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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement. The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air […]

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US Air Force reverses course after removing Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump DEI ban backlash

The uproar over the US Air Force’s removal of a video of Tuskegee Airmen from its curriculum in response to a DEI ban has made its way to the highest levels of government causing them to about-face. Now the US Air Force says it will return the video about the famous Black World War II pilots back to the curriculum for service members, with confirmation coming from the new incoming defense secretary Pete Hegseth. “This will not stand,’ Hegseth wrote […]

todayJanuary 27, 2025 2

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Harris addresses US Air Force Academy graduates near 80th D-Day anniversary

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Thursday to a sea of white-capped graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, looking back at U.S. airpower during D-Day and then forward to this generation’s edge on technological innovation, such as artificial intelligence. “Eighty years ago, over the beaches of Normandy, America won control of the skies, and we have kept it ever since,” said Harris to the 974 graduates, the class that arrived in 2020 to […]

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