Michael R. Sisak

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

August 4, 2022

Bahia Bakari, the sole survivor of the Yemeni airline that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, arrives at the courtroom, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 in Paris. A French court was expected to issue a verdict Wednesday Sept.22, 2022 in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, killing 152 people.

Damages Awarded for 2009 Plane Crash

September 14, 2022

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , built during the Soviet era and one of the 10 biggest in the world, has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe.

Last Reactor at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Stopped

September 12, 2022

People watch as the USS Texas is moved from the dock Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in La Porte, Texas. The vessel, which was commissioned in 1914 and served in both World War I and World War II, is being towed down the Houston Ship Channel to a dry dock in Galveston where it will undergo an extensive $35 million repair.

Leaky Battleship Needs $35M in Repairs

August 31, 2022

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

August 4, 2022

In this undated photo rom the New York Police Department Facebook page, officers stand by what the NYPD thought was marijuana. The Vermont farm that grew the plants and the Brooklyn CBD shop that ordered them insist they're not pot, but legal industrial hemp.

Busts Highlight Confusion over Hemp

The extract that's used in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis ...

November 11, 2019

Opioid Lawsuit Hits Billionaire Family

The state amended an existing lawsuit against pill maker Purdue Pharma to add members of its controlling Sackler family as defendants.

March 28, 2019

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveillance purposes manufactured by Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Fla. Search warrant documents released Tuesday, March 19, 2019, revealed that the FBI used highly secretive and controversial cellphone sweeping technology similar to that of Sting Ray to zero-in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, when agents raided his New York City home, hotel room and office.

Controversial Phone-Tracking Device

This is how they got to Michael Cohen.

March 20, 2019

In this Nov. 7, 2018, file photo traffic moves along 44th Drive in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York. According to experts analyzing the e-commerce giant's sudden cancellation of plans to build a massive headquarters in New York City, Amazon's decision to walk away could scare off other tech companies considering moving to or expanding in the city.

Amazon's Exit Might Keep Out Tech Companies

In the New York area, the average computer-related job pays roughly $104,000 a year, about $15,000 above the national average.

February 15, 2019

Transformer Explosion at Electrical Plant

The blast set the skies above New York City ablaze in an eerie, pulsing blue light.

December 28, 2018

The engine from an Amtrak train that crashed onto Interstate 5 on Monday, is transported away from the scene, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators in the deadly train wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit. The train took a 30 mph curve at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail cars plummeting onto a busy highway south of Seattle.

Nearly 300 Have Died in Preventable Train Crashes

The critical speed-control technology has been pushed off for close to five decades.

December 22, 2017

Workers stand atop a damaged railroad bridge at the scene of an Amtrak train crash onto Interstate 5 a day earlier Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators say they don't yet know why the Amtrak train was traveling 50 mph over the speed limit when it derailed Monday south of Seattle.

Amtrak Didn't Wait for System

The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route came at a deadly cost

December 20, 2017

Cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below alongside smashed vehicles as some train cars remain on the tracks above Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing some people, authorities said. Seventy-eight passengers and five crew members were aboard when the train moving at more than 80 mph derailed about 40 miles south of Seattle before 8 a.m., Amtrak said.

Train Was Speeding 50 mph Over Limit

The data recorder in the rear locomotive showed the train was going 80 mph in a 30 mph zone when it derailed along a curve.

December 19, 2017

In this Aug. 21, 2007, file photo, Amtrak assistant conductor Brandon Bostian stands outside a train at the Amtrak station in St. Louis. Bostian was the engineer during the fatal May 12, 2015, Amtrak passenger train derailment in Philadelphia. Victims of the derailment aren’t buying the findings of federal investigators that the train’s engineer likely lost his bearings because he was distracted by an incident with a nearby train.

'Distracted Engineer' Hard to Believe

The explanation has been call everything from a "whitewash" to a "quantum leap."

May 18, 2016