Greensboro, PTI named finalist for potential aircraft factory that could bring 10,000 jobs
California-based aircraft manufacturer JetZero is considering Greensboro as a possible site for its future factory, which would create 10,000 new jobs, the company confirmed. Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport is one of five finalists for the factory. JetZero says it is in the final stages of the selection process and plans to pick its destination in the next six weeks. JetZero was founded in Long Beach, California, in 2021. The company is known for its blended-wing-body plane which the company plans to have in service by 2030.
JetZero has already partnered with companies like Delta and Alaska Airlines to bring the new design to commercial aircraft. JetZero’s blended-wing-body plane aims to provide 50% better fuel efficiency over traditional commercial aircraft. The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce released the following statement on JetZero’s potential expansion into the Triad: “Considering the location at PTI, Greensboro Chamber of Commerce has no comment at this time on this project.”
RFK Jr.’s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
Bhattacharya did not give details on how they would be chosen, but said their selection would be “run through normal NIH processes.” Bhattacharya said the research they will back using the data will be “the highest quality proposals” that will range “from basic science to epidemiological approaches, to other more applied approaches” to treat and manage autism. He also acknowledged autism’s wide variation in how it affects people.
“I recognize, of course, that autism, there’s a range of manifestations ranging from highly functioning children to children that are quite severely disabled. And of course the research will account very carefully for that,” he said. While the selected researchers will be able to access and study the private medical data, Bhattacharya said they will not be able to download it. He promised “state of the art protections” to protect confidentiality.
US judge blocks Trump’s effort to shutter international news service
A federal judge has stated that US President Donald Trump illegally halted the operation of the Voice of America (VOA), a federally funded international news service created by Congress. In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Trump administration to restore the 83-year-old broadcaster’s capacity to the levels before Trump slashed funding and laid off scores of personnel. In a March court filing stating that all 1,300 employees had been placed on administrative leave, lawyers for VOA said that the broadcaster seeks to report the news “truthfully, impartially, and objectively”, pushing back against claims from the Trump administration that it promotes a “leftist bias” and is insufficiently “pro-American”.
Judge Lamberth also ordered the administration to restore the capacity of two other broadcasters also funded by the federal Agency for Global Media, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, while those lawsuits progress. VOA was first founded during World War II in an effort by the US government to counter Nazi propaganda and was later used to project pro-US views to countries around the world during the Cold War, a history that has led some to criticise the network as a means of promoting US interests around the world. After largely gutting USAID, tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said that the international assistance group had been a “viper’s nest of radical left Marxists who hate America”.
