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25 03, 2025

Family of Whistleblower Suing Boeing Over His Death

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who police say killed himself after lawyers questioned him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects sued the airplane maker Thursday. Boeing subjected John …

25 03, 2025

Pennsylvania’s Union County Suffers Ransomware Attack

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Pennsylvania’s Union County is dealing with a ransomware attack that has likely exposed personally identifiable information, mostly related to individuals involved with the county’s law enforcement, courts, and other county business. Officials say they detected the ransomware on the county’s …

25 03, 2025

Spain’s Storms Refill Reservoirs, Easing Nation’s Worst Drought

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Jana, Konrad, Laurence and Martinho — the unprecedented string of four named storms that barreled through the Iberian peninsula in the past three weeks — came with a silver lining: the likely end of Spain’s worst drought in recorded history. …

25 03, 2025

Lawsuit: Downed Municipal Power Lines May Have Caused LA’s Palisades Fire

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Several residents of Los Angeles who were affected by the deadly Palisades wildfire sued city authorities over claims that municipal utility power lines ignited the fire, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The suit cited a Washington Post article dated …

25 03, 2025

Lawsuit: Downed Municipal Power Lines May Have Caused LA’s Palisades Fire

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Several residents of Los Angeles who were affected by the deadly Palisades wildfire sued city authorities over claims that municipal utility power lines ignited the fire, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The suit cited a Washington Post article dated …

25 03, 2025

23andMe’s Bankruptcy Puts 15 Million Users’ DNA Info on Auction Block

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Millions of Americans who sent their saliva to 23andMe in the hopes of finding lost relatives or identifying health risks buried in their DNA now face seeing their genetic information sold to the highest bidder as part of the company’s …

25 03, 2025

California at Risk of New Insurance Bailout Amid Fire Danger

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As Los Angeles-area residents recover from one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history, California’s insurer of last resort is careening toward another hot and dry summer with its coffers already strained. That’s raising the prospect that state residents …

25 03, 2025

Wildfires in Western Japan Damage Homes, Forcing Evacuations

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Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging a number of homes as hundreds of firefighters battled the widening blazes in the mountainous areas. The fires in …

25 03, 2025

HUD Quietly Drops Civil Rights Cases Involving Housing Discrimination in Texas

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The findings were stark. In one investigation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development concluded that a Texas state agency had steered $1 billion in disaster mitigation money away from Houston and nearby communities of color after Hurricane Harvey …

25 03, 2025

AM Best Downgrades Wisconsin’s Cities and Villages

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AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of Cities and Villages Mutual Insurance Company (Cities and Villages) based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin …