China sanctions five US defence firms over Taiwan arms sales
Taiwan is preparing to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 13 January.
Boeing Is Back in the Spotlight—This Time Over a MAX 9
Updated Jan. 7, 2024 8:58 pm ET The last thing Boeing needed was more trouble with its 737 MAX jet. That is exactly what it got to start the new year. The company had just started to regain its footing after years of tumult around the popular but troubled line of narrow-body jets when a…
Congress has a deal to fund the government and not much time to pass it
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Congressional leaders reached a $1.66 trillion agreement Sunday to finance the federal government in 2024, preserving funding for key domestic and social safety net programs despite GOP demands to cut the budget. Now lawmakers are up against a stiff deadline to pass legislation to codify…
Fuselage breach on Alaska Airlines flight puts Boeing under new scrutiny
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The harrowing midair breach of the fuselage on an Alaska Airlines flight near Portland, Ore., on Friday caps a turbulent year for Boeing, with its flagship 737 Max jets beset by manufacturing problems. With an eye on the potential financial hit, the company had recently…
FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after section of Alaska Airlines plane blows out
Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing window and a portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, California and suffered depressurization soon after departing, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., on Jan. 5, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. Instagram/@strawberrvy |…
The 2023 U.S. economy, in a dozen charts
A pedestrian holds an umbrella as they walk along a street in the rain in Times Square, New York, on Sept. 26, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images The state of the U.S. economy may be a chief concern among Americans, but 2023 wound up as a pretty good year for the macroenvironment….
Trump promises to stop inflation. But would his plans actually help?
January 7, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST (The Washington Post/Laura Padilla Castellanos; Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post; iStock) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Donald Trump is vowing sweeping changes to the nation’s economy that threaten to reignite inflation — even as the former president blames President Biden for higher prices and…
Flights cancelled as regulator grounds Boeing 737 Max 9s over blowout
The US aviation regulator grounds 737 Max 9s to conduct urgent checks after the incident in Oregon.
After part of a plane’s wall blew out, feds ground some Boeings
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding of 171 Boeing airplanes for inspection on Saturday, after part of a jet’s wall blew out in midair on a flight Friday and caused a dramatic emergency landing. All Boeing 737-9 Max planes with the same part —…
Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet after section blows out midair
An Alaska Airlines plane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Alaska Airlines will temporarily ground its fleet of 65 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a section of the plane blew out midflight on Friday, forcing…
