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(Background) Spirit Airlines jets sat on the tarmac as the company ceased operations at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 2, 2026. (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images) / U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks at the Semafor World Economy 2026 summit on April 17, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the Trump administration’s relief plans for Spirit Airlines customers and employees after it ceased operations overnight. Duffy reported at a Saturday morning press conference that Spirit did not have planes in the air, and warned customers against coming to the airport. Over the next several days, the company will “go through an orderly liquidation process.” In an X post on Saturday, Duffy said that four major U.S. airlines, “United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest, are all capping ticket prices specifically for Spirit customers who now nee...

THE ‘USS Abraham Lincoln’ conducts US blockade operations related to the Strait of Hormuz, last month. (photo credit: Handout Photo by the US Navy via Getty Images) A senior Iranian official said that fighting with the US was “likely” to resume after US President   Donald Trump   said he was dissatisfied with Tehran’s new proposal, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Iran’s Fars cited Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a senior figure in the Iranian military’s central command, as saying that “a renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely.” This comes after  Reuters  reported that an Iranian proposal rejected by Trump would open shipping in the  Strait of Hormuz  and end the US blockade of Iran while leaving talks on Tehran’s nuclear program for later, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Four weeks since the United States and Israel suspended their bombing campaign against Iran, no deal has been reached to end a war that has caused the bigg...