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A jury awarded compensation over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster linked to a software design flaw A federal jury in Chicago has ordered Boeing to pay $49.5 million to the family of a woman who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash involving the ill-fated 737 MAX airliner. The aircraft went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board.Several months earlier, another Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia, killing all 189 people aboard. The two disasters prompted a 20-month worldwide grounding of the aircraft. Boeing later…

The glitteriest night of the year in Eurasia and Australia will soon be upon us: the Eurovision Song Contest, a now 70-year-old music extravaganza beloved around the world for its shameless embrace of feather boas, sequins, pyrotechnics, and all brands of kitsch. The Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest international music competition, this year featuring 35 countries sending entries in nearly every genre of Western music – from heavy metal to opera and sugary ballads to aggressive techno. The winner is decided by a combination of public viewer votes and national juries made up of professional musical artists. While…

Any announcement barring Chinese students from U.S. universities would be “a very insulting thing to say to a country,” President Donald Trump told Fox News during his trip to China. “I will tell you that [U.S. universities] don’t want that to happen because you won’t have much of a school system,” he said in his interview with  Sean Hannity. “Good students,” he added. The comments came late in the interview after Trump had outlined trade deals that commit China to buy U.S. passenger jets, oil, and agricultural products. China’s dictatorial leader, Xi Jinping, “is a very smart person, and we have…

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday announced an investigation of potential fraud through the E-Rate program in Minnesota. “The FCC is committed to stopping bad actors from defrauding our USF programs, including those who target our E-Rate program as a way to line their own pockets. When billions of dollars are at stake, we need to ensure that the Commission’s programs are working efficiently and effectively,” Carr said in a written statement: By requesting critical program information from Minnesota educational institutions suspected of wrongdoing within this program, we’re taking that initial and critical step towards being well…

Villy-le-Pelloux (France) (AFP) – A French toy spaniel named Lazare thought to have been “the world’s oldest dog” has died aged 30, his carer said on Friday. AFP contacted the Guinness World Records to find out if Lazare had held the record before he passed away on Thursday, but did not receive an immediate response. Lazare, a Papillon dwarf spaniel with stand-up “butterfly” ears, was born on December 4, 1995, according to animal charity worker Anne-Sophie Moyon. He spent most of his life with the same companion until she died and he ended up at the charity’s shelter. Ophelie Boudol,…

President Donald Trump said the deal between China and Boeing begins with 200 planes, with the potential for China to order hundreds more. Trump gave clarity to the total number of planes involved in the deal to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. “President Xi is an incredible guy, got along, made a lot of great trade deals, including over 200 planes for Boeing, with a promise of 750 planes, which will be by far the largest order ever, if they do a good job with the 200, which I’m sure they will,” he said. “And that’s General Electric,…

The Pentagon has reportedly cancelled plans to deploy some 4,000 U.S. troops to Poland, a move that comes amid the United States’ review of its military presence in Europe. The decision to cancel the deployment has been confirmed to several international outlets by unnamed U.S and NATO officials. The U.S. troops, reportedly between 4,000 and 4,200 belong to the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat team based in Ft. Hood, Texas. According to reports, some of the troops and their military equipment was already in transit by the time their deployment was cancelled. The troops were slated to replace…

Spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, most regional powers seek to avoid a devastating new conflict once the US-Israeli war on Tehran ends, the report says Saudi Arabia has floated the idea of a landmark non-aggression pact between the Gulf states and Iran after the end of the US-Israeli war on Tehran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing diplomatic sources.Western diplomats told the newspaper that Riyadh is studying a model loosely inspired by the Helsinki Process, the Cold War-era talks that produced the 1975 Helsinki Accords on security and European cooperation, and succeeded in defusing tensions between the Soviet Union and…

President Donald Trump told reporters he refused to reveal to Chinese President Xi Jinping whether he would defend Taiwan from China. While aboard Air Force One en route to the United States from China, a reporter asked Trump if he would defend Taiwan if it came to it. “I don’t want to say. I’m not going to say that. There’s only one person that knows that. You know who it is? Me. I’m the only person,” Trump said. “That question was asked to me today by President Xi. I said I don’t talk about those things.” When asked about Xi’s…

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Independent Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn responded to a question on three or four things he disagrees with Democrats on by listing the border and industrialized hemp and responded to a question on whether there are any other issues where he breaks with Democrats by stating, “I don’t consider myself a political pundit. I haven’t really been a political person, until, I believe it was 2021.” Osborn began by saying that “I feel like, right now, both parties have sold out to corporate interests and the money interests.” Host Leland Vittert then…