Just this week, two major pilot unions rejected contract offers from American Airlines and United Airlines. The rejections of the United and American Airlines offers came just after Delta Air Line pilots voted to authorize union leaders to call a strike “if necessary” to get a new contract. On Tuesday, the Air Line Pilots Association…

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and fired its top executives, the rogue multi-billionaire wasted no time in placating advertisers worried about the site becoming a hate-filled source of misinformation, all in the name of free speech. After an hour-long Zoom call with six civil rights groups, Musk tweeted that he won’t decide…

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker productivity in the United States suffered its largest drop since 1947 in the first half of 2022. Productivity is strong in manufacturing, but it’s down elsewhere in the private sector, according to Dartmouth Economic Professor Diego Comin. He noted that productivity is particularly tricky to…

A new record has been set at the southern border, as the Department of Homeland Security revealed Border Patrol agents encountered more than 2.3 million immigrants in the 2022 fiscal year. It’s a 37% increase compared to last year and more than five times the number of encounters from 2020. Customs and Border Protection said…

CVS Health has announced it has reached a $5 billion settlement over its role in the opioid crisis. Under the deal announced Wednesday, CVS would pay $4.9 billion to state and local governments and about about $130 million to Native American tribes over the next decade. The $5 billion figure would make the settlement, if…

Some legal observers believe the Supreme Court may overturn affirmative action policies currently in place at America’s universities. The justices are hearing challenges to admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette has a personal connection to affirmative action and was once supportive of it. He no…

The Air Line Pilots Association announced pilots at Delta Air Lines voted to authorize union leaders to call a strike. According to Monday’s announcement, 96% of Delta pilots took part in the vote, and 99% of those favored calling a strike “if necessary” to get a new contract. “Delta’s nearly 15,000 pilots sent a clear…

British Petroleum’s earnings more than doubled in the third quarter; a judge blocked a merger between two major publishers; and the Powerball prize is now $1.2 billion. These stories highlight the Daily Rundown for Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. BP earnings soar – BP reported Tuesday that its earnings jumped to $8.15 billion in the third…

Elon Musk wasted no time putting his stamp on his new social media company this week, moving in everything including the kitchen sink and firing top executives at Twitter. Thursday was Twitter’s last day as a publicly traded company; on Friday, Twitter’s stock went dark. As the $44 billion transaction closed Thursday, Musk fired Chief…

A spokesperson for the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office said the department turned over the investigative findings on last year’s deadly shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” The spokesman said two binders of information was turned over Thursday. The binders include all the evidence collected, including investigative interviews and forensic analysis of physical evidence…