Close calls at Washington DC airport raise questions about why changes weren’t made before crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Congress pushed ahead last year with adding 10 new daily flights to Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, many looked past concerns about dangers in the congested skies over the nation’s capital. Squeezing in more flights would only increase the risks, said Virginia’s two senator[...]
Wall Street tumbles after Trump escalates his trade war
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street‘s sell-off hit a new low Thursday after President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war dragged the S&P 500 more than 10% below its record, which was set just last month. A 10% drop is a big enough deal that professional investors have a name for it — a “correction” — an[...]
Inside South Carolina operations of the largest military shipbuilder in the US
A new division of the largest military shipbuilder in the U.S. is in full swing after establishing operations in South Carolina just two months ago. Newport News Shipbuilding-Charleston Operations, a facility in a division of Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries, better known as HII, began in Goose Creek roughly 60 days [...]
Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies, blasting their tactics Thursday as he slowed the new president’s dramatic downsizing of the [...]