Erkki Forster

3 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Corbin Bolies

NBC’s Kristen Welker grilled Sean Duffy on the repeated air traffic control outages at Newark Liberty Airport and the transportation secretary didn’t seem convinced that his agency has a handle on the ongoing crisis. “Why does this keep happening?” Welker asked Duffy on Meet the Press. The New Jersey airport—sitting in the country’s busiest airspace—has been hit by three equipment outages in just two weeks, the latest on Sunday morning.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Erkki Forster |Corbin Bolies

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had a series of scapegoats lined up Sunday for the ongoing chaos plaguing U.S. air travel. When grilled by NBC’s Kristen Welker on the repeated air traffic control outages at Newark Liberty Airport, Duffy didn’t seem convinced that his agency has a handle on the ongoing crisis. “Why does this keep happening?” Welker asked Duffy on Meet the Press.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Kenneal Patterson

April Ryan has been to dozens of White House Correspondents’ Dinners, but this year’s event stood out—for the wrong reasons. “It was the oddest thing I’ve ever been to,” said Ryan, the longest-serving Black White House correspondent in history, on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. During the dinner, Ryan—who currently serves as the Washington Bureau Chief or BlackPressUSA—was awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize to honor her storied career.

3 weeks ago | autism.einnews.com | Isabel van Brugen |Erkki Forster |Yasmeen Hamadeh

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in full damage-control mode after causing outrage with his comments about autism during his first official press briefing as health secretary. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, attempted to dial back the controversy in a sit-down Thursday night with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. He had triggered a firestorm by claiming that people with autism—a neurodevelopmental disorder—will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job.

4 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Leigh McManus

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hunt for suspected leakers inside the Pentagon has claimed its third victim. Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was put on administrative leave Wednesday and escorted out of the building, according to a defense official and a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico.