Geoff Bennett:
But for the second time in as many days, 10,000 union flight attendants have not complied with return-to-work orders. The sides remain far apart on issues like higher wages and attendant pay both before planes take off and after they land. Air Canada has canceled hundreds of flights per day as a result of the stoppage, upending travel for 500,000 passengers.
The conservative cable network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit. The voting machine company had accused the Trump-aligned cable channel of broadcasting false claims that it rigged votes against Mr. Trump in his 2020 election loss. Today’s settlement comes after FOX News paid over $787 million two years ago to settle a similar defamation lawsuit.
Meantime, MSNBC announced it will change its name later this year as it splits from parent company NBCUniversal. The rebrand will be called My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, for short, and it’ll drop NBC’s Peacock from its logo.
MSNBC has been building a separate news division for months as it spins off from NBC with other networks like USA and E!; none of those other networks are changing their names, including financial station CNBC.
On Wall Street today, stocks were mostly flat, holding near their all-time records. The Dow Jones industrial average had the biggest relative drop on the day, losing nearly a 10th-of-a-percent. The Nasdaq was the only minimal gain among the major indices, and the S&P ended virtually unchanged.
And here’s a word we never imagined we’d say on the “News Hour.” Skibidi isn’t just Internet slang anymore. It’s an official term in the Cambridge Dictionary. Skibidi, a term coined on YouTube, can mean good or it can mean bad, depending on the context.
Cambridge Dictionary announced more than 6,000 new entries this year, including tradwife, which is shorthand for the traditional wife influencer lifestyle, delulu, short for delusional, and forever chemical, referring to pollutants that linger in the environment.
Well, still to come on the “News Hour”: a Republican power grab through redistricting moves forward after Texas Democrats return to the legislature; Tamara Keith and Amy Walter break down the latest political headlines; and newly released recordings rekindle interest in folk singer Woody Guthrie’s music.