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- 2025-01-31 21:20 UTC [L..T] 'Flashing red warning light': Analyst lists many ways Trump could be blamed for D.C. crash «"If we’re recklessly assigning blame, we might just as easily point out that, before Trump took office, there hadn't been a major commercial plane crash in the United States in the previous 16 years; that, in the week before the crash, Trump sacked the head of the Transportation Security Administration, disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, failed to name an acting head of the FAA, and imposed a hiring freeze that apparently includes air traffic controllers; and that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last year celebrated his 'landmark victory' in expanding the number of flights out of National," wrote Milbank.»
- 2025-01-31 16:37 UTC [L..T] U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order Friday afternoon... «BREAKING: U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an order Friday afternoon blocking Trump administration temporarily from blocking grants or loans to 22 states and DC that sued over the funding "pause" announced by the Office of Management and Budget.»
- 2025-01-31 13:56 UTC [L..T] What to know about the suit against FAA diversity policies critics blame for crash «Scrutiny on the Federal Aviation Administration after a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C. has brought renewed attention to a class-action lawsuit alleging that the agency committed racial discrimination in hiring policies. / The lawsuit was originally filed on Dec. 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C., federal court during the Obama administration. The complaint argues the FAA denied jobs to upward of 1,000 qualified applicants to meet diversity hiring targets, a policy critics suggest played a role in the staffing crisis in air traffic control.»
- 2025-01-31 13:38 UTC [L..T] Did FAA Reject Air Traffic Controllers Based on Race? What We Know «Complaints about the Federal Aviation Administration's hiring policy have resurfaced following the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport aircraft disaster, including claims that candidates were rejected based on race.»
- 2025-01-31 [L..T] C.A. No. 25-cv-39-JJM-PAS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER «Consistent with the findings above, and to keep the status quo, the Court hereby ORDERS that a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER is entered in this case until this Court rules on the States' forthcoming motion for a preliminary injunction, which the States shall file expeditiously. During the pendency of the Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants shall not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate Defendants' compliance with awards and obligations to provide federal financial assistance to the States, and Defendants shall not impede the States' access to such awards and obligations, except on the basis of the applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.»
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