Thousands of holiday weekend flights cancelled
More flights were canceled on Sunday, following thousands of other air travel cancellations and delays at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend. About 1,065 flights were canceled on Sunday, with 283 of those cancellations in the U.S., according to flight-tracking website Flight Aware. More than 7,000 other flights were delayed, including 1,109 in the U.S. On Saturday, more than 1,500 flights were canceled, which followed the cancelation of more than 2,300 flights on Friday. Delta Airlines canceled 148 flights on Sunday, or about 5 percent of its flights fo
Read MoreUvalde county commissioner says he wants FBI investigation into Texas school shooting response
Ronnie Garza, a county commissioner in Uvalde, Texas, said on Sunday he would welcome an FBI investigation Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead. When asked by moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation” if security failures led to Tuesday’s massacre, Garza said he supported a letter sent by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), who represents San Antonio, to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking the
Read MoreExcluding Taiwan from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is a mistake
On Monday, President Biden officially launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). The administration likes to say that IPEF is not a “traditional free trade agreement.” It isn’t, if by “traditional” you mean that it opens markets with enforceable binding commitments. What, then, is IPEF? The answer largely rests on whether the U.S
Read MoreGun control activist slams 'pandering' to extremist conservatives, liberals
The president for gun control activist group Stand With Parkland criticized the U.S. for "pandering to folks on the far right and folks on the far left" as he pushed for tighter gun control laws on Sunday after a deadly mass shooting in Texas last week left 19 children and two teachers dead. Tony Montalto, whose group formed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., told NBC's "Meet the Press" that America needs to "have a look at ourselves" in the wake of the Texas tragedy. "And what we really need is to stop the pandering
Read MoreBetter candidates may not be enough for Democrats to retain the Senate
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