors plunged down the cliff on Monday morning, Cal Fire's San Mateo branch reported. Coastside Fire Protection Battalion Chief Brian Pottenger told Fox News that it was remarkable the passengers had survived the 250-foot fall.

FedEx Corp (FDX.N), which sparked a market selloff in September after pulling financial forecasts, provided financial guidance and announced plans for $1 billion cost cuts. Also, U.S. consumer confidence rose to an eight-month high in December as inflation retreated and the labor market remained strong while 12-month inflation expectations fell to 6.7%, the lowest since September 2021. It's been helped by upbeat corporate commentary and an improvement in consumer confidence," said Angelo Kourkafas, investment strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis referring to Nike and FedEx. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 7, 2022. On U.S. exchanges 9.81 billion shares changed hands, compared with the 11.16 billion average for the last 20 sessions.

☆ Sick and family leave are top union demands post-Covid-pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Rail workers nearly went on strike over paid sick leave. Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune via AP fileMore than 100,000 rail workers were days away from a likely strike after the rail companies refused demands for five paid sick days. Labor experts and organizers say the pandemic aimed a floodlight at the public health ramifications of in-person work, elevating for workers the importance of paid leave in contract disputes. “This was the sticking point for the railroads.”Following Congress’ resolution of the impasse, activist investors have put forth proposals to get two of the biggest rail companies, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, to offer their workers paid sick leave next year. “We appreciate the work of the negotiating teams and the mediator in reaching this agreement in principle.”Other unions are paying attention to these fights — and gearing up to make sick leave a major part of their negotiations.

☆ A Georgia House candidate who's repeated Trump's election lies has been accused of illegally voting 9 times
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Georgia Attorney General's office accused a GOP candidate of voting illegally, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Brian Pritchard voted in state elections while serving out a felony sentence related to theft and forgery, according to the report. Pritchard reportedly repeated Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was "stolen." In 2008, he registered to vote in Georgia, and voted in 9 elections between 2008 and 2011, the Journal-Constitution reported. "I've not done anything wrong here," Pritchard told the Journal-Constitution, saying his voting rights were restored after his probation ended.

☆ Art Basel Miami Beach Plays It Safe in the Sun
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Brian P. Kelly | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Miami Beach, Fla. The Miami area has always been known to push boundaries. It serves as a financial gateway to the Americas and dared to put the Key lime into a pie. It arguably invented the hurricane party and had no small role in America’s 1980s cocaine habit. Which makes the risk-averse nature of 2022’s Art Basel Miami Beach especially surprising.

☆ Virginia Walmart worker who escaped shooting files $50M suit, says she complained of gunman's 'bizarre' behavior
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Gina Gentilesco | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

She ran from the room as bullets whizzed by her head, "barely missing her," says a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Chesapeake Circuit Court. In the complaint, she said Bing had "bizarrely and inappropriately commented" on her age by asking: "Isn’t your lady clock ticking? The lawsuit says she also complained to the store that he had allegedly "harassed her for being poor and being short." "The entire Walmart family is heartbroken by the loss of the valued members of our team," the company said Tuesday. The lawsuit details other incidents involving Bing, including one where he allegedly asked Prioleau if she liked guns.

The youngest victim in the mass shooting that killed six at a Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia, was identified by officials Friday as 16-year-old Fernando Chavez-Barron. City officials previously withheld identifying the 16-year-old, who was an employee at the Virginia Walmart, "due to him being a minor." Authorities say Bing killed at least six people and injured at least six others before taking his own life in the Tuesday night shooting. Shaundrayia Reese, 27, who worked on the overnight stock team with Bing from 2014 to 2018 described Bing as "just weird." It was the deadliest store shooting since May when a white gunman shot 10 Black people dead in a racist shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, according to an NBC News tally.

☆ Walmart shooter legally bought the handgun he used hours before killing six coworkers, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The gunman who opened fire at a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart legally purchased the weapon he used. Authorities say the gunman bought his 9-millimeter handgun at a local store just hours before the shooting. The shooter, a Walmart store supervisor, killed six of his coworkers and injured others. Police identified the shooter as 31-year-old Andre Bing, who was employed as an overnight supervisor at the Walmart store. Authorities said Bing opened fire in the break room inside the store just after 10 pm, killing six of his coworkers.

☆ 17-year-old shot in McDonald’s parking lot by San Antonio officer released from hospital
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Erik Cantu, the 17-year-old boy who was shot by a San Antonio police officer in the parking lot of a McDonald's, is back home after spending nearly two painstaking months in the hospital, his family announced. Erik Cantu with his parents upon release from a hospital in San Antonio. Cantu’s parents issued a statement Wednesday saying he was released from the hospital just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Police body camera footage showed Cantu in the driver’s seat eating a hamburger and a 17-year-old girl in the passenger seat. He was fired after the shooting, then arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault on Oct. 11.

☆ Virginia Walmart Employees Slain in Mass Shooting Are Mourned
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Konrad Putzier | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHESAPEAKE, Va.—Families, friends and fellow workers on Thanksgiving Day were mourning the death of six employees allegedly killed at a Walmart by a night supervisor, the second major mass shooting in America in less than seven days. Police identified five of the dead victims as Lorenzo Gamble, Brian Pendleton, Kellie Pyle, Randall Blevins and Tyneka Johnson. The name of a 16-year-old male victim wasn’t released because he was a minor. All six were Walmart associates, a company spokesman said.

☆ Teen and senior citizen among victims of Walmart Virginia shooting
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 23 (Reuters) - Authorities on Wednesday identified the people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart (WMT.N) store in Chesapeake, Virginia, ranging in age from a 16-year-old boy to a 70-year-old man. The youngest victim was a 16-year-old Chesapeake boy, whose name was not revealed because he was a minor. Blevins' cousin wrote on Facebook that he had worked at Walmart for many years and was planning his retirement in the next year. Pyle had updated her Facebook status on Nov. 1 to say she was in a relationship with Brian Baker. The gunman was identified as Andre Bing, 31, of Chesapeake, Virginia.

☆ Some QAnon believers are enraged by Trump's 2024 announcement and have started ignoring 'Q drops.' But experts say the movement is as fervent as ever.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Q-aligned candidates did badly at the midterms, and recent "Q drops" failed to make a stir. The QAnon movement was already on the back foot. To Q and beyondThe week of the midterm elections, three new "Q drops" appeared. While previous Q drops were met with excitement and flurries of posts from followers scrambling to decode them, the latest drops were largely met with ambivalence. Fredrick Brennan, who founded 8chan but has since dedicated himself to exposing those behind the Q movement, told Insider that the reaction to the latest Q drops was comparatively "muted" following controversial drops in the summer.

☆ Twitter could be a new wild card for the midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN Business —For years, Twitter has been a leader in countering misinformation and protecting elections. But concerns are growing that tumult inside Twitter in the first week after it was acquired by Elon Musk could weaken its safeguards for elections, just before the midterms are set to take place. Musk promised not to alter any of Twitter’s content policies until after the midterms. He tweeted: “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” and without warning. The shakeup at Twitter has turned the company itself into an election wildcard.

☆ Scotiabank names Thomson as chief executive officer
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterA person walks infant of a sign for The Bank of Nova Scotia, operating as Scotiabank, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos OsorioSept 26 (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) said on Monday it appointed Scott Thomson to succeed Chief Executive Officer Brian Porter, at a time when the Canadian banking sector is struggling with market turmoil and rising interest rates. Thomson, who has been a member of the board of Bank of Nova Scotia since 2016, will initially start as president from Dec. 1, overseeing Canadian banking, global banking and markets, global wealth management and international banking at the bank. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterAt Finning, Thomson helped boost return on invested capital in all business units, particularly in Latin America. read moreLast month several brokerages aggressively downgraded the largest Canadian bank as profits at its international banking segment fell below estimates and risks rose from modest net interest margin expectations.

☆ $57 billion Millennium just tapped a Goldman Sachs alum to build out its Miami tech hub as the battle for talent in the Sunshine State heats up
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Alyson Velati | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Millennium Management has tapped Olga Naumovich to lead its technology team in Miami. The war for local investing and tech talent is heating up as more hedge funds move South. Izzy Englander's $57 billion Millennium Management has tapped Olga Naumovich to lead its technology build-out in Miami, a source familiar with the hedge fund's plans told Insider. "I can see how there would be an increased demand for tech talent as firms start to run their footprint there." "Needless to say, the market for technology talent is intensely competitive at this time," Englander said.

☆ De RÂS și de PLÂNS! Un copac și porumbeii care stăteau în el, motive de "război" între doi vecini
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Bharat Mistry, în vârstă de 56 de ani, spune că vecinul s-a plâns că porumbeii care își fac cuib în copacul aflat pe peluza lui murdăresc aleea de lângă. Celălalt cuplu a cerut mai întâi ca copacul să fie scos în martie, a afirmat Mistry. Mistry a căutat un grădinar sau pe cineva care să toaleteze copacii, însă vecinul său în vârstă de 28 de ani a sunat propriul arboricultor. Copacul a devenit de atunci atracție turistică după ce fotografii au apărut online, iar oameni au mers până acolo să-l vadă. Este posibil să fie tăiat copacul dacă nu supraviețuiește, spune Mistry, însă speră că va mai putea fi toaletat.

Persons: Bharat, Mistry, Brian Parkes, Ann Wiles Organizations: BBC Locations: Waterthorpe, Sheffield

☆ Doi pasageri au coborât alături de câinele lor pe toboganul de urgență al unui avion care se pregătea să decoleze
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-23 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Întâmplarea s-a petrecut în timp ce aeronava părăsise poarta de îmbarcare și se îndrepta către pista de decolare. Nu se știe dacă bărbatul și femeia au fost sau urmează să fie acuzați pentru fapta lor. A fost rugat din nou să stea jos, însă a pornit spre partea din fața a avionului. „Bărbatul forțase o ieșire de urgență, activând toboganul gonflabil, apoi el, partenera sa și câinele lor au coborât din avion", relatează New York Times, citând un oficial al aeroportului LaGuardia. Nimeni nu a fost rănit în urma incidentului, iar avionul s-a întors la poarta de îmbarcare, iar pasagerii îmbarcați în alte zboruri.

Persons: Întâmplarea, Brian Plummer Organizations: New York Times Locations: New York

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