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…
Actor Jonathan Majors Avoids Jail After Domestic Violence Conviction
April 8 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jonathan Majors, a fast-rising Hollywood star before domestic violence charges derailed his career, avoided jail and was sentenced to one year of domestic-violence counseling on Monday after being found guilty of attacking his former girlfriend. The sentence…
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…
SpaceX Applies for Indonesia Internet Service Provider Permit, Government Says
April 4 By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has applied to Indonesia’s government for an internet service provider permit for its Starlink satellite unit, the communications ministry said on Thursday. The application is a sign of Starlink’s expansion in Southeast Asia after…
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…
After Bridge Collapse, Maryland Governor Urges Congress to Pass Funding for Rebuild
March 31 By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With efforts underway to clean up thousands of tons of steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore’s harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Sunday urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the federal funding needed for…
No Winner for Powerball Lottery, Jackpot Jumps to $975 Million
March 30 By Maria Caspani and Jyoti Narayan (Reuters) -A $935 million jackpot in the Powerball lottery draw, one of the largest in its history, found no winners on Saturday night, boosting the prize for next week’s draw. No one held the winning numbers 12,…
UAW Membership Fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000 Workers
March 29 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Membership in the United Auto Workers union fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000, its lowest level since 2009, according to a report filed on Friday with the U.S. Labor Department. The UAW is “clear-eyed that our union and…