The Biden administration’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday the agency must address a persistent air traffic controller shortage that has caused flight delays. Nominee Michael Whitaker, a former deputy FAA administrator, told the Senate Commerce Committee he would support opening a second air traffic controller academy to address staffing….
The U.S. government will stop distributing free doses of Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) COVID-19 antiviral treatment molnupiravir by the middle of next month and expects it to be sold on the commercial market instead. The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement…
U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will seek the chamber’s speakership, Punchbowl news outlet reported on Wednesday. Source: Reuters
The United States should withhold security assistance to Azerbaijan after its seizure of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh last month, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday. “As the world continues to grapple with Azerbaijan’s coordinated, intentional campaign of ethnic cleansing, we must both prioritize support for the…
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is worried Republican infighting in Congress could hurt Ukraine aid and promised to deliver a speech soon to outline why the U.S. needs to continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Asked if he was concerned that the United States would not be able…
U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers. Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. The president said…
A former gang member charged in the 1996 murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur made his first appearance in a Las Vegas court on Wednesday and was granted a two-week delay to enter a plea. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, who police said was long suspected and began implicating himself in a series of public…
Kevin McCarthy began his wild ride as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a chaotic January week and ended it nine months later in a historic fall, when he became the first speaker to be removed from the top post. Two decisions by the California Republican contributed to his undoing. The first came during…
U.S. President Joe Biden called on political leaders on Wednesday to change the “poisonous atmosphere” in Washington and work on a new spending plan a before hastily-approved short-term measure expires in weeks. The comments come a day after a small group of Republicans ousted U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the role of…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer laid out his defense case at his fraud trial on Wednesday, portraying the 31-former billionaire as a “math nerd” who overlooked risk management in building his FTX exchange, but did not steal customer money. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to charges he used FTX customer money from the exchange’s 2019 launch until its November 2022 bankruptcy…
