Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following significant financial struggles due to mounting losses and debt maturities, the airline announced Monday. The filing comes after two failed mergers in less than two years – one recently with Frontier and another earlier in 2024 with JetBlue – which left the ultra-low-cost carrier in a bind after repetitive quarterly losses. In October, Spirit announced plans to sell multiple aircraft and lay off workers as...

Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said there is mounting concern among female officers at the Department of Defense following the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. “I don’t think it’s an understatement to say there is real stress on the horse right now, but there is a lot of power,” she told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “The secretary of Defense is designed to be a very important job. So who we put in there is extremely, extremely...

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year so far – the highest number ever, according to a human rights group. The latest execution, on Saturday in the southwestern region of Najran, was of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs into the Gulf kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. It brings the number of foreigners executed in the middle eastern country to 101. This is almost three times the number last year and in 2022,...