Exclusive-Spirit AeroSystems Limits Overtime and Hiring as Boeing 737 Output Drops
April 12 By Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Boeing’s key supplier Spirit AeroSystems is limiting overtime and hiring as production declines due to lower output of 737 MAX jets, Spirit told Reuters on Friday. Boeing’s MAX jetliner production has fallen sharply in recent weeks as U.S. regulators…
Uber and Lyft Delay Their Plans to Leave Minneapolis
April 11 By Disha Mishra and Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru (Reuters) – Ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber will extend their services in Minneapolis till July 1, they said on Thursday, after city officials voted a day earlier to push back the start of a driver…
Apple’s New Jersey Store Workers File Petition for Unionization
April 10 By Granth Vanaik and Priyanka G in Bengaluru (Reuters) – Workers at Apple’s store in Short Hills, New Jersey, have filed for union representation, a staff member who is part of the organizing committee said on Wednesday amid a push for unionization across…
Airlines Struggle With Lack of Planes as Summer Travel Set to Hit Record Levels
April 9 By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) – The global airline industry is facing a summer squeeze, with travel demand expected to surpass pre-pandemic levels while aircraft deliveries drop sharply due to production problems at Boeing and Airbus. Air carriers are spending billions on…
Loss of Engine Cover on Southwest Boeing 737-800 Prompts FAA Investigation
April 7 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to open an investigation. No one was injured and…
New Mexico Mental Health First Responders Are Increasingly Civilians, Not Police
April 6 By Andrew Hay ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings. They have no enforcement powers or protective equipment…
Inside Big Tech’s Underground Race to Buy AI Training Data
April 5 By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly…
Bird Flu Hits Texas Dairy Cows, Hens, Human as Ducks Migrate
April 3 By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Migratory waterfowl are to blame for widening avian-flu outbreaks in Texas cows and poultry, and wild birds carrying the virus should be heading north soon, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said. The U.S. government since last week has…
Wide Swath of US Will Get Buggy as Two Cicada Broods Intrude
April 2 By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of…
Trapped Vessels Start to Move Out of Baltimore Following Bridge Disaster
April 1 By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday, freeing some tugs and barges that had been trapped by last week’s bridge collapse, but officials said wider restoration of commercial shipping remained frustrated by unyielding conditions. Baltimore’s shipping…