By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. auto safety agency’s defects investigation office said on Wednesday he has left the agency to join Amazon.com’s self-driving unit Zoox.
Stephen Ridella, who had served as director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation since 2017, oversaw key investigations including a probe into Tesla Autopilot and whether 67 million ARC Automotive Inc air bag inflators were defective.
He said on LinkedIn he had left NHTSA to join Zoox.
Another NHTSA official, Anne Collins, who was associate administrator for enforcement, opted to retire on April 30.
Last week, President Joe Biden withdrew the nomination of NHTSA’s chief counsel Ann Carlson to take the agency’s top job on a permanent basis.
NHTSA declined to comment when asked about the specific personnel moves but said it “believes it is well positioned to continue to address safety a
Trips to the Zoo are one of the many summertime activities that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Scovill Zoo in Decatur has up-coming holiday events, free admission days, and the members of the an.
The Taylorville Kiwanis Club reviewed committee activities in their ongoing efforts to benefit children and youth in the Taylorville community, at the club’s weekly meeting on Tuesday at the Ta.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has testified to a federal grand jury in a special counsel’s investigations of the former president, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing Justice Department investigations of whether Trump, who was president from 2017 to January of 2021, mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and whether he unlawfully tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.
It is not clear precisely when Meadows, who was Trump’s last chief of staff, testified or if investigators questioned him about one or both of the cases, the Times said.
A lawyer for Meadows, George Terwilliger, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Smith’s office declined to comment.
In a statement to the Times, Terwilliger said: “Without commenting on whet
By Brad Brooks
(Reuters) – An Oklahoma school board on Monday approved the Catholic Church’s application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S.
Opponents of the school have vowed a legal challenge which promises to be a long court battle testing the U.S. Constitution’s concept of separation of church and state.
Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the plan to create the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in a 3-2 vote.
The board in April had rejected the first plan submitted for the school, saying they needed more details, including on the special education department.
Roman Catholic organizers proposed creating St. Isidore to offer an online education for kindergarten through high school initially for 500 students and eventually 1,500.
Board members have emphasized repeatedly that they were not voting on the constitutionality of such a school, but only whether the application