Month: March 2022
Apple now lets you load your driver’s license on your iPhone in Arizona
Apple iOS 15 will support storing a driver’s license in Apple Wallet. Apple IPhone owners in Arizona can now load their driver’s licenses or state ID into their iPhone’s wallet app, Apple announced on Wednesday. The digital ID will allow holders to pass through TSA checkpoints in Sky Harbor International Airport, in Arizona. The digital […]
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NATO leaders set to OK ‘major increases’ of troops in response to Putin’s war on Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a press conference at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 23, 2022. Thomas Coex | AFP | Getty Images NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday the alliance is likely to bolster troops along its eastern flank, deploying four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia. “I expect leaders […]
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One of Putin’s top aides quits, reportedly in opposition to the Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin seen with Anatoly Chubais, who has reportedly quit as Russia’s climate envoy, in 2016. Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images News | Getty Images A high-ranking and long-standing aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin has quit his role as Moscow’s climate envoy due to his opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier […]
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Stellantis, LG Energy Solution to invest $4.1 billion in Canadian EV battery plant
Chris Feuell, CEO of Chrysler brand of Stellantis, introduces the all-electric Chrysler Airflow Concept vehicle during a Stellantis press event at CES 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 5, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alex Wong | Getty Images DETROIT – Automaker Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will invest about $4.1 billion […]
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MacKenzie Scott donates $3.8 billion to 465 organizations
Mackenzie Scott Kevork Djansezian | Getty Images Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced Wednesday that she has given away more than $3.8 billion to 465 organizations. Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, wrote in a Medium post that she made the donations over the last nine months. The list of recipients includes a range […]
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Wall Street bonuses climb to record $257,500 per worker last year, New York’s fiscal chief says
People walk along Wall Street in the financial district of Manhattan on September 29, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The average bonus paid to securities industry employees in New York climbed 20% to a record $257,500 for last year, according to state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The projection, released Wednesday in […]
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Black box found from Boeing passenger jet that crashed in China, state media says
Paramilitary police officers conduct a search at the site of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash in March 2022 in Tengxian county, Wuzhou city, in China’s southern Guangxi region. AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — One of the two black boxes containing data from Monday’s China Eastern Airlines plane crash has been found, Chinese state […]
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Alaska Airlines is trying to ease staffing shortage by offering flight attendants double pay to pick up shifts
A Boeing 737-990operated by Alaska Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on August 24, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images Alaska Airlines is offering flight attendants double pay to pick up extra trips this spring in hopes of avoiding staffing shortfalls ahead of an even bigger jump […]
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Zelenskyy says 100,000 people trapped in Mariupol; German leader says Putin destroying Russia’s future
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges Japan lawmakers to impose further sanctions on Russia Members of Japan’s lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on screen via video link at the House of Representatives office building in Tokyo on March 23, 2022. Behrouz Mehri | Afp | Getty Images Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has […]
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UK announces urgent fuel tax cut to fight cost of living crisis
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street to announce the Treasury’s one-year spending review in the House of Commons in London, England, on November 25, 2020. David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced an immediate cut to fuel taxes in a bid to mitigate […]
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