Today is Saturday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2026. There are 243 days left in the year.

Spirit Airlines says it’s going out of business after 34 years and is ending operations immediately.

Trump says he's 'not satisfied' with Iran's proposal to end the war

Building trades unions have long been considered a voice of the American worker. But they now are intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America’s artificial intelligence economy. Unionized workers are employed on massive data center projects and scrambling to recruit new apprentices to feed demand. Unions are allies of tech giants and tech-friendly government officials, helping counter fierce opposition in communities and hostile legislation in Congress and legislatures. For their part, tech execs talk of needing to train hundreds of thousands more skilled workers and spend millions on training programs.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week attributed a multimillion-person drop in the number of participants receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the tamping down of fraud and an improved economy. It is true that SNAP beneficiaries decreased by nearly 4.3 million from January 2025 to January 2026, according to preliminary government data released by the Agriculture Department. However, experts say fraud detection and economic upturns are not the primary reasons. Instead they say the key drivers are new requirements mandated by a massive tax and spending cut bill Republicans pushed through Congress last summer.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in-person at clinics. Since the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed enforcement of abortion bans, prescriptions by mail has become a major way that abortions are provided — including to states where bans are in place.

A court has put on hold mailing prescriptions to mifepristone across the US, restricting abortion access.

A Trump administration task force has alleged discrimination against Christians during Joe Biden's presidency. The report claims Christians were targeted in areas such as education and tax law. Critics argue it lacks evidence and is biased toward conservative Christian causes. The 200-page report accuses the Biden administration of limiting Christians' ability to act according to their faith, especially on issues like abortion and gender. Critics say it misrepresents policy disagreements as persecution.

A federal judge in New York is protecting about 3,000 refugees from Yemen from being forced to leave the United States, saying the Temporary Protected Status that was repeatedly granted to them should be extended again. Judge Dale E. Ho in a written opinion Friday said those granted the status are ordinary, law-abiding people who the U.S. government had determined could face threats to their safety if they were returned to a country facing an ongoing armed conflict. He noted other instances in which courts have recently permitted those who have fled other countries under various circumstances to stay in the United States.

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