Author: Peyton Sorosinski

Spirit Airlines announced Monday that it reached an agreement with Airbus to defer all aircraft deliveries to improve liquidity, adding that it will furlough 260 pilots.  All Airbus planes scheduled for delivery from the second quarter of 2025 to the end of 2026 will instead be delivered between 2030 and 2031. However, that does not…

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) wrote a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sunday demanding that the federal agency reverse a marijuana policy for CBP recruits.  Lankford asked CBP’s senior official performing the duties of the commissioner, Troy Miller, to “restore the two-year lookback on marijuana usage among Border Patrol recruits,” according to a…

Arlington County police will give away anti-car theft devices twice in April after carjackings soared last year in the Washington, D.C., area.  The county’s police department will be giving residents and those who commute and park their vehicles in Arlington $20,000 in free steering wheel locks in an effort to curb car theft ahead of…

On Monday, Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) rolled back a 2020 measure that decriminalized drugs after the state’s opioid overdose rate tripled since it was enacted. The measure offered those found in possession of hard drugs treatment over jail time. Before 2020, there were 280 opioid-related deaths in the state, and in 2022, there were 956, according…

Police are investigating a fire outside of the entrance to Sen. Bernie Sanders‘s (I-VT) office on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont. Sprinkler and fire alarm systems on the third floor of the building were activated when Burlington police arrived on the scene at 10:45 a.m. There was a fire in the vestibule between the elevator…

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Democratic lawmakers in California reached an agreement Thursday to slash the state’s massive budget deficit by $17.3 billion through an array of cuts, delays, and deferrals.  Though the state’s exact budget deficit is uncertain, the Legislative Analyst Office reported it was $73 billion earlier this year, while Newsom says it’s…

The six inmates from a New York prison will get to watch Monday’s solar eclipse after they filed a lawsuit claiming the prison’s implementation of a lockdown violated their religious liberties.  Last week, the six men being held at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York filed a lawsuit against the state corrections department after…

The New York state Senate approved lawmakers’ repeal of a century-old law that makes adultery in the state a crime on Wednesday. Initially passed in 1907, the goal of the law was to drive down the divorce rate. At the time, adultery was the only acceptable reason to grant a divorce in the state of…

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) proposed legislation aimed at repealing the 16th Amendment, which allows the government to tax people’s income. The congressman brought up his legislation in an interview with Just the News, No Noise on Wednesday. Among the four co-sponsors are Reps. Mary Miller (R-IL) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX). “Originally the country didn’t have…

Boeing has paid $160 million to Alaska Airlines to compensate for profits lost in the grounding of the 737 Max 9 planes following the January panel blowout on the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines jet.    The airline’s parent company, Alaska Air Group, said Thursday in a statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that…