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Hours after U.S. markets closed Friday, credit rating agency Standard 038; Poor stanley cup announced it downgraded the credit rating of the United States for the first time in the ratings ; history.S 038;P said it cutting the No. 1 economy top AAA rating by one notch to AA+. The agenc stanley cup y said the move is happening because the deficit reduction plan passed by Congress on Tuesday did not go far enough to stabilize the U.S. debt situation.According to S 038;P release:We have lowered our long-term sove stanley cup reign credit rating on the United States of America to AA+ ; from AAA ; and affirmed the A-1+ ; short-term rating.We have also removed both the short- and long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative.The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government medium-term debt dynamics.More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.Since then, we have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capaci Aqqj WATCH: House committee holds hearing on harm done to patients from abortion restrictions
FORT WORTH, Texas AP 鈥?Boeing representatives and relatives of some of the passengers killed in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets will meet face-to-face in a Texas courtroom Thursday, where the aerospace giant will be arraigned on a criminal charge that it thought it had settled t air max wo years ago.In a brief filed Wednesday, lawyers for the families accused Boeing of committing the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history. The family members were never consu air max lted before Boeing cut a dea adidas campus l with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid prosecution on a felony charge of fraud. Up to a dozen or so people from several countries are expected to testify about how the loss of loved ones has affected them.Boeing on Thursday pleaded not guilty to the charge.WATCH: FAA analysis predicted many more Boeing Max 737 crashes without a fixRelatives of the passengers are expected to ask the court to impose conditions on Boeing much as it would on any criminal defendant. The families said in their Wednesday filing that those conditions should include a court-picked monitor to evaluate whether Boeing is creating a culture of safety and ethics 鈥?as it promised the government 鈥?and that its steps to do so be made public.Boeing has faced civil lawsuits, congressional investigations and massive damage to its business since the crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed a combined total of 346 people. Boeing and its top officials have avoided criminal prosecution, however, because of the settlemen