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U.S. air travel should normalize by Sunday after ground stop triggers mass cancellations, FAA says
The Chicago area is in for a gorgeous few days as sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures than were seen over the weekend are on the way, according to the NBC 5 Storm Team. “Aside from a few lake-effect clouds in northwest Indiana, just bright sunshine coming your way. It’s going to be a gorgeous day overall,” said NBC 5 Meteorologist Pete Sack.Light breezes will accompany the sunshine on Sunday, and highs are expected to sit in the low 50s. “Yesterday I tried sitting outside with my puppy, she wanted to be outdoors and was dragging me along with her, after a while I was like, ‘you know what, a little too chilly for me,'” Sack said. “Today is going to be a different story.”The beautiful day will lead into a beautiful evening, Sack said, though temperatures Sunday night and into Monday morning are going to be on the cooler side so “get ready to bundle up a little bit if you’re going to be outdoors.”Monday morning will see temperatures drop below freezing, with areas away from Lake Michigan in the upper 20s and Chicago in the low 30s. “However, we have a lot of sunshine coming your way,” Sack said. Monday’s high is expected to be similar to Sunday; “we’ll see readings in the low 50s, and we’ll keep the nice weather going,” Sack said. Temperatures are expected to be a bit warmer on Tuesday morning, with lows landing around the upper 30s to low 40s that will ultimately be warming up to the high 50s throughout the day. A bit of cloud coverage is possible in the later afternoon, Sack said, “but plenty of sunshine still.” The warming trend is likely to continue Wednesday and into Thursday, with highs staying in the upper 50s and possibly even creeping up into the low 60s.There is a slight chance for showers on Thursday morning, but storm models show it’s likely to pass over quickly and will largely remain to the north over Wisconsin. The forecast for Friday and Saturday looks to be “dry and warm,” Sack said, and temperatures are expected to peak in the mid to low 60s, though there is a chance of rain on Saturday evening and into Sunday morning. Cooler temperatures will head our way on the backside of that system, and there’s a chance football fans at Soldier Field next Sunday for the Bears game against the New Orleans Saints could see some rain. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Sunday declined to apologize for the nationwide ground stop on Friday that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers across the country following a router issue that derailed air traffic control communications.Instead, the secretary blamed his predecessors and previous presidential administrations that he said did not do enough to modernize the nation's air traffic control system."It happened on my watch, but we have to be clear: I am moving at an incredible speed that no one has done at the FAA or in decades, and I'm proud of the work we're doing, the attention we're bringing to this issue," Duffy told NBC News' "Meet the Press." "But I can't apologize for what was passed off to us, and I can't blame Republicans or Democrats because it's all of them."The secretary also blamed "30 years of a lack of investment," from the country's previous leaders."Why they didn't do that I don't know, but they gave me a system that needs to be fixed, and President [Donald] Trump and I are going to fix it," he added. His remarks come less than two days after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a national ground stop that lasted several hours, leading to thousands of flight cancellations beginning on Friday and continuing through the weekend.FAA contractor L3Harris was working on replacing a copper line with a fiber line at a remote site when the work led a router to overwhelm the national FAA telecommunications network, Duffy said Saturday.Duffy also said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that he expects airports and airlines to resume normal operations by the end of the day or early Monday morning."By the end of today, into tomorrow, I think we'll be back to normal," he said, adding that Friday's ground stop led airplanes and flight crews to be "out of position.""It takes some time for the airlines to rechoreograph all of their crews and aircraft. We're going to start seeing things get better today, but I think back to normal tomorrow," Duffy said.The secretary also demurred when asked whether he could guarantee that a similar travel disruption won't happen in the future."First we have to figure out what happened. Was this a faulty installation by L3Harris that was doing their work for us? Was it a fault of the router itself? We have to do that investigation and make sure we take precautions. We don't want to shut down the airspace," Duffy told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker."We're going to figure out what was the root cause and then move forward from there, fixing how we do business at the FAA," he added.Duffy also reiterated a call he's made all weekend for more funding from Congress to modernize the nationwide air traffic control system, which has long been outdated and faced problems."The president, since he came to office, has been pushing for modernization of the airspace. Before I was even sworn in, he brought this up," the secretary said, pointing to $12.5 billion that was allocated for air traffic control improvements in a GOP-backed spending bill last year."The Congress was very specific in how I spend that money. I have a certain allotment for radar, a certain allotment for radios, a certain allotment for building new infrastructure for my centers for air traffic controllers. They didn't give me money for telecom. They didn't give me money for new software," Duffy said."I'm coming back to Congress and the American people to explain all the great work we're doing right now," he continued. "We're going to spend that $12.5 billion by the end of 2028, but I need the rest of the money for software and a new telecom architecture that will be way more resilient. I need that money so I can start that build."On Saturday, NBC News reported that on Thursday, just one day before the ground stop, Duffy and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought sent a letter to members of Congress asking lawmakers for $30.1 billion to upgrade the United States' aging airports and air traffic control system.They wrote: "This investment is critical to complete the modernization of our national airspace — delivering a resilient telecommunications backbone for air traffic controllers, modern hardware and software, state-of-the-art control towers, and world-class airport infrastructure. These investments will address current challenges, including weather-related delays, while preparing the National Airspace System for emerging demands, such as safely integrating air traffic with the growing space industry."On Sunday, Duffy urged Congress to "just do it.""I'm doing all I can to keep people safe," he said. "But I'm also telling you, if you don't give us the resources, we can't complete the job. And this is — of all the partisanship — this is the most bipartisan thing in all of Washington. Democrats, Republicans, the president, everyone agrees on this. Let's just do it."In a statement Sunday in response to questions about how the president plans to urge Congress to appropriate funds for the air traffic control infrastructure, White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said, "The Trump administration immediately stepped into action at the first sign of issue to ensure the safety and security of all Americans. President Trump put the right leadership into place to effectively handle moments like these, and yesterday, all relevant leaders came together to coordinate a plan that put the safety of the American people first."She added, "This administration will continue to monitor this situation and communicate to the American people through every necessary means." Yamiche Alcindor contributed.
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Former "Saturday Night Live" repertory player and writer Bowen Yang returned to help open the show this weekend with his portrayal of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.In the cold open, the nation's most-prominent tech-industry CEOs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, are at a CIA gathering devised to teach them how to identify when a woman may be duping them. "America needs you to learn the difference between a woman who would actually want to have sex with you and a woman who is clearly a spy," said a CIA guide, portrayed by comedian John Mulaney, the night's host. Mulaney, a former "SNL" writer, used the story of Huang, who resigned from Nvidia on Thursday following reports that he had extramarital relationships, including one with a suspected spy for China."What do you think the lesson is here?" Mulaney asked.Zuckerberg, portrayed by Andrew Dismukes, answered: "Never date a human woman."Mulaney dismissed the response and that of a few of the other tech titans in the room, prompting PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, portrayed by James Austin Johnson, to defend the group."Show us some respect," he said. "We do a lot for this country. Name one time technology has let us down."Mulaney answered by mentioning Friday's nationwide flight ground stop and Thursday's global Microsoft glitch.He tried to empathize, however, noting that it's a rare time in human history when men "as pale and as strange as you" even survive, let alone possess "all the world's wealth and power."Mulaney asked the group to remember the people they dated before they were rich and famous. "Now all of a sudden someone very beautiful is interested in you. Why do you think that might be?" he said. Zuckerberg chimed in. "Because she's comforted by my Meta glasses recording her at all times.""No," Mulaney said.He later introduces someone "who learned this lesson the hard way."Enter Huang."It's me, Jensen 'Hide Your Wife' Huang," Yang said.He explained that he's into BDSM — "breakin' da stock market" — and urged the men not to be like him."Women don't like guys like us," he said. "That's how we became guys like us." Yang appeared in a subsequent sketch, "Little Park of Horrors," a spoof of Broadway musicals, that centered on the city outlawing horse-drawn carriages and the two men (Marcello Hernández and Kam Patterson) who want to ride in one.Eventually realizing the dangers and limitations, the pair opt for a vehicle ride in the Lincoln Tunnel only to be confronted by Yang's Mary Todd Lincoln, who sang about the pitfalls of such a subterranean journey. "No way it's taking less than two hours," Lincoln sang. " … And it won't be for free. I'm sayin,' I'm sayin' that you and you and you — you're going to pay me."A fan favorite, Yang started as a writer in 2018 and joined the cast the next year. He left "SNL" in December 2025, and made his Broadway debut in September as Lincoln in playwright Cole Escola's "Oh, Mary!" The night's musical guest was Phoebe Bridgers."SNL" airs on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal, which is also the parent company of NBC News.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Sunday declined to apologize for the nationwide ground stop on Friday that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers across the country following a router issue that derailed air traffic control communications.Instead, the secretary blamed his predecessors and previous presidential administrations that he said did not do enough to modernize the nation's air traffic control system."It happened on my watch, but we have to be clear: I am moving at an incredible speed that no one has done at the FAA or in decades, and I'm proud of the work we're doing, the attention we're bringing to this issue," Duffy told NBC News' "Meet the Press." "But I can't apologize for what was passed off to us, and I can't blame Republicans or Democrats because it's all of them."The secretary also blamed "30 years of a lack of investment," from the country's previous leaders."Why they didn't do that I don't know, but they gave me a system that needs to be fixed, and President [Donald] Trump and I are going to fix it," he added. His remarks come less than two days after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a national ground stop that lasted several hours, leading to thousands of flight cancellations beginning on Friday and continuing through the weekend.FAA contractor L3Harris was working on replacing a copper line with a fiber line at a remote site when the work led a router to overwhelm the national FAA telecommunications network, Duffy said Saturday.Duffy also said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that he expects airports and airlines to resume normal operations by the end of the day or early Monday morning."By the end of today, into tomorrow, I think we'll be back to normal," he said, adding that Friday's ground stop led airplanes and flight crews to be "out of position.""It takes some time for the airlines to rechoreograph all of their crews and aircraft. We're going to start seeing things get better today, but I think back to normal tomorrow," Duffy said.The secretary also demurred when asked whether he could guarantee that a similar travel disruption won't happen in the future."First we have to figure out what happened. Was this a faulty installation by L3Harris that was doing their work for us? Was it a fault of the router itself? We have to do that investigation and make sure we take precautions. We don't want to shut down the airspace," Duffy told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker."We're going to figure out what was the root cause and then move forward from there, fixing how we do business at the FAA," he added.Duffy also reiterated a call he's made all weekend for more funding from Congress to modernize the nationwide air traffic control system, which has long been outdated and faced problems."The president, since he came to office, has been pushing for modernization of the airspace. Before I was even sworn in, he brought this up," the secretary said, pointing to $12.5 billion that was allocated for air traffic control improvements in a GOP-backed spending bill last year."The Congress was very specific in how I spend that money. I have a certain allotment for radar, a certain allotment for radios, a certain allotment for building new infrastructure for my centers for air traffic controllers. They didn't give me money for telecom. They didn't give me money for new software," Duffy said."I'm coming back to Congress and the American people to explain all the great work we're doing right now," he continued. "We're going to spend that $12.5 billion by the end of 2028, but I need the rest of the money for software and a new telecom architecture that will be way more resilient. I need that money so I can start that build."On Saturday, NBC News reported that on Thursday, just one day before the ground stop, Duffy and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought sent a letter to members of Congress asking lawmakers for $30.1 billion to upgrade the United States' aging airports and air traffic control system.They wrote: "This investment is critical to complete the modernization of our national airspace — delivering a resilient telecommunications backbone for air traffic controllers, modern hardware and software, state-of-the-art control towers, and world-class airport infrastructure. These investments will address current challenges, including weather-related delays, while preparing the National Airspace System for emerging demands, such as safely integrating air traffic with the growing space industry."On Sunday, Duffy urged Congress to "just do it.""I'm doing all I can to keep people safe," he said. "But I'm also telling you, if you don't give us the resources, we can't complete the job. And this is — of all the partisanship — this is the most bipartisan thing in all of Washington. Democrats, Republicans, the president, everyone agrees on this. Let's just do it."In a statement Sunday in response to questions about how the president plans to urge Congress to appropriate funds for the air traffic control infrastructure, White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said, "The Trump administration immediately stepped into action at the first sign of issue to ensure the safety and security of all Americans. President Trump put the right leadership into place to effectively handle moments like these, and yesterday, all relevant leaders came together to coordinate a plan that put the safety of the American people first."She added, "This administration will continue to monitor this situation and communicate to the American people through every necessary means." Yamiche Alcindor contributed.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Sunday declined to apologize for the nationwide ground stop on Friday that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers across the country following a router issue that derailed air traffic control communications.Instead, the secretary blamed his predecessors and previous presidential administrations that he said did not do enough to modernize the nation's air traffic control system."It happened on my watch, but we have to be clear: I am moving at an incredible speed that no one has done at the FAA or in decades, and I'm proud of the work we're doing, the attention we're bringing to this issue," Duffy told NBC News' "Meet the Press." "But I can't apologize for what was passed off to us, and I can't blame Republicans or Democrats because it's all of them."The secretary also blamed "30 years of a lack of investment," from the country's previous leaders."Why they didn't do that I don't know, but they gave me a system that needs to be fixed, and President [Donald] Trump and I are going to fix it," he added. His remarks come less than two days after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a national ground stop that lasted several hours, leading to thousands of flight cancellations beginning on Friday and continuing through the weekend.FAA contractor L3Harris was working on replacing a copper line with a fiber line at a remote site when the work led a router to overwhelm the national FAA telecommunications network, Duffy said Saturday.Duffy also said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that he expects airports and airlines to resume normal operations by the end of the day or early Monday morning."By the end of today, into tomorrow, I think we'll be back to normal," he said, adding that Friday's ground stop led airplanes and flight crews to be "out of position.""It takes some time for the airlines to rechoreograph all of their crews and aircraft. We're going to start seeing things get better today, but I think back to normal tomorrow," Duffy said.The secretary also demurred when asked whether he could guarantee that a similar travel disruption won't happen in the future."First we have to figure out what happened. Was this a faulty installation by L3Harris that was doing their work for us? Was it a fault of the router itself? We have to do that investigation and make sure we take precautions. We don't want to shut down the airspace," Duffy told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker."We're going to figure out what was the root cause and then move forward from there, fixing how we do business at the FAA," he added.Duffy also reiterated a call he's made all weekend for more funding from Congress to modernize the nationwide air traffic control system, which has long been outdated and faced problems."The president, since he came to office, has been pushing for modernization of the airspace. Before I was even sworn in, he brought this up," the secretary said, pointing to $12.5 billion that was allocated for air traffic control improvements in a GOP-backed spending bill last year."The Congress was very specific in how I spend that money. I have a certain allotment for radar, a certain allotment for radios, a certain allotment for building new infrastructure for my centers for air traffic controllers. They didn't give me money for telecom. They didn't give me money for new software," Duffy said."I'm coming back to Congress and the American people to explain all the great work we're doing right now," he continued. "We're going to spend that $12.5 billion by the end of 2028, but I need the rest of the money for software and a new telecom architecture that will be way more resilient. I need that money so I can start that build."On Saturday, NBC News reported that on Thursday, just one day before the ground stop, Duffy and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought sent a letter to members of Congress asking lawmakers for $30.1 billion to upgrade the United States' aging airports and air traffic control system.They wrote: "This investment is critical to complete the modernization of our national airspace — delivering a resilient telecommunications backbone for air traffic controllers, modern hardware and software, state-of-the-art control towers, and world-class airport infrastructure. These investments will address current challenges, including weather-related delays, while preparing the National Airspace System for emerging demands, such as safely integrating air traffic with the growing space industry."On Sunday, Duffy urged Congress to "just do it.""I'm doing all I can to keep people safe," he said. "But I'm also telling you, if you don't give us the resources, we can't complete the job. And this is — of all the partisanship — this is the most bipartisan thing in all of Washington. Democrats, Republicans, the president, everyone agrees on this. Let's just do it."In a statement Sunday in response to questions about how the president plans to urge Congress to appropriate funds for the air traffic control infrastructure, White House spokesperson Allison Schuster said, "The Trump administration immediately stepped into action at the first sign of issue to ensure the safety and security of all Americans. President Trump put the right leadership into place to effectively handle moments like these, and yesterday, all relevant leaders came together to coordinate a plan that put the safety of the American people first."She added, "This administration will continue to monitor this situation and communicate to the American people through every necessary means." Yamiche Alcindor contributed.
This is Trump's pride and joy — and destroying it must be the next president's first job
The White House is supposed to be a beacon of power and strength on the global stage, a paragon of democracy standing against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Until Trump moved in and decided to demolish that image, because he's an ingrate who hates America. Trump's renovations of the People's House never should've happened in the first place, because that's OUR house, not his. He's not the owner; we are. He's a temporary squatter who doesn't deserve to breathe the air within those glorified halls. The president is supposed to get Congressional approval before making any major renovations to the White House have to be approved by Congress, but since Trump never listens to anyone, he went ahead and did it anyway.I burst into tears when I first saw images of what he's done with that ballroom construction, a perfect visual metaphor for Trump's "bull in a china shop" approach to destroying our government and all of our American norms. How did this happen? I screamed into the social media abyss over and over about how demoralizing that image is, which was his intention all along. How does he get away with something this egregiously treasonous? Republicans said nothing. NOTHING. Their silence as compliance emboldened him to do the most destruction to the White House since British troops set it on fire during the War of 1812. They've also been vocal supporters of Trump's Epstein Ballroom Bunker, which no other president ever needed, leading to questions as to why the ground was ever broken for it. Those questions are even more important to ask this week, as a new aerial photo of the grounds caused shockwaves on social media. That ballroom is now bigger than the White House itself, and I don't understand how anyone is fine with his deliberate vandalization of Washington.Republicans are infuriatingly silent about this, just like they were when Trump began to tackify the Oval Office with gold-plated crap all over the place as if he looted a clearance sale at a Hobby Lobby in Moscow.They said nothing when Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House, and we have no idea if the historical artifacts collected by all the First Ladies have been properly preserved. According to the White House Historical Association, a detailed photographic record and a comprehensive 3D/digital scanning project of the East Wing and its surrounding gardens was completed before the wrecking ball was deployed. All of the artifacts were allegedly "carefully removed, cataloged, and placed into curatorial storage" by the White House curator, her staff, and the chief usher.However, reports from POLITICO have highlighted "ongoing public debate, scrutiny, and speculation regarding the transparency and public accessibility of the stored artifacts."So the answer is we probably won't be able to find out where they are until we have a Democratic president again, unless the next Democratic Congress wants to open an investigation. The House Natural Resources Committee has oversight authority over the Interior Department and federal lands and grounds, and would be the best choice for investigating both the White House ballroom and East Wing demolition. The current ranking Democrat, Rep. Jared Huffman of California, is poised to take over as Chair, and I'd love to see him open an investigation into everything Trump has done on the White House grounds. Over in the Senate, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee could also look into that. My Senator, Ron "Chutzpah" Wyden (D-OR), currently sits on that Committee and will also be the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee in January, so I think that's something I should bring up with him the next time I get the chance to chat with him. But Trump wasn't done with just demolishing the White House itself, so he also paved over the Rose Garden to make it look like another tacky patio at Mar-A-Lago, just without a pool. And then he turned the South Lawn into a traveling parking lot carnival trailer park. And nothing but cheers from the same racist losers who screamed when Barack Obama built a basketball court, and Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden.How was he ever allowed to bring in a construction crew in the first place? There should be a deeper dive into the embarrassment of America's 250th Birthday celebration, where a UFC cage still sat on the White House lawn after Trump invited sweaty, shirtless men to beat each other up on his birthday. All of this vandalism was a gift to his Daddy Vladdy to make America look as weak as possible on the global stage.And then there's Algaegate, aka the Problems With the Reflecting Pool, caused by Trump himself, because he can't leave things alone and only makes things worse when he tries to "fix" them. I mean, he hired a pool guy who looked like a Dick Tracy villain, so you can't tell me he wasn't trying to make it worse on purpose.When Democrats start declaring their candidacies in 2028, tearing down that eyesore bunker and restoring the White House to its original glories should be one of their top priorities. In a world that's now dominated by visuals, the image of the White House matters more than ever. It should never look like the "before" photo on an HGTV show about restoring old homes. Any "improvements" should actually look like they've improved our image in the media and on the world stage. You know, like GROWING VEGETABLES AND ROSES IN GARDENS. Nobody should accept Trump's deliberate destruction of our White House, and that includes anyone still supporting him. If he truly loved America, he'd have left it standing the way it is out of respect for the office, or would have only added things to beautify the already hallowed grounds. Instead, he's treating the White House like he's putting in an ADU behind Mar-a-Lago without paying for any of the permits and stiffing all of the contractors. There must be accountability.
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Former "Saturday Night Live" repertory player and writer Bowen Yang returned to help open the show this weekend with his portrayal of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.In the cold open, the nation's most-prominent tech-industry CEOs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, are at a CIA gathering devised to teach them how to identify when a woman may be duping them. "America needs you to learn the difference between a woman who would actually want to have sex with you and a woman who is clearly a spy," said a CIA guide, portrayed by comedian John Mulaney, the night's host. Mulaney, a former "SNL" writer, used the story of Huang, who resigned from Nvidia on Thursday following reports that he had extramarital relationships, including one with a suspected spy for China."What do you think the lesson is here?" Mulaney asked.Zuckerberg, portrayed by Andrew Dismukes, answered: "Never date a human woman."Mulaney dismissed the response and that of a few of the other tech titans in the room, prompting PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, portrayed by James Austin Johnson, to defend the group."Show us some respect," he said. "We do a lot for this country. Name one time technology has let us down."Mulaney answered by mentioning Friday's nationwide flight ground stop and Thursday's global Microsoft glitch.He tried to empathize, however, noting that it's a rare time in human history when men "as pale and as strange as you" even survive, let alone possess "all the world's wealth and power."Mulaney asked the group to remember the people they dated before they were rich and famous. "Now all of a sudden someone very beautiful is interested in you. Why do you think that might be?" he said. Zuckerberg chimed in. "Because she's comforted by my Meta glasses recording her at all times.""No," Mulaney said.He later introduces someone "who learned this lesson the hard way."Enter Huang."It's me, Jensen 'Hide Your Wife' Huang," Yang said.He explained that he's into BDSM — "breakin' da stock market" — and urged the men not to be like him."Women don't like guys like us," he said. "That's how we became guys like us." Yang appeared in a subsequent sketch, "Little Park of Horrors," a spoof of Broadway musicals, that centered on the city outlawing horse-drawn carriages and the two men (Marcello Hernández and Kam Patterson) who want to ride in one.Eventually realizing the dangers and limitations, the pair opt for a vehicle ride in the Lincoln Tunnel only to be confronted by Yang's Mary Todd Lincoln, who sang about the pitfalls of such a subterranean journey. "No way it's taking less than two hours," Lincoln sang. " … And it won't be for free. I'm sayin,' I'm sayin' that you and you and you — you're going to pay me."A fan favorite, Yang started as a writer in 2018 and joined the cast the next year. He left "SNL" in December 2025, and made his Broadway debut in September as Lincoln in playwright Cole Escola's "Oh, Mary!" The night's musical guest was Phoebe Bridgers."SNL" airs on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal, which is also the parent company of NBC News.
Red state Dem star stranded at airport as Duffy's 'hot mess' flights disaster spreads
Mississippi's newly elected Democratic senator got a firsthand look at the air travel meltdown this weekend, and one airline worker had a pointed suggestion for fixing it.Senator-elect Scott Colom posted on social media late Saturday that he was stuck at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport as his Delta flight kept getting pushed back."I'm at the ATL airport and my @Delta flight has been continuously delayed because they can't find another pilot," Colom wrote. "It's midnight and they don't know when or if they'll find another pilot but won't give out hotel vouchers until the flight is cancelled, which they can't say when that'll happen. This is a hot mess for Americans."Then he shared what one worker told him."One of them just said, 'pick another flight...pick another transportation secretary,'" Colom wrote, adding a shrugging emoji.The post was viewed more than 1.4 million times and was reposted by conservative attorney and Trump critic George Conway.Airlines are still trying to recover from Friday's nationwide FAA ground stop, which left planes and crews scattered across the country. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed overloaded routers and outdated equipment for the shutdown and has pressed Congress for billions to overhaul the air traffic control system.Colom's replies quickly turned on Duffy."Pick another Transportation Secretary," one user wrote, alongside an image of the secretary.Former Obama White House aide Arun Chaudhary suggested Colom put the wait to good use."Do some man on the street in the airport interviews!" Chaudhary wrote."You know me, always listening. Just don't have a mic," Colom replied.Colom, a former district attorney, won his race this month and will become Mississippi's first Black senator in 150 years, The Atlantic reported.
Scandal-plagued Republican's rant spurs 'disappear from public life' order from his ally
Texas Republican Bo French's latest attack on immigrants backfired fast, drawing fire from critics on the left, conservative writers and even a top Trump administration ex-official."As an American, who's family has been here for 400 years, I shouldn't have to listen to people who are in fact not from here, do not share our culture, scam our institutions, and hate our nation, because they shouldn't be here in the first place," French posted on X Saturday morning.The post has been viewed more than 1.8 million times.French, the former Tarrant County GOP chair who lost his race for Texas Railroad Commissioner this month, has a long record of inflammatory remarks. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick once urged him to resign his party post after French ran a poll asking whether Jews or Muslims posed a bigger threat to America. In September, he went viral for a racist post singling out a group of University of Texas students at a Longhorns game.This time, one of the sharpest rebukes came from his own side. Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, opened by correcting his grammar."*Whose," Dhillon wrote. "Also, you are an ignorant bigot whose racist rhetoric helped turn off many Americans from voting Republican in Texas. You should do the party a favor and disappear from public life. This is MY party and country as much as it is anyone's.""Weird since you and I have talked before. You are NOT who I am talking about," French replied.The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg also piled on."News flash: plenty of native-born Americans with family trees as old as yours also think you're a lowbrow bigot, demagogue, and political albatross," Goldberg wrote. "So don't listen to these mythical illegal immigrants and immigrants you don't like. Just listen to all the 'Heritage Americans' who also think you're an embarrassment and a--hole."French shot back that he doesn't "want to listen to communists either," insisting, "It's not about race."Many critics went after French's own heritage. After one user told him "Your last name is Europoor, not American," French insisted the name was English."I realize you're probably low IQ, and that's OK. I don't hold that against you. The surname French is actually an old English name, just like the other names in my family, like Polk and Fuller," he wrote.A proposed community note added under the post disagreed: "The English surname 'French' is longstanding, particularly in Ireland. It denotes people originating in France, not England.""You don't even qualify to be a notary public with that last name," former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) wrote."Bo French, we're on to you. Il doit rentrer en France!" another user posted, alongside an image of a man in a beret and a striped shirt in front of the Eiffel Tower.Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall questioned French's math."400 years, eh? Very, very limited English settlement in North America by 1626. Care to elaborate?" Marshall wrote.Conservative health policy expert Avik Roy took aim at the grammar."I only listen to Heritage Americans whose understanding of the English language includes knowing the difference between 'who's' and 'whose,'" Roy wrote.When writer Zaid Jilani asked whether "400 years of familiar history" had produced "just a racist poster and failed candidate for office," French replied with one word: "Deport."Even Fox Business correspondent Charles Gasparino, who has picked his share of fights with liberals online, noted that French's argument left him out."I guess this approach to immigration leaves me and my family out," Gasparino wrote.And one user who shares French's surname had a different family history to offer."Which Frenches are you with, Bo? We got here in 1635 (via William French!) and haven't had any problems listening," Bill French wrote. "If we did, we would have kept our identity as Tribe of Galloway (Ffrench) — but because of two-way communication with people also not from here, we became...Americans."
Trump 'finally' breaks silence on airspace disaster as he finds someone to blame
President Donald Trump has finally weighed in on the nationwide flight grounding, and he knows exactly who's responsible: President Joe Biden."The Biden Administration was an FAA disaster. Everything they touched turned bad," Trump wrote on Truth Social early Sunday. "Big money spent unwisely, making an old and broken system worse than when they began.""We have the knowledge and plan for the Flight Control Systems, we need Congress to give the money, FAST! Our FAA is doing a great job, and is ready to go," he added.Trump linked to a Just the News story headlined "Trump admin rips Biden admin handling of air traffic control after FAA ground stop." It quoted the administration complaining that "under Biden, the FAA was focused on 'inclusive language' — like banning the term 'airman,'" and that "even after the 2023 nationwide ground stop, they did absolutely nothing to address the problems plaguing ATC."The post was Trump's first public comment on the FAA after it halted every domestic departure Friday. His silence had drawn criticism even from his own allies."The president has been unusually quiet about whatever caused the FAA to shutdown American airspace," conservative radio host Todd Starnes posted Saturday. "Where is POTUS?"Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was blunter. "While everyone was freaking out thinking we are under some sort of attack, Trump didn't even bother to address the nation," she wrote, accusing him of posting about saving Hollywood instead.The watchdog account PatriotTakes was quick to point out the timing."Trump finally posts about his administration grounding airline flights, shares article blaming Biden and asking for money," the account wrote. "He's been in office nearly 2 years and his party controls Congress."Trump's attempt to pin the meltdown on Biden skips over some inconvenient timing. He has been back in the White House since January 2025. His Transportation Department picked the contractor for the air traffic control overhaul in December 2025, and Congress approved $12.5 billion for the project last year.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has blamed overloaded routers and old, broken equipment for Friday's shutdown, and the administration is now pressing Congress for billions more to finish the job.
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