Nissan is recalling over 800,000 small SUVs in the US and Canada due to an issue with the jackknife-style keys, which can cause the vehicle to turn off if touched or bumped. If driven with the key partially folded, the engine can lose power and the airbags may not inflate in a crash. Nissan is notifying owners and dealers will replace the keys free of charge.
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Home Depot has announced a $1 billion investment in its hourly workers, raising their average starting salary to $15 an hour. This move comes in response to the current red-hot job market, where unemployment has reached its lowest level since 1969. Home Depot's decision to raise its starting pay follows similar moves by other large retailers such as Amazon, who announced in September that starting pay for warehouse and delivery workers would be more than $19 an hour. This increase will benefit all hourly workers in the U.S. and Canada.
US intelligence officials are assessing whether the suspected Chinese spy balloon, which crossed into US airspace, was diverted off course by strong winds or deliberately maneuvered by the Chinese government. The National People’s Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations in response to the US's condemnation of the balloon's intrusion. The balloon's unexpected route, which went north and reentered the US through northern Idaho, is being investigated.
U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that the spy balloon shot down earlier this month was launched from the south coast of China and drifted east towards Guam and Hawaii before entering U.S. airspace. The State Department has released a statement that the balloon contained unspecified items, and the Washington Post is now examining the possibility that the People's Liberation Army simply lost control of the balloon. The incident has caused a scramble of jet fighters over Canada and the far North of the United States, and U.S. officials are continuing to investigate.
A Pentagon memo revealed that the unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday was a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.” Army Gen. Mark Milley confirmed that a missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet at a high-altitude object detected over Michigan on Sunday missed its target and landed in Lake Huron. Defense officials told lawmakers that the object shot down over Lake Huron “subsequently slowly descended” into the water after impact, and crossed near “US sensitive sites” before it was shot down.
The Biden administration is offering to brief former national security adviser John Bolton on Chinese spy balloon incidents that took place during Donald Trump's presidency. The administration has not commented on the briefing, but it is likely to focus on the observations of the objects by US military pilots and their flight patterns before they were shot down. A senior administration official said that it would be "extremely difficult" to determine what the objects were if the debris cannot be recovered.
After nearly 50 years, the death of Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is set to be investigated by forensic experts from Canada, Denmark and Chile. Maria Reyes, a family member of Neruda, has revealed that the experts have determined that Neruda was poisoned with a substance not available in Chile at the time, and that there was evidence of a third-party presence in the poet's hospital room. The report is set to be released on Wednesday, and it is hoped that it will provide closure to Neruda's family and fans.
US military has recovered key electronics from a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down earlier this month off the coast of South Carolina. The debris field was estimated to be about 1,500 square meters and fighter jets have since intercepted and shot objects out of the sky over Alaska, northern Canada and Lake Huron. The US military is continuing to investigate the incident and is taking steps to ensure US airspace is monitored and protected.