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The FAA Air Traffic Control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey

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Newark radar failure left controllers blind for 90 seconds

By Allyson Versprille and Bloomberg

NEWARK, NJ – MARCH 1: A United Airlines airplane lands at Newark Liberty International Airport in front of the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on March 1, 2025, in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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United to cut Newark operations as FAA issues snarl flights

By Mary Schlangenstein, Allyson Versprille, and others

A Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink satellites on board takes off

Elon Musk begins testing his Starlink terminals in the U.S. airspace system

By Jason Leopold, Allyson Versprille, and others

Lights from emergency vehicles are seen as rescue crews gather along the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, after an air crash on January 29, 2025. A passenger jet from Kansas crashed into Washington's Potomac River after colliding mid-air with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport, officials said Wednesday, prompting a major emergency response and grounding all flights.

Plane collides with helicopter, crashes near DC’s Reagan Airport

By Mary Schlangenstein, Allyson Versprille, and others

Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Trump team is seeking to ease US rules for self-driving cars

By David Welch, Allyson Versprille, and others

A Delta Airlines check-in area at an airport, featuring a "Sky Priority" sign listing various elite membership tiers for passengers. In the foreground, a woman with a black coat and a large handbag is using a check-in kiosk, while in the background, a family is seen giving high-fives near the Delta counter. The area is organized with stanchions guiding passengers through the check-in process.

Delta and major US airlines face federal probe into loyalty program practices

By Allyson Versprille, Mary Schlangenstein, and others

Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet

Boeing’s guilty plea to criminal charge means it now needs a Pentagon waiver to keep its lucrative defense contracts

By Allyson Versprille and Bloomberg

Relatives of Boeing airplane crash victims demonstrate before Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun (front) testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Investigations Subcommittee hearing to examine “Boeing’s broken safety culture” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 18, 2024. (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM / AFP) (Photo by SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Boeing 737 Max crash victims’ families ask the Justice Department to fine the planemaker $25 billion for committing ‘the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history’

By Allyson Versprille and Bloomberg

Pair walks past a Boeing sign in Renton, Washington.

Boeing whistleblower alleges plane maker lost track of up to 400 faulty 737 parts

By Allyson Versprille, Julie Johnsson, and others

Southwest Airlines plane on runway

The FAA is investigating a Southwest flight that came within 400 feet of slamming into the ocean

By Mary Schlangenstein, Allyson Versprille, and others

UNITED STATES – MARCH 27: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, during the White House press briefing on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The bridge collapsed after it was struck by a container ship on March 26th. Vice Admiral Peter W. Gautier, Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations, also spoke. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

New Biden administration rules require airlines to refund changed flights and abolish surprise fees

By Allyson Versprille and Bloomberg

Chris Moore from Toronto, whose daughter Danielle Moore died in the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia on March 10, 2019, speaks during a memorial protest in front of Boeing offices in Arlington, Virginia, on March 10, 2023 to mark the four-year anniversary of the event. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Boeing’s mid-air blowout no surprise considering company’s safety culture, says FAA panelist and aerospace engineer whose sister died in 737 Max crash

By Allyson Versprille and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 20: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen arrives to deliver remarks at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on April 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. During her remarks Yellen spoke on the importance of a productive relationship between the United States and China to help combat a range of global concerns including climate change. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Janet Yellen announces some new rules to crack down firms that pose a potential risk to America’s ‘financial stability’

By Viktoria Dendrinou, Allyson Versprille, and others

Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, works on his laptop in the company’s office in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Kwon is counting on the oldest cryptocurrency as a backstop for his stablecoin, which some critics liken to a ginormous Ponzi scheme. Photographer: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Company behind crypto TerraUSD, whose collapse cost investors $40 billion and set off an industry-wide crisis, is sued for fraud by SEC

By Allyson Versprille, Austin Weinstein, and others

The Kraken website crypto prices page for Bitcoin on a laptop computer arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Kraken will pay $30 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it broke the agencys rules with its cryptoasset staking products and will discontinue them in the US as part of the agreement with the regulator. Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What is crypto staking and why did the SEC just go after Kraken for it?

By Olga Kharif, Lydia Beyoud, and others