Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced on Monday that he will step down at the end of the year in a major shakeup at the embattled company. Chairman of the board Larry Kellner will step down in May‚ while Stan Deal‚ president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes‚ is leaving immediately. "We will remain squarely focused on completing the work we have done together to return our company to stability after the extraordinary challenges of the past five years‚ with safety and quality at the...

Former President Trump is expected in a downtown New York City courtroom today for a hearing related to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money payments case.  The hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. and last several hours.  Trump is also up against a Monday deadline to post a $454 million bond that was imposed in his civil fraud trial. New York Attorney General Letitcia James‚ who has accused him of inflating his net worth‚ granted him a 30-day grace period...

Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine. Yes‚ you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks‚ every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity — defined as households having high levels of malnutrition or resorting to “irreversible” coping mechanisms like selling livestock or furniture to afford even an insufficient diet. It’s a crisis that...

The U.S. has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for a deadly shooting attack at a concert near Moscow on Friday‚ a U.S. official told Reuters. Here is information about the Islamic State's Afghan branch known as ISIS-K and their motives for attacking Russia: WHAT IS ISIS-K? Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K)‚ named after an old term for the region that included parts of Iran‚ Turkmenistan and Afghanistan‚ emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014...

The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” said Monday that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel — NBC News’s new paid contributor — will not be asked to appear on their show as a guest‚ pointing to her role in helping former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in their Monday broadcast sharply criticized the network for hiring McDaniel and called on NBC News to...

Talking heads on NBC News suffered an on-air meltdown Sunday over the network’s recruitment of former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel to offer occasional commentary. This‚ after MSNBC awarded President Joe Biden’s former press secretary a prime-time show. NBC announced last week that Ronna McDaniel would be joining the network’s lineup of political analysts following her resignation as chair of the RNC. Her first appearance came Sunday with an ...

The uproar inside NBC over Ronna McDaniel’s hiring spilled into Monday morning as more of the network’s top personalities denounced the deal with the former RNC chair‚ escalating a battle over the relationship between powerful media companies and Donald Trump’s loyalists. The decision to hire McDaniel‚ which was unanimously supported by top network executives‚ has already divided and destabilized one of America’s most storied news organizations‚ with internal dismay flaring on text chains...

A new exemption for drone piloting from the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the airways for "drone-swarm" agriculture‚ a method of seeding and spraying crops at a fraction of the traditional cost. Hylio‚ a Texas-based drone manufacturer‚ successfully applied for an exemption from the FAA to allow fleets of drones weighing 55 pounds or more to fly together.  It's the first exception of its kind for machines that carry what the company calls a "meaningful payload...

Washington's drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China's control of the critical minerals sector. Across Texas‚ Louisiana and other mineral-rich states‚ it's unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils‚ how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to...

During the pandemic‚ rock-bottom interest rates and a desire for more space drove a rapid and stunning rise in housing prices. While prices have moderated from their peak‚ they have not done so nearly enough to make up for the more than doubling of borrowing costs. President Biden says he has a solution‚ but like most forms of government interference‚ it would only make the problem worse. During the State of the Union address‚ Biden unveiled a plan to give homebuyers $400 per...