Journey chaos as Heathrow shuts and rehired federal staff in limbo: Morning Rundown

Federal staff who have been fired and rehired are caught in employment limbo. World journey is plunged into chaos as London’s Heathrow Airport is compelled to close. And a glance inside one American farm devastated by hen flu. 

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Fired, rehired and baffled: Confusion reigns for hundreds of reinstated federal staff 

1000’s of federal staff are experiencing whiplash after firings directed by Elon Musk and the Trump administration, solely to be later rehired following court docket orders. Because the administration appeals these rulings, some 24,000 probationary federal staff are nonetheless in limbo. In interviews, federal workers mentioned they obtained notifications about rehiring by totally different communication channels, inflicting additional confusion on what steering to observe. 

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One probationary worker on the Heart for Illness Prevention mentioned her reinstatement discover was despatched to a now-defunct work e mail account that she will now not entry. The administration has acknowledged that the logistical hurdles of restoring workers to “full responsibility standing” would impose “substantial burdens” on numerous companies but it surely has not revealed a blanket answer to the re-onboarding course of. 

“They’ve already damaged my confidence and belief … It’s so complicated and so chaotic,” mentioned one Federal Emergency Administration worker who was fired, rehired after which positioned on go away.

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London’s Heathrow Airport closes after electrical fireplace, inflicting journey chaos 

London’s Heathrow Airport closed in a single day and is anticipated to stay shuttered for the remainder of the day, after a hearth at a close-by electrical energy substation brought on energy outages on the main transportation middle. 

Battle monitoring web site FlightRadar24 estimates that a minimum of 1,351 flights might be affected. Main airways have warned of journey disruption for the following 24 hours and past, with a number of flagship carriers cancelling at this time’s flights to the U.Ok. 

The transit hub is the busiest airport in the UK and has been ranked as fourth busiest on the earth, with a report 83.9 million passengers final 12 months and a predicted 84.2 million passengers in 2025. 

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How hen flu has devastated one American farm

It began in early January, when temperatures have been plunging into the only digits in southern Illinois; water strains operating to Kakadoodle Farm’s three coops saved freezing in a single day. Marty Thomas thought the roughly 30 birds that died that weekend will need to have frozen to dying.

As an alternative, it was the hen flu. Inside weeks, the farm’s 3,000 hens can be lifeless. Now, Marty and his spouse, Marikate, can’t start to restock the cavernous, empty coop till a minimum of June. 

As avian influenza ravages farms and drives up the costs of eggs nationwide, nationwide reporter Suzy Khimm visits Kakadoodle Farms, about 45 miles from the southern finish of Chicago, for a take a look at how the virus decimated one household farm and has left their enterprise on life help.

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The students focused for deportation by the Trump administration

President Trump took workplace promising the biggest mass deportation effort of undocumented immigrants in American historical past. However latest deportation makes an attempt by the Division of Homeland Safety of foreign-born lecturers may sign the Trump administration is transferring the company’s targets in a brand new path. 

Graduate pupil Badar Khan Suri was instructing at Georgetown College when he was arrested outdoors his residence. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Brown College medical faculty professor, was held at an airport earlier than being deported to Lebanon. Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. resident and Columbia College graduate pupil was detained after collaborating in Palestinian protests on campus. In response to court docket filings, all people maintained legitimate documentation to dwell and research within the U.S. 

DHS justified eradicating all three students from the nation utilizing an obscure provision of a Chilly Warfare-era legislation that offers the secretary of state deportation authority. Nonetheless, some authorized consultants say the reasoning is much less about squashing home terror threats and extra about silencing these in opposition to Trump’s overseas coverage.

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Extra politics information:

• U.S. District Choose James Boasberg ripped the DOJ’s ‘woefully inadequate’ response to questions on Alien Enemies Act case.
• A detained Georgetown College grad pupil by no means made pro-Hamas statements, his lawyer said.

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• George Glezmann, an American who spent greater than two years detained by the Taliban, was launched from captivity.
• A former NFL and Michigan faculty soccer coach allegedly stole intimate photographs from over 3,000 pupil accounts. 
• The founding father of Pirate’s Booty tried to take over a Lengthy Island city, declaring himself mayor and making an attempt to fireside everybody.
• Three individuals face federal costs for Tesla arson assaults after Molotov cocktails have been used to set fireplace to vehicles and charging stations. 
• A upkeep technician mentioned he flagged issues of safety with the free-fall journey at a Florida amusement park earlier than a teen plunged to his dying in 2022. 

Workers Decide: Girls’s sports activities bars anticipated to quadruple throughout the U.S. in 2025

Once you stroll into The 99ers Sports activities Bar in Denver, Colorado, the workers, and all of the patrons, will begin clapping for you. Co-owners Miranda Spencer and Annie Weaver mentioned they began the custom as a result of they’re each “fairly goofy” and likewise as a result of they need their bar to really feel like a neighborhood.

Their bar is one in every of six in the USA devoted to exhibiting ladies’s sports activities. This 12 months, that quantity is anticipated to quadruple, to about two dozen by the top of the 12 months with new venues in cities like New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

The ladies’s sports activities bar growth coincides with a surge in curiosity in and viewership of ladies’s faculty {and professional} sports activities. Final 12 months, for instance, the NCAA ladies’s basketball championship between South Carolina and Iowa was essentially the most watched basketball sport — together with males’s, ladies’s, professional and faculty basketball — since 2019.

We talked to a number of the bar homeowners about what impressed them to open their companies, and the way they need their bars to be totally different than conventional sports activities bars.

—Brooke Sopelsa, NBC OUT managing editor, and Jo Yurcaba, NBC OUT reporter

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