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Boeing a plea deal that will allow it to avoid a trial related to two deadly 737 MAX crashes, a lawyer for the victims' families said Sunday, expressing outrage.

electricity cleanly to address climate change has been quietly advancing and on Tuesday it hit a milestone. A California utility is backing the largest new geothermal power development in the US — 400 megawatts of clean electricity from the Earth's heat — enough for some 4,00,000 homes. Southern California Edison will purchase the electricity from Fervo Energy, a Houston-based geothermal company, Fervo announced. The company is drilling up to 125 wells in southwest Utah.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that overturned the approval issued by the Surface Transportation Board for the Uinta Basin Railway, an 88-mile (142-kilometer) railroad line. Arguments will take place in the fall.

Regional banks around the U.S. are striking complex and costly bargains with hedge funds, hoping to insulate themselves from a replay of the turmoil that followed Silicon Valley Bank’s failure last year. Wall Street smells a payday.

Erin Fox has tracked drug shortages for more than 20 years, and she sees no easy solutions for what has become a record run

ISS after many delays as the spacecraft experienced challenges including four helium leaks and five malfunctions of its 28 maneuvering thrusters."The extra time allows the team to finalize departure planning and operations while the spacecraft remains cleared for crew emergency return scenarios within the flight rules," NASA and Boeing said in a statement.As per NASA, the return to Earth is expected to last about six hours and target a location in the desert of Utah, New Mexico or other backup locations, depending on local weather conditions.The agency said, “They are targeting a departure no earlier than June 22, leaving open an opportunity for further extensions of time at the ISS. Starliner, while designed for future six-month missions, can stay docked to the ISS for a maximum of 45 days during its current mission."Moreover, on June 18, NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliner’s mission and departure from the ISS as part of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test in a pre-departure media teleconference.The 59-year-old Indian-American astronaut Williams who safely docked the Boeing's Starliner also danced a little as she arrived at the space station on June 7.

Organizers for the proposed 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City released their first budget estimate, projecting total costs of just under $4 billion, with $2.84 billion slated for operational costs

The SEC’s Salt Lake City office, recognized in the crypto community due to its unsuccessful litigation against DEBT Box, is set to close. This decision follows a notable decrease in its workforce, including individuals who departed due to reported involvement in the case.

More women are reaching the top ranks of the corporate suite of S&P 500 companies, but their numbers are still miniscule compared to their male counterparts

compensation survey, 25 are women. That's the most women making the list since the survey began in 2011. But the numbers haven't budged very much. The second highest tally was 21 women in 2017. The survey, based on data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar, includes CEOs at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two fiscal years at their companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30, 2024.

Bullseye American Ingenuity Fund portfolio manager Adam Johnson discusses whether the stock market sell-off will last on Varney & Co.

The Supreme Court has given homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts

The US District Court for the District of Utah on Tuesday threw out the SEC’s case against DEBT Box and imposed fines exceeding $1.8m on the regulatory body for its bad faith actions.

Schools across the U.S. are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and video cameras to spot guns

The governor of New Mexico has announced plans to court new investments in hydrogen fuel development at a business summit in the Netherlands over the coming week

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Rice University in Houston have been recognized by Forbes magazine as being among the top universities in the United States, similar to the prestigious Ivy League institutions. Forbes developed their own criteria for this ranking, excluding the traditional Ivy League schools and other well-known universities. Schools were evaluated based on factors like attracting high-achieving students, employer satisfaction, and admissions selectivity. UT Austin and Rice University are joined on the Forbes' list by other well-respected public universities like the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, along with private institutions like Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University.

The winners of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resigned from their titles within days of each other

New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University late Tuesday as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus. Shortly before officers entered the campus, the New York Police Department received a notice from Columbia authorising officers to take action, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorised to discuss details of the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. After entering the campus, a contingent of police officers approached Hamilton Hall, the administration building that students began occupying in the morning.

EP Wealth Advisors, the California-based fee-only RIA, has enhanced its team with two new additions in the San Diego region.

Utah and had lost her pet cat Galena, was reunited with the cat, miles away in California. Describing her trauma to Fox News, Carrie describes how she lost Galena on April 10 from their home. What followed was a frantic search across the neighbourhood which only led to more disappointment. Just when she had given up all her hope being reunited with her pet, she received a call from a veterinarian in California.

California, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico have been slapped with failing grades for ozone pollution, short term fine particle pollution and annual particle pollution levels, Fox Weather reported quoting American Lung Association 2024 study. The areas also include prominent urban cities and localities such as Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Salt Lake, Sacramento, as per the research report. According to recent data, a staggering 131.2 million Americans, which translates to two in five individuals, reside in cities with failing air quality grades. Among these cities, thirty received failing grades specifically for ozone and particle pollution.