May 30, 2023
Buffeted by earthquakes and the potential of conflict with China, Taiwan’s leaders want to accelerate plans to make the island more resilient to communications breakdowns and direct attacks on its digital infrastructure. It could be an impossible task. Audrey Tang, …
May 30, 2023
The list of firms walking out of the Net Zero Insurance Alliance continued to grow this week, adding to an exodus as the industry struggles to navigate anti-ESG attacks led by the Republican Party. The latest round of defections includes …
May 30, 2023
Germany’s Talanx said on Saturday it had acquired Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Latin America business for about 1.38 billion euros ($1.52 billion), through its subsidiary HDI International. “The acquisition encompasses Liberty’s retail business in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador,” Talanx said, …
May 30, 2023
The record $279 million whistleblower award issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month stemmed from a bribery case against Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The award from the regulator’s cash-for-tip …
May 30, 2023
Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday. The case is part of a sprawling intellectual property …
May 30, 2023
A flight instructor and a student pilot died Friday when a small plane crashed at a south Florida airport, Palm Beach County authorities said. The crash at the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana happened shortly after 11 a.m. …
May 30, 2023
Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be. An El Nino is brewing and the natural weather event dramatically dampens …
May 30, 2023
The families of four young men killed and buried on a Pennsylvania farm have settled their wrongful-death lawsuits against the man who confessed in the killings and his parents Cosmo DiNardo, who was 20 at the time, admitted luring four …
May 30, 2023
A college baseball player died after he was struck in the face when a makeshift dugout he was helping to dismantle collapsed on him this week. Angel Mercado, 19, was a middle infielder who had just completed his freshman season …
May 30, 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed into law a bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person’s height or weight in employment, housing, and public accommodations, with some exceptions. The New York City Council passed the …