Domestic flights are resuming across the country after a Federal Aviation Administration system outage grounded thousands of aircrafts. The FAA first issued an advisory just past 4 a.m. Wednesday that a technical issue impacted its Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM), and it later announced that it had ordered all airlines to pause domestic departures for more than an hour to ensure flight safety. Thousands of passengers were delayed and hundreds of flights were flat-out canceled, but airlines began gradually restoring normal operations by mid-afternoon Wednesday. The FAA is still working to figure out what went wrong, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirming the federal government hasn't ruled out nefarious activity. "We're not prepared to rule that out," Buttigieg said in an interview on MSNBC. "There hasn't been any indication of that." It was the second major air travel disruption in a matter of weeks — the first coming amid the holidays when Southwest suffered system complications. Read more here. |
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Welcome to The Hill's Evening Report, catching you up on news from the afternoon and looking at the big stories likely to impact tomorrow. |
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🐘 McCarthy doesn't call for Santos to resign: 'The voters elected him'
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) isn't joining the calls for
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign over fabrications about his résumé and questions about his finances even as New York Republicans raised the pressure on the embattled first-term lawmaker. |
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🔍 New GOP Oversight chair launches probes into Biden finances
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New House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has kicked off the GOP's long-awaited investigation into President Biden and his family's finances, requesting information from the Treasury Department. |
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🗳️ Democrats want Biden to run against House GOP
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Democrats think President Biden can get a boost from the House GOP, just as his party's past presidents saw their political fortunes rise by virtue of battling a Republican Congress. |
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🦠 White House extends COVID-19 public health emergency once again
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The Department of Health and Human Services has officially extended the ongoing public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic amid concerns over a more transmissible viral mutation and broad pandemic fatigue. |
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📊 McConnell most unpopular senator in new survey
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the least popular senator in the U.S., according to new polling, as the Kentucky Republican has faced backlash from both the right and the left over the last year. |
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🌽 Grassley says hip surgery 'very successful'
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had hip surgery after a fracture this week but says it was successful. |
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👀 Barbara Lee readies to launch California Senate bid
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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is set to become the second prominent entrant into California's Senate race to likely replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.), two sources have told The Hill. |
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| 🍊 Rouda launches bid for Porter's California House seat
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Former Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.) plans to run for Rep. Katie Porter's
(D-Calif.) House seat, upon news that Porter will run for the Senate in 2024. |
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🖥️ Biden urges bipartisan action to rein in Big Tech
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President Biden is calling for sweeping reforms to target tech giants through data privacy, competition and content moderation law updates, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece. |
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🎖️ Putin replaces commander of war in Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new top commander of his forces in Ukraine in another shake-up of military leadership. |
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👖 NYC's No Pants Subway Ride canceled for second straight year
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Keep your bottoms on. The No Pants Subway Ride has been canceled for a second consecutive year. |
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| 'Biden papers and Mar-a-Lago documents: Apples and oranges?'
| "From what is known publicly at this time, the Biden papers stand in sharp contrast in scale and importance to the Mar-a-Lago stash of documents," writes former federal prosecutor James D. Zirin. |
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