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Doug Ramsey, Beyond Meat executive, accused of biting man’s nose outside football game
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — An executive of a vegan food products company has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a fracas outside a football game in which he’s accused of biting a man’s nose, officials said. Beyond Meat Chief Operations Officer Doug Ramsey has been accused of a road rage attack…
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Dead heat in N.C. race that could swing control of the U.S. Senate
Control of the Senate may come down to the ultimate tossup state — North Carolina — where former judge Cheri Beasley and Republican Rep. Ted Budd are locked in an incredibly close race that’s been overshadowed by the mud-slinging and hand-wringing in other marquee matchups. Ms. Beasley, a Democrat, boasts an impressive resume as the…
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Twitter challenges whistleblower allegations of poor security and endangering people’s data
Twitter officials on Wednesday disputed a whistleblower’s allegations that the social media company violated rules and laws, endangering users’ personal data. Twitter executive Jay Sullivan, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discredited the allegations of Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, formerly the company’s top security official. “The company disagrees with much of the…
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D.C. restaurants struggle to stay open as pandemic relief dries up
Z Burger restaurant owner Peter Tabibian applied for a Paycheck Protection Program loan during the height of the pandemic to help keep his eateries in Tenleytown, Dupont Circle and Greenbelt afloat. Now, his handcrafted burger chain is grappling with inflation-driven surges in the cost of meat, rent and electricity, he says. “I didn’t raise my…
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Pressure mounts on U.S. railroads and unions to reach a deal
OMAHA, Neb. — Freight railroads and their unions are facing increasing pressure from business groups and the White House to settle their contract dispute before Friday’s looming strike deadline. The pressure stems from concerns that halting railroad deliveries of raw materials and finished products that so many companies rely on would be, in the words…
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Gun-rights backers call credit-card plan a step toward national registry
Second Amendment advocacy organizations are blasting the major credit-card companies over their plan to distinguish gun purchases in their payment processors, panning the idea as a step toward a database of U.S. gun owners. Visa Inc. announced over the weekend that it will begin to categorize separately sales at gun shops, which gun-control advocates say…
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Ukraine’s nuclear power plant shutdown cuts risks
KYIV, Ukraine — The forced shutdown of Ukraine’s endangered and crippled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe’s largest – significantly reduces the risk of a radiation disaster that has haunted the world for weeks. The last of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant’s six nuclear reactors was shut down Sunday because Russia’s military actions in Ukraine had…
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New research facility shows how to live with rising tides
NORFOLK, Va. — The Elizabeth River Project’s latest work doesn’t fight the rising tide. It will roll with it. The environmental group is constructing a 6,500-foot resilience lab along Colley Avenue and Knitting Mill Creek. The building has an intentional life span of about 30 to 50 years; when sea levels reach a certain height,…
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As small businesses raise prices, some customers push back
NEW YORK — Inflation isn’t only costing small businesses money. It’s costing them customers as well. At the Bushwick Grind Cafe in Brooklyn, New York, Kymme Williams-Davis has raised prices and switched to different types of goods to keep up with the rising costs of milk, coffee, paper goods and plastic, as well as shortages…
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Tech company’s outage leaves fans unable to download tickets
A technology company that handles ticketing for many of the biggest college football programs encountered a problem Saturday that left fans across the country unable to download digital tickets onto their smartphones for several hours. The outage also led StubHub, one of the biggest secondary ticket marketplaces, to suspend sales until the issue was resolved.…
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