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#1 US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to NOAA
Aug 5 2025 // Days after floods killed at least 135 people in Texas Hill Country, weather scientist Neil Jacobs appeared before a Senate committee as the nominee to lead the US agency that oversees forecasting. He vowed to create a...
#2 Delivery Drones May Soon Take Off With New FAA Rule
Aug 15 2025 // Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. Yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the...
#3 Starbase Will Take Partial Control of Beach Near SpaceX Launch Site
Sep 25 2025 // The new South Texas city established by Elon Musk’s SpaceX employees, Starbase, will assume control over certain parts of the beach near the rocket company’s launch site. Cameron County commissioners approved...
#4 Musk’s SpaceX, Others Win Court Challenge to Labor Board’s Structure
Aug 20 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday agreed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two other companies that the U.S. National Labor Relations Board’s structure is likely unlawful and blocked the agency from pursuing cases...
#5 Update: Boeing 787 Headed to London from India Crashes With 242 on Board
Jun 12 2025 // More than 200 bodies have been recovered at the crash site of a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner operated by Air India that was bound for London, according to police officials. Flight AI171 crashed shortly after taking off in...
#6 Judge Questions DOJ Decision to Drop Boeing Independent Monitor
Sep 4 2025 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday held a three-hour hearing to consider objections to a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX...
#7 Amazon, SpaceX to Test US Labor Board’s Powers at Conservative Appeals Court
Nov 18 2024 // A U.S. labor board whose enforcement powers are being challenged in a series of lawsuits is set to defend itself from attacks by Amazon.com and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a conservative U.S. appeals court, as the agency...
#8 Firings at NOAA Risk Lives and Economy, Former Agency Heads Warn
Mar 4 2025 // The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who...
#9 FAA Extends Significant Flight Cuts at Newark Through October 2026
Sep 30 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration said last Thursday it will extend significant flight cuts at Newark, one of the three main airports serving the New York City area, through late October 2026 as it continues to face an...
#10 CSU, NOAA Maintain Forecasts for Above-Average Hurricane Season
Aug 11 2025 // Colorado State University’s hurricane researchers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued updates to their 2025 Atlantic hurricane forecasts, with both maintaining calls for an...
#11 How a US judge Injected Culture Wars Into Boeing 737 MAX Plea Deal
Oct 24 2024 // A Texas federal judge with a record of ruling in favor of conservative causes injected uncertainty into Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty over two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes, seizing upon a single sentence in the...
#12 Boeing Agrees to Resolve US Criminal Case Over 737 Crashes
May 27 2025 // Boeing Co. has reached a tentative agreement with the US Justice Department that would allow the planemaker to avoid criminal charges for two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets more than six years ago. The settlement was...
#13 Hundreds of Flights Snarled at Dallas Airports Over Equipment Issues, FAA Says
Sep 22 2025 // Hundreds of flights in and out of Dallas were delayed or canceled Friday as telecommunications equipment issues disrupted one of the nation’s busiest airports, federal officials said The Federal Aviation...
#14 SpaceX’s Starship Explodes on Test Stand in Yet Another Setback
Jun 19 2025 // A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on a test stand in Texas, adding to a series of setbacks to Elon Musk’s space ambitions that include trips to Mars. The huge blast enveloped the craft as it stood upright on a test...
#15 Boeing Faces $3.1 Million in Fines for Safety Violations
Sep 15 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration said it would fine Boeing Co. $3.1 million for a series of safety violations that it uncovered over a space of several months between late 2023 and early last year. The violations...
#16 Boeing Plea Deal Over Fatal 737 Crashes Rejected by Judge
Dec 6 2024 // A federal judge rejected Boeing Co.’s plea deal that sought to let the planemaker avoid criminal prosecution over to two fatal 737 Max crashes, in a surprise twist that threatens to prolong the company’s...
#17 Boeing to Pay $50,000 Over Suicide of Quality Inspector
Sep 29 2025 // Boeing Co. agreed to pay at least $50,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of John Barnett, a whistleblower who took his own life last year. Barnett, a former Boeing employee, died in March 2024 at...
#18 How Faulty Parts at Boeing’s 787 Jets Flew Below the Radar in Italy
Mar 13 2025 // On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of Brindisi, near a small plane components factory. Five years on, that routine...
#19 FAA Convening Emergency Task Force on Newark Telecom Outages
May 13 2025 // The Trump administration said on Monday it was convening an emergency task force and fast-tracking urgent steps to prevent additional telecom outages at the facility overseeing Newark air traffic after three incidents have...
#20 FAA Proposes to Extend Newark Airport Flight Cuts Until October 2026
Aug 12 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it is proposing to extend flight cuts at Newark, one of the three main airports serving the New York City-area, through October 2026 as it continues to face air traffic...
