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Frontier Airlines cuts flights after travel demand fell in March
Frontier Airlines joined Delta Air Lines in pulling its full-year outlook and cutting flights due to a drop in demand and an “uncertain environment.”
Will the Menendez brothers’ resentencing effort be allowed to move forward?
Prosecutors and defense lawyers for Erik and Lyle Menendez argued Friday over the effort to reduce the brothers’ prison sentences for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents during a sometimes-heated hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Florida district won’t renew teacher’s contract for using student’s preferred name
A Florida school district said it won’t renew the contract of a teacher who used a student’s preferred name, instead of legal name, without parental permission, in violation of state law.
Trump’s tariffs collide with a key campaign promise: From the Politics Desk
One of President Donald Trump’s central campaign promises focused on bringing down high prices and providing relief to voters who were struggling to make ends meet.
Dow jumps 600 points Friday, capping one of the most volatile weeks on Wall Street ever
Stocks climbed Friday as Wall Street wrapped up a historically wild week.
Trump legal tracker: Supreme Court jumps in on deportations and mass firings
The Supreme Court intervened this week in a number of cases involving President Donald Trump’s efforts to dramatically transform the government, maintaining legal guardrails for deportations while also allowing the administration to continue with mass …
Diddy on Trial: The fall of a hip-hop ‘Bad Boy’
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RFK Jr. calls FDA a ‘sock puppet’ for industries in private speech to agency staff
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at one point saying that the agency “became a sock puppet” for the industries it was meant to regulate.
Lawyer: Government playing a ‘game’ by not providing information on mistakenly deported Maryland man
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, discusses today’s court hearing and the government’s inability to provide any information about his client’s current whereabouts.
Judge permits Trump admin to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil
An immigration judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil just a month after his arrest prompted national outrage and marked the start of the federal government’s broader crackdown…
CNBC’s Official MLB Team Valuations 2025: Here’s how the 30 franchises stack up
The average Major League Baseball team is worth $2.62 billion, according to CNBC’s official MLB valuations.
Florida art dealer jailed for selling fakes is arrested again for peddling phony Andy Warhols
A Florida art dealer who previously did time for selling fakes was arrested again, this time accused of selling phony Andy Warhols pieces.
GM cutting jobs, idling Canadian electric van plant due to ‘market demand’
DETROIT — General Motors is cutting production of its all-electric BrightDrop delivery vans at a plant in Canada and will idle the facility through much of this year.
Federal judge refuses to block immigration enforcement operations in houses of worship
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington handed down the ruling in a lawsuit filed by more than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans.
U.S. says it needs more time to provide information on mistakenly deported Maryland man
Trump administration attorneys said they haven’t had enough time to review the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling directing the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
Dominican families plead for remains of relatives killed in roof collapse amid autopsy backlogs
No nation in the world is equipped to conduct hundreds of autopsies in one day, the Minister of Public Health Victor Atallah said; the death toll as of Friday was 225 people.
New Netflix docuseries explores ‘Dark Side of Kidfluencing’
On the surface, Piper Rockelle’s massively popular YouTube channel was glossy, fun and kid friendly.
28 hikers, including 25 children, rescued on Arizona Hot Springs Trail from extreme heat
Extreme temperatures on the Arizona Hot Springs Trail left 28 hikers — 3 adults and 25 children with special needs — in need of rescue on Thursday, with trails now closed for the next few days.
New Jersey mayor’s feud with Jon Bon Jovi giving rocker’s charitable efforts for unhoused a bad name
A New Jersey mayor lashed out Friday at Jon Bon Jovi’s charitable, “pay it forward” restaurant, claiming the eatery is attracting a problematic number of unhoused people to the town of Toms River.
Why Trump’s attempt to pressure Beijing with ever-rising tariffs could backfire
Many U.S. trade partners have scrambled to offer concessions in exchange for lower U.S. tariffs, but ot China, which not only has not sought negotiations but has matched Trump tariff for tariff.
NTSB holds briefing on Hudson River helicopter crash
Watch live coverage as the National Transportation Safety Board holds a briefing on the fatal helicopter crash in the Hudson River.
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds won’t seek re-election in 2026
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Friday she will not seek re-election, a decision that means the Republican’s time as governor will come to an end just shy of the 10-year mark after the 2026 election.
The internet’s current favorite show is a fictional group chat on TikTok
Sydney Robinson is the showrunner, director, writer, cinematographer and star of the internet’s new favorite show: a series of TikToks about a girls’ group chat.
130 Jewish Georgetown members slam Trump for ‘weaponizing’ faith in Badar Khan Suri arrest
More than 130 Jewish members of the Georgetown University community in Washington, D.C., released a signed statement Friday in support of Badar Khan Suri, a Muslim postdoctoral scholar and professor at the school who was arrested and targeted for depor…
South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method in the past five weeks.