Loss of Engine Cover on Southwest Boeing 737-800 Prompts FAA Investigation
April 7 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to open an investigation. No one was injured and…
New Mexico Mental Health First Responders Are Increasingly Civilians, Not Police
April 6 By Andrew Hay ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings. They have no enforcement powers or protective equipment…
Inside Big Tech’s Underground Race to Buy AI Training Data
April 5 By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly…
Bird Flu Hits Texas Dairy Cows, Hens, Human as Ducks Migrate
April 3 By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Migratory waterfowl are to blame for widening avian-flu outbreaks in Texas cows and poultry, and wild birds carrying the virus should be heading north soon, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said. The U.S. government since last week has…
Wide Swath of US Will Get Buggy as Two Cicada Broods Intrude
April 2 By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of…
Trapped Vessels Start to Move Out of Baltimore Following Bridge Disaster
April 1 By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday, freeing some tugs and barges that had been trapped by last week’s bridge collapse, but officials said wider restoration of commercial shipping remained frustrated by unyielding conditions. Baltimore’s shipping…
No Winner for Powerball Lottery, Jackpot Jumps to $975 Million
March 30 By Maria Caspani and Jyoti Narayan (Reuters) -A $935 million jackpot in the Powerball lottery draw, one of the largest in its history, found no winners on Saturday night, boosting the prize for next week’s draw. No one held the winning numbers 12,…
UAW Membership Fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000 Workers
March 29 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Membership in the United Auto Workers union fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000, its lowest level since 2009, according to a report filed on Friday with the U.S. Labor Department. The UAW is “clear-eyed that our union and…
US Provides Maryland $60 Million to Start Rebuild of Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
March 28 By David Shepardson and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The U.S. government awarded the state of Maryland an initial $60 million in emergency funds on Thursday to clear debris and begin rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, an extraordinarily fast disbursement…
Disney, Florida Settle Bitter Legal Feud Over Disney World District
March 27 By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Walt Disney and appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a settlement on Wednesday to end a high-profile lawsuit in state court over control of the special district that includes the Walt Disney World theme parks….