DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox.
Both crashes involved Toyota Highlander SUVs with autonomous driving technology. They happened during daytime hours, and the agency confirmed that each of the Amazon vehicles was operating in autonomous mode leading up to the crashes. In one crash a motorcyclist suffered minor injuries, and a Zoox driver reported minor injuries in the other, according to reports. Both happened last month, one in San Francisco and the other in Spring Valley, Nevada.
The agency said the probe will focus on the performance of the company’s automated driving system during the crashes, as well as how it behaves in crosswalks around pedestrians and other vulnerable road users.
In a statement, Zoox said it is committed to working with NHTSA to answer its questions. “Transparency and collaboration with regulators is of utmost importance,” the company said. Zoox said the vehicles had human safety drivers on board.
Zoox reported the crashes under an order to automated vehicle companies issued in 2021.
Amazon acquired Zoox in June of 2020 for a price that analysts pegged at over $1 billion. In 2023 the Foster City, California, company said one of its funky-looking four-person shuttles autonomously carried employees on public roads on a mile-long (1.6 kilometer) route between two Zoox buildings.
The company has launched a shuttle service exclusively for its employees. Analysts say they expect Amazon to use the Zoox system for autonomous deliveries.
Zoox shuttles don’t have a steering wheel or pedals. The carriage-style interior of the vehicle has two benches that face each other. It measures just under 12 feet (3.7 meters) long, about a foot (a third of a meter) shorter than a standard Mini Cooper. It is capable of going up to 75 mph (121 kilometers per hour), although it started running on public roads at up to 35 mph, the company said.
Zoox already was under investigation by NHTSA. In March of 2022 the agency began looking into the company’s certification that its vehicle met federal safety standards for motor vehicles.
The agency said at the time that it would look into whether Zoox used its own test procedures to determine that certain federal standards weren’t applicable because of the robotaxi’s unique configuration.
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On Friday, CNN released damning security video from a hotel hallway in 2016 that captures Sean Combs viciously assaulting Cassie Ventura with his hands and feet.
On Friday, CNN released damning security video from a hotel hallway in 2016 that captures Combs viciously assaulting Ventura, who was still his girlfriend, with his hands and feet.
It’s unclear how CNN obtained the video or why it took eight years for it to be released, but we now know Combs is an abuser and a liar. What Ventura said he did to her in that incident is no longer merely alleged. Nor should it be categorized as a ploy to tarnish her ex’s image. He harmed Ventura at least once, and given what we know about the escalating nature of domestic violence and the fact that the video corroborates a specific incident Ventura highlights in her suit, her allegations are even more credible.
Now Combs has gone into full damage-control mode, issuing a weak-willed apology on Instagram in which he highlights his own “rehabilitation” rather than the trauma he has inflicted.
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Combs said. “I was f—ed up. I hit rock bottom. But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.”
Before he apologized to the general public, rather than to Ventura herself, Combs said he has been in therapy, gone to rehab and sought the assistance of a higher power to right his wrongs. “I’m so sorry,” he continued. “But I’m committed to be a better man each and every day.”
That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.
MEREDITH FIRETOG, AN ATTORNEY FOR CASSIE
Meredith Firetog, an attorney for Cassie, said in a statement Sunday that Combs’ video was “more about himself than the many people he has hurt.”
“When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday,” Firetog said. “That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
Instead of using that post to apologize to the woman he abused and to his children, four of whom are young girls, for behaving so badly, Combs appeared to be concerned with salvaging his career. Once again, he’s falling at the altar of success, seemingly concerned more about his public image than his private demons.
But the walls appear to be closing in on Combs. Ventura sued him in November, and even though he quickly settled with her, more lawsuits followed. Two other women, Liza Gardner and Joie Dickerson-Neal, filed lawsuits claiming that Combs sexually assaulted them. And a woman identified as Jane Doe in court documents said Combs and two other men gang-raped her when she was 17 and Combs was 34.
In a Dec. 6 post on Instagram, Combs wrote, “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy.” He called the allegations against him “sickening” and said, “Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged.”
In February, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer on his most recent album, filed a suit accusing Combs of sexually harassing, drugging and threatening him. An attorney for Combs said of Jones’ lawsuit, “We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”
A woman identified as Jane Doe in court documents said Combs and two other men gang-raped her when she was 17 and Combs was 34.
In March, Homeland Security Investigations’ New York office raided two of Combs’ homes, one in Los Angeles and the other in Miami. (He hasn’t been charged with a crime related to that search, and a statement from his lawyer called the searches “a gross use of military-level force” and said Combs is “innocent and will continue to fight” for his reputation.) CNN’s releasing the security tape Friday was the latest chink in what once seemed to be Combs’ impenetrable armor.
Whatever happens next to Combs, whether it’s prosecution, deplatforming or settling lawsuits with other accusers, the question will remain: What do we do about the industry, the entertainment business, that aided and abetted Combs, allowing him to accrue wealth and power at the expense of the women in his orbit?
Combs has been an influential, sometimes omnipresent, figure in popular Black music and the larger culture for more than three decades. At times, he has seemed inescapable, a towering example of how far hip-hop has come, but there were long complaints that he exploited the artists he signed. Eventually, there were claims of even more significant exploitation and abuse. Still, we have supported him as a culture, buying his albums, buying clothes from his Sean John line, attending his concerts and paying little attention as his former artists accused him of wrongdoing.
We collectively stood beside Combs through multiple rebrands and name changes and even a 1999 trial related to a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub that resulted in his acquittal. We’ve been intoxicated by Combs’ lavish lifestyle, holding him up as an example of “Black excellence,” the one who turned nothing into something.
It’s the same protection afforded to other abusive entertainers, whether it’s Harvey Weinstein or R. Kelly. Multiple women have accused Russell Simmons, arguably the original hip-hop mogul and the one who’s treated as an arbiter of hip-hop morals, of sexual misconduct, including rape. (After a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in February that said Simmons raped her in the late 1990s, he said in a statement, “I have never engaged in non-consensual sex.” He said, “I would not, did not, and never will.”)
We need a world where video evidence isn’t needed to believe survivors and abusers are held accountable the first time so there aren’t second, third and fourth times.
Whether it’s notable abusers Bill Cosby, who said he gave quaaludes to women he was pursuing for sex, Miles Davis, who hit his wives, or Shia LeBeouf — who has acknowledged being abusive but said “many of these allegations” of physical and emotional abuse made by his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs in an unresolved lawsuit “are not true” — those who seek to hold such men accountable are often treated as systemic detractors, focused on tearing down good men.
We need a world where video evidence isn’t needed to believe survivors and abusers are held accountable the first time so there aren’t second, third and fourth times. In this world, Ventura’s trauma wouldn’t have to be displayed on loop across television screens and the internet before she gets a kind word from other celebrities. She wouldn’t have been attacked for accusing him in civil court and asking for monetary damages. Such a demand would be seen as a worthy form of justice.
It’s not hysterical to suggest that it’s time to burn the entertainment business to the ground and rebuild a safer, more equitable industry that’s completely free of abuse in the ashes. In fact, it’s beyond time. Survivors, Ventura included, are counting on it, and it remains our collective responsibility to protect them, to hold the line for them and not accept Instagram apologies as substitutes for actual accountability and changed behavior. There are many lessons we should heed from Combs’ ability to escape accountability, but there’s one that’s ringing especially loud for me today: No matter how much wealth, fame and power one accrues, there’s no way to evade karma.
Evette Dionne is a culture journalist, critic and editor who writes extensively about pop culture as it relates to race, gender and size. “Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box,” her middle-grade nonfiction book, was nominated for a National Book Award and won a Coretta Scott King Honor award. Her forthcoming book, “Weightless,” is being released by Ecco in December.
The Atom See Case, or the Rosenbergs Case, is one of basically the most controversial yet attention-grabbing cases in American history. From its initiating as a home scenario to a world scenario to its eventual cease, the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has captivated other folks for over 70 years.
Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs were accused of leaking atomic secrets to the Soviet Union at some level of the Second World Battle with a belief to again their home nation score the battle. As a consequence, they were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and done by electric chair at Verbalize Verbalize Detention middle in the Exclaim of Contemporary York in 1953.
Many judge that they were harmless, and others judge they were guilty. However, no matter your conception on this matter, there are replacement info concerning the case that you just probably couldn’t know—a few of which believe well-known other folks much like Marilyn Monroe and the pope!
Right here are ten stuff that it’s doubtless you’ll now now not learn about this nasty case.
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The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb – WW2 Documentary Special
The Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, which terrified the U.S. authorities. They suspected that any individual, a ogle, became once handing over classified paperwork to the Soviet Union. Theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs became once the person they were looking out for to search out.
Fuchs, a pivotal figure in the Ny Project, critically contributed to rising the atomic bomb at some level of World Battle II. His skills in theoretical physics became once instrumental in advancing wanted aspects of the project, much like the implosion methodology ancient in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki bomb. However, Fuchs’s allegiance became once divided. Pushed by communist ideology, he clandestinely handed classified knowledge to the Soviet Union, at the side of runt print of the bomb’s assemble and manufacturing methods.
Fuchs’s espionage activities remained undetected except 1950 when he became once arrested by British authorities. Upon interrogation, he confessed to his actions and became once convicted of violating the Genuine Secrets Act in the UK. Fuchs received a 14-three hundred and sixty five days detention middle sentence, later lowered to 9 years attributable to his cooperation. After serving his time duration, he became once launched in 1959 nonetheless became once stripped of his British citizenship. Deciding on to spin to East Germany, Fuchs persevered his occupation as a physicist and received accolades for his contributions to the Soviet nuclear program. He lived in East Germany except his loss of life in 1988.
Fuchs began the chain of accusations, which one way or the other ended in the arrest and execution of the Rosenbergs.[1]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 9 Julius’s Smuggling in the U.S. Army
Rosenberg See Affair – How the united states purchased Nuclear Weapons – COLD WAR
At some level of World Battle II, Julius Rosenberg worked as a U.S. Army engineer in the engineering lab at Castle Monmouth, Contemporary Jersey. This became once the achieve the navy’s handiest engineers worked on ultimate and extremely classified applied sciences for the authorities, love radar and guided missile retain watch over.
At some level of his time there, it became once came across that he managed to smuggle classified knowledge to the Soviet Union thru diverse covert capability. They utilized clandestine meetings, dreary drops, and encrypted communications to pass on ultimate paperwork and runt print about defense power technology and atomic analysis. He furthermore recruited a complete lot of brokers to his ogle ring.
Julius recruited folks for his ogle ring thru his connections with communist sympathizers and contributors of the American Communist Obtain collectively. He centered those who had accumulate admission to to classified knowledge or held positions of affect in authorities or defense power institutions. Julius exploited ideological allegiances and interior most grievances to enlist collaborators willing to betray their nation for the purpose in the again of communism.
Furthermore, Julius’s recruitment efforts were facilitated by his capacity to blend into leftist circles and originate the belief of capacity recruits. He exploited the political native climate of the time, characterised by anti-capitalist sentiments and suspicions of authorities oppression, to search out folks sympathetic to the Soviet region off.
Julius became once one way or the other fired in 1945 after he became once came across out to be a member of the American Communist Obtain collectively.[2]
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See Saga of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – A protracted time TV Network
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were contributors of the American Communist Obtain collectively at some level of a duration of heightened political tension identified as the Purple Terror. They were fragment of leftist circles that advocated socialist and communist ideals, influenced by the political native climate of the Mighty Depression and the rise of communism as an different to capitalism. Julius had chums who were furthermore contributors, at the side of Harry Gold and Ethel’s brother David Greenglass, both of whom were convicted as spies in assorted cases.
David Greenglass handed evidence against them underneath duress and later recanted his testimony, claiming coercion by law enforcement officers. He furthermore testified that Julius had supplied him with sketches of jet aircraft and atomic bomb parts.
David’s assertion fascinating his necessary other, Ruth Greenglass, recruiting him to a soviet ogle community. He then told investigators that his necessary other became once recruited by David’s brother-in-law, Julius Rosenberg.[3]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 7 David Greenglass’s Involvement with the Arrest
David Greenglass interview – 60 Minutes II (July 16, 2003)
David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, conducted a serious characteristic in the arrest of the Rosenbergs. Greenglass became once a machinist on the Ny Project, the achieve he had accumulate admission to to classified knowledge related to the reach of the atomic bomb. In 1950, he became once arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
At some level of his interrogation, Greenglass supplied incriminating testimony against his sister and brother-in-law, claiming that Julius had recruited him to ogle for the Soviet Union. Greenglass alleged that Ethel had typed up notes containing classified knowledge, implicating both of them in espionage activities.
Per Greenglass’s testimony and assorted evidence, the U.S. authorities pursued funds against the Rosenbergs for conspiracy to commit espionage. Their trial grew to become a extremely publicized tournament, fueled by Chilly Battle paranoia and anti-communist sentiment. In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and sentenced to loss of life, largely attributable to Greenglass’s testimony and cooperation with the prosecution.[4]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 6 Rosenbergs Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage
Was Ethel Rosenberg Wrongly Convicted as a Russian See?
The Rosenbergs were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage after a in point of fact lengthy trial, now now not atomic spying or being a member of a Soviet ogle community. They were accused of passing knowledge concerning the atomic bomb to Russia. Quiet, it became once now now not sure whether or now now not this files indubitably helped the Soviet Union originate its own bombs.
The trial, held amid the fervor of the Chilly Battle, became once extremely politicized, with the prosecution presenting evidence of the Rosenbergs’ alleged involvement in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Though Julius became once the principle target of the investigation, Ethel became once furthermore arrested and tried alongside him. With out reference to minute evidence as we advise linking her to the espionage activities, the prosecution portrayed Ethel as an accomplice who aided her husband’s efforts.
Activists ancient this reality against the U.S. Authorities for the wrongful arrest, trial, conviction of espionage, and execution of the Rosenbergs. In particular for Ethel, who they judge had dinky to no fragment in the ogle ring that her brother and husband were a fragment of.[5]
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Robert Meeropol on Trump Mentor Roy Cohn’s Role in Prosecution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
At some level of the lengthy trial of the Rosenbergs, Julius and Ethel maintained their innocence. Claiming that they were being framed, nonetheless a favorable attorney thought in every other case.
The Rosenberg trial, presided over by Mediate Irving Kaufman, became once a extremely charged tournament amid Chilly Battle tensions. Roy Cohn, then a young prosecutor and later nasty for his characteristic in the McCarthy hearings, conducted a key characteristic in the case against the Rosenbergs. Joseph McCarthy became once a archaic U.S. senator from Wisconsin, identified for alleging that many communists and Soviet spies had infiltrated the U.S. federal authorities, universities, and assorted institutions.
The prosecution’s case relied carefully on the testimony of Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass. Allegations of look tampering arose at some level of the trial, with accusations that the prosecution pressured Greenglass to assemble damning testimony against his sister and brother-in-law. Furthermore, Mediate Kaufman’s handling of the trial drew criticism, as he exhibited bias in the direction of the prosecution and restricted the defense’s capacity to present evidence and witnesses.
These factors fueled doubts concerning the fairness of the trial, main many to see the Rosenbergs’ conviction and subsequent execution as a miscarriage of justice. The trial of the Rosenbergs remains a stark reminder of the dangers of political paranoia and the erosion of civil liberties at some level of instances of nationwide security hysteria.[6]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 4 Public Backlash Against the U.S. Authorities
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were both Jewish immigrants with Russian roots coming from their fogeys. Julius’s fogeys were Russian, and Ethel’s were Russian and Austrian.
The public outcry, mostly from the activists that came after their conviction and loss of life penalty verdict, ancient the fact that the U.S. authorities became once dabbling in anti-semitism by spirited and convicting a Jewish couple of espionage with no concrete evidence against them. One grisly whine of fortify became once the pope. Per an Italian newspaper, Pope Pius XII appealed to the US authorities for clemency in the Rosenberg case.
Many believed in the couple’s innocence and demanded a retrial or on the very least rescinding of the loss of life penalty verdict. Quiet, the prosecution, ponder, and jury that attended the Rosenbergs’ case and trial only pushed again the date of the execution a mere few days.[7]
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The Rosenbergs | Mighty Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century (TV)
The case, trial, and conviction of the Rosenbergs now now not only garnered massive public outcry, nonetheless celebrities joined in on the region off as well. At the time, top celebrities love Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, and even Pablo Picasso joined the final public in supporting the Rosenbergs’ innocence and stressful a retrial or rescinding the loss of life penalty.
The conviction and subsequent execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sparked intense public backlash both domestically and internationally. While some seen the Rosenbergs as traitors who had endangered nationwide security by passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, others saw them as martyrs, victims of Chilly Battle paranoia and a inaccurate justice system. However, no matter this quantity of press protection and fortify for their innocence, on the 19th of June, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were done by electric chair in Verbalize Verbalize Detention middle in the converse of Contemporary York, leaving in the again of their two sons, Robert and Michael.[8]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 2 The Venona Project
Venona Project: How The US Cracked Top Secret Soviet Codes
In 1995, a World Battle II counterintelligence program known as the Venona Project became once declassified and launched to the final public by the U.S. authorities.
The Venona Project became once a top-secret American project that began in 1943 to decrypt Soviet communications. This project uncovered knowledge concerning the Rosenbergs’ case and many assorted spies and brokers engaged on behalf of the Soviet Union, at the side of a complete lot of American citizens who were later convicted or confessed to their crimes.
Michael and Robert, the Rosenbergs’ sons, purchased retain of the Venona Project and totally studied the paperwork that would perhaps perhaps perhaps settle the scenario of whether or now now not or now now not their fogeys were wrongly convicted of espionage and sentenced to loss of life. The paperwork printed Julius Rosenberg’s tubby involvement in the ogle ring, nonetheless Ethel Rosenberg’s involvement became once dinky to none.[9]
Www.oeisdigitalinvestigator.com: 1 The Rosenbergs’ Sons Admit their Father’s Involvement
Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Ask Obama to Exonerate Their Mother in Nuclear See Case
After getting their arms on the paperwork of the Venona Project, Robert and Michael Meeropol—the Rosenbergs’ teens’s novel title—admitted that their father, Julius Rosenberg, became once indubitably a ogle. His involvement became once on the very middle of the ogle ring, handling the smuggling of classified paperwork and records to the Soviet Union and hiring novel spies and brokers for the ring.
However, Robert and Michael’s mother, Ethel Rosenberg, had dinky to no involvement in the matter. Now, the brothers are struggling with to accumulate their mother posthumously pardoned of the espionage conviction against her. Worn President Obama acknowledged Robert and Michael’s efforts nonetheless underneath no circumstances gave the pardon.
Even now, the Rosenbergs’ sons are silent struggling with for Ethel’s innocence.[10]
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