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Video New calls for Boeing to ground all 737 Max 8 jets in the US after deadly crash in Ethiopia HEJERE, Ethiopia – Norwegian Air Shuttles says it will seek compensation from aircraft maker Boeing after the low-cost carrier grounded its fleet of 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Carrier spokeswoman Tonje Naess told The Associated Press Wednesday that the Oslo-based airline “should not have any financial burden for a brand new…

Britain’s Parliament delivered a crushing defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May’s European Union divorce deal Tuesday, plunging the Brexit process into chaos just 17 days before the U.K. is due to leave the bloc. Lawmakers rejected the deal in a 391-242 vote, ignoring May’s entreaties to back the agreement and end the political chaos and economic uncertainty that Brexit has unleashed.  It was a narrower outcome than a 230-vote margin of defeat…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Airlines With airlines and governments around the world shutting down Boeing 737 Max airplanes after a second deadly crash of the aircraft, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is not only resisting the calls to ground the plane, she even flew one of the planes back to Washington Tuesday afternoon. Chao and her staff flew on a Southwest Airlines 737 Max 8 from Austin, Texas…

Media captionTheresa May and Jeremy Corbyn address MPs after her Brexit deal is voted down again Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit. MPs voted down the prime minister’s deal by 149 – a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January. Mrs May said MPs will now get a…

Calif., Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign an order on Wednesday imposing a moratorium on California’s death penalty. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP Calif., Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign an order on Wednesday imposing a moratorium on California’s death penalty. Rich Pedroncelli/AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign a sweeping order on Wednesday putting an executive moratorium on California’s troubled death penalty, thus ordering a reprieve for the…

The most senior Catholic cleric ever to be convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced to six years in prison in Australia on Wednesday morning. Cardinal George Pell, 77, faced as many as 50 years in prison after being convicted in December for the molestation of two choir boys while he was the archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s. Pell must serve a minimum of three years and eight months…

Federal prosecutors charged 33 parents in a wide-ranging college admissions scheme, alleging that they paid for bogus entrance-exam scores and fake athletic achievements to get their children admitted to competitive colleges. The names in bold are parents who were listed as defendants in the case. Unless otherwise noted, the parents didn’t respond to requests seeking comment or couldn’t be reached. …

Lori Bassani, the president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents flight attendants at American Airlines, called on the airline to “strongly consider grounding these planes until a thorough investigation can be performed.” In Washington, politicians on both sides of the aisle called for action. Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who is the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, said he wanted…

Video Federal officials detail charges in college admissions cheating scandal William Rick Singer, founder of for-profit college prep business Edge College & Career Network also known as “The Key,” is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the largest college admissions scams to ever hit the U.S. and went to great lengths — which included pricey fees — to ensure his clients’ demands were met. Singer, 58, has been called the “ringleader” behind the scheme, purportedly…

Federal officials have charged Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and dozens of others of mail fraud, in what the Justice Department says was a scheme to cheat college admissions standards by fabricating academic and athletic credentials and paying bribes to help their children attend prestigious universities. “We’re talking about deception and fraud — fake test scores, fake credentials, fake photographs, bribed college officials,” said Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for the…

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Prime Minister Theresa May might sneak a very tight victory on Tuesday, but an array of parliamentary blocs opposed to her deal mean the odds are against her. That’s my basic assessment of what will happen at 3 p.m. ET when members of parliament in Britain’s House of Commons vote on May’s Brexit deal. That deal would govern a transition period following Britain’s planned March 29 departure from the European…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES U.S. News Two high-profile actresses and a slew of business executives, including a former head of Pimco and a founder of Hercules Capital, were among more than 40 people charged in a $25 million cheating scheme to help wealthy students to gain admission to top colleges, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Suspects allegedly paid bribes to sports coaches and administrators to help get the students…

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The pilots of the doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight told air traffic control they were having “flight control problems” before the crash, airline CEO Tewolde GebreMariam told CNN’s Richard Quest Tuesday. That suggests the plane was not responding to pilots’ inputs and they were losing control of the aircraft, Quest explains. GebreMariam said the flight data recorders “will be sent overseas,” rather than being read in Ethiopia, which does not have…

Washington has a spending problem, and President Trump’s budget doesn’t try to fix it. Trump’s budget lays out a course of growing deficits and debt. It leans on rosy economic forecasts to dampen deficit predictions and points to weak “reforms” to Medicare in order to wear a phony mantle of fiscal responsibility. Yet this White House is under attack for exactly the wrong reasons. Most of the media point at…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Europe Markets Sterling fell sharply against the dollar on Tuesday after Britain’s Attorney General Geoffrey Cox published his opinion on Prime Minister Theresa May’s recently amended Brexit deal. Cox’s legal advice on the tweaked deal is seen as crucial to whether the assurances May received on Monday are enough to give wavering U.K. lawmakers the confidence to give her deal the green light. A second…

Video Black box discovered in deadly Boeing crash in Ethiopia All 157 passengers on board, including 8 Americans, were killed when the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crashed after takeoff in Ethiopia; Trey Yingst has the latest in the investigation. Authorities sifting through the crash site where Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged from the sky — killing all 157 people on board — said they recovered the aircraft’s so-called “black box”…

TEMPLE, Texas — A Central Texas woman died after someone dropped a rock from a railroad overpass through the windshield of the car in which she was riding. Temple police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the Saturday night incident on Interstate 35 that fatally injured Keila Ruby Flores. The 33-year-old Waco woman died Sunday morning at a Temple hospital. Police say Flores was in…

CLOSE A Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia killing everyone on board. The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane marks the second deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 in the past five months. So is there a problem with this particular model? USA TODAY Two days after an Ethiopian Airlines flight plowed into the ground after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard, international investigators are still…