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DOJ Ends Probes of Local Police • The Department of Justice closed investigations into local police departments around the country that were initiated in the final months of the Biden administration. Police departments in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, had been accused of unconstitutional policing practices. Similar cases in Arizona, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, Oklahoma, and Louisiana are also being closed out. The Justice Department


said the Biden DOJ relied on flawed methodologies and incomplete data for the lawsuits. The actions were intended, according to the Justice Department, to put the federal government in control of the departments.


Airlines Demand Air Trafic Revamp • Major airline CEOs called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in funding to modernize the United States’ aging air traffic control system, saying it is “failing Americans.” The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control network’s woes have been years in the making. But a rush of high-profile mishaps, near-misses, and a deadly January crash involving an American Airlines regional jet caused public alarm and prompted new calls for action. The executives also cited


recent air traffic control communication failures at Newark Airport and said the FAA’s technology “is


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wildly out of date.”


The letter was signed


by the heads of American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Alaska Airlines, Atlas Air, trade group Airlines for America, and senior executives at FedEx and UPS. The U.S. House is considering an initial $12.5 billion to replace outdated radar and telecommunications systems, air traffic control towers, and other facilities, and increase air traffic control staffing.


Offshore Wind Project Resumes • The Trump administration is allowing work on a major offshore wind project for New York to resume. The developer, Norwegian energy firm Equinor, said a stop-work order has been lifted for the Empire Wind project, allowing construction to resume. Work has been paused


since April, when Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said it appeared the Biden administration had “rushed through” the approvals. Equinor spent seven


years obtaining permits and has spent more than $2.5 billion so far on a project that is one-third complete and employs 1,500 construction workers.


$5M Deal in Ashli Babbitt Death • The U.S. has agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful


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xperts told a House subcommittee there are no sizable objects that pose a significant risk of impacting Earth within


the next 100 years . . . at least none that they are aware of. Making sure they are aware of such a threat and what NASA will be able to do about it was the topic of a May 15 hearing by the Science, Space, and Technology subcommittee. The hearing highlighted a new system expected to be


in place by June 2028 which will be the world’s first space telescope dedicated specifically to hazardous asteroid detection. Rep. Brian Babin, chair of the committee, said the new


system will be able to detect asteroids regardless of their darkness or proximity to the sun. The Texas Republican recalled an incident in 2013 when a


house-sized asteroid exploded over Russia with a blast 30 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb. The blast injured thousands of people and caused millions of dollars in property damage. “Because the asteroid approached from the direction of the sun, it was undetectable by ground-based telescopes,” Babin said.


death lawsuit that Ashli Babbitt’s family filed over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, the Associated Press reported. The settlement would


resolve the $30 million federal lawsuit that Babbitt’s estate filed last year in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 6, 2021, a


Capitol Police officer shot Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was


unarmed, as she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. The officer who shot her


was cleared of wrongdoing by the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, which concluded that he acted in self-defense and in the defense of members of Congress. The Capitol Police also cleared the officer.


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