>>Southwest Airlines: We Messed Up
(Washington, DC) -- Southwest Airlines is telling Congress "we messed up" when it came to its holiday flight nightmare. Speaking in a Senate hearing Thursday, Southwest Airlines' COO told lawmakers "in hindsight, we did not have enough winter operational resilience." The airline canceled thousands of flights in December. That left many passengers scrambling during the hectic holiday travel season.
>>Bob Iger Speaks After Announcing Disney Restructuring
(Burbank, CA) -- Disney's CEO says streaming is "the future." Bob Iger [[ eye-guhr ]] made that remark to CNBC yesterday, one day after announcing a company restructuring plan that will result in seven-thousand jobs being cut. When it comes to streaming being "the future," Iger pointed to the major goal of making it profitable. As for his own future, Iger said he wants to stay in his position for two years. He explained that's how long his contract is and that's how long he wants to stick around. He returned to his old job late last year.
>>Florida House Votes For State To Take Disney District
(Tallahassee, FL) -- The Florida House of Representatives has voted to let the state to take control of the Walt Disney Company's Reedy Creek Improvement District. For more than a half-century, the district has been run by board members chosen by Disney. The board handles local governance responsibilities such as issuing bonds, debt, taxation, fire team response, water treatment and sewage, along with other municipal duties for the area around the Walt Disney World theme park. Governor Ron DeSantis directed lawmakers to take up the issue after the entertainment giant criticized a bill to restrict certain classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity.
>>Yahoo To Cut Workforce By 20% By Year's End
(Sunnyvale, CA) -- Yahoo is the latest company to announce mass layoffs. The tech giant is going to cut its workforce by 20-percent by the time this year is over. That effort begins this week as one-thousand positions will be axed. The moves come more than a year after a private equity firm bought 90-percent of Yahoo from Verizon.
>>Feds Probe Musk's Neuralink Over Hazardous Pathogens
(Fremont, CA) -- Federal investigators are looking into Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens. The Department of Transportation began the investigation Thursday after the animal rights group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine contacted Transportation Pete Buttigieg [[ BOOT-edge-edge ]]. The group told Buttigieg it has obtained emails and other documents that suggest unsafe packaging and movement of implants taken from the brains of monkeys. The group said those implants might carry infectious diseases in violation of federal law.
>>Cause Of Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Found
(Washington County, KS) -- The operator of the Keystone Pipeline has determined the cause of a half-million gallon crude oil leak last December. More than 500-thousand gallons of crude ran down a hill and into a creek in a rural area of northeast Kansas. Pipeline operator TC Energy announced on Thursday that a faulty weld and "bending stress fatigue" on the pipe caused the leak. The pipeline pumps more than 26-million gallons of oil per day from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma.
