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• Updated: Washington flummoxed over federal Confederate flag displays

  01-07-2016 23:59
  
  WASHINGTON — A year after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its capitol grounds, official Washington is struggling with further restrictions on the flag’s display on federal property, including in the U.S. Capitol complex. The National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army have longstanding guidelines for its cemeteries that permit […]
  
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• Riders temporarily stranded on 6 Flags roller coaster

  01-07-2016 23:50
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — A roller coaster at Six Flags amusement park in North Texas came to a sudden stop and temporarily stranded about 20 riders before park employees led them to safety. The Shock Wave roller coaster appeared to be making its initial ascent Friday in Arlington when it abruptly stopped. Park spokeswoman Sharon Parker […]
  
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• Game wardens, deputies bust massive marijuana farm

  01-07-2016 23:50
  
  MENARD, Texas — State game wardens and other law enforcement officers have raided what they describe as an illegal large-scale marijuana growing operation in a remote area of West Texas. A Texas Parks and Wildlife Department statement Friday says about 40,000 marijuana plants worth millions of dollars were seized at the scene situated on a […]
  
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• Breaking: Tom Clifford named to UNM Board of Regents

  01-07-2016 22:51
  
  Gov. Susana Martinez announced Friday that a former top state budget official, Tom Clifford, will be ...
  
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• Cultivating Coders partners with Hispano Chamber on boot camps

  01-07-2016 22:35
  
  Cultivating Coders is taking its training boot camps for aspiring web developers to under-served communities in Albuquerque with help from the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. The two entities are partnering to help 21 disadvantaged individuals gain access to Cultivating Coders’ intensive eight-week training course, which prepares students for high-wage jobs in website and software […]
  
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• Updated: CDC: Amoeba didn’t die in whitewater center’s murky churn

  01-07-2016 22:27
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The chlorination and filtration systems at an artificial water rapids course where Olympic kayakers train were inadequate to kill a rare, brain-attacking organism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said after an Ohio teenager died from the amoeba. The rushing water channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center had become […]
  
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• Updated: Bill Clinton and his loose-cannon episodes

  01-07-2016 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON — Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton. His apparently spur-of-the moment decision to chat this week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch even as her agency is overseeing a […]
  
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• CDC: Amoeba didn’t die in whitewater center’s murky churn

  01-07-2016 22:27
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The chlorination and filtration systems at an artificial water rapids course where Olympic kayakers train were inadequate to kill a rare, brain-attacking organism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said after an Ohio teenager died from the amoeba. The rushing water channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center had become […]
  
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• Updated: Judge: Media can argue to make Bundy case documents public

  01-07-2016 22:19
  
  LAS VEGAS — Media organizations can argue for the release of documents that federal prosecutors want to shield from public view in a criminal case involving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s 2014 armed standoff with government agents, a judge decided Friday. An order by Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen didn’t immediately open the court filings sought by […]
  
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• Updated: Lowering the flag: Some examples of half-staff tributes

  01-07-2016 22:14
  
  NEW YORK — Nearly 90 percent of days last year, one or more states were flying the American flag at half-staff to memorialize the deaths of military members, public officials, police, first responders, prominent citizens and victims of mass killings and disasters, The Associated Press found in analyzing information from all 50 states and the […]
  
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• Mixed decision comes in Thornburg Mortgage fraud cause

  01-07-2016 21:29 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A federal jury has cleared two former executives of Thornburg Mortgage of five counts and could not reach a decision on five others.
  The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit in 2012, alleging that Thornburg leaders Larry Goldstone, Clarence Simmons III and Jane Starrett hid the company’s deteriorating financial condition at the start of the housing market collapse by issuing misleading statements.
  They also were accused of hiding a $428 million los
  
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• Police: 2 officers killed by attackers holding hostages in restaurant in Bangladesh

  01-07-2016 21:20 via krqe.com
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police say two officers killed by attackers holding hostages in restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said.
  One police officer died of his wounds at a hospital, according to his nephew Mishu Hasan. Authorities had not yet reported the dea
  
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• Attackers storm Bangladesh restaurant, take hostages

  01-07-2016 21:20 via krqe.com
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said.
  One police officer died of his wounds at a hospital, according to his nephew Mishu Hasan. Authorities had not yet reported the death.
  A huge contingent of security forces cordoned off the area around the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhak
  
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• Today in History: July 1

  01-07-2016 21:15 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Friday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2016. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On July 1, 1966, the Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
  On this date:
  In 1535, Sir Thomas More went on trial in England, charged with high treason for rejecting the Oath of Supremacy. (More was convicted, and executed.)
  In 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.
  In 1
  
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• Attention in Istanbul bombing focused on Chechen extremist

  01-07-2016 21:02 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Attention focused Friday on whether a Chechen extremist known to be a top lieutenant in the Islamic State group was involved in the suicide attacks that killed 44 people at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
  U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told CNN that Akhmed Chatayev directed Tuesday night’s attack at one of the world’s busiest airports. The CIA and White House declined to comment on McCaul’s assertion and o
  
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• 'Independence Day' generated $44M for New Mexico

  01-07-2016 20:43
  
  The Motion Picture Association of America says the movie "Independence Day: Resurgence" generated more than $44 million for New Mexico, where the alien sequel was filmed.
  
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• Breaking: Forest Service confirms brush clearing started Dog Head Fire

  01-07-2016 20:43
  
  CHILILI — U.S. Forest Service officials on Friday confirmed Journal reports that the cause of the D ...
  
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• Updated: 7,000 baby turkeys die in fire; Thanksgiving orders affected

  01-07-2016 20:40
  
  LANCASTER, Mass. — A barn fire at one of New England’s largest turkey-breeding operations killed 7,000 baby turkeys, and the farm’s owners said that means they won’t be able to meet all of their Thanksgiving orders. The fire happened Thursday at Bob’s Turkey Farm, a family-run business that began in 1954, and killed baby turkeys […]
  
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• 7,000 baby turkeys die in fire; Thanksgiving orders affected

  01-07-2016 20:40
  
  LANCASTER, Mass. — Seven thousand baby turkeys have been killed in a Massachusetts barn fire, and the farm’s owners say that means they won’t be able to meet all of their Thanksgiving orders. The fire happened Thursday at Bob’s Turkey Farm in Lancaster. The family that owns the farm says it’s one of the largest […]
  
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• Pilot program allows cats, dogs on ABQ Ride

  01-07-2016 20:39
  
  A new pilot program started in Albuquerque Friday that allows riders to take pets on ABQ Ride.
  
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• MPAA: ‘Independence Day’ generated $44M for New Mexico

  01-07-2016 20:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The Motion Picture Association of America says the movie “Independence Day: Resurgence” generated more than $44 million for New Mexico, where the alien sequel was filmed.
  Numbers released by Twentieth Century Fox on Friday show the movie hired over 5,750 New Mexico workers and paid them around $19.4 million in wages.
  The film spent 158 days on location in New Mexico.
  New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis says the “Independence Day” n
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Trump: Lynch-Clinton meeting opens Pandora’s box

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 2:15 p.m. Donald Trump says Bill Clinton’s meeting Attorney General Loretta Lynch has “opened up a Pandora’s box.” The presumptive Republican presidential nominee took on the recent private meeting between the former president and Lynch aboard her plane while speaking Friday to a […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Democrats release draft of party’s platform

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 3:20 p.m. Democrats are releasing the draft of their party’s platform, calling it the “most progressive” potential platform in the party’s history. The platform is a statement of the party’s values. Highlights include saying that American workers should earn at least $15 an […]
  
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• Updated: Attackers take hostages at Bangladesh restaurant

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — A group of as many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities said. The head of the elite anti-crime force, Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, told reporters Friday night that […]
  
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• Updated: Attackers storm Bangladesh restaurant, take hostages

  01-07-2016 20:14
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said. One police officer died of his wounds at a hospital, according to his nephew Mishu […]
  
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• Updated: Court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide

  01-07-2016 20:13
  
  BOSTON — A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to “get back in” a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state’s highest court ruled Friday. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday that a grand jury […]
  
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• Clinton campaign says it has $44M in bank for 2016 race

  01-07-2016 20:13
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton begins July with $44 million in cash to continue hammering Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House. The presumptive Democratic nominee raised $40.5 million in June. Her campaign announced the numbers Friday. Clinton has spent far more than Trump building up voter contact operations and beginning to advertise […]
  
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• Firefighters to be vigilant for illegal fireworks this weekend

  01-07-2016 20:11
  
  There will a lot of eyes out there this weekend looking for illegal fireworks across the state, including the Metro.
  
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• Local non-profit surprises veteran with new car

  01-07-2016 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local non-profit is helping a local veteran get back on his feet with a new car.
  “Heroes Walk Among Us” is an organization that helps struggling veterans get jobs and put their lives back together. They provide them with housing, education, work and transportation.
  When the non-profit heard a U.S. Navy veteran needed a new car, they gave him a Jeep donated by a member of the organization.
  “Words can’t explain how grateful I am and h
  
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• Local non-profit surprises veteran new car

  01-07-2016 20:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local non-profit is helping a local veteran get back on his feet with a new car.
  “Heroes Walk Among Us” is an organization that helps struggling veterans get jobs and put their lives back together. They provide them with housing, education, work and transportation.
  When the non-profit heard a U.S. Navy veteran needed a new car, they gave him a Jeep donated by a member of the organization.
  “Words can’t explain how grateful I am and h
  
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• PNM loses support for rate increase request after hearings

  01-07-2016 19:58 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Bernalillo County and other groups have withdrawn their support for Public Service Company of New Mexico’s request for a rate increase in light of new information provided at hearings.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that PNM is looking to increase its collections from customers by about $123.5 million per year, raising rates by an average of 14.39 percent. Company officials say the revenue will help cover the January purchase of an Arizona nuclear power unit.
  
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• Crouch Mesa residents concerned about water problems

  01-07-2016 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – Residents in northwestern New Mexico say they’re concerned about their drinking water after having to live with a boil advisory and intermittent shortages for more than a month.
  State regulators and officials with the AV Water company fielded questions about the Crouch Mesa water crisis during a meeting Thursday in Farmington. About 6,400 customers are served by the utility.
  The Daily Times reports that problems stem from the company’s treatment plant.
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• New: Monitor: APD failing to comply in use-of-force investigations

  01-07-2016 19:13
  
  Albuquerque police supervisors are failing to investigate use-of-force cases in a way that is compliant with the settlement agreement between the city and the Department of Justice, according to the third report from the monitoring team overseeing the reform effort. The monitoring team has honed in on one troubling case in particular — a police […]
  
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• Police: Baby sitter drove intoxicated with 4 kids in car

  01-07-2016 19:11 via krqe.com
  
  MOUNT SINAI, N.Y. (AP) — A 19-year-old Long Island baby sitter is facing charges after police say she was intoxicated while driving with four children in her car.
  Suffolk County police say a good Samaritan called them Thursday afternoon to report an intoxicated woman who was unable to find her car in a lot near a beach in the town of Mount Sinai. Police say once the woman found her car, she tried to drive away with four boys aged 4 to 11 inside, but the good Samaritan used her own vehicle
  
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• Santa Ana pueblo to keep ranch in natural state

  01-07-2016 19:04
  
  The governor of a New Mexico pueblo that has become the latest tribe to buy back a swath of it ancestral land says leaders intend to keep the tract in its natural state.
  
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• Now isolated, Britain joins France at WWI centenary event

  01-07-2016 19:04 via krqe.com
  
  THIEPVAL, France (AP) — One week after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, British Prime Minister David Cameron and members of the royal family were standing side-by-side with France’s president to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I.
  More than 1 million people were killed, wounded or went missing in the Battle of the Somme in northern France, pitting British and French troops against German ones from July 1 to Nov.
  
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• Army veteran gets a free home

  01-07-2016 18:56
  
  Sgt. Trevor Hileman applied for a free home through the Military Warriors Support Foundation. 
  
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• Lightning started 1.2-acre Comanche Fire in Manzano Mountains

  01-07-2016 18:40
  
  Lightning caused a small fire Thursday in the Manzano Mountains roughly 11 miles southwest from where the Dog Head Fire burned, U.S. Forest Service officials said Friday.
  
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• Farm workers eligible for worker’s comp after new ruling

  01-07-2016 18:38 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Supreme Court has sided with farm and ranch laborers who say they are entitled to worker’s compensation when injured on the job.
  The case stems from a 2012 incident in which a woman who worked as a chile picker in Dona Ana County broke her wrist and requested worker’s comp but was denied.
  The Supreme Court held on Thursday that denying farm laborers worker’s comp is unconstitutional.
  The New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau said it was
  
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• Charges dismissed against City Hall lockdown suspect

  01-07-2016 18:24
  
  A  man charged with causing a massive lockdown at City Hall in June is out of jail and the charges against him have been dismissed, Target 7 has learned. 
  
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• Lynch: I’ll accept findings of lawyers in Clinton email case

  01-07-2016 18:09 via krqe.com
  
   
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged Friday that her impromptu meeting with Bill Clinton “cast a shadow” on public perception of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email. She hastened to add that she would follow the recommendations of career prosecutors on whether to file criminal charges against the former secretary of state.
  The statement was aimed at tamping down concerns that the investigation could be politically tainted or that
  
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• MPA: ‘Independence Day’ generated $44M for New Mexico

  01-07-2016 18:02
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Motion Picture Association of America says the movie “Independence Day: Resurgence” generated more than $44 million for New Mexico, where the alien sequel was filmed. Numbers released by Twentieth Century Fox on Friday show the movie hired over 5,750 New Mexico workers and paid them around $19.4 million in wages. The […]
  
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• State settles with oil company over wastewater dumping

  01-07-2016 17:51 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico has settled with a natural gas and oil company after it dumped wastewater on two northern New Mexico roads.
  The state came to the agreement with Enterprise Products Operating LLC to settle for $500,000 on Thursday for the improper disposal in Santa Fe and Lea counties in 2013 and 2014.
  The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department says 300,000 will go to educating workers to help prevent any more disposal violations. It says $195,000 will
  
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• US: Up to 116 civilians killed in drone, other air attacks

  01-07-2016 17:28 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that as many as 116 civilians have been killed by drone and other U.S. strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
  In its first public assessment, the administration said the death toll was between 64 and 116 civilians between January 2009 and December 2015, which is significantly lower than civilian casualty estimates by various human rights groups.
  Those range as high as 1,100 killed.
  The number of
  
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• AP sources: Obama to reveal civilian deaths from drones

  01-07-2016 17:28 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is expected to disclose as early as Friday the number of civilians killed in U.S. military and CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since he took office and will issue an executive order that makes protecting civilians a more integral part of planning U.S. military operations, according to activists and other individuals familiar with the report.
  The White House is to disclose the casualties with a range of numbers indicating that an esti
  
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• UNM delaying plans to unify email addresses

  01-07-2016 17:27
  
  University of New Mexico students and faculty will be able to keep their email address the same for the time being.
  
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• Pueblo becomes latest tribe to buy swath of ancestral land

  01-07-2016 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) – A sprawling ranch near the edge of the Albuquerque metro area is being purchased by a Native American pueblo that has become the latest tribe to buy back a swath of its ancestral land.
  The Santa Ana Pueblo governor plans Friday to discuss the purchase of the 100-square-mile Alamo Ranch, which the family of former Gov. Bruce King listed in February for $33 million.
  Neither party has disclosed the final sale amount.
  The purchase comes as more tribes buy land wit
  
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• Updated: US auto sales expected to hit record in first 6 months

  01-07-2016 16:37
  
  DETROIT — U.S. auto sales may be slowing, but they’re still expected to set a record in the first six months of this year. Sales through June were expected to be up 2 percent over last year to 8.66 million, according to Kelley Blue Book. That was partly due to a strong June, which saw […]
  
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• Updated: As desire to acquire mounts, so does risk of losses

  01-07-2016 16:36
  
  NEW YORK — The word suggests compassion, benevolence. It even sounds nice. Goodwill. Mankind needs more of it. But in the financial world, there may be far too much already. Goodwill is the accounting term for the premium that companies pay when they buy each other, over the value of the actual assets being purchased, […]
  
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• Updated: Tesla crash could hurt sentiment on driverless cars

  01-07-2016 16:35
  
  DETROIT — It was the crash the auto industry knew was coming but still feared. The death of a driver who was using Tesla Motors’ semi-autonomous mode could add to the public’s apprehension of driverless cars even before they reach the road in big numbers. Most major automakers and technology companies, including Google and Uber, […]
  
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