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Santa Clara County judge rules Elon Musk likely must give deposition in fatal Tesla autopilot crash Suit

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

By Peter Blumberg and Robert Burnson | BloombergA California state judge issued a tentative order requiring Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk to give a deposition in a lawsuit blaming Autopilot for a fatal crash in 2018.Tesla’s argument for why Musk shouldn’t be required to testify is “deeply troubling to the court,” Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker said in the order.The electric-car maker argued that it couldn’t vouch for the authenticity of videotaped interviews in which Musk touted the company’s driver-assistance technology, saying it’s possible some of them were digitally altered.“Their position is that because Mr. Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune,” the judge wrote. “In other words, Mr. Musk, and others in his position, can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership o...

Stagecoach 2023: How to livestream the country music festival from home

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

The annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival, which takes over the Empire Polo Club in Indio following two weekends of its sister Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 28-30, will be livestreamed through the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and Prime Video for the first time.Festival promoters Goldenvoice announced that fans will be able to tune into sets from its T-Mobile Mane Stage starting at 3 p.m. on the streaming platform, which is available only with Amazon Prime membership.Ahead of the fest, fans can tune in to new Amazon Original songs on Amazon Music from several of the performing artists including Breland’s new duet with Daniel Bradberry “Happy Song” and Luke Grimes’ cover of Blaze Foley’s “Clay Pigeons.”The livestream will also feature exclusive content including live interviews with Country Heat Weekly host Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson talking with some of the performers on-site.Country singer-songwriter and “American Idol” judge Luke Bryan will headline th...

Catalytic converter thieves who brandished guns, drove Maserati wanted by Berkeley PD

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

(KRON) -- Police in Berkeley are looking for a pair of catalytic converter thieves who brandished firearms and escaped in a Maserati, according to an alert from the Berkeley Police Department. The incident occurred just after 6 a.m. Thursday morning in the area of Bancroft Way and McGee Avenue, police said. SF police investigate stabbing in Tenderloin Thursday morning The two suspects brandished firearms -- a long rifle and a handgun -- while attempting to steal a catalytic converter. The suspects then took off at a high rate of speed in a white Maserative SUV with paper plates. Police were unable to locate them.Berkeley PD is looking for the suspects and encourages the public to call the police if they see a crime in progress but to not approach the subjects.

Raising Cane's raising average hourly wage to $19.50

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

LOUISIANA (KLFY) -- Fast-food chain Raising Cane's is raising its average minimum hourly wage to more than $19, company co-CEO and COO AJ Kumaran told Yahoo Finance last week.It's part of a more than $9 million investment into its workforce, Kumaran explained. Part of the investment is moving all hourly managers to an $18-an-hour minimum pay, bringing the average hourly pay at the company to $19.50, according to details shared with Nexstar's KLFY. Beavis and Butt-Head return as wonderfully moronic as ever Raising Cane's is also offering hourly employees the chance to make an additional $2 per hour during their first year of employment and for training employees as well as an additional $1 for working past 10 p.m. or during major events, and for completing "crew certifications."Additionally, Raising Cane's is launching a program to encourage experienced employees to travel to a new city -- where they will live rent-free for three to six months -- to help launch new restaurant locat...

Reactionaries and Progressives Jointly Call For U.S. Military to Leave Somalia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

A measure to withdraw most U.S. troops from Somalia, just months after the Biden administration sent them back there, is expected to garner support from far-right Republicans and members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus when it comes up for a scheduled vote on Thursday.The author of the War Powers Resolution, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, tweeted this week that Somalia, in the horn of Africa, “is not a vital national security concern.” Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — the chair and deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is comprised of more than 100 members of Congress — have confirmed they will vote yes on the measure, according to sources familiar with their thinking. “Members of Progressive Caucus leadership will all vote for the Somalia war powers resolution,” said a congressional staffer. “House progressives remain principled in their commitment to upholding the constitutional authority of Congress’s sole powers o...

Prosecutors: Man charged with killing wife suspected affair

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day suspected she was having an affair and persuaded his mother to hire a private investigator to prove it, according to prosecution documents released Thursday. In December, Brian Walshe “would repeatedly access the Instagram page” of one of Ana Walshe’s male friends from Washington, D.C., where she was working, prosecutors said. His mother hired the investigator on Dec. 26 “with his input and direction” to conduct surveillance and, the next day, his oldest child’s iPad was used for an internet search on “divorce.”Walshe, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder as well as misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human body. A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.Walshe is accused of killing Ana Walshe, dismembering her and disposing of her body. He pleaded not guilty Thursda...

Pirates star Dick Groat, who also played in NBA, dies at 92

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dick Groat, a two-sport star who went from All-American guard in basketball to a brief stint in the NBA to ultimately an All-Star shortstop and the 1960 National League MVP while playing baseball for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates, died Thursday. He was 92.Groat’s family said in a statement that he died at UMPC Presbyterian Hospital from complications of a stroke.“We are deeply saddened by the loss of such a beloved member of the Pirates family and Pittsburgh community,” Pirates Chairman Bob Nutting said in a statement, calling Groat “a great player and an even better person.”Groat, who was from the Swissvale neighborhood just east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, starred at Duke in basketball and baseball in the early 1950s, earning All-American honors in both. His No. 10 jersey hangs in Cameron Indoor Stadium; the program retired his number following the end of his senior season in 1952.Groat attempted to play both baseball and basketball professionally, si...

Juan Guaidó, sobre Petro: “Se puso del lado de la dictadura” de Maduro

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

(CNN Español) — El opositor venezolano Juan Guaidó dijo este jueves que el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, “se puso del lado de la dictadura”, en referencia al Gobierno del cuestionado presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.Tras una semana marcada por polémicas entre Guaidó y el Gobierno de Colombia en el marco de la Conferencia Internacional sobre el Proceso Político en Venezuela, el opositor venezolano llegó este martes a Miami y este jueves habló de Petro, del canciller ruso Sergey Lavrov y de otros temas.¿Qué pasó con Juan Guaidó y su polémico viaje a Colombia?“(Petro) se puso del lado de la dictadura, no de los perseguidos políticos, de los que han violado derechos humanos. Y eso lo marca su agenda: cada vez que ha ido a Venezuela, y ha ido varias veces a Venezuela, no ha tenido un minuto en la agenda para reunirse con, por ejemplo, indígenas desplazados por destrucción del Amazonas (…), no ha tenido un minuto en la agenda para víctimas de ...

Alabama governor defends dismissal of cabinet member

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor replaced a Cabinet member who oversaw the state’s award-winning prekindergarten program because of a teacher training book with language about inclusion and combatting structural racism, she said Thursday. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey defended her decision announced last week to remove Secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education Barbara Cooper over the use of the training guide, saying that she thought teachers need to “focus on basics.” “The teacher resource book that I looked at had all those references to different kind of lifestyles and equity and this and that and the other,” Ivey told reporters Thursday. “That’s not teaching English. That’s not teaching writing. That’s not teaching reading. We need to focus on the basics y’all and get this right.”She was referring to The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition, which i...

Tom of Finland exhibit celebrates Nordic country’s gay icon

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:15:51 GMT

HELSINKI (AP) — A new exhibition showing the works of Touko Laaksonen, better known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, adds a personal touch to the late Finnish artist whose homoerotic drawings of muscular men gained a following in the gay community from the 1950s.“Tom of Finland — Bold Journey,” which opens Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, features Laaksonen’s drawings, archive material, personal clothing items as well as memorabilia, letters, publications, magazines and films.Laaksonen’s cheerful, sexually explicit works made an impact in the art world at a time when homosexuality was illegal or classified as a disease in countries around the world, including his native Finland. The Nordic country has since embraced the artist, who died in 1991, as a national icon.“Tom is one of our national heroes who deserves to be seen as one of the most well-known Finnish artists of the 20th century,” said Kiasma museum director Leevi Haapala.He said Tom o...