770 more flights canceled Monday after a chaotic travel weekend
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At least 773 flights were canceled across the United States on Monday afternoon, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. This follows another chaotic travel weekend with more than 1,500 domestic flights canceled Saturday and Sunday.
Delta (DAL) alone canceled at least 220 flights Monday, or 7% of its operations, while United (UAL) canceled 124 flights and American Airlines (AAL) nixed 64. CNN has reached out to the three airlines for comment on the flight cancellations.
The United States is considering whether to strike Iran as turmoil intensifies for the country’s authoritarian regime.
The US has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil since the US attached Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this month, according to an administration official.
President Donald Trump enacted a new 25% tariff on “certain advanced computing chips” on Wednesday, according to a White House fact sheet. That includes Nvidia’s H200 chip and AMD’s MI325X. However, chips imported to support building up the US technological supply chain would be exempt.
Verizon said some of its wireless services were down Wednesday, leaving many customers without access to voice and data services.
YouTube will now let parents limit the amount of time their teens can spend scrolling through its short-form video feature, Shorts, or block them all together.
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Perhaps no data point better encapsulates the American economy right now than this nugget from Delta’s quarterly earnings:
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