Boeing’s mid-flight blowout a big problem for company

The jet involved in Friday’s incident had been prevented from long trips over water, US investigators say.

Writers, actors, nurses, auto workers, baristas, pharmacists, graduate students — ever since 2023’s “hot labor summer” began, it seems like workers all over the country have been walking off the job to demand more of their bosses. But are we really seeing a resurgence of the strike weapon? By several measures, yes, we are. More…

Updated Jan. 9, 2024 3:07 am ET GSK is buying biopharmaceutical company Aiolos Bio for up to $1.4 billion in a deal that expands its respiratory pipeline and follows a string of pharmaceutical majors buying fast-growing biotechs to restock their pipelines. The British pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday that the deal to buy San Francisco and…

Terrifying tales from passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight after a gaping hole opened in the aircraft prompted many people to wonder: How did everyone survive? The midair accident Friday could have been much worse, experts say, if the plane had already reached its higher cruising altitude, where the decompression could have happened with much…

In a 6–3 decision on Monday, the court held that a federal law prohibiting workplace discrimination based on “sex” — Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — applied to cases involving LGBTQ workers. The other lead plaintiffs in the case, argued by the ACLU, did not live to see the ruling. Donald…

The reduction is much higher than previously reported and a quarter of the cuts will take place in the UK.