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Weekend Edition:
Sky High, Safety Low
Good morning and happy weekend!
We made it—somehow—to another Saturday, and if your week felt a little bumpy, trust me, it wasn’t as rough as air travel these days (more on that below).
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Happy Creating,
Fatih Taskiran
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Travel
Out of Control
U.S.
Memory Lane Detour
Culture
🎪 Weekend Leisure Core
Beyond the Core
Average Salary by State
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Travel
Out of Control
If flying feels more like an extreme sport these days, you're not alone. Staffing shortages in the U.S. aviation industry have led to near-misses, delays, and frazzled nerves. Just 22 controllers manage about 1,000 flights daily at Newark Liberty Airport—barely half the number needed.
 Nationwide, 99% of control towers are understaffed, pushing exhausted controllers to their limits. While the FAA scrambles to hire and train new hires, outdated systems and mandatory overtime have veterans looking for early retirement—or even jobs abroad. Be prepared: clear skies may still be a long way off.
Bonus: Gift Article—He just averted a midair collision. Now he’s speaking out.
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U.S.
Forget Me Not
In newly released audio from special counsel Robert Hur's 2023 interview with then-President Joe Biden, long pauses and memory lapses are clearly audible, especially around key personal dates. He struggles to remember when his son Beau died, when he left office as vice president, and when Donald Trump was elected.
 Biden's lawyers repeatedly stepped in to prompt him or clarify his answers. Axios recently revealed that Biden's administration initially withheld the recordings, citing executive privilege. Biden's mental acuity and the political handling of the classified documents probe are back in the spotlight.
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Culture
🎪 Weekend Leisure Core
Fuel Your Screen
Oscar-nominated movie 'I'm Still Here' comes to Netflix this weekend. "Rubens's wife, Eunice (Fernanda Torres), spends decades searching for the truth about him.
Fuel Your MIND
Interested in investing? You can find thousands of books about investing. Barry Ritholtz's latest takes a different route: How Not to Invest.
Fuel Your EAR
On the first warm day of the year, "Lilacs" is the perfect soundtrack for lying in the park.
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
— Josh Billings
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💬 Beyond the Core
Ring-ing
Here's a visual of when Americans tie the marriage vows.
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📸 Lens to Life
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🗓️ Flashback
2014
The BJP, a center-right Hindu nationalist party led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide general election victory in India.
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Fatih Taskiran
I'm glad we could get together here. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
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