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Officials Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company

The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating whether self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles played a role in the death of a pedestrian, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said late Friday. The agency did not say whether any of the fired employees were involved in investigations of […]

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Wall Street Is Getting Antsy With Trump

President Trump’s keynote this week at a Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s conference in Miami Beach might have seemed like another jubilant pep rally attended by adoring fans and key lieutenants. Elon Musk sat in the front under a vast rotunda, not far from the real estate billionaire Steve Witkoff, now a White House special envoy […]

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Markets and Corporate America Are Unfazed by Washington Chaos, for Now

Even by Washington standards, the second Trump presidency has begun in frenetic fashion: mass firings at federal agencies, tariff threats against allies and foes alike, and haggling over how to get a Republican budget through a narrowly divided Congress. Business leaders and corporate investors are confident that things will turn out fine, at least for […]

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Weathering causes massive chunk of concrete to fall in Boston tunnel

Concrete from a joint in Boston’s Prudential Tunnel collapsed on Friday, causing damage to vehicles. BOSTON – Traffic through one of Massachusetts’ many tunnels was halted on Friday after a large chunk of concrete fell without warning, damaging several vehicles. Video from a traffic camera inside the Prudential Tunnel along Interstate 90 captured the moment […]

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Big Day for Crypto Goes South After Bybit Hack

The good news for cryptocurrency investors arrived just after 8 a.m. on Friday: Coinbase, the largest crypto marketplace in the United States, had reached a deal with U.S. regulators to dismiss a lawsuit that had hung over the industry for years. But within hours, the crypto market descended into a new crisis. At 10:51 a.m., […]

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Family says security loophole has been exposed in holiday site

Holly Hamilton and Daniel Lynch Consumer Fight Back BBC Marion Tyler “felt sick” when she realised she had been targeted by scammers A family that was targeted by scammers fear their experience has exposed a security loophole in an online travel agent’s booking platform. Marion Tyler, from County Antrim, unwittingly called a scam number when […]

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Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences

Tyler Nelson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida, studies the neurobiology of pain, a choice partly motivated by his own frustrations with a neuromuscular disability. Last October, he applied for a grant at the National Institutes of Health that, if awarded, would support his dream of someday running his own lab. But, earlier […]

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Is Man City’s dominance over? What can Man United, Liverpool teach them?

Editor’s Note: This piece originally ran on Jan. 22, 2025 ahead of Manchester City’s pivotal game with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League’s new-look league phase. They lost that game, but did advance to the play-off round, where they were drawn against Real Madrid. However, in light of their elimination from the competition on Wednesday, […]

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