Tesla settled a lawsuit out of court with an Apple engineer’s family that claimed the company’s autopilot feature was the reason for his fatal car crash. The jury selection for the suit over the death of Walter Huang was set to begin on Monday, CNN reported. He died after his Tesla Model X hit a […]
Star Trek actor William Shatner told NBC News on Monday that there’s no point in going into space if we “can’t come back” to Earth due to the environment. NBC‘s Maura Barrett pressed Shatner with a climate change question on Monday during a television interview about the solar eclipse. Barrett asked Shatner about the concern […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his support on Monday for a House-passed bill to push the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest or face being banned in the United States, although the path forward is still unclear in the upper chamber. “This is a matter that deserves Congress’s urgent attention. And I’ll support […]
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg argued on Monday that abortion is “not mentioned” in the Ten Commandments while discussing former President Donald Trump‘s social media video stating his stance on abortion. “I want to make sure that if you decide this is what you need to do, I’m going to get behind you because I […]
Vice President Kamala Harris lauded President Joe Biden‘s new plan to reduce or cancel student loan debt for roughly 30 million people, calling it a game changer for borrowers and especially those eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs. “We don’t pay our teachers nearly what they deserve in terms of the value that they […]
In an effort to close a $73 billion deficit by June, California‘s Democratic lawmakers agreed on Friday to reduce the deficit by $17.3 billion through spending cuts, delays, and deferrals. Republican lawmakers have called the move “gimmicky” and blamed Newsom for mismanaging state funds. “This most recent deal that he’s touting is all reliant on […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday called for an appeals court to refuse to consider former President Donald Trump‘s appeal of his trial judge’s decision not to disqualify her from the case, according to filing Monday afternoon. Willis, who is prosecuting Trump and 13 remaining co-defendants in a sweeping Georgia racketeering case alleging […]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) bashed President Joe Biden over his past comments on black voters. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden told black voters that they “ain’t black” if they had trouble deciding who to vote for between him and then-President Donald Trump. Though he later apologized for the comments, Republicans have continued to seize […]
Spirit Airlines announced Monday that it reached an agreement with Airbus to defer all aircraft deliveries to improve liquidity, adding that it will furlough 260 pilots. All Airbus planes scheduled for delivery from the second quarter of 2025 to the end of 2026 will instead be delivered between 2030 and 2031. However, that does not […]
Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines spoke out against University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, calling her a “sellout” over her support for transgender athletes. Staley made her comment during a press conference on Saturday, during which she said she was “of the belief” that an athlete who considers themselves to be a woman […]
