Tag: investigation
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Arson investigation underway after Temple City house fire kills 3
One person was detained Sunday after three people died in a house fire in Temple City. Two others were hospitalized, fire officials confirmed. Firefighters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were sent to the home in the 6000 block of Sultana Avenue at around 4:50 p.m. and were able to knock down the fire…
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Tesla faces NHTSA investigation of ‘Full Self-Driving’ after fatal collision
Tesla faces a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, concerning issues with its “Full Self-Driving” systems, and whether they are safe to use in fog, glaring sun or other “reduced roadway visibility conditions.” The probe follows an incident in which a Tesla driver who had been using FSD struck and…
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Investigation underway after man tried to enter Trump California rally perimeter with guns in vehicle
Federal authorities are investigating after a man with guns in his vehicle was arrested Saturday after he was stopped at a checkpoint near a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump. The Justice Department said Sunday that the Secret Service and the FBI are investigating the incident in Coachella, California, about a quarter-mile from the…
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Supreme Court turns away Musk’s X appeal over Trump criminal investigation
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal brought by X, Elon Musk’s social media company, declining to decide whether prosecutors should have been able to obtain data from the former president Donald Trump Twitter account without him being notified. The case arose as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump…
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Chinese hack of telecommunications companies under investigation, NSA chief says
SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The director of the National Security Agency said Sunday a Chinese hack of three major telecommunications firms is under investigation, but it remains “premature” to discuss the case. Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh said his command would work closely with other government agencies and private companies “to really understand what has…
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Deadly Maui wildfire was sparked by downed power lines, investigation finds
A wildfire that killed more than 100 people on Maui, Hawaii, last year was sparked by “reenergized” broken power lines that ignited vegetation around a utility pole, according to findings released Wednesday by the Maui Fire Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Investigators also determined that the fire in Lahaina…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…
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Korean adoptees say they were ‘commodified’ and governments ignored fraud, investigation finds
An International Social Service social worker who visited the U.S. Embassy in Seoul around that time found what she saw “distasteful,” according to documents at the agency’s archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. “It showed the callous way in which children going to the US. were processed, to me, it was a real assembly…
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Texas medical program stops using unclaimed bodies following NBC News investigation
The Health Science Center also terminated its agreement with Dallas County, according to county Administrator Darryl Martin. He said the county had been planning to let the contract expire on Sept. 30 in light of NBC News’ findings. County officials had justified providing these bodies to the center because they had been marked as unclaimed…