sshepard/iStock(BOSTON) — Hollywood actors, including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, and a slew of chief executives are among 50 people charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scam, according to court records unsealed in Boston Tuesday. Those indicted allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, …
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Mar 12
China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Singapore, UK ground Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft after crash
Ethiopian Airlines(LONDON) — A growing list of airline carriers around the world are grounding fleets of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of a crash of the same model that killed all 157 people on board. A new Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines went down in clear weather on …
Mar 12
Actresses, CEOs arrested in nationwide college admissions cheating scam
sshepard/iStock(BOSTON) — Actresses and chief executives are among 50 people arrested in a nationwide college admissions cheating scam, according to court records unsealed in Boston Tuesday. Those indicted allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors …
Mar 12
China, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Singapore ground Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft after crash
Ethiopian Airlines(LONDON) — A growing list of airline carriers around the world are grounding fleets of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of a crash of the same model that killed all 157 people on board. A new Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines went down in clear weather on …
Mar 12
Tesla CEO Elon Musk denies violating SEC fraud settlement
Joshua Lott/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the Securities and Exchange Commission was broadly overreaching when it sought to hold him in contempt of court over a tweet he posted last month. In documents filed Monday, the attorneys said Musk’s Feb. 19 tweet was a restatement of prior disclosures and that …
Mar 12
Severe weather in South could mean more tornadoes
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A massive storm developing in the Southwest will be tracking northeast into the central U.S., creating blizzard conditions, flooding and severe storms that may produce tornadoes. Snow already fell in southern California yesterday, just outside of Los Angeles and San Diego. Rain is falling in those cities now as well as …
Mar 11
Travelers asking airlines: Is the Boeing 737 MAX 8 safe to fly?
Stephen Brashear/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Travelers asked airlines on Monday whether a new plane that’s now been involved in two deadly crashes since October — the Boeing 737 MAX 8 — is safe to fly. On Sunday, one of those planes, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, crashed just minutes after taking off from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. …
Mar 11
Carriers around the world ground Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft after crash
Ethiopian Airlines(LONDON) — A growing list of airline carriers around the world are grounding their fleets of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of a crash of the same model that killed all 157 people on board. A new Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines went down in clear weather …
Mar 11
Osundairo brothers were ‘taken advantage of’ by ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett, lawyer says
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — The two brothers who police said helped stage an attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago six weeks ago were “taken advantage of” and are now trying to “piece their lives together,” their lawyer tells ABC News. “What I can tell you right now is the tremendous regret that they …
Mar 11
Trump claims he called Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ to ‘save time & words’
Tim Cook/Twitter(WASHINGTON) — Five days after President Donald Trump appeared to slip up and call Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple” at a White House meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, the president claimed on Monday that it wasn’t a mistake at all. He claimed on Twitter that he said “Tim/Apple” instead of …