(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday classified the recall of Swedish medical equipment maker Getinge’s heart devices as its most serious type since their use could lead to death. Datascope, a unit of Getinge, had recalled 4,454 therapeutic devices in December following a death and four serious injuries from their use. The …
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By Alexandra Ulmer HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (Reuters) – When friends of farm supervisor Marciano Martinez heard of the shooting at the Half Moon Bay mushroom plantations on Monday, they had a sinking feeling. They knew he had to have been there: Martinez, a migrant from Mexico, worked every day except Saturdays. He rarely took …
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By Jorge Garcia and Steve Gorman REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) -A 66-year-old immigrant farm worker was formally charged with premeditated murder on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of seven co-workers near San Francisco, the second of two gun rampages in California in recent days in which 18 people were killed. Chunli Zhao, a Chinese citizen …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers on Wednesday that it had revoked access to a pilot messaging database to contractor personnel involved in a file deletion that led to the first nationwide groundstop since 2001. Last week, the FAA said it had found contract personnel “unintentionally deleted files” disrupting …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay on Monday, and the suspect was arrested after driving to a police parking lot, apparently attempting to turn himself in, officials said. The shooting in Half Moon Bay, about 30 …
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By Sabrina Valle (Reuters) – Chevron Corp on Wednesday said it would triple its budget for share buybacks to $75 billion, the oil industry’s most ambitious shareholder payouts to date, as high oil and gas prices pad profits. The oil industry has been facing calls from investors and the White House to put last year’s …
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(Reuters) -Meta Platforms Inc’s social media apps appeared to be back up after facing a brief disruption in the United States on Wednesday, data on outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed. At the peak of the outage, more than 17,000 user reports had indicated issues with Instagram in the United States, as of 2352 GMT. Over …
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By Dawn Chmielewski, Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Milana Vinn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Large shareholders in News Corp on Wednesday applauded Rupert Murdoch’s decision to withdraw a proposal to reunite the owner of Dow Jones and Fox Corp, as News Corp decided to pursue a sale of Move Inc instead. News Corp is in talks to …
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By Jorge Garcia and Steve Gorman REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) -A 66-year-old immigrant farm worker was formally charged with premeditated murder on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of seven co-workers near San Francisco, the second of two gun rampages in California in recent days in which 18 people were killed. Chunli Zhao, a Chinese citizen …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) said on Wednesday it is investigating whether Southwest Airlines engaged in “unrealistic scheduling of flights” in December when it was hit by a systems meltdown and canceled thousands of flights. A “rigorous and comprehensive investigation into Southwest Airlines’ holiday debacle that stranded millions” is …
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