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The major cuts include the newsroom's international reporting and sports department.
In fact, the sports department was completely dissolved.
The paper has shrunk its international coverage, but will keep reporters on the ground in about a dozen countries.
It's also restructuring the metro section and completely shutting down the Post Reports podcast.
The outlet will focus on national news, investigations, and health and wellness.
Well, we've heard a lot of what you might expect.
Claims that they are the Washington Post, that Bezos is driving the publication into the dirt, and that money is overriding what should be the true priority of the paper.
But yeah, anecdotally, at least, most people seem to understand that the financial realities matter more than the idealistic or activist visions for the company.
Reality always wins.
Thank you for having me.
The crash involved an American Airlines regional jet colliding midair with an Army helicopter.
The Justice Department said in a filing on Wednesday that the pilots of the Army Black Hawk helicopter, quote, failed to maintain vigilance.
The failure was a cause in fact and proximate cause of the accident.
The filing also laid a portion of the blame on the American Airlines pilots, but the airline maintains that their pilots acted according to all laws and standards, placing the blame entirely on the Army pilots and air traffic control.
The government has declared their intention to pay damages to the families of those lost in the incident.
The incident is just the latest in a years-long pattern, and hundreds of children remain missing from similar crimes over the past decade.
The assailants exchanged gunfire with local police officers before scaling the school's perimeter fence and carrying out the mass abduction.
Police and soldiers are now attempting to track the perpetrators through suspected escape corridors and forested areas.
The incident is just the latest mass kidnapping in Nigeria's northwest.
where armed criminal gangs, often referred to locally as bandits, have repeatedly targeted schools for ransom.