AFN NEWS

Thursday, March 28, 2019　

1) From ABC News, I’m Daria Albinger. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pressing top transportation officials about airline safety. “FAA’s Acting Administrator Den Elwell providing insight about the agency’s decision to ground Boeing 737 Max planes, saying the decision was made after noticing similarities in the flight path of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes. ‘When you have the possibility of a link between two accidents of the same type of aircraft, it’s prudent to ground them until you find what that link is.’ The FAA’s decision making in grounding the Max planes will be part of the audit ordered by the Department of Transportation. Mark Remillard, ABC News.” In Washington State, Boeing is demonstrating software update to the 737 Max series to customers and regulators. Officials say pilot training will be computer-based and will require simulator.

2) A federal judge in Washington, D.C. is blocking Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky.

3) An Ohio man pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for the 2017 Charlottesville car attack. James Alex Fields Jr. admitting in court that he intended to kill Heather Heyer and others when he drove a car. It was 2017 crowded counter protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. The state court convicted him and now he’s admitted he was also a federal hate crime. “His affection for Adolf Hitler, Nazis Germany.” U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen saying he frankly feels he would now serve two life sentences, one each for federal and state crime. Andy Field, ABC News.

4) British Prime Minister Theresa May offers up her job in exchange for getting an EU divorce deal to pass. “In a sense, you could say the blackmail. Theresa May trying for the third time to give her already-failed plan through really on the scales of what people are looking at. They wanna get rid of her, but in order to do that they’re gonna have to pass a deal which the country hates as well.” ABC’s Tom Rivers in London.

5) Stocks closed lower today. You’re listening to ABC News.

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From the Fox Business Network; on Wall Street, the major averages ending lower on weakness in healthcare, technology and banks, then also on lingering fears of a slowing global economy with the Dow falling 32 points, the NASDAQ down 48, S&P 500 down 13. // And a big acquisition in the healthcare stage. Health insurer Centene will be buying competitor Wellcare Health for over $15 billion which will create a giant in the business of managing government health programs. The move comes after the Trump Administration recently renewed its attack on striking down the Affordable Care Act. Centene is the largest provider of plan to ACA market places. // And kick off for April, and just in time for Easter of Peeps and Dunkin’ collaboration. Dunkin’ will be releasing a new Peeps donut and a marshmallow-flavored coffee for a limited time. The Peeps donut features a yellow marshmallow chick on top of a green and egg-shaped sprinkle donut and Java will be infused with a creamy taste of classic Peeps marshmallow. With the Fox Business Report, I’m Hilarie Barsky.