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Chapter 1: What dangers are caused by the air traffic controller shortage?
Dire shortages of air traffic controllers create danger in the skies.
The delays that we're now seeing in Newark is what's going to continue to happen around the country.
How are officials fixing the problems?
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Canada's new prime minister sits down with Trump after weeks of tough talk on tariffs and Canada becoming the 51st state.
It's not for sale, won't be for sale ever. Never say never. Ever say never.
And after years of decline in the West, Christianity surges among millennials and Gen Z. One promising sign is the return of young men to church.
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Chapter 2: How is the FAA addressing air travel safety?
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The Trump administration is rushing to modernize the FAA after years of chronic understaffing and a string of accidents and near misses on runways.
Here with the details is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, in light of recent events, a lot of people are feeling more leery of air travel. How big of an issue is this?
Chapter 3: What are the recent incidents in air travel?
Well, air travel still is the safest mode of transportation, but there's no doubt these concerns are real. We all heard about the deadly crash in D.C. a few months back when a military helicopter collided with that commercial jet. But beyond that, every week at airports across the country, there are roughly a dozen close calls that go mostly unreported.
These incidents are referred to as runway incursions by the FAA. For example, in the last few months alone, two planes at Reagan Airport in D.C. were forced to abort landings when helicopters entered restricted airspace. A few weeks before that, at the same airport, two planes clipped wings on a runway.
Similar incidents have been reported this year at Chicago's Midway, DFW, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta. So this is a widespread issue. And perhaps most concerning, on April 29th, air traffic controllers at Newark International reported experienced a systems outage that knocked out their radar, leaving numerous planes essentially flying dark.
CNN obtained audio of that terrifying moment where controllers were unable to see or hear nearby pilots for 60 to 90 seconds. Have a listen.
No, you do not have a Bravo clearance. We lost our radar and it's not working correctly. We don't have a radar, so I don't know where you are.
And that incident came amid existing air traffic controller shortages and equipment failures at Newark, which have led to now 14 straight days of significant delays at Newark. Those were imposed by the FAA. And while Newark is dealing with the most serious issues right now, plenty of other airports are dealing with problems of their own.
So this really is a crisis in some ways. What's causing the problems?
Well, first is the ongoing FAA worker shortage. The administration says they are in need of 3,500 new air traffic controllers to hit their target number. For months now, existing controllers have been stretched thin, working mandatory overtime and even six-day work weeks. But according to Duffy, arguably the biggest problem plaguing the FAA is outdated technology.
Many of the administration's systems and computers are literally from the 80s, Some controllers still rely on floppy disks. For our younger listeners, you can Google what those are. And because the FAA tech is so old, Duffy says it's difficult to even find technicians who actually know how to operate and work on these systems.
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Chapter 4: What is the status of the meeting between Trump and Canada’s Prime Minister?
It's a great honor to have Prime Minister Mark Carney with us. As you know, just a few days ago, he won a very big election in Canada. And I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him, but I can't say the vote.
The context here is that Carney and the Liberal Party beat out conservative leader Pierre Polyev after the former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tanked in popularity. Trump and Carney covered a few issues, but the chief one was clearly trade. Here's Carney and Trump.
We are the largest client of the United States in the totality of all the goods. So we are the largest client of the United States. We have a tremendous auto sector between the two of us, and the changes that made have been helpful. You know, 50% of a car that comes from Canada is American. That's not like anywhere else in the world.
This is a very friendly conversation, but we want to make our own cars. We don't really want cars from Canada. We put tariffs on cars from Canada, and at a certain point, it won't make economic sense for Canada to build those cars. And we don't want steel from Canada, because we're making our own steel, or we're having massive steel plants being built right now as we speak.
Chapter 5: How does the rise of Christianity impact society?
Canada is the number two trading partner for the U.S. behind Mexico, and the U.S. is Canada's largest trading partner by far.
Right, and we're now several weeks into Trump's tariffs, another big U.S. trade partner. China is starting to really feel the effects there. We're seeing reports about factory workers struggling. What's happening with that situation?
Yeah, it could be the start of a grassroots push to force China to negotiate. According to Goldman Sachs, U.S. tariffs could wipe out 16 million factory jobs in China. Workers are already upset over missed wages and layoffs. It's not clear what pressure the communist government in Beijing feels over this. All we know for sure is that China hasn't come to the table yet.
Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson in Congress Tuesday.
As I said before, there are 18 very important trading relationships. We are currently negotiating with 17 of those trading partners. China, we have not engaged in negotiations with as of yet.
So China is the only major holdout left.
Speaking of major trading partners, Germany just elected their new prime minister. Things are a bit shaky there. What's happening with that situation?
Right. Friedrich Merz was just elected German chancellor Tuesday afternoon, but there are already signs of weakness in his coalition. Merz failed to get a majority in the first round of voting, the first time that's happened in modern German history.
Now, Merz's Christian Democrats are seen as center-right, but the coalition includes left-wing lawmakers as well at the expense of the right-wing Alternative for Germany. AFD, as it's called, is topping German opinion polls right now, even though German intelligence classified it as a threat to democracy last week. Now, the Trump administration took issue with that.
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