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Apple self-driving car in accident – California DMV filing

The accident happened last week when the test vehicle, a Lexus SUV, was rear-ended by a 2016 Nissan Leaf, according to the filing on the DMV website. Apple was not immediately available for comment. Apple has kept tight wraps on its ambitions for self-driving cars, declining to publicly acknowledge them until it wrote a letter to U.S. transportation regulators in late 2016 urging them not to restrict testing of the vehicles. …read more […]

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Enbridge Energy, Fond du Lac Band reach deal on Line 3

Enbridge Energy and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa announced Friday that they have reached an agreement to build the Line 3 replacement oil pipeline through the band’s reservation in northeast Minnesota. Financial terms of the deal were confidential. According to a joint statement, the agreement gives Enbridge easements for six existing oil pipelines through 2039. …read more […]

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Mueller Just Gained a Witness With a View From Russia to Trump’s World

Until now, his name was at the far outskirts of those who could be swept up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election meddling. Patten has spent the better part of two decades working with Russians and advocating their interests — at points intersecting with Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the FBI has characterized as a Russian agent. Now, Patten has agreed to talk about what he knows, which may open up an inquiry into how much foreign money flowed into President Donald Trump’s inauguration. …read more […]

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Apple Discloses Minor Crash Involving Self-Driving Test Vehicle

Apple Inc. disclosed in a filing with the California Department of Motor Vehicles that one of its autonomous test vehicles was involved in a crash. This is the first time a collision involving an Apple autonomous vehicle has been reported by the California DMV. The car, a Lexus SUV in self-driving mode, was rear-ended by another vehicle when it was preparing to merge onto a highway in the Bay Area called the Lawrence Expressway, according to the report. …read more […]

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Manafort Ally Agrees to Cooperate With U.S. After Guilty Plea

A former associate of Paul Manafort, who was charged Friday with failing to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, is a longtime international political operative who’s partnered with a Russian already indicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The charges against Sam Patten are spelled out in a criminal information, which often precedes a guilty plea. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office referred the case to U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu in the District of Columbia, according William Miller, a spokesman for Liu, who declined to …read more […]

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White House faces brain drain at perilous moment

Increasingly convinced that the West Wing is wholly unprepared to handle the expected assault from Democrats if they win the House in November, President Donald Trump’s aides and allies are privately raising alarm as his circle of legal and communications advisers continues to shrink. With vacancies abounding in the White House and more departures on the horizon, there is growing concern among Trump allies that the brain drain at the center of the administration could hardly come at a more perilous time. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s swirling probe of Russian election interference and potential obstruction of justice by …read more […]