MARTHA MENDOZA

Hawaiian seafood caught by foreign crews confined on boats
Undocumented foreign fishermen are confined to US boats in Hawaii for years at a time. They earn as little as 70 cents an hour and catch prized tuna in US waters, selling at restaurants and markets nationwide.
September 8, 2016
Q&A on AP investigation of perimeter security at US airports
In the year since The Associated Press revealed that the fences and outer gates guarding major U.S. airports are not keeping intruders out, authorities have tried to suppress information about the incidents.
May 26, 2016
AP: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water.
December 14, 2015
Google searches itself to build more productive teams
That’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s an example of how companies are spending more time trying to understand how to build the most productive and cohesive teams. It’s a high priority because the best products and ideas increasingly are springing from people working together.
November 18, 2015
Thailand remains blacklisted by US for human trafficking
The State Department said Monday that labor abuses in the Southeast Asian country’s seafood sector are persistent, abusive and largely ignored by the government. Those abuses have been widely documented in a series of stories this year by The Associated Press which tracked the supply chains of major
July 28, 2015
Estimated 6,500 injured in deck collapses since 2003
One of the worst collapses occurred in 2003, when a porch fell in Chicago and killed 13 people. The commission identified just 10 fatalities that occurred since then — until Tuesday.
June 19, 2015
6 killed in California balcony collapse during a party
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A 21st-birthday party thrown by a group of visiting Irish college students turned tragic early Tuesday when the fifth-floor balcony they were crammed onto collapsed with a sharp crack, spilling them about 50 feet onto the pavement.
June 17, 2015
AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?
But the eight imprisoned men were considered flight risks — laborers who might dare run away. They lived on a few bites of rice and curry a day in a space barely big enough to lie down, stuck until the next trawler forces them back to sea.
March 25, 2015
NSA director: US needs Silicon Valley’s expertise
Rogers, who also heads up U.S. Cyber Command, said he visits the region at least every six months to tap into local talent and stay attuned to the latest innovations.
November 4, 2014
About 70 hospital staffers cared for Ebola patient
On Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the infection of the nurse means the agency must broaden the pool of people getting close monitoring. Authorities have said they do not know how the nurse was infected, but they suspect some kind of breach in the hospital
October 14, 2014
Denied again by people he hated, gunman improvised
The awkward 22-year-old was obsessed with exacting “retribution” for what he experienced as a lifetime of social and sexual isolation, and had planned meticulously to target as many people as possible. But here again, he was denied access to those he felt should worship him.
May 25, 2014
Closing arguments set in Apple-Samsung trial
Closing arguments in the patent-infringement case are scheduled to begin Monday, with the two tech giants accusing each other, once again, of ripping off designs and features. At stake: $2 billion if Samsung loses, a few hundred million if Apple loses.
April 28, 2014
Choosing jury in Apple-Samsung case may be hard
Most prospective jurors said they were at least somewhat familiar with the dispute, including many who work for companies affiliated with either Samsung or Apple. Some locals had strong opinions.
April 1, 2014
Experts say NSA rules leave privacy vulnerable
“It’s very clear there are enormous loopholes,” said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, who is reverse engineering the NSA surveillance program to learn how much collection — if taken to extremes — is legally possible.
March 26, 2014
US telecoms push back on proposed NSA plan
But now the phone companies are speaking up. In closed-door meetings with policymakers they are taking a less accommodating stance with government and rattling the historically tight bond between telecom and the surveillance community.
March 3, 2014
Google contact lens could be option for diabetics
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors.
January 17, 2014
Silicon Valley tank collection heading east
Foundation director Rob Collings said the organization hopes to raise $10 million to build the museum by auctioning 160 of the military vehicles in August 2014. Eventually he hopes visitors can learn U.S. history through a chronological walk past the remaining 80 historic military vehicles.
November 10, 2013
What is Google building out in San Francisco Bay?
Google is erecting a four-story structure in the heart of the San Francisco Bay but is managing to conceal its purpose by constructing it on docked barges instead of on land, where city building permits and public plans are mandatory. Construction became obvious a few weeks ago.
November 5, 2013
ID emerges of third girl to die of SF plane crash
San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault confirmed 15-year-old Liu Yipeng’s identity and said the girl was still in her seat when she was rescued last week. Chinese state media said she went to school with the other two victims killed in last week’s accident, a pair of 16-year-old girls.
July 13, 2013
NTSB: No sign of mechanical trouble on Asiana 214
“There is no mention of speed until about nine seconds before impact when they’re at 100 feet,” she said Thursday. Just seconds before impact, two of the pilots call for the landing to be aborted.
July 12, 2013
Report of boat sinking off Calif. possible hoax
“We’ve exhausted the possibilities,” Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said. The Coast Guard is treating the incident as a rescue, with the possibility the calls came from a trickster. Neither the family nor the boat has been reported missing.
February 27, 2013
AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored
Sharma’s only hope lies in a new law that gives him the right to know what is happening in the investigation of his wife’s death.
November 17, 2011
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