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Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker's safety culture 04/17/2024 05:27pm • An engineer at Boeing said Wednesday that the aircraft company, in rushing to produce as many planes as possible, is taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart. “They are putting out defective airplanes,” the engineer, Sam Salehpour, told members of a Senate subco Emergency chief decided to return to Maui only after deadly fire had burned for 5 hours, amid broader communication woes 04/17/2024 05:03pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Emergency chief decided to return to Maui only after deadly fire had burned for 5 hours, amid broader communication woes. US probe of Hondas that can activate emergency braking for no reason moves closer to a recall 04/17/2024 05:02pm • DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has upgraded a probe opened in February of 2022 to an engineering analysis after it Officer shot before returning fire and killing driver in Albany, New York, police chief says 04/17/2024 04:12pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A police officer in Albany, New York, was “ambushed” by a driver following an attempted traffic stop early Wednesday and was shot in the leg before returning fire, killing the man, the city's police chief said. The officer was hospitalized at Albany Medical Center and was a Regulators pleased Union Pacific is using fewer temporary shipping limits 04/17/2024 03:19pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific dramatically reduced its use of temporary limits on some businesses' shipments over the past year after its customers complained, but regulators said Wednesday the railroad must go further to be in line with the other major freight railroads that rarely use such em 'Civil War' might be the year's most explosive movie. Alex Garland thinks it's just reporting 04/17/2024 02:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a virus-caused pandemic (2002's “28 Days Later”), an uncontrollable artificial intelligence (2014’s “Ex Machina”) and, in his latest, “Civil War,” a near-future America in the throes of all-out warfare. Most filmmakers with El Salvador's Bukele releases father of soccer player from prison after son's plea on social media 04/17/2024 02:19pm • SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after the athlete published a plea for his release on social media, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Marcelo “El Chiky” Díaz, who plays for El Salvador's national team, on 'A quiet hero:' Detective who helped solve high-profile Virginia murders dies 04/17/2024 01:51pm • Michael Boone, the detective who helped solved high-profile cases in Northern Virginia, has died. (Courtesy City of Fairfax police) Michael Boone, a Northern Virginia detective who helped solve the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington murders in Charlottesville, and the murder of Bethany Decker i Nathan MacKinnon races to career season, looks to power Colorado Avalanche on another title run 04/17/2024 01:33pm • DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon is so quick and so forceful on the ice that sometimes there’s a crunching noise that follows him into the offensive end. It's a sound that alerts Colorado Avalanche teammate and childhood friend Jonathan Drouin to one thing — a goalie’s in for big trouble. Beca Lab chief faces sentencing in Michigan 12 years after fatal US meningitis outbreak 04/17/2024 01:26pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Days after a routine injection to ease back pain, Donna Kruzich and a friend drove across the border to Canada in 2012 to see end-of-summer theater in Stratford, Ontario. The 78-year-old Michigan woman suddenly became ill and returned home. By early October, she was dead. “M What caused the grueling morning traffic delays on the Beltway — and how it could happen again 04/17/2024 01:09pm • Listen to WTOP for traffic updates on the 8s. Traffic was at a near standstill throughout the D.C. region Wednesday morning after construction work closed lanes on the Capital Beltway. Commuters clogged alternatives routes and backups stretched for miles. The construction Wednesday morning was Pack your ear protection — Pennsylvania Avenue to turn into a speedway for race car drivers Saturday 04/17/2024 11:19am • Motorsport fans will pack the National Mall on Saturday to watch a Formula 1 race car drive through the heart of the nation's capital. Here's what you need to know. Red Bull Racing is hosting its first-ever showrun event in D.C., where its RB7 racing car will be on display, driving in front of th 'I was afraid for my life' — Orlando Bloom puts himself in peril for new TV series 04/17/2024 11:15am • NEW YORK (AP) — Orlando Bloom wanted to test himself for his latest adventure project. Not by eating something gross or visiting a new country. He wanted to risk death — with not one but three extreme sports. The Peacock series“Orlando Bloom: To the Edge” sees the “Pirates of the Caribbean Russian missiles slam into a Ukraine city and kill 17 people as the war approaches a critical stage 04/17/2024 11:01am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 17 people, authorities said. At least 61 people, including three children, were wounded in the morning a Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says 04/17/2024 09:42am • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week's traditional New Year holiday. Those released