Jan. 11, 2024 12:53 pm ET Federal regulators have formally notified Boeing that it is being investigated following an incident with its 737 MAX 9 plane. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that it had notified Boeing of the investigation, which will determine if the company failed to ensure products were safe and met approved…
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it is launching a formal investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX 9 after a cabin panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight while in mid-air last week, forcing an emergency landing. The FAA has grounded 171 Boeing jets installed with the same panel after the landing, most of which are operated by carriers Alaska Airlines and United…
A disgraced former Chinese central banker admitting to making a “huge mistake” after being arrested last year on suspicion of bribery. Fan Yifei, 59, was the highest-ranking official at the People’s Bank of China when he was arrested under President Xi Jinping’s campaign to weed out the “flies and ants” in the financial, energy and…
Netflix has seen subscriptions for its lower-priced advertising tier soar — jumping by 8 million over the past two months, the company said. The streaming giant — which rolled out its Basic With Ads plan for $6.99 a month in November 2022 — has amassed more than 23 million global monthly active users, according to…
The Post Office had prosecution powers and, between 1999 and 2015, it prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – an average of one a week – based on information from a computer accounting system called Horizon. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies including the Crown Prosecution Service.
An Atlanta restaurant has taken some hits for adding an unfamiliar fee to its customers’ bills. JenChan’s Pizza and Chinese in Cabbagetown, Georgia, received hate on social media after a customer called out the restaurant’s 4% fee for employees’ health insurance on the bill. The customer posted a photo of the bill on Reddit last month, which showed…
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 3:38 pm ET Hertz is selling about a third of its global electric-vehicle fleet, a major reversal for the rental-car company after it positioned itself as a champion of the technology with plans to vastly grow its fleet of plug-in models. Hertz said Thursday that it would sell about 20,000 EVs…
Prices rose by 3.4% as Americans paid more to dine out as well as on housing and car insurance.
The firm’s executive chair said HS2’s costs had risen so much over the past decade because of poor cost estimating, changes to the project’s scope, some poor delivery and the impact of inflation. He added that decisions to delay parts of the project for cashflow reasons, could end up meaning they cost more, and that…
Bankrupt regional sports network Diamond Sports got a few extra innings to work out a streaming deal with Amazon after a bankruptcy judge delayed the embattled company’s showdown with Major League Baseball. The nation’s largest RSN, which operates under the Bally’s name, owns the broadcast rights to half the NBA teams, a third of NHL…
