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Global Weather Pattern Links Floods, Droughts Across the Planet
Scientists tracking Earth's water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across continents, according to a new study published in AGU Advances by the ...
Massive Snowstorm Causes 100 Vehicle Pileup in Michigan Crash
More than 100 vehicles smashed into each other or slid off an interstate in Michigan on Monday as snow fueled by the Great Lakes blanketed the state. The massive pileup prompted the Michigan State ...
Insurance Regulators, Trades Get Behind Latest Effort to Abolish FIO
The nation's insurance commissioners and industry trade associations are looking to support efforts to put the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) back on the chopping block. Late last week, Rep. Troy ...
Florida OIR Triples the Size of Citizens’ Rate Decrease
With takeouts continuing at a steady pace and more carriers working the Florida property insurance market, state regulators saw fit to more than triple the size of Citizens' Property Insurance Corp. ...Officials Investigate Spain’s High-Speed Train Crash That Left 39 Dead
Sunday's train collision and derailment in southern Spain killed at least 39 people and left 122 injured, with officials highlighting the "strange" nature of the accident on a straight stretch of ...
Eaton Fire More Deadly Due to Series of Missteps, SoCal Edison Lawsuits Claim
Southern California Edison has filed lawsuits accusing Los Angeles County, local water agencies, and the Southern California Gas Company of a series of missteps that the utility says made last year's ...
Commercial Drivers Granted Another Extension for Use of Paper Medical Certificates
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended a temporary waiver permitting the use of paper certificates to verify that truck and bus operators are physically fit to drive. Effective ...
Tesla Gets 5-Week Extension in Probe of Full Self-Driving Traffic Violations
U.S. auto safety regulators have granted Tesla a five-week extension to respond to an investigation into whether its vehicles violated traffic laws while the Elon Musk-led company's Full Self-Driving ...