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Elon Musk’s tunneling company will begin assessing its ability to construct a mile-long underground tunnel in South Dallas after a proposed project in the area was one of three winners of a company contest on Tuesday. The Boring Company has …

AccuWeather’s first prediction for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season calls for slightly below average activity. AccuWeather’s experts forecast 11-16 named storms, four to seven hurricanes, and two to four major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or greater for the hurricane …

Bruce Swain has been named Crawford & Company’s president and CEO. The company’s board of directors appointed Swain to the top post after serving a stint as interim president and CEO since Jan. 1. Atlanta-based Crawford this year launched a …

Convex Group Ltd., the international specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced that Stephen Catlin, the company’s co-founder has decided to step down as chairman of the board. He will remain a director and has been elevated to the honorary title of …

The city of Baltimore sued Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday, claiming its Grok chatbot illegally generates nonconsensual sexually explicit images, including of children. Baltimore, with a population of about 568,000, is the largest city to sue xAI over “deepfakes” attributed …

Vessels seeking to transit the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian protection are being asked to provide lists of crew and cargo, along with voyage details and bills of lading, in order to secure a green light from the Islamic Revolutionary …

Iran has started charging transit fees on some commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, another sign of Tehran’s control over the world’s most important maritime energy channel. Payments of as much as $2 million per voyage are being …

Israel and Iran exchanged airstrikes on Wednesday, as Iran’s military rejected President Donald Trump’s assertion the U.S. was in negotiations to end the war which has roiled energy and financial markets, saying the U.S. is negotiating with itself. The rejection …

Iran-linked hackers have stepped up cyberattacks on Israel since the war began, wiping the data of over 50 small businesses and compromising dozens of security cameras, according to an Israeli official. Yossi Karadi, the director-general of the Israel National Cyber …

Independent agency network Renaissance said it made a major enhancement to its member platform, calling it the industry’s only fully integrated, artificial intelligence-enabled ecosystem built specifically for independent agencies. “Independent agencies are being asked to compete in a modern market …