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BERLIN Black box indicates co-pilot accelerated plane into crash The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 used the onboard autopilot to put the plane into a descent and repeatedly increased the speed of the Airbus A320 as it headed straight for a mountainside, according to an initial assessment of data recovered from the aircraft’s second black […]

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Dockworkers caucus urges rank-and-file to OK contract A dockworkers caucus recommended that union members approve a tentative labor agreement with shipping companies that ended months of labor strife at West Coast ports. Seventy-eight percent of caucus delegates voted Friday for approval of the five-year proposal, the International Longshore & Warehouse Union said. Reached in late […]