An off-duty flight attendant took control of the public address system and then fought with passengers and crew members on board a Delta Air Lines flight on Friday in the latest outburst of violent behavior by airline passengers, the airline said. Delta said that Flight 1730, which had been headed to Atlanta from Los Angeles, […]
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On Feb. 6, 2018, Apple received a grand jury subpoena for the names and phone records connected to 109 email addresses and phone numbers. It was one of the more than 250 data requests that the company received on average from U.S. law enforcement each week at the time. An Apple paralegal complied and provided […]
People strolling along the Thames in London last month. The British economy grew 2.3 percent in April from the month before, the third consecutive month of growth.Credit…Mary Turner for The New York Times Britain is emerging strongly from the pandemic, which caused the deepest recession in three centuries last year. The economy grew 2.3 percent […]
One by one, the passengers pulled down their masks and rejoiced as they cleared security and health screening to board the first cruise ship sailing out of North America since the pandemic was declared in March of last year. One woman threw her bag on the floor and started shimmying to the Caribbean calypso beat […]
Daily Business Briefing June 10, 2021Updated June 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET June 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Prices are rising for everything from airfares to used cars, and fresh data due on Thursday will give policymakers and investors another chance to assess whether those increases are likely to be short-lived — or are poised […]
Daily Business Briefing June 9, 2021Updated June 9, 2021, 5:57 p.m. ET June 9, 2021, 5:57 p.m. ET A solar farm in Fayetteville, N.C. President Biden wants to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the electric grid by 2035.Credit…Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times One of the nation’s biggest solar-energy companies said on Wednesday […]
Daily Business Briefing June 8, 2021Updated June 9, 2021, 7:04 a.m. ET June 9, 2021, 7:04 a.m. ET Lordstown Motors gained attention after it bought a shuttered auto plant in Ohio to build its truck, the Endurance.Credit…David Maxwell/EPA, via Shutterstock Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicle start-up that aimed to revive a shuttered General Motors factory […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation on Tuesday that would pour nearly a quarter-trillion dollars over the next five years into scientific research and development to bolster competitiveness against China. Republicans and Democrats — overcoming their traditional partisan differences over economic policy — banded together to endorse what would be the most significant government […]
Daily Business Briefing June 7, 2021Updated June 7, 2021, 6:48 p.m. ET June 7, 2021, 6:48 p.m. ET Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, previewing new privacy features at a conference held by his company on Monday.Credit…Brooks Kraft/Apple Apple once again took aim at the vast digital-advertising industry on Monday and unveiled a number […]
