FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker has ordered special audits of Boeing and other steps to examine the safety culture at Boeing since a panel called a door plug blew off a 737 Max during the Alaska Airlines flight. However, the inspector general of the Transportation Department, FAA’s parent agency, said last week that weaknesses in FAA oversight are limiting its ability to find and fix problems at Boeing.
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"The government’s growth target for this year now appears in serious jeopardy," the former head of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) China division, Eswar Prasad told BBC News. "It will take a substantial stimulus-fuelled boost to growth in the fourth quarter to hit the target."
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The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer for allegedly directing a foiled plot to assassinate an American citizen who advocates for Khalistan
PlasticLove 3d ago • 100%
Not exactly a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination.
PlasticLove 3d ago • 100%
Seems like overkill. Are the Houthis that much of a threat to Uncle Sam?
PlasticLove 3d ago • 75%
Do you think they didn’t want to do the paperwork for a terror attack?
The union said on Tuesday that Boeing was "hell-bent" about sticking to its "best and final" proposal of a 30% wage i
"We assess that the Supreme Leader has not made a decision to resume the nuclear weapons program that Iran suspended in 2003," said the ODNI spokesperson, referring to Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The intelligence assessment could help explain U.S. opposition to any Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program in retaliation for a ballistic missile attack that Tehran carried out last week.
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Part of Vladimir Putin's summer residence has been demolished with the Russian leader seemingly increasingly reluctant to visit the property on the Black Sea because of the dangers posed by Ukrainian drone attacks
The IDF is calling on Lebanese civilians in 25 villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately and head north of the Awali River.
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“An Israeli strike overnight targeted a local firefighting centre in Baraasheet where 10 civil defence members were present,” municipal official Reda Ashour said.
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Acknowledging Israel blocked US aid to Palestinians would have triggered a ban on arms transfers to Israel.
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It might still be a developmental aircraft. While it’s not uncommon for the Russian air force to deploy test planes to combat zones in order to collect data in a real-world context, it’s a huge setback to a development effort to lose a rare and expensive test plane during combat trials.
The plan has faced public criticism on concern over any related hazards, the Soviet nuclear testing legacy, and fears that Russia will be involved in the project.
PlasticLove 2w ago • 100%
Helen, Helene, Helene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my house.
PlasticLove 2w ago • 40%
I dunno, I feel like lulling an enemy whose frothing at the mouth to attack you into believing your missiles aren’t a real threat is a good strategy to get them to underestimate you at their peril.
PlasticLove 2w ago • 80%
PlasticLove 2mo ago • 100%
I’m a huge Biden guy. Love him.
How can you love someone who is so adamantly defending and enabling a genocide?
PlasticLove 4mo ago • 28%
America (and Biden) are entirely culpable for the genocide in Palestine.
They knew (we all did) what Israel was doing and would do with the arms, money, and protection provided to them.
PlasticLove 4mo ago • 20%
Did all the Americans stop caring that they're responsible for the genocide?
Sounds about right, America never gives a shit about the pain and suffering it causes to the rest of the world.
PlasticLove 7mo ago • 66%
Conservative vs Conservativer: Round 2.
How fun.
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 100%
I find ChatGPT to be one of the better ones when it comes to corporate AI.
Sure they have hardcoded biases like any other, but it's more often around not generating hate speech or trying to ovezealously correct biases in image generation - which is somewhat admirable.
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 100%
They either fall into two camps.
50 centers paid or voluntold to spread the party line.
Useful idiots who think in a binary West bad/Rest good mentality.
Either way they're tools of propaganda warfare.
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 100%
I got there in the end
You can't silence the power of rap.
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 90%
No, they do not.
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 100%
It's the Qwen14b model
PlasticLove 8mo ago • 76%
The United States, Israel’s top ally, says it is still working with mediators Egypt and Qatar to try to broker another cease-fire and hostage release agreement. But those efforts appear to have stalled in recent days, and Netanyahu angered Qatar by calling on it to pressure Hamas and suggesting it funds the militant group.
israel doing everything in its power to keep the slaughter going and not get the hostages back safely.
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Although Germany does not consider Palestine a country, a majority of the world's states — 139 out of a total of 193 — at the United Nations do. What's significant this time, though, is that recognition is apparently being reconsidered by the US, a country that has previously vetoed almost every attempt to make Palestine a country. The UK also seems to be thinking about it even though in the past, the country has been just as opposed to the move as the US.
