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The plane was grounded worldwide in March after two crashes that killed 346 people. The company determined a software fix was likely to correct the issue with the automatic safety feature that caused the crashes. However, as part of a December audit of the plane’s safety ordered by the US Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing found “previously unreported concerns” with wiring in the 737 Max, according to a report earlier Sunday from the New York Times. The company informed the FAA last month that it is looking into whether two sections of wiring that control the tail of the plane are...

In 2006, 530 to 710 metric tons of cocaine departed South America toward the US.About 17,000 Americans lose their lives to illegal drugs annually. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Nimmich, director of the U.S. counternarcotics command center: “All these countries are embattled by drug cartels, primarily because of the demand for cocaine and the funds that are generated by cocaine,”.An estimated 200 metric tons of cocaine travel annually through Venezuela. Because of its location and lax counterdrug enforcement, Venezuela has become a focal point for drug cartels, says Nimmich. Twenty percent of the narcotrafficking goes by air, while 80 percent...

February 21, 2008: Vermont businessman and former state government official Charlie Kireker is becoming Chair of the board of Air America Radio as his newly formed Pendulum Media agrees to purchase a controlling interest in the liberal talk network from Green Family Media. Kireker takes over from Stephen Green, who will remain on the Air America board. Green Family Media completed its purchase of Air America from Piquant LLC in March 2007, six months after the network filed for bankruptcy under previous owner Piquant LLC. Air America President Mark Green and COO Scott Elberg will remain in place under the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Air America today announced a high-profile lineup of presidential candidates, political players and celebrities for next week as part of the liberal talk network's "relaunch.'' Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, along with notables like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem, are among the more than 30 guests scheduled. New shows are also being added to the schedule, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey. The network also redesigned its Web site, where hosts will regularly blog along with a newly-hired blogger. Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the subject...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The World Bank's board is expected next week to formally approve a plan to wipe out poor countries' debt, the lending institution's' president, Paul Wolfowitz, said Wednesday. "It will be in their hands to decide early next week," he told reporters. The plan would forgive nearly $40 billion worth of debt for 18 poor countries, most of them in Africa, over a 40-year period, he said. Wolfowitz believed the World Bank would be able to start providing debt forgiveness to countries by the middle of next year. The expected approval by the World Bank board would mostly...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air America Radio, the upstart liberal talk show network that has been plagued by management troubles, is seeking to raise new money in efforts to pay off debts and steer the business back toward profitability. A group of early investors that include Florida plaintiffs lawyer Mike Papantonio, Chicago entrepreneur Sheldon Drobny, and Rob Glaser, chairman of RealNetworks Inc., have committed to invest new capital, people familiar with the company said. Air America has also moved to fill a void in its executive ranks. Doug Kreeger, also an investor, assumed the role of chief executive last week....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is proposing to double spending on sexual abstinence programs that bar any discussion of birth control or condoms to prevent pregnancy or AIDS despite a lack of evidence that such programs work. A study by researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on declining birth and pregnancy rates among teenagers concludes that prevention programs should emphasize abstinence and contraception. "Both are important," said Dr. John Santelli, the lead author of the study, which has not been published. In Minnesota, a study found that sexual activity doubled among junior high school students...

Troubled Los Angeles Community Bank to Be Phased Out of Existence LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federally funded bank created after the 1992 Los Angeles riots to revitalize low-income neighborhoods is going out of business. The Los Angeles Community Development Bank has been plagued by bad loans, poor management and often fell short of its mandate to create jobs for the city's poorest residents. City Council approved a plan Friday directing it to phase out operations over the next 18 months. The bank was launched four years after the riots, which erupted following the acquittal of four white officers in...

'MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE AS A GOING CONCERN': As of March 31, 2002, SALON.COM had an accumulated deficit of $76.6 million...