The White House will announce on Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will drop its requirement that air passengers entering the US test negative for Covid-19, multiple American news outlets report. While the airline industry has lobbied aggressively for this move, the Biden administration says that tests are no longer needed “based on the science.” Air passengers entering... 

A plane operated by the low-cost Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed while on a domestic flight from Jakarta. It’s the first crash ever for Boeing’s new 737 MAX 8 model. “It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the Indonesian rescue agency, said, as cited by Reuters. The plane was on its way from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta to the city of... 

The US government has quietly changed the rules for opting out of the controversial TSA body scanners before flights. The new rules contains a clause which allows officers to insist travelers pass through the machines, when previously people were allowed to opt out and undergo a physical search instead. Many people choose the physical searches citing privacy concerns and a belief that the machine...