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The authorities in Southern California announced on Monday that they had arrested five men in connection with the six people found fatally shot at a remote crossroads in the Mojave Desert last week, a grisly scene that investigators believe stemmed from a dispute over marijuana.

Norfolk Southern, the operator of the freight train carrying toxic chemicals that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, nearly a year ago, has agreed to participate in a federal program that allows employees to report safety issues confidentially, the company and federal officials announced on Monday.

I was a senior in college in 1978 when I wrote my first opinion piece that touched on airline deregulation. It was an editorial in The Cornell Daily Sun (“Ithaca’s only morning newspaper”!) titled “Our Man in Washington,” and it was about Alfred Kahn, a colorful Cornell economist who presided over deregulation of airlines at the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1977 to 1978 before becoming President Jimmy Carter’s inflation czar.

Joseph Anthony Caneco waited a week to respond to Layne Clark Hilton when she messaged him on Tinder in May 2020 — not because he was playing games, but because he was in a semi-crisis. He had to keep bringing Beanhead, his beloved cat, back to the emergency room. “I had my hands full,” he said.

Boeing hoped 2024 would be the year it would significantly increase production of its popular Max jets. But less than a month into the year, the company is struggling to reassure airline customers that it will still be able to deliver on its promises.

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that could, can’t anymore.

After a portion of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner’s fuselage blew out in midair minutes after the plane had taken off from Portland, Ore., on Jan. 5, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded about 170 Max 9 planes, causing airlines that rely heavily on the aircraft to cancel thousands of flights and inconveniencing many passengers.

Ukrainian officials pressed their efforts on Thursday to uncover the details of a deadly plane crash over the border in Russia, asking for patience from citizens while they investigated Moscow’s claims that Ukraine had shot down a Russian military aircraft carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Federal regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to fly again — but also said they would put new limits on production of the troubled planes.

A call for a wellness check led the authorities in Southern California to make a gruesome discovery this week: They found six bodies at a remote crossroads in the Mojave Desert.