Alex Peebles Reporter

STRAIGHT TO IT: Today’s quick hit headlines

Jun 07, 2021

Alex Peebles Reporter

By Alex Peebles (Reporter), Sean Walkup (Editor)

What a busy start to the week. Let’s get “Straight To It.”

Here are links to the stories above:

Politics

Sen. Tuberville holding up another senior military nominee for a new reason

Yesterday

Springfield faces bomb threats for second day in wake of unproven claims

Tack on one more to Trump’s tax-cut pledges: No tax on overtime pay

U.S.

Boar’s Head closes Virginia plant after deadly listeria outbreak

Yesterday

Uber, Waymo unleashing fleet of self-driving taxis in Atlanta, Austin next year

Navient banned from student loans, ordered to pay $120 million in settlement

Getty Images

International

3 Americans sentenced to death in Congo coup trial

Yesterday

4-day rescue frees entangled humpback whale off British Columbia coast

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of attack on Ukrainian grain ship in Black Sea

Reuters

Tech

Tech giants commit to removing nude images from AI training data

Yesterday

Australia weighs privacy law overhaul amid Meta photo scraping dispute

Video: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission sees first-ever private spacewalk