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☆ On the 5th anniversary of a fatal 737 Max crash, victims’ families want more focus on Boeing’s potential safety problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Even though the same jet model had crashed soon after taking off from Indonesia less than six months earlier, aviation authorities around the world had allowed the 737 Max to keep flying with passengers. A third incidentThis year, on January 5, a part of a 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Airlines blew out, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. Boeing’s production problems went beyond the design flaw that led to the crashes. “Within days of the first crash, Boeing knew there was a design defect,” Robert Clifford, one of the plaintiff attorneys in the case, told CNN. Last month, Boeing removed executive Ed Clark, the head of its 737 Max passenger jet program.

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☆ Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry visit family of Uvalde shooting victim
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Sharif Paget | Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met with the family of Irma Garcia, a beloved schoolteacher killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Irma Garcia’s nephew, John Martinez, told CNN Harry and Meghan have kept in contact with his family since the massacre, which the US Justice Department and other agencies agree was met with a disastrous law enforcement response. Meghan attended and spoke at the South by Southwest festival in Austin on Friday, the day before she and Harry made a stop in Uvalde to check in on the family, Martinez said. John Martinez“It was such a beautiful experience, they’re so nice and compassionate, very down to earth, humble people,” Martinez told CNN in a text message. Meghan visited Uvalde days after the shooting where she was seen placing flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the county courthouse.

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The Justice Department review could, the reports note, expose Boeing to broader criminal liability if officials decide Boeing may have violated a controversial legal agreement that was due to expire on January 7, two days after the door plug incident. In the days after the door plug incident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282, an attorney for the families asked the Justice Department to review whether Boeing violated the agreement. Boeing is subject to several other investigations stemming from the door plug incident. The National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the door plug incident and recently reported that critical bolts that hold the door plug in place were not installed in Boeing’s factory. The NTSB has yet to determine blame or fault for the door plug incident on the Alaska Air flight.

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☆ US officials combing leaked documents from Chinese tech firm for clues about Chinese hacking campaigns
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —US officials have been scouring a trove of newly leaked documents from a Chinese tech firm for clues on how the government in Beijing allegedly uses the company in extensive hacking campaigns, multiple US cybersecurity officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The documents, posted anonymously online last weekend for anyone to access, include screenshots of chat logs, as well as records of employees and Chinese government clients of the tech firm I-Soon. “This is some of the best visibility we’ve had into Chinese hacking operations outside of a government SCIF,” said Adam Kozy, who used to track Chinese hackers for the FBI, using an acronym for classified facilities. In a leaked marketing presentation, I-Soon touted its participation in an unspecified hacking project for China’s Ministry of Public Security in 2018. The project “achieved significant results” and received “recognition and praise” from Chinese officials, according to a presentation slide.

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☆ Opinion: The biggest potential danger from the Hur report is one no one’s talking about
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Opinion Gary Ross | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Over the past year, we’ve seen an alarming wave of current or former senior government officials who reportedly failed to properly safeguard classified information. The clearest threat is that our adversaries can more easily gain access to classified material and the sensitive information it contains. This increases the likelihood that an adversary would succeed in accessing any classified documents stored at these locations. Our adversaries are not the only ones observing how well we safeguard sensitive information. Finally, US intelligence community employees, bound by the same oath to safeguard classified information, may come to question the seriousness of their obligation.

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☆ Opinion: The Hur report points to a huge danger that one no one’s talking about
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Opinion Gary Ross | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

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☆ Takeshi Ebisawa: Alleged yakuza leader charged with attempting to sell nuclear materials from Myanmar
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An alleged leader of a Japanese organized crime syndicate has been charged with attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials from the leader of an ethnic insurgent group in Myanmar, according to a new indictment from the US Justice Department. Takeshi Ebisawa, an alleged leader in the yakuza who was arrested in 2022 on charges over drug and weapons trafficking conspiracies, faces several new charges for allegedly attempting to sell nuclear materials to someone he believed was an Iranian general, in exchange for a significant weapons cache. The agent asked Ebisawa if the material was usable for nuclear weapons, saying that Iran needed “it for nuclear weapons.”“I think so and I hope so,” Ebisawa said, according to the indictment. In a recorded video call, brokers for the leader of the insurgent group claimed the leader had thousands of kilograms of nuclear material and “could produce as much as five tons of nuclear materials in” the territory the leader controlled. During the call, the DEA undercover agent asked about exchanging uranium for weapons from Iran, which the brokers and the leader agreed with.

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☆ Julian Assange makes last-ditch attempt in UK court to avoid extradition to the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Claudia Rebaza | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images Assange attends a seminar at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in Stockholm on August 14, 2010. LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images Assange and his bodyguards are seen after a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2010. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Assange, on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, holds up a United Nations report in February 2016. Carl Court/Getty Images Assange speaks to the media in May 2017, after Swedish prosecutors had dropped their investigation of rape allegations against Assange. Jack Taylor/Getty Images Assange was seen for the first time in months during a hearing via teleconference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2018.

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☆ LockBit: FBI and allies seize dark-web site of world’s most prolific ransomware gang
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The FBI and its international allies have seized a dark-web site that the world’s most prolific ransomware gang has used to extort its victims, according to a message on the website viewed by CNN. The hackers claimed credit for a November ransomware attack that forced New Jersey-based Capital Health to cancel some patient appointments. LockBit also claimed responsibility for ransomware attacks on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Fulton County, Georgia, in recent months. The US Justice Department also announced the indictment of two Russian men for deploying LockBit ransomware against victim organizations throughout the US, including against unnamed manufacturing firms. While there have been notable arrests and law enforcement seizures of millions of dollars’ worth of ransom payments, the ransomware economy continues to thrive.

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The case heads to court separately from another federal lawsuit filed in October by LGBTQ+ and civil rights advocates over the aggravated prostitution law. The Republican-carried legislation would only remove the requirement that those convicted of aggravated prostitution must register as a violent sex offender. Court documents in the other federal lawsuit say that more than 80 people are registered for aggravated prostitution in Tennessee. Because she had to register as a sex offender, the woman has experienced periods of homelessness while struggling to find safe housing compliant with sex-registry requirements. Tennessee law also bars her from changing her legal name to match her gender identity, the lawsuit states.

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☆ US Justice Department Says It Disrupted Russian Intelligence Hacking Network
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it disrupted a Russian intelligence hacking network. "The Justice Department is accelerating our efforts to disrupt the Russian government's cyber campaigns against the United States and our allies, including Ukraine," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "In this case, Russian intelligence services turned to criminal groups to help them target home and office routers, but the Justice Department disabled their scheme," he added. The Latest Photos From Ukraine View All 91 Images(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)Photos You Should See View All 22 Images

Persons: General Merrick Garland, Kanishka Singh Organizations: WASHINGTON, U.S . Justice, Department, U.S, Justice Department Locations: United States, Ukraine, Washington

☆ Carl Icahn buys a huge stake in JetBlue at bargain prices
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Icahn paid an average of $3.56 a share for his 33.6 million shares of the stock, according to the filing. Shares of JetBlue closed Monday at $6.07 a share before leaping to nearly $7 a share in morning trading. His purchases started on January 26, a week after a federal court blocked JetBlue’s proposed purchase of Spirit Airlines. Analysts had suggested that JetBlue was only interested in pursuing the deal, assuming it was allowed by the court, at a significantly lower price. JetBlue had been interested in buying Spirit as a way of getting both the aircraft and pilots it needs to expand.

Persons: Carl Icahn, Icahn, ”, JetBlue’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, JetBlue, Spirit Airlines, Analysts, Spirit, Frontier Airlines, — American Airlines, United, US Justice Department Locations: New York, breakeven, Delta

☆ Biden has spent millions on gun policy, but future violence prevention depends on who wins the presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThe future of gun violence prevention policy will likely depend on who works in the Oval Office. But continued federal action hangs on whether Congress passes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2023, a bill that would cement an office of gun violence prevention in the US Justice Department. As election season gears up, gun-related injuries have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of death for young people, and 18,874 Americans lost their lives to gun violence last year, per the Gun Violence Archive. Breaking down Biden's investment in gun violence preventionIt's been almost six months since The Biden-Harris Administration created the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention , tasked with reducing gun violence across the country through executive and legislative action. The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, specifically, is funded through Congress' annual executive office appropriations.

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☆ She says she gave birth to a child after a Lyft driver raped her in 2019. Now she’s suing
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Clare Duffy | Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Orlando, Florida CNN —A Florida woman sued Lyft earlier this month, alleging that she was raped by her Lyft driver in 2019 and that the assault resulted in the birth of her third child. Separately, at least a handful of Lyft drivers accused of sexual assault have been convicted in criminal cases. Genetic testing later confirmed with “99.9999999998%” certainty that the Lyft driver is the child’s father, according to the complaint. The Lyft driver rolled down the passenger side window, and Plaintiff confirmed the Lyft driver was there for her,” the complaint states. Lyft’s continuous criminal record monitoring began in April 2019, the month of Means’ alleged rape.

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☆ Jury awards E. Jean Carroll $83 million verdict from Donald Trump defaming her
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewA federal jury has agreed Friday that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her. The unanimous jury verdict in Manhattan comes as Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination for a likely rematch with President Joe Biden in November. "We're very happy," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told Business Insider soon after the verdict was read. Judge Kaplan forbade Trump or his attorneys from arguing that he didn't sexually assault Carroll. In his jury instructions, Judge Kaplan reminded the nine New Yorkers sitting there that they must accept Trump's sexual assault as an already-established fact.

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☆ Texas is exploiting a loophole in a new Supreme Court ruling to keep putting up razor-wire fencing at the border
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewTexas is apparently taking advantage of a loophole in a recent Supreme Court ruling involving the US-Mexico border in order to keep putting up more razor-wire fencing along the Rio Grande riverbank. "Texas' razor wire is an effective deterrent against the illegal border crossings encouraged by [President Joe] Biden's open border policies," Abbott said. AdvertisementTexas’ razor wire is an effective deterrent against the illegal border crossings encouraged by Biden’s open border policies. Republicans, like Texas Rep. Chip Roy, have urged the state to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling. Paxton said in a statement on Monday after the Supreme Court ruling that the order "allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America."

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☆ Republicans are urging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court at the border
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The ruling allows for federal agents to cut through Texas' wire fencing at the southern border. Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy suggested that the state should tell the Supreme Court to "go to hell." "And if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority did, Texas still had the duty, Texas leaders still have the duty, to defend their people." Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News that the Supreme Court ruling makes him "angry." AdvertisementDespite the Supreme Court's ruling allowing federal border agents to remove the wire fencing, Texas Gov.

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☆ Trump plans to testify in E. Jean Carroll's trial. His only move would be to apologize and beg for forgiveness, experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

On Monday, Trump's attorney Alina Habba said he intends to take the witness stand in his defense. Trump's two driving impulses — to fight the system and to take the witness stand — will create the judicial equivalent of a car wreck, experts told Business Insider. Alternatively, Trump can get on the witness stand and "try to testify in a narrative fashion," Jones said. Carroll's trial does have a jury, making it harder to "unring that bell" of forbidden testimony, Jones said. Or wager that he'll inflict wounds on himself by taking the witness stand?

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☆ Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Coney Barrett split with conservatives to give Biden a border win
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Supreme Court cleared the way for federal agents to cut through barbed wire that Texas put up along the southern border. It's a huge win for the Biden administration in its border fight with Texas. AdvertisementTwo of the Supreme Court's conservative justices just handed Joe Biden a major win at the southern border. The 5-4 ruling is a huge win for the Biden administration, with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett splitting with the court's other conservatives and siding with liberal justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The appeals court put that decision on hold while it reviewed the case, prompting the Biden administration to ask the Supreme Court to intervene.

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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. The Justice Department report says the FBI has assisted the Rangers but is not doing its own investigation. But she pushed back that timeline in December and said Thursday that she will need time to review the voluminous Justice Department report. Produced by a Justice Department office that supports local police, the document is among the most comprehensive accountings to date of what went wrong. The Department of Justice report faults state and local officials with undercutting the public's trust in law enforcement by repeatedly releasing false and misleading information about the police response.

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☆ Premarket stocks: Airline stocks are getting pummeled. Here are four reasons why
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —It’s been a tough month for shares of airline companies. Here’s why investors are getting out of airline stocks. Boeing’s “can of worms”: Boeing’s problems began on Jan. 5, when the door plug on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 detached mid-flight. Oil prices are volatile: Investors are also concerned about a possible spike in oil prices. United Airlines Holdings shares have declined 8% so far in January and American Airlines Group shares have fallen 6%.

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☆ Why Calvin Klein ads still get people talking
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Joan Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The strategy was classic Calvin Klein, a brand which has been synonymous with sexy, conversation-starting campaigns since the 1970s. From Calvin KleinBut the White ads were just the start of the headlines for Calvin Klein. Adorning a New York City phonebooth, Mark Wahlberg is seen in a 1992 Calvin Klein campaign. Meanwhile, no one besides the ASA seems to be admonishing Calvin Klein over the FKA Twigs ads. For Calvin Klein, both sets of ads are an example of that old adage — there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

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☆ Spirit Airlines shares plunge after judge blocks JetBlue merger
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Krystal Hur | Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Spirit Airlines shares tanked 52% on Tuesday after a federal judge in Boston ruled against JetBlue’s proposed $3.8 billion acquisition of the discount airline. The Biden administration has argued since taking office there needs to be greater competition between businesses, especially in the airline industry, to lower costs for consumers. “If not blocked, the merger of JetBlue and Spirit would result in higher fares and fewer choices for tens of millions of travelers across the country. The Biden administration has taken a much more aggressive approach in fighting mergers and combinations, including in the airline industry. There is one other merger now being sought in the US airline industry, a proposed $1.9 billion deal to combine Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.

Persons: JetBlue’s, ”, William Young, Biden, General Merrick Garland Organizations: New, New York CNN — Spirit Airlines, Defendant Airlines, JetBlue, CNN, US Justice Department, Spirit, The Justice, “ Companies, — American Airlines, United, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, Northeast, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaiian Holdings Locations: New York, Boston, American, Northeast United States

☆ US Supreme Court to scrutinize controversial opioid crisis settlement that would give Sackler family immunity
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Barring individual victims from pursuing their own lawsuits against the Sackler family “raises serious constitutional questions,” the department argued. OxyContin’s commercial success helped the Sackler family earn billions of dollars and the family became known for philanthropy around the world. As the country’s opioid crisis worsened, attention shifted to the role played by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. Many of the suits allege that the Sackler family knew of OxyContin’s addictive properties but, nevertheless, continued to promote the drug. The Supreme Court hearing comes at a time of devastating losses due to drug overdoses in the US.

Persons: Los Angeles CNN —, Sackler, Mortimer, Raymond Sackler, “, George Frey, Elizabeth Prelogar, ” Anthony Casey, , –, Purdue Frederick, ” Lindsey Simon, ” Organizations: Los Angeles CNN, Purdue, New, US, US Justice Department, Purdue Pharma, Supreme, Knoa Pharma, Purdue Pharma L.P, Bloomberg, Sackler, ”, University of Chicago, school’s, Law, Finance, Guggenheim, Centers for Disease Control, “, Emory University Locations: New York, Purdue, Provo , Utah, U.S, United States, Paris

Prosecutors felt they needed an industry insider to flip on others in the business, explain the intricacies of lending agreements and serve as a narrator on the witness stand. In Mr. Braun, who had made clear he was desperate to get out of prison, they thought they had an ideal candidate. They were still going back and forth with his lawyer about a deal that would have freed him from prison when Mr. Trump commuted his sentence. Prosecutors instantly lost their leverage over Mr. Braun. The investigation into the industry, and Mr. Braun’s conduct, remains open but is hampered by the lack of help from an insider.

Persons: Braun, Trump, Prosecutors, Braun’s, — Organizations: Department, U.S, Prosecutors, Justice, Trump Locations: Manhattan

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