overnight News of 01/16/21

Boeing Will Pay $2.5 Billion After Admitting Employees Misled Regulators On 737 Max

Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle a Justice Department investigation and admit that employees misled regulators about the safety of its 737 Max aircraft, which suffered two deadly crashes shortly after entering airline service. The government ...

Facebook Blocks President Trump’S Account ‘Indefinitely’ After He Incited Mob That Stormed Capitol

Facebook has blocked President Donald Trump from using its service—including Instagram, which is owned by Facebook— for the remainder of his presidency after he incited supporters in Washington, D.C. , who turned violent and stormed the ...

China’S Crackdown On Alibaba And Ant Drive $200 Billion Tech Selloff

Alibaba Group Holding led a second day of frenetic selling among China’s largest tech firms, driven by fears that antitrust scrutiny will spread beyond Jack Ma’s internet empire and engulf the country’s most powerful corporations. ...

China Targets Jack Ma’S Alibaba With Monopoly Investigation

China kicked off an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices at Alibaba Group Holding and summoned affiliate Ant Group Co. to a high-level meeting over financial regulations, escalating scrutiny over the twin pillars of billionaire Jack ...

New Apple AirPods Max Orders Won’T Arrive In Time For Christmas

Apple’s’s new $550 AirPods Max headphones won’t arrive in time for the holiday season for many customers placing new orders with the company online. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant quoted wait times of 12 to 14 ...

Strong Earthquake Sets Off Landslides And Flattens Homes In Indonesia

MAMUJU, Indonesia (AP) — A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island just after midnight Friday, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least 34 people. More than 600 people were injured ...

North Korea Holds A Huge Military Parade As Kim Vows To Expand His Nuclear Program

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea rolled out developmental ballistic missiles designed to be launched from submarines and other military hardware in a parade that punctuated leader Kim Jong Un’s defiant calls to expand his nuclear weapons ...

A Racing Pigeon Traveled 8,000 Miles From Oregon To Australia. Officials Want To Kill It For Violating Quarantine

(CANBERRA, Australia) — A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to ...

WHO Investigators Are Finally Allowed To Land In China In A Bid To Uncover The Origins Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Following many months of wrangling and repeated rebuffs, a World Health Organization (WHO) team touched down in China Thursday to begin an investigation of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far sickened 92 million people around the ...

‘Museveni Is Scared.’ Uganda’S Aging Strongman Faces A Challenge From Singer Bobi Wine In An Election Plagued By Unrest

As far as campaign songs go, Bobi Wine’s hits all the right notes—an infectious, joyous message of hope reborn and national unity ascendant, interwoven with campaign pledges set to a rollicking, gospel infused reggae beat. Accompanied ...

Big Tech’S Crackdown On Donald Trump And Parler Won’T Fix The Real Problem With Social Media

If democracy is a river, or a forest, or a pristine meadow, then social media platforms are a factory spewing toxic pollutants into it. Even if you block the new effluent, the pollution that has already escaped won’t just go away. It needs to be ...

Facebook And Twitter Finally Locked Donald Trump’S Accounts. Will They Ban Him Permanently?

Twitter and Facebook imposed their toughest restrictions so far on President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, after he incited his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington in an attempt to overturn his election loss. Both companies ...

Biden Picks California Attorney General To Lead HHS

(WASHINGTON) — President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus ...

Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler Refuses To Say Trump Lost Election In Runoff Debate

(ATLANTA) — Sen. Kelly Loeffler repeatedly refused Sunday to acknowledge that President Donald Trump lost reelection in November, as she debated her Democratic opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, ahead of twin Georgia runoff elections that will ...

President Trump’S Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized After Testing Positive For COVID-19

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the U.S. ...

Asia Has Beaten Back Each Wave Of COVID-19. But This Surge Could Be Different

Dooseong Kang wants to be clear: He isn’t complaining about the new COVID-19 restrictions at his Seoul diner. The new rules mean he has to close early and cut the number of available seats in Cafe Travel Maker by half. He knows the restrictions ...

Pfizer Scaled Back 2020 COVID-19 Vaccine Production Targets From 100 Million To 50 Million Doses

Pfizer scaled back its Covid-19 production targets earlier this year after the drugmaker ran into difficulties securing all the materials it needs to produce the shots at a large scale. In news releases through September, Pfizer had said that it ...

Biden Says He Will Ask Americans To Wear Masks For 100 Days To Fight COVID-19 Spread

(WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he’s pushed before to stop the spread of the ...

Bangladesh Begins To Relocate Rohingya Refugees To Flood-Prone Island

Bangladesh is set to start moving Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island despite objections from the refugees and human rights groups—stoking fears of forced relocation. Critics of the plan have dubbed Bhasan Char an “ ...

Pro-Democracy Hong Kong Newspaper Owner Jailed After Being Accused Of Fraud

(HONG KONG) — Outspoken Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was refused bail on Thursday on a fraud charge amid a growing crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Jimmy Lai of Next Digital, which publishes the ...