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US Woman Accidentally Leaves Husband's Ashes On Tram: "Piece Of Me Is Missing"
"I feel Like an idiot. I thought it was on my shoulder and it wasn't, and I feel like a piece of me is missing," she said.
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US Airlines To Pay Automatic Refunds For Canceled Flights
Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if flights are canceled or significantly altered under new US Department of Transportation rules, a significant change for consumers that could drive up costs across the industry.
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Tonnes Of Nacho Cheese Spills From Truck Onto US Highway After Collision
The disruption occurred in Arkansas on I-30 West near Prescott, when the truck was involved in a collision with another vehicle.
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US Teen Dies After Loose Truck Tyre Smashes Windshield On Highway
The Walton Fire Department "extricated" and transported the teenager to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
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Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees
The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any transportation safety systems. It did not say who might be responsible for...
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Caught On Camera: Woman's Narrow Escape As Ceiling Panel Collapses At US Subway Station
The incident took place on Friday at Harvard Square station in Cambridge.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink to Be Investigated Over Potentially Hazardous Pathogens
The US Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens. A Department of Transportation spokesperson told Reuters about the probe after the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-welfare advocacy group, ...
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US Air Travel Services Restore Gradually to Life After FAA Computer Outage
US flights were slowly resuming departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all US departing flights. More than 6,000 flights were delayed and nearly 1,000 canceled according to the FlightAware website as officials said it will take ho...
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Tesla Said to Face US Criminal Probe Into Self-Driving Claims Following Multiple Crashes
Tesla, US electric car maker, is said to be facing a probe by the Department of Justice into the company's self-driving claims. The probe was said to have been initiated last year, following over a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, that involved the company's driver assistance system Autopilot which was activated during the accidents.
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US Proposes Standard Requirements for Government-Funded EV Charging Stations, Makes It More User-Friendly
The US Transportation Department has proposed minimum standards and requirements for government-funded electric vehicle (EV) charging projects. The stations should use DC Fast Chargers, have at least four ports at or above 150 kW, apart from other regulations.
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US Launches $3.5 Billion Programme to Capture and Store CO2 From Air in an Effort to Minimise Climate Change
The US Energy Department has launched a programme on Thursday to fund four large-scale projects across the country that can remove carbon dioxide from the air. The federal department invested $3.5 billion in the technology. The programme would create four regional direct air capture hubs to spur the widespread deployment of the technology and carbo...
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US Says It Will Spend $3 Billion on Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing
The funds are said to be allocated by the US Department of Energy from the $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 76,62,200 crore) infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed last year. Among the initiatives will be processing of minerals for use in large-capacity batteries and recycling those batteries, according to officials.
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Britain to Allow Motorists to Watch TV in Self-Driving Cars
The British Department for Transport has stated that motorists can sit back and watch TV in self-driving cars once they're approved on British roads.
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Ericsson Says New US Fines Likely Over Iraq Corruption
Ericsson has said that it may have to pay new fines to US Department of Justice over suspected bribes to the Islamic State group in Iraq.
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China Plane Crash: US Investigators Head To Beijing For Boeing 737 Probe
A team of US investigators has departed for China to probe the causes of an airliner crash that killed all 132 people on a Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern Airlines on March 21, the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Friday.
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US Woman Accidentally Leaves Husband's Ashes On Tram: "Piece Of Me Is Missing"
"I feel Like an idiot. I thought it was on my shoulder and it wasn't, and I feel like a piece of me is missing," she said.
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US Airlines To Pay Automatic Refunds For Canceled Flights
Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if flights are canceled or significantly altered under new US Department of Transportation rules, a significant change for consumers that could drive up costs across the industry.
-
Tonnes Of Nacho Cheese Spills From Truck Onto US Highway After Collision
The disruption occurred in Arkansas on I-30 West near Prescott, when the truck was involved in a collision with another vehicle.
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US Teen Dies After Loose Truck Tyre Smashes Windshield On Highway
The Walton Fire Department "extricated" and transported the teenager to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
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Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees
The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any transportation safety systems. It did not say who might be responsible for...
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Caught On Camera: Woman's Narrow Escape As Ceiling Panel Collapses At US Subway Station
The incident took place on Friday at Harvard Square station in Cambridge.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink to Be Investigated Over Potentially Hazardous Pathogens
The US Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens. A Department of Transportation spokesperson told Reuters about the probe after the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-welfare advocacy group, ...
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US Air Travel Services Restore Gradually to Life After FAA Computer Outage
US flights were slowly resuming departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all US departing flights. More than 6,000 flights were delayed and nearly 1,000 canceled according to the FlightAware website as officials said it will take ho...
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Tesla Said to Face US Criminal Probe Into Self-Driving Claims Following Multiple Crashes
Tesla, US electric car maker, is said to be facing a probe by the Department of Justice into the company's self-driving claims. The probe was said to have been initiated last year, following over a dozen crashes, some of them fatal, that involved the company's driver assistance system Autopilot which was activated during the accidents.
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US Proposes Standard Requirements for Government-Funded EV Charging Stations, Makes It More User-Friendly
The US Transportation Department has proposed minimum standards and requirements for government-funded electric vehicle (EV) charging projects. The stations should use DC Fast Chargers, have at least four ports at or above 150 kW, apart from other regulations.
-
US Launches $3.5 Billion Programme to Capture and Store CO2 From Air in an Effort to Minimise Climate Change
The US Energy Department has launched a programme on Thursday to fund four large-scale projects across the country that can remove carbon dioxide from the air. The federal department invested $3.5 billion in the technology. The programme would create four regional direct air capture hubs to spur the widespread deployment of the technology and carbo...
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US Says It Will Spend $3 Billion on Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing
The funds are said to be allocated by the US Department of Energy from the $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 76,62,200 crore) infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed last year. Among the initiatives will be processing of minerals for use in large-capacity batteries and recycling those batteries, according to officials.
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Britain to Allow Motorists to Watch TV in Self-Driving Cars
The British Department for Transport has stated that motorists can sit back and watch TV in self-driving cars once they're approved on British roads.
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Ericsson Says New US Fines Likely Over Iraq Corruption
Ericsson has said that it may have to pay new fines to US Department of Justice over suspected bribes to the Islamic State group in Iraq.
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China Plane Crash: US Investigators Head To Beijing For Boeing 737 Probe
A team of US investigators has departed for China to probe the causes of an airliner crash that killed all 132 people on a Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern Airlines on March 21, the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Friday.
