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SHEFFIELD — While Boeing agreed Thursday to a $2.5 billion federal fine for deception that led to two airliner disasters that killed hundreds, the parents of crash victim Samya Stumo say the agreement is nothing more than a corporate compromise that shields company officials. Michael Stumo and Nadia Milleron, of Sheffield, said the Department of Justice’s deferred prosecution agreement keeps the flying public at risk by not prosecuting executives and others who defrauded and deceived regulators as they certified the company’s 737 Max jets. “It’s a ‘protection agr...

Dec. 30, 2020 8:00 am ET Order Reprints Print Article U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo by Paul Ellis - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Text size AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine was approved by U.K. regulators Wednesday—but the approval doesn’t look likely to change market skepticism about the company. The vaccine developed by AstraZeneca along with Oxford University became the second to be approved for distribution by the U.K. The news was greeted with muted enthusiasm by i...

ULA Delta IV Heavy successfully launches NROL-44 December 10, 2020 United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload, codenamed NROL-44 at 20:09 EST on Thursday, 10 December (01:09 UTC on Friday, 12 December). The flight marked the first Delta IV mission since the Medium+ variant retired in August 2019 and the first Delta IV Heavy since January 2019. Although ULA is phasing out the Delta IV in favor of its Vulcan rocket, the Heavy configuration has five contracted missions through 2024. ( Previous attempts The miss...