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[ad_1] The consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has agreed to pay $377.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused it of falsely billing the US government, the Justice Department said on Friday. The settlement resolves claims that between 2011 and 2021, Booz Allen improperly charged the government for indirect costs that it should have […]

[ad_1] Actors who host podcasts are divided on how or whether to continue their programs, as the 8-day-old Hollywood actors\’ strike reverberates through an adjacent industry that didn\’t exist during the union\’s last work stoppage 43 years ago. The official targets of the strike are film and television productions associated with the Alliance of Motion

[ad_1] In the summer of 2015, Katherine Macfarlane was preparing to teach at the University of Idaho\’s law school. It was her first teaching job on a tenure track, and she wanted to make sure she had everything she needed. So she submitted a request for a keyboard tray and a few other office items.

[ad_1] When Matt Haney entered the California Legislature, he discovered he was part of a tiny minority: a legislator who rents. Mr. Haney has never owned property and, at 41 years old, has spent his adult life as a tenant. His primary residence is a one-bedroom apartment near downtown San Francisco. The rent is $3,258

[ad_1] The Swiss are proud of their cheese, and most of the cheese they eat are local varieties like Gruyère, Emmental and other hard cheeses from milk from happy cows that are famous all over the world. The Swiss also eat a lot of cheese: more than 50 pounds per person per year, versus about

[ad_1] A partnership between Ford Motor and a major Chinese battery maker is facing scrutiny by Republican lawmakers, who say it could make an American automaker reliant on a company with links to forced labor in China\’s Xinjiang region, In a letter sent to Ford on Thursday, the chairs of the House Select Committee on

[ad_1] AMC is abandoning plans to charge more for movie seats depending on their location. But higher prices for center-middle seats at theaters where AMC has been testing the concept will remain in effect this weekend, when \”Barbie\” and \”Oppenheimer\” are expected to draw significant crowds. AMC Entertainment, the world\’s largest theater chain, said on

[ad_1] The US Department of Transportation said Thursday that it was investigating why passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight had been left to swelter for hours in triple-digit temperatures while the plane waited on the tarmac at a Las Vegas airport on Monday. The flight, DL555, to Atlanta, was supposed to take off from

[ad_1] Despite recent increases, grain prices are still lower than they were on the eve of Russia\’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, partly because the end of the deal was expected, Mr. Ellender said. In addition, Ukrainian grain exports have recently been at reduced levels because of limited labor, with workers fighting the war,

[ad_1] China has an answer to the heat waves now affecting much of the Northern Hemisphere: burn more coal to maintain a stable electricity supply for air-conditioning. Even before this year, China was emitting almost a third of all energy-related greenhouse gases — more than the United States, Europe and Japan combined. China burns more