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Ruth Peterkin/Getty Images Running a cruise line looks as if shooting fish in a barrel. Ships are essentially a closed environment where operators have a captive audience to rake in revenue from. Nonetheless, one passenger decided to reject that social contract and took a leap off a Royal Caribbean vessel on Sunday. The ship had just finished a seven-day cruise and arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While disembarking in port, the person allegedly jumped overboard to avoid reporting $14,600 to customs. Royal Caribbean also claims he owed over $16,000. Jey Gonzalez-Diaz boarded the Rhapsody of the Seas in San…
MotoGP / YouTube A circuit built for cars is probably not inherently secure for motorcycles. It is a undeniable fact that MotoGP confronted during its first visit to Balaton Park in Hungary last weekend. The narrow circuit, described as Monaco for bikes, produced its most dramatic crash during qualifying on Saturday. Pedro Acosta’s KTM tumbled through a gravel trap and flipped over the catchfence right into a TV camera. Thankfully, the cameraman was unharmed. Series organizers, seemingly deciding the incident was a fluke, sent the crewmember back to the identical position on Sunday. Our cameraman, Joao, avoiding @37_pedroacosta’s bike impact…
Ram Automakers live or die based on how the general public perceives them and their vehicles since it typically reflects the choices made by prospective buyers before even setting foot on a dealership lot. On that front, Stellantis is struggling tremendously. The American Customer Satisfaction Index’s annual automotive survey was released earlier this week and Stellantis’ 4 North American brands occupied the underside 4 spots within the rankings. The survey findings partly explain the corporate’s financial woes as Stellantis has racked up $2.7 billion in losses over the primary half of 2025. The ACSI surveyed 9,949 customers between July 2024…
John Keeble/Getty Images Being an airline pilot apparently is not as glamorous a occupation because it was once. One British Airways pilot decided to take matters into his own hands to point out off his job to members of the family when he selected to fly with the cockpit door open during a London-to-Latest York flight earlier this month. It’s protected to say that the door being unlocked and wide open caught the eye of passengers and other crew members. The pilot was quickly suspended once the plane touched down within the Big Apple, and the return flight to Heathrow…
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images From an economic standpoint, it is sensible for the federal government to grant eye-watering contracts to stimulate the economy since the eventual returns as tax revenue will dwarf the initial investment. Nonetheless, that argument is moot if the taxes aren’t collected on the opposite side. SpaceX has paid little to no federal income tax since its founding in 2022, despite receiving over $22 billion from Washington. Elon Musk’s private space company is profiting from a legal tax profit that was dramatically expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term. SpaceX’s tax advantage of selection is the web operating…
Denver International Airport When you spend slightly an excessive amount of time on the web, you’d imagine that the Freemasons or the Illuminati have a hub in the course of Colorado. Soon, they may have access to radioactive material. Denver International Airport is exploring the potential of constructing a small modular nuclear reactor on its expansive 53-square-mile site. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and airport CEO Phil Washington announced a $1.25 million feasibility study on Wednesday to see if the nuclear option is viable for satisfying DIA’s growing energy demand. The airport hopes to deploy the reactor underground on airport property…
Darren Heath Photographer/Getty Images While the Nürburgring is one of the vital recognizable race tracks on the planet, the legendary German venue has continually struggled to stay financially solvent. The Nürburgring is now dismantling Ring Racer, the problem-plagued roller coaster that was initially built to be the fastest on the earth. The coaster was a component of the ambitious 2009 expansion to attract tourists to the track year-round, which led to the track’s bankruptcy just just a few years later. The Nürburgring is tearing down the primary section before the launch, Motorsport-Total reports. Ring Racer was a $15 million Formula…
NTSB While it seems like Boeing has been the topic of an limitless stream of worrying quality control discoveries, it has been 18 months since a door plug blew out on a Boeing 737 Max at 14,830 feet over Portland, Oregon. The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on the incident on Tuesday. The agency didn’t pull punches in laying blame on the aerospace giant and in addition noted the 4 missing bolts that were never found, likely thrown away. Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was only six minutes into its flight after taking off from Portland International Airport when…
Apple The digital convenience that has conquered nearly every realm of commerce, from food delivery to automotive buying, made a large leap in its slow infiltration of presidency bureaucracy. Apple announced on Monday that a TSA-approved version of Digital ID will probably be available on Apple Wallet this fall. The passion for the brand new feature was paired with a wave of misinformation on how this identification might be utilized in practice. It must also be noted that Digital ID opens the opportunity of a TSA officer invading your privacy. The announcement in the course of the tech giant’s annual…
Brandon Bell/Getty Images The low-cost airline known for its canary-yellow planes finds itself fading in a coal mine as President Trump’s trade war splits the industrial plane market into American and in every single place else. Spirit Airlines revealed in a recent SEC filing that it’s considering cancelling its orders with European aviation giant Airbus as a consequence of the rising costs brought on by the recently imposed tariffs. The Florida-based airline can unwell afford the added cost after emerging from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March. Spirit finds itself in a transatlantic pickle since it operates a fleet of…