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Former Twitter worker convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia
SAN FRANCISCO — A former Twitter employee has been convicted of failing to register as an agent for Saudi Arabia and other charges after accessing private data on users critical of the kingdom’s government in a spy case that spanned…
Ford electric vehicle owners to get access to Tesla Supercharger network starting next spring
DETROIT — All of Ford Motor Co.’s current and future electric vehicles will have access to about 12,000 Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. and Canada starting next spring. Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the…
Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit with new Alpha rocket
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — A new aerospace company reached orbit with its second rocket launch and deployed multiple small satellites on Saturday. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, in early morning darkness…
Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines
FACT FOCUS: Claims link ‘woke’ policies to bank’s demise
As Wall Street reels from the swift demise of Silicon Valley Bank — the biggest American bank failure since the 2008 financial meltdown — some social media users are honing in on a single culprit: its socially aware, or “woke,”…
EXPLAINER: Why was Indonesia’s shallow quake so deadly?
EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at…
EXPLAINER: One weather system floods St. Louis and Kentucky
Hundreds of miles apart, but still connected by the same stubborn weather system, urban St. Louis and rural Appalachia are showing how devastating flash flooding can be when souped-up storms dump massive amounts of rain with no place to go.…
EXPLAINER: Musk Twitter turnaround reflects legal challenges
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s sudden about face on a $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter, reversing an earlier attempt to rescind that offer, came as a surprise even from the mercurial billionaire who loves to shock. It sent shares of…