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Washington Post lays off 4% of workforce as turmoil engulfs paper

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The Washington Post is laying off around 4% of its workforce, the company announced on Tuesday — the latest blow to the newspaper that has seen steep financial losses as well as an exodus of top talent from a newsroom that has grown increasingly alienated from owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis.

The layoffs will impact fewer than 100 people throughout the newspaper’s business division, including its sales and marketing teams as well as information technology units, according to the publication.

News of the layoffs was first reported by the New York Times and the Status newsletter.

The Washington Post cut 4% of its work force, the newspaper announced on Tuesday. christianthiel.net – stock.adobe.com

When reached by The Post, a spokesperson for the Washington Post confirmed the Times report.

The cuts will not affect the newsroom, which reduced its headcount two years ago when the company eliminated 240 jobs.

“The Washington Post is continuing its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future and reach audiences where they are,” the statement from the newspaper read.

“Changes across our business functions are all in service of our greater goal to best position The Post for the future.”

Last year, Lewis told staffers that the paper lost $77 million in 2023 and that its digital subscriber base fell off considerably since 2020.

Since 2021, the Washington Post has seen a 14% decline in digital revenue and a 12% drop in total revenue, according to Poynter.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper, is trying to reverse steep financial losses. Getty Images for The New York Times

In 2020, the newspaper boasted 3 million digital subscribers. But by 2023, that number shrank to 2.5 million.

While the newspaper’s web site recorded 101 million unique monthly visitors in 2020, that number fell to 50 million in 2023.

The Washington Post reported operating profits of $246 million in 2018, which fell during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in office.

Bezos made the decision to block the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Getty Images

But the election of Joe Biden ushered in a dark era for the newspaper which attracted a large, predominantly liberal subscriber base as the publication positioned itself as adversarial to the Republican Trump.

Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder, has sought to change the perception of his newspaper by blocking the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris just weeks before the Nov. 5 election.

The decision angered Washington Post readers. As many as 250,000 subscribers reportedly canceled their memberships in anger.

Ashley Parker, a political reporter for the Washington Post, was poached by The Atlantic. The Washington Post via Getty Images
Josh Dawsey, a political investigative reporter, is reportedly leaving the newspaper. Getty Images for HBO

Two columnists — Michele Norris and Robert Kagan — resigned from the newspaper in protest while two others — Molly Roberts and David Hoffman — stepped down from the editorial board.

Last week, two of the Washington Post’s top political reporters — Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer — were poached by The Atlantic, which is owned by a group funded by billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs.

Josh Dawsey, another highly valued political investigative reporter, is set to leave the Washington Post and take up a position with the Wall Street Journal.

Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent, is said to be “mulling a transfer” or has “already decided to exit,” according to a report by Puck News.

Telnaes illustrated a cartoon mocking Bezos and others as subservient to President-elect Donald Trump. anntelnaes.substack
Ann Telnaes resigned in protest after her cartoon was spiked. Facebook/Ann Telnaes

Ann Telnaes, a longtime cartoonist with the Washington Post, announced that she quit the newspaper in protest over the decision to spike an illustration that mocked Bezos as subservient to Trump.

In June, Sally Buzbee, the executive editor, left the publication — as did managing editor Matea Gold.

The moves were part of a restructuring of the newsroom under Lewis, whose tenure has been a rocky one marred with staffer dissatisfaction over his leadership style.



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Justin Trudeau’s resignation proves that woke is broke

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Adieu to the wokest man to ever wear blackface.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberal Party is being walloped in the polls, announced Monday that he’s calling it quits.

“It’s time for the temperature to come down, for the people to have a fresh start in parliament, to be able to navigate through these complex times.” the beleaguered 53-year-old said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he’s calling it quits — a victim of his own progressive excesses. AP
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he’s calling it quits. AP

But Trudeau has been the very menace messing with the nation’s thermostat — cranking it up to stifling, unsustainable extremes.

Throughout his nearly decade-long tenure, he abandoned true liberalism to become the standard bearer for progressive excesses: an overzealous champion of identity politics, DEI, government overreach and censorship.

His immigration policies have opened borders to record-breaking floods of people from other countries — overwhelming government resources, creating a housing crisis where apartments in Toronto can cost more than even those in NYC, driving down the job market, and stretching the health care system to the brink.

Justin Trudeau, who stumbled over the “LBGTQ2+” acronym, marched in Toronto’s 2019 Pride parade. REUTERS

It’s also fueled widespread discontent among Canadians who feel like they have been left behind in favor of newcomers. Before a panicked Trudeau tried stemming the tide in the past few months, Indian immigration to Canada rose 326% between 2013 and 2023, according to the National Foundation for American Policy.

Not that he didn’t entertain us sensible southern neighbors, who marveled over his performative land acknowledgments, LBGT alphabet soups and atonement. He was always apologizing to some marginalized group for something.

And in the process, Trudeau became a parody. Like in 2021, when he stumbled over the nonsensical acronym “LGBTQ2+.”

Justin Trudeau, President Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose together at the G20 Summit in 2024. Indian immigration has exploded in Canada. Getty Images

“I will never apologize for standing up for LGDP, LGT, LBT,” he says in the hilarious clip. Hey, even he didn’t know what the hell any of it meant.

But the virtue-signaling poster boy, who worshiped cultural sensitivity above all else, also put up hall of fame-worthy blackface numbers. After three separate and very inconvenient photos emerged of him in blackface or brownface makeup — one from his high school talent show, another from a few years later, and one of him at an Arabian Nights party when he was 29 — he seemed to contract amnesia.

“I am wary of being definitive about this because of the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” Trudeau said.

Former Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Trudeau poses with his sons, Justin, Sacha and Michel, in a 1980 Christmas Card. Bettmann Archive

Who among us?

It was his 2000 eulogy for his father, former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, that turned the one-time teacher into his country’s great political hope. In breathy tones, he spoke about his dad taking him to the North Pole as a child and imparting wisdom about foundational liberal values.

“Having opinions that are different from those of another does not preclude one being deserving of respect as an individual,” he said in front of world leaders. “Because simple tolerance, mere tolerance is not enough. We need genuine and deep respect for each and every human being, notwithstanding their thought, their values, their origins. That’s what my father demanded of his sons.”

Years later, those words proved mere hot air.

In January 2022, truckers descended upon Ottawa for a “Freedom Convoy” to protest COVID vaccine mandates. Trudeau tried to freeze their bank accounts as punishment. Getty Images

Trudeau and his now-ex-wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, posed for Vogue in 2015 and the article quoted a Canadian reporter saying, “This is our Camelot.” Gag. Two years later, he covered Rolling Stone, which posed the question, “Why can’t he be our president?”

Thank the Lord for our northern border.

Trudeau was emboldened by the COVID pandemic, imposing draconian control measures.

Justin Trudeau married Sophie Gregoire in 2005. They split in 2023. REUTERS

Much of that came to a head in January 2022, when a “Freedom Convoy” of truckers descended upon Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates.

The PM did not hear them, nor did he respect their views. Instead, he demonized them, smeared them as racists despite there being thousands of protesters of all ethnicities.

He then used Canada’s Emergencies Act to freeze the truckers’ bank accounts. So much for tolerance.

Justin Trudeau has allegedly worn blackface at least three times, including in this 2001 photo taken at an Arabian Nights-themed school party.
It’s believed that Trudeau was in his late teens or early 20s when this was taken.

Ultimately, a federal judge said Trudeau’s actions were unjustified.

But the message was chilling: Dissent will be crushed with the full power of the government.

Canadians, like Americans, are tapped out and sick. They’re waking up and saying, No more.

(Maybe he could have earned some good will if a Canadian team ended a decades-long drought and brought home the Stanley Cup.)

Justin Trudeau is the embodiment of wokeness run amok — a movement that is, thankfully, moving out as Western countries like Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland and, yes, the US are shifting right. Good riddance.



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7 Most Expensive Cricket Bats Ever Sold

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The humble cricket bat, a simple combination of willow and string, holds a mythical status in the hearts of cricket fans. It’s the instrument that conjures up memories of audacious sixes, last-ball victories, and individual brilliance etched into cricketing folklore. But some bats transcend their on-field contributions, becoming coveted collectibles, fetching staggering sums at auctions, and symbolizing iconic moments in the sport’s history.

7 Most Expensive Cricket Bats Ever Sold

Here are the 7 most expensive cricket bats ever sold:

  1. Sir Donald Bradman’s 1934 Ashes Bat – Sold for 245,000 AUD (Approximately $174,250 USD) in December 2021

This bat holds the record for the most expensive cricket bat ever sold. It was used by the legendary Sir Donald Bradman during the 1934 Ashes series, where he scored a triple century and a double century. The bat was sold at an auction in December 2021 to a private buyer who agreed to keep it on display at the Bradman Museum in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia.

  1. MS Dhoni’s 2011 World Cup Final Bat – Sold for 1.05 crore INR (Approximately $150,000 USD) in 2011

This bat was used by MS Dhoni in the 2011 Cricket World Cup final, where he hit a six off the last ball to win the match for India. The bat was auctioned off for charity in 2011 and fetched a record price of 1.05 crore INR. The buyer was Rhiti Sports Management, which later gifted the bat to the Indian cricket team captain at the time, Virat Kohli.

  1. Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th Test Match Bat – Sold for 82 lakh INR (Approximately $115,000 USD) in 2013

This bat was used by Sachin Tendulkar in his 200th Test match, which was played against West Indies in Mumbai in 2013. The bat was auctioned off for charity after the match and fetched a price of 82 lakh INR. The buyer was an Indian businessman who later gifted the bat to the BCCI.

  1. Virat Kohli’s 2018 ODI Double Century Bat – Sold for 1.7 crore INR (Approximately $235,000 USD) in 2018

This bat was used by Virat Kohli when he scored a double century in an ODI match against South Africa in 2018. The bat was auctioned off for charity after the match and fetched a price of 1.7 crore INR. The buyer was the Anushka Sharma Foundation, which is named after Kohli’s wife.

  1. Sourav Ganguly’s 2002 NatWest Trophy Final Bat – Sold for 57 lakh INR (Approximately $80,000 USD) in 2002

This bat was used by Sourav Ganguly in the 2002 NatWest Trophy final, where he led India to a historic victory over England. The bat was auctioned off for charity after the match and fetched a price of 57 lakh INR. The buyer was an Indian businessman who later gifted the bat to the BCCI.

  1. Ricky Ponting’s 2003 World Cup Final Bat – Sold for 1.5 million AUD (Approximately $1,050,000 USD) in 2013

This bat was used by Ricky Ponting in the 2003 Cricket World Cup final, where he led Australia to victory over India. The bat was auctioned off for charity in 2013 and fetched a price of 1.5 million AUD. The buyer was a consortium of Australian businessmen who later gifted the bat to the Australian Cricket Museum.

  1. Jacques Kallis’s 2013 Retirement Bat – Sold for 625,000 ZAR (Approximately $55,000 USD) in 2013

This bat was used by Jacques Kallis in his last Test match for South Africa in 2013. The bat was auctioned off for charity after the match and fetched a price of 625,000 ZAR. The buyer was a South African businessman who later gifted the bat to the Cricket South Africa museum.

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Why Apple’s AI-driven reality distortion matters – Computerworld

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The idea behind this is that people reading those headlines will know that there could be a machine-generated error (as opposed to an error by humans) in the news they are perusing. The inference is, of course, that you should question everything you read to protect yourself against machine-generated error or human mistakes. 

Question everything: Human, or AI

The humans who generate news are up in arms, of course. They see the complaint as a cause celebre from which to make a stand against their own eventual replacement by machines. The UK National Union of Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the head of Meta’s Oversight Board (if that board still exists by the end of the week) have all pointed to these erroneous headlines to suggest Apple’s AI isn’t yet up to the task. (Though even Apple’s critics point out that part of the problem is that even under human control, public trust in news has already sunk to record lows.)

Those critics also argue that telling users that a news headline has been generated by AI doesn’t go far enough. They argue that it means readers must confirm what they read. “It just transfers the responsibility to users, who — in an already confusing information landscape — will be expected to check if information is true or not,” Vincent Berthier, head of RSF’s technology and journalism desk, told the BBC



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Dell dumps its PC brands to be more like Apple

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While simplicity seems to have been the ultimate goal, like many PC makers, Dell couldn’t help but muddy things up a bit. Within each new PC line are sub-tiers: Base, Plus and Premium. The XPS lineup will now live under the “Dell Premium” moniker, while other customers will have to figure out the difference between a “Dell Pro Plus” and “Dell Pro Premium” system.

Things get even more bonkers for Dell Pro Max systems, where you can also choose between Plus and Premium options. Doesn’t Pro Max already mean the best? The naming logic breaks down entirely for desktops. Just try to read the names Dell Pro Max Micro and Dell Pro Max Mini without having your brain self destruct.

Dell Pro 14 and 16

Dell Pro Premium 13 and 14. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)

Oddly, Dell doesn’t have any truly groundbreaking new hardware to celebrate its new naming scheme. The Dell Pro Premium 13 and 14 laptops look pretty sleek for business machines, but they still remind me more of Apple hardware than anything distinctly Dell. (It’s hard not to associate the curved opening notch with anything but a MacBook Pro.)

At 2.36 pounds, the Dell Pro Premium 13 is definitely one of the lightest commercial systems I’ve ever seen, so that’s a slight win. The company claims it gets 21.2 hours of battery life and offers 82 percent faster graphics rendering than Dell’s last premium enterprise-focused system. The larger Pro Premium 14 will also be the first commercial notebook with a tandem OLED screen, which is more power efficient and brighter than a typical OLED.

On the consumer side, the Dell 14 and 16 Plus (along with their 2-in-1 versions) look like typical mainstream Dell laptops. The Dell Premium systems, formerly XPS, look completely unchanged from last year. (I’ve heard that we likely won’t see any big changes for that lineup until next year.)

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The Dell Premium 14 (formerly XPS). (Sam Rutherford for Engadget)

As I wandered around Dell’s rebranding event, I got the sense that many Dell employees weren’t exactly thrilled with the new strategy. They typically described being a bit shocked about the news at first, especially those who devoted their lives to their specific Dell PC brand for years. Many eventually came around to the argument that simplicity will ultimately make life easier for consumers. Nobody, except for marketing leads, seemed genuinely excited about Dell’s bold new journey. (I’m keeping the Dell workers anonymous to avoid any potential repercussions, especially since I noticed PR workers hovering nearby as I grilled their colleagues.)

Dell doesn’t have the sort of brand loyalty that Apple does, so I doubt many regular consumers will miss the company’s old PC brands. But this is surely a sad day for XPS fans, a brand that started out with Dell’s premium desktops in the ’90s.

The Dell Pro 13 and 14 Premium will be available today (we still don’t have pricing details, unfortunately), while the Dell 14 and 16 Plus arrive on February 18 starting at $999. The Dell Pro Max 14 and 16 are set to arrive in March, and we’re still waiting on pricing information.



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Trump Humiliated As Mike Johnson Loses First Speaker Vote

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President-Elect Trump got directly involved in the Speaker of the House election, according to CNN’s Kristen Holmes:

Ahead of today’s vote, Trump tells me he’s confident in Mike Johnson’s success; confirmed he’s been in touch with R holdouts, incl Rep Chip Roy. “Chip Roy will do what’s right for the country,” Trump said in brief interview. Also said he’s not eyeing any one else for Speaker.

“I’m just saying, we had the greatest presidential election. We won the popular vote by millions of votes..it would be nice to cement the election w an election here..that would just be a big beautiful exclamation point.”

Johnson then promptly went out and lost the first ballot as Reps. Ralph Norman Thomas Massie voted against Johnson. Rep. Self (R-TX) voted for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL). Six other House Republicans didn’t vote when their names were first called.



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Jean-Marie Le Pen, Longtime Leader of France’s National Front, Dies at 96 | The Gateway Pundit

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Jean Marie Le-Pen has died at the age of 96.

A former paratrooper who fought in multiple conflicts, Le-Pen led France’s National Front from 1972 to 2011 and contested dozens of local and national elections.

In 2002, he made the run-off in France’s presidential election but was ultimately defeated handily by former president Jacques Chiraq.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Le Pen family said that he had been in a care facility for several weeks and passed away “surrounded by his loved ones.”

Le Pen’s daughter, Marine, took over from her father as party leader in 2011, cementing the family name in French political life.

Under her leadership, Marine rebranded the party as the National Rally and moderated its more extremist tendencies, turning it into one of the country’s most powerful political forces.

The National Rally paid tribute to their former leader on X, describing him as a “visionary” who had helped define France’s political landscape.

Their statement read:

Over six decades of active political struggle, he proved to be a visionary, introducing into public debate the major issues that now structure political life: demographics and its corollary, immigration; globalization and the decline of France; national sovereignty; and the risk of dissolution within the European Union.

For the National Rally, he will remain the one who, through the storms, held in his hands the flickering flame of the French Nation and who, with unwavering will and tenacity, made the national movement an autonomous, powerful, and free political family.

For the French, the man the people of the street readily called Jean-Marie will represent a courageous and talented politician who devoted his life to serving his homeland without faltering and tirelessly being the powerful and warm voice of the “voiceless.”

To some, he will also stand as a figure carved from granite—a “Menhir” who at times relished being controversial.

For the generations devoted to the nation, both present and future, he will be remembered as an intrepid and indomitable fighter in service of a proud and ambitious vision of France. For patriots across continents, whose dignity he defended tirelessly, he will remain an emblematic defender of the people.

Le Pen is survived by his three children, as well as his many grandchildren.

Among them is his granddaughter, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, who serves as a Member of the European Parliament for Eric Zemmour’s populist Reconquest party.




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Charlie Hebdo, 10 years on: Eyewitness remembers aftermath of attack

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As France marks 10 years since the terror attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, we speak to journalist and filmmaker Paul Moreira, who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre. Moreira’s production company had offices next door to those of Charlie Hebdo, and upon arriving at the building on January 7, 2015, he compared the scene to a war zone that he had witnessed in Iraq. Later, in a bid to better understand what goes on in the minds of jihadists more generally, he produced a documentary entitled “ISIS: Birth of a Monster”. It also focused on recruitment methods used by the Islamic State group. “I wanted to expose the tricks and the lies and the way they were manipulating young kids,” Moreira tells us.


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French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died | World News

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96.

Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002.

Despite losing in a landslide, he rewrote the parameters of French politics in a career spanning multiple decades, harnessing voter discontent over immigration and job security – heralding president-elect Donald Trump’s own rise.

Throughout his career he faced accusations of racism, and his controversial statements included Holocaust denial.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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After leading the then-National Front from 1972 to 2011, he was succeeded as party chief by his daughter, Marine Le Pen.

She has since run for the presidency three times and turned the party, now called the National Rally, into one of the country’s main political forces.

Jordan Bardella, current president of the National Rally, confirmed Le Pen’s death on social media.

He said: “Today I am thinking with sadness of his family, his loved ones, and of course of Marine whose mourning must be respected.”

In a statement, the National Rally paid tribute to Le Pen.

It highlighted his early years spent fighting in some of France’s colonial wars, including in Algeria, and said he was a politician who was “certainly unruly and sometimes turbulent”.

It went on to say he brought forward the issues which define modern political debate in France.

“For the National Rally, he will remain the one who, in the storms, held in his hands the small flickering flame of the French Nation,” it added.

President Emmanuel Macron also expressed his condolences in a statement, saying: “A historic figure of the far right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly seventy years, which is now a matter for history to judge.”

Jean-Marie Le Pen and  Marine Le Pen  in 2012.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen in 2012.
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A controversial career

Born in 1928, the son of a Breton fisherman, he was an intensely polarising figure known for his fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation.

He made Islam, and Muslim immigrants, his primary targets, blaming them for the economic and social woes of France.

His controversial statements, including Holocaust denial and his 1987 proposal to forcibly isolate people with AIDS in special facilities, led to multiple convictions and strained his political alliances, including with his own daughter.

Accusations of racism followed him, and he was tried, convicted and fined for contesting war crimes after declaring that Nazi gas chambers were “merely a detail” of World War Two history.

“I stand by this because I believe it is the truth,” he said in 2015 when asked if he regretted the comment.

He had 11 prior convictions, including for violence against a public official and antisemitic hate speech.

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His death comes as his daughter faces a potential prison term, and ban on running for political office, if convicted in an embezzling trial currently underway.

She was thousands of miles away in the French territory of Mayotte, inspecting the aftermath of Cyclone Chido at the time of her father’s death.

Le Pen himself was exempted from prosecution over health grounds in the high-profile trial.



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2 bodies found in JetBlue plane’s landing gear compartment at a Florida airport : NPR

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A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 takes off from the Tampa International Airport in Florida on May 15, 2014. Two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night, the airline said.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue aircraft at a South Florida airport, authorities said.

The bodies were located in the wheel well area on Monday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said in a statement to The Associated Press.

They were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance inspection, JetBlue said.

The aircraft had arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 11 p.m. from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

“At this time, the identities of the individuals and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation,” JetBlue’s statement said.

“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the airline added.

Paramedics declared both of them dead at the scene, the Broward County sheriff’s office said Tuesday. The agency’s homicide and crime scene units are investigating, it said. The individuals’ names were not immediately released.

It appears there was “no involvement of the flight crew or operation of the airplane,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement Tuesday morning. The agency was not investigating, it said.

It’s the second time over the past month that a body has been found in the wheel well of an airplane. In late December, a body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after it landed in Maui from Chicago.

The airline industry in recent months has also been dealing with unticketed passengers found in cabins.

In November, a Russian national who did not have a ticket boarded a Paris-bound Delta Air Lines flight in New York and was arrested when the plane touched down in France. She had somehow bypassed security to board the flight, authorities said.

Then on Christmas Eve, a passenger without a ticket boarded a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Honolulu. The passenger was discovered while the plane was taxiing for departure, Delta said at the time.



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