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The family of a prominent Boeing whistle-blower who killed himself last year has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the airplane manufacturer.The suit, which was filed on Wednesday in federal court in South Carolina, says Boeing contributed to the “unbearable depression, panic attacks and anxiety” the whistle-blower, John Barnett, suffered for many years.“Boeing may not have pulled the trigger, but Boeing’s conduct was the clear cause” of Mr. Barnett’s death, the lawsuit said. His family requested a jury trial.Mr. Barnett worked for Boeing for more than three decades, about half of that time as a quality manager. In 2017, he retired…

“I think any journalist would take three and a half hours of off-the-record conversation with the president of the United States,” Mr. Baier said. “And if you say that you wouldn’t, you’re not being honest.”The president holds Fox’s reporters and news anchors in lower esteem than the network’s opinion stars like Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham and other leading Trump allies. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump laced into one of Fox’s White House correspondents, Jacqui Heinrich, calling her “absolutely terrible” in a social media post and declaring, “She should we working for CNN, not Fox.”“She’s a solid reporter, and she’s a solid…

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in an attempt to shut down the Education Department.“We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr. Trump signed the order.But they are not about to let debtors off the hook. Those states, after all, are not banks, and the Education Department is a big bank in all but name. It lends tens of billions of dollars to students and parents each year and oversees the collection of roughly $1.6 trillion in outstanding loans for over 40…

Jeffrey Bruce Klein, one of four journalists who in 1976 founded the magazine Mother Jones, rooting it in the crusading left-wing politics of the 1960s, and who returned in 1992 as editor in chief to rebrand it for younger, more digital readers, died on March 13 at his home in Menlo Park, Calif. He was 77.His sons, Jacob and Jonah, said the cause was complications of a nerve disease.Mr. Klein was an East Coast transplant to the Bay Area, drawn in the midst of 1960s counterculture by the possibility that the era’s anti-establishment character could continue to drive the region’s…

Tesla is recalling nearly all of its futuristic-style Cybertrucks after it found that an exterior trim panel was falling off and creating hazardous driving conditions, the company said on Thursday. This is the eighth recall for the model.The recall of about 46,000 vehicles includes all models that were manufactured from Nov. 13, 2023, when the Cybertruck was first produced, to Feb. 27. In a report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday, Tesla said that only about 1 percent of the electric vehicles from this model were defective but that it would recall all the vehicles as…

Disney knew that remaking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as a live-action musical would be treacherous.But the studio was feeling cocky.It was 2019, and Disney was minting money at the box office by “reimagining” animated classics like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Jungle Book” as movies with real actors. The remakes also made bedrock characters like Cinderella newly relevant. Heroines defined by ideas from another era — be pretty, and things might work out! — were empowered. Casting emphasized diversity.Why not tackle Snow White?Over the decades, Disney had tried to modernize her story — to make her…

When inflation was too high and the economy was resilient in the aftermath of the pandemic, the Federal Reserve’s decision to sharply raise interest rates beginning in 2022 seemed like a no-brainer. The same was true just over two years later when inflation had fallen sharply from its recent peak and the labor market had started to cool off. That paved the way for the central bank to lower borrowing costs by a percentage point in 2024.What made those decisions relatively straightforward was the fact that the Fed’s goals of achieving low and stable inflation and a healthy labor market…

Britons are bracing for a burst of higher inflation for much of this year as many household bills jump next month, a revival of the cost-of-living pressures that have squeezed household budgets in recent years.Next month, the average annual energy bill is set to rise 6.4 percent as the price cap resets. Water bills, which are also regulated, will climb an average 26 percent. At the same time, prices for services like broadband internet and cellphone, which often reset at the start of a new fiscal year and are linked to inflation, are rising about 6 percent.April is also the…

“Transitory” is back Jay Powell wants businesses and investors to know: The Fed chair shares their concerns about President Trump’s tariff skirmishes as the economic outlook dims.But there is a silver lining, he said Wednesday at a news conference. Tariff-driven inflation is likely to be “transitory” and just for this year. That’s the “base case,” he added, words that seemed to lift stocks. S&P 500 futures were climbing on Thursday as traders price in roughly two to three interest rate cuts this year.But the “transitory” label — one that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has embraced — has set off alarm…

Boeing is the kind of manufacturer — one that exports billions of dollars of goods — that President Trump says he wants to protect and nurture.But his tariffs could have the opposite effect on the company’s suppliers.Mr. Trump has imposed a few tariffs so far, but he says more are coming in just a few weeks. That threat has unnerved the aerospace industry, of which Boeing is one of the largest companies. Duties on aluminum and steel, two of the most important raw materials used in aircraft, are expected to raise manufacturing costs. But the industry is far more concerned…