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Boeing, DOJ reach deal to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/23/boeing-737-max-crashes-doj.html?__source=androidappshare

#Trump administration shields them. Victims families call for more accountability.

Boeing, Justice Department reach deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes

Boeing and DOJ reached an agreement that will allow the aircraft maker to avoid prosecution for fraud over the deadly 737 Max charges.

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Georgiann Baldino 21h ago

Sheril Kirshenbaum 23h ago

Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.

Source: Economist, 2025 https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/21/america-is-in-danger-of-experiencing-an-academic-brain-drain #science #uspol

Georgiann Baldino 21h ago

May 2024, "the United States government hosted its first-ever 'Space Weather Tabletop Exercise,' a hypothetical practice test to determine whether the country is prepared for space weather events, such as intense geomagnetic storms....According to the NASA statement, the exercise demonstrated 'a critical need” for' more robust forecasting capabilities of space weather drivers and effects.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-us-ran-its-first-space-weather-preparedness-drill-heres-how-it-went-180986659/

Georgiann Baldino 21h ago

"Theoretically, Thune could call up the legislation immediately and pass it without a single Democratic vote. However, #Senate Republicans say there's work to be done before they can sign off on the bill.
"We'll make changes," Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told NBC News last week. "We've been talking with the House and there's a lot of things we agree on. … But there'll be changes in a number of areas."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/new-math-problem-trumps-megabill-faces-senate-rcna208520
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The new math problem Trump's megabill faces in the Senate

Republicans passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It now goes to the GOP controlled Senate, where Democrats can't stop it with the filibuster.

MSNBC

Georgiann Baldino 21h ago

"#history emerged as a particular battleground in #Russia following the ideological and material chaos of the 1990s. Following the collapse of the USSR, historians and cultural critics delved into negative aspects of Soviet rule that had previously been publicly unspeakable. This became associated with an era of crisis also marked by privatization, political corruption, and social breakdown." JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/when-history-is-a-matter-of-national-security/