Author: KnowledgeHippo
Spirit Airlines said Monday it will delay delivery of new Airbus planes and pilots to save money as it tries to overcome several hurdles, including a stalled merger, engine problems and a lackluster recovery from the pandemic.The budget airline said in a statement that the new steps will save the company $340 million over the next two years.Spirit has made several changes aimed at cutting costs and improving its financial position since a federal judge in January blocked its plan to merge with JetBlue Airways. The judge ruled that the proposed deal would harm consumers. Spirit and JetBlue abandoned an…
Authorities found former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glass in a “deep self-induced coma” in prison on Monday, days after he was arrested by police in a dramatic arrest inside the Mexican embassy in Quito.Mr. Glass ingested anti-depressants and sedatives, according to a police report, and was taken to a military hospital for observation.The former vice president faces embezzlement charges in Ecuador and had taken refuge in the Mexican embassy in an attempt to avoid arrest. He became the subject of a diplomatic row last week when police in Quito entered the embassy and successfully arrested him, taking him to a…
It’s not always glamorous being a science teacher.One of Rick Crosslin’s signature projects involves collecting owl pellets—that’s food for regurgitated owls—to teach fifth graders about the bird’s carnivorous diet. His YouTube page, where he posts gravity demonstrations and commentary on “very interesting little worms,” can get a lot of love, with some videos garnering a few dozen to a few hundred views.But on Monday, Mr. Crosslin in Indianapolis and science teachers across the country will have their moment in the sun (or, rather, out of it) with the arrival of the total solar eclipse.“It’s our Super Bowl. It’s our Taylor…
Anthony Insolia, a down-to-earth former Newsday editor who presided over the expansion of that Long Island newspaper and several major investigative projects, died Saturday in Philadelphia. It was 98.His death, in a hospice, was confirmed by his stepdaughter, Robin Ireland.Mr. Insolia was editor of Newsday from late 1977 until his retirement 10 years later, a period when the paper, a tabloid then owned by the Times Mirror Co., won seven Pulitzer Prizes, expanded its foreign reporting to several far-flung bureaus and cemented her reputation for hard-hitting street journalism close to home.But it was an undertaking a year before he took…
For nearly 14 years, an online message board called Memegen has served as a virtual water cooler for Googlers.Memegen was a place for employees to offer blunt criticism of their bosses, share gallows humor about job cuts, or joke about receiving notes from their parents to excuse them from returning to the office after the pandemic.But Google executives, after watching their employees rant about the war in Gaza in recent months, are making big changes to turn down the heat on their company’s beloved message board, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.One of the most significant changes…
Over the past decade, RIP Medical Debt has grown from a tiny nonprofit group that received less than $3,000 in donations to a multi-million dollar powerhouse in health care philanthropy.He did so with a unique and simple strategy for dealing with the huge amounts of money Americans owe to hospitals: buying old bills that would otherwise be sold to collection agencies and eliminating the debt.Since 2014, RIP Medical Debt estimates it has eliminated more than $11 billion in debt with the help of large donations from philanthropists and even city governments. In January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced…
In 2022, I climbed Mount Marcy, the highest peak in New York State, with my son. That weekend, ecstatic, we sought out another adventure. Some Googling revealed that Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48, was not out of reach for hobbyists like us. I proclaimed that he and I, along with my daughter, would climb it in 2023. In the end, neither of us made it. Lucy didn’t need much convincing to join me. Hiking had brought exciting new challenges and triumphs—and Mount Whitney promised these on a much grander scale.But just a little further up, my…
Nicaragua, a longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause, is expanding its legal battle over the Gaza conflict at the International Court of Justice by suing Germany, a major arms supplier to Israel.Nicaragua argues in its filing that “Germany facilitates the commission of genocide” in Gaza and violates the Genocide Convention by providing Israel with military and financial aid. It calls for emergency measures ordering Berlin to end its wartime support for Israel.In hearings starting Monday at the Hague tribunal, Nicaragua is also expected to confirm that Germany allows serious violations of the Geneva Conventions by Israel, in particular the obligation…
President Biden plans on Monday to announce a large-scale effort to help pay off student loans for tens of millions of American borrowers in Wisconsin, seeking an election-year boost by going back on a promise blocked by the Supreme Court last year.White House officials said Sunday that the president’s plan would reduce the amount 23 million borrowers still owe on their undergraduate and graduate loans. It would wipe out the entire amount for more than four million Americans. They said 10 million borrowers will see debt relief of $5,000 or more.”Today’s announcement shows that we continue to fulfill our promises,”…
As remote work reshapes the way people live and travel in cities, Americans are taking to waterways not just as part of their commute but as part of their daily lives.Some coastal cities are seeing a resurgence in ferry ridership after falling during the pandemic, and growing interest in sea transit is spurring both new types of ferry service and waterfront development.In Bremerton, Wash., a fast-growing suburb of Seattle on the Puget Sound, a $141 million development has opened less than 100 yards from a high-speed passenger ferry that travels to downtown Seattle in 30 minutes. The older ferry takes…