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We Join Election Integrity Project to Restore Voter Confidence Nationwide Antifa Militant Who Praises Cop Killers Gets Cash Settlement DHS Risks Safety and Security by Letting ‘At-Risk’ Air Cargo Enter U.S. We Join Election Integrity Project to Restore Voter Confidence Nationwide In the wake of proposals to change voting laws and practices due to COVID-19, we and Election Integrity Project California are calling on lawmakers and election officials to renew their commitment to another important voting rights issue: the urgent need to clean up voter registration rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). For more than...

BAX Global Inc., a division of German transportation giant DB Schenker, announced Friday that it will close its U.S. air hub at Toledo Express Airport and shed its fleet of leased planes as part of what it is calling a “strategic realignment” of its North American business model. About 700 jobs, mostly part-time, will be affected, the company said. Some employees will be given an opportunity to “redeploy to other parts of our business,” the company said. Heiner Murmann, chief executive officer of Schenker, said in a statement: “We deeply regret that there will be some layoffs as part of...

Standing at the head of the runway at Memphis International Airport at two o'clock in the morning, it's impossible not to be impressed. Planes roar overhead at a rate of one every 90 seconds. The night sky is filled with a perfect line of lights as an almost military formation of planes dip towards the tarmac ready to disgorge their cargo from all over America, Europe and the world. Fedex Fedex has developed into a $30billion corporation You can almost hear The Ride of the Valkyries.

The early, and somewhat unexpected, success of the Airbus A380F freighter program could prompt a major rethinking of the way the cargo aircraft market, estimated to be worth around $ 130 billion over the next 20 years, will develop. There is one area where Airbus and Boeing broadly agree: At current rates of growth, the world will need around 725 new all-cargo aircraft by 2023. Both companies also agree that widebody aircraft will represent about 60% of the all-freighter fleet by 2022, and only disagree slightly on how this number will be reached -- with Boeing suggesting more passenger-to-freighter conversions,...

Federal agents say they are investigating how a man succeeded in stowing away in a cargo plane on a flight from New York to Dallas by shipping himself in a wooden crate. After hours of traveling, Charles McKinley, 25, of New York City, pried open the crate with a crowbar Saturday morning, authorities said. He popped up outside his parents' doorstep in suburban DeSoto, shook the hand of a shocked deliveryman and walked away, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday. The deliveryman called DeSoto police, who arrested him on outstanding Texas warrants. McKinley has not been charged with a crime,...