Biden Admin Opens Investigation into Delta Air Lines After Canceling Thousands of Flights

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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Tuesday that the department would be opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines due to the company canceling thousands of flights since Friday.

Buttigieg noted in his announcement of the probe into Delta that the goal was to “ensure the airline is following the law and taking care of its passengers during continued widespread disruptions,” according to his post on X. FlightAware and travel-data provider CiriumMore have recorded more than 6,600 cancellations since the outage began, The Associated Press reported.

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Maricopa County Says Some Voting Locations Affected by Global Tech Outage

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The Maricopa County Elections Department announced Friday that some of its voting locations are experiencing outages because of the worldwide tech outage.

“Due to the global tech outage, Maricopa County Elections is also experiencing an outage at some voting locations,” the county department wrote in a post on X Friday morning. “Please visit Locations.Maricopa.Vote for the most up-to-date information about locations that are open and their hours of operations.”

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