Ex-Apple worker charged with stealing self-driving car trade secrets

U.S. authorities charged a former Apple Inc employee with stealing trade secrets on Monday, accusing him of downloading a blueprint related to a self-driving car to a personal laptop before trying to flee the country for China, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

XMotors says employee did not pass along sensitive Apple info

Chinese-owned electric vehicle firm XMotors said on Wednesday that there is no indication that ex-Apple Inc worker Zhang Xiaolang ever communicated any sensitive information from Apple to XMotors.

Tech issues plague U.S. web portal tracking separated children

In late June, attorney Sebastian Harley tried to log into a U.S. government web portal to check on a Guatemalan child who had been separated from his parent at the border. He got an error message saying there were too many users.

Nevada condemned killer set to die as legal fight over execution drug is waged

A drug company is trying to block Nevada from using one of its drugs to execute a condemned killer on Wednesday, saying the state obtained the drug illegitimately.

U.S., Mexico vow to reunite separated migrant families quickly

The United States and Mexico on Tuesday vowed to work with Central American nations to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S. border "as quickly as possible" as the Trump administration faced fresh criticism over the practice.

Brush fire prompts evacuation of Los Angeles observatory

The landmark Griffith Observatory, a popular tourist attraction in the hills overlooking Los Angeles, was evacuated on Tuesday due to a brush fire that scorched a nearby swath of the surrounding park, authorities said.

Baby found buried alive in western Montana forest: police

A 5-month-old infant was recovering on Tuesday after being buried alive in cold western Montana woods for about nine hours, and a 32-year-old man was charged with criminal endangerment, police said.

Hurricane Chris strengthens, stays well off U.S. Atlantic Coast

Hurricane Chris gathered strength as it churned off the coast of the Mid-Atlantic states to become a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale on Tuesday, but it was not expected to make landfall over the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

NHC says Chris strengthens into a Category 2 hurricane

Chris, the second hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season strengthened into a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale and additional strengthening is likely through Wednesday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Trump pardons Oregon ranchers who inspired refuge standoff

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned two imprisoned Oregon ranchers whose sentencing on arson convictions sparked the 2016 occupation of a wildlife refuge, part of a long-simmering dispute over federal land policies in the U.S. West.

'Imagine the joy:' Father, four-year-old son reunite in U.S. immigration crisis

With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.

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