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A veteran Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud U.S. regulators and customers, the first criminal charge in the Justice Departments year-long investigation into the companys rigging of federal air-pollution tests.
Hermine is weakening as it moves farther inland across Floridas Panhandle and southeastern Georgia, after largely sparing energy assets in the Gulf of Mexico.