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  • Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir targeting personal best at Valencia Marathon

    Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir targeting personal best at Valencia Marathon

    The world and Olympic marathon champion on LA28: “I want one last one”

    Recently, the 2022 Boston marathon winner found herself reflecting on her marathon journey and the personal development that began when she relocated to Kapsabet and chose…

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  • Hexatic phase melting observed in real-time in ultra-thin materials

    Hexatic phase melting observed in real-time in ultra-thin materials

    Researchers from the University of Vienna have observed what happens when ultra-thin materials melt in unprecedented detail. Their findings not only contradict existing beliefs about the process but could also help advance our understanding of…

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  • A Breakthrough Google Workspace Study

    A Breakthrough Google Workspace Study

    Highlights

    • 92% of young leaders want personalized AI that matches their tone, style, and brand voice.
    • Personalized AI increases interest in workplace AI tools for 90% of respondents.
    • 77% of rising professionals now design their own AI workflows,…

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  • Exclusive: Pilots’ union blocks Allegiant Air bid to get US residency for foreign hires​

    Exclusive: Pilots’ union blocks Allegiant Air bid to get US residency for foreign hires​

    • Union blocks wage certification in attempt to stop Allegiant from permanently hiring foreign pilots
    • Teamsters claims no pilot shortage, questions need for foreign residency applications
    • Pilots have been leaving Allegiant citing low pay, scheduling problems
    NEW YORK, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Allegiant Air’s (ALGT.O), opens new tab pilots’ union is blocking the airline’s attempt to secure permanent residency for dozens of foreign pilots from Chile, Australia and Singapore, leaving their immigration status – and the company’s staffing – in limbo.

    The union has refused to certify to the U.S. Department of Labor that the pilot positions, which start at about $50,000 a year, about half of what pilots at other regional airlines earn, meet “prevailing wage” standards. That certification is a crucial bureaucratic step and a requirement for the pilots’ green card applications.

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    Instead of hiring foreign pilots, the Teamsters Local 2118 has asked Allegiant to offer industry-standard compensation and improvements to scheduling to retain pilots who are leaving for rivals.
    Allegiant said it, like most U.S. carriers, faced significant workforce challenges when travel surged after the pandemic. The carrier has also struggled to retain pilots in part due to low pay levels. To stabilize staffing, the carrier expanded recruitment to hire pilots under employment-based visa programs.

    The union alleges the airline misrepresented its intentions to permanently hire these pilots and that there is no longer a shortage in the U.S., making the move to pursue permanent residency for the pilots unnecessary.

    “They had such a hard time in 2023 finding pilots, they actually started hiring visa pilots out of Chile on an H-1B1 because they promised them citizenship, a green card verbally to come fly in America for 50,000 bucks a year,” Gregory Unterseher, director of the Airline Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, told Reuters.

    “Because they’re having such a hard time keeping and maintaining pilots at such a low wage.”

    Allegiant said it currently employs approximately 62 pilots from Chile, Australia, and Singapore through H-1B1 and E-3 visa programs, or about 4% of its overall pilot count of 1,345.

    An Allegiant spokesperson said hiring pilots through visa programs is a small supplement to its broader workforce strategy, not a replacement for U.S. hires.

    The union declined to provide the letter needed for the permanent labor certification application submitted by the airline. A Labor Department-issued permanent labor certification allows employers to hire foreign workers to work permanently in the U.S.

    In a letter to pilots seen by Reuters, Allegiant wrote “as a result of the union’s failure to provide that information, we understand that the time to obtain your green card may be delayed.”

    “The company condemns the union’s decision to harm you by refusing to provide the updated letter requested by the Department of Labor,” the letter said.

    In a statement to Reuters, Allegiant said that “all of our hiring practices fully comply with federal labor laws, FAA regulations, and the collective bargaining agreements in place with our pilot union.”

    The status of many of the foreign pilots hangs in limbo with some instructed not to leave the country as President Donald Trump cracks down on foreign-born workers, the union said.

    “My heart goes out to them. They were told, I think recently that they shouldn’t even leave the country, right? Because they might not be able to get back in,” said Unterseher.

    ATTRITION ON THE RISE

    Attrition is on the rise at Allegiant, according to pilots, as some leave due to industry-low pay, frustrations with scheduling and a near-10-year-old labor contract.

    “First officers at Allegiant in their first year in most cases are making less than flight attendants at other major airlines or TSA agents,” one pilot who recently left Allegiant told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity.

    The carrier has expressed interest in expanding its operations, at one point discussing 1,400 more destinations it can add. But lack of staffing remains a sticky point, pilots told Reuters.

    “For the last 18 months, there was nowhere to go. Now that people have options, you are seeing people leaving. I’ve got five or six friends just in my little small group of people that I know that are leaving,” the pilot added.

    Doyinsola Oladipo in New York; Editing by David Gregorio

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  • Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day three – live | Ashes 2025-26

    Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day three – live | Ashes 2025-26

    Key events

    34th over: England 134-6 (Stokes 4, Jacks 4) Stokes pushes Boland into the covers for two; the rest of the over is a demonstration of the watertight forward defensive…

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  • The Starlab Space Station Team Just Keeps Growing

    The Starlab Space Station Team Just Keeps Growing

    It’s almost time to replace the ISS. Which space stocks should you be watching?

    RIP ISS. In 2030, NASA plans to terminate the International Space Station, hiring Elon Musk to push the station to a fiery death, out of orbit and down toward Earth to…

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  • Affected by US halt on immigration applications from 19 countries? Consider Canada’s Express Entry

    Affected by US halt on immigration applications from 19 countries? Consider Canada’s Express Entry

    On December 2, 2025, the Trump administration put an indefinite pause on the processing of immigration applications submitted by nationals from 19 countries deemed “high risk.” (more…)

  • Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix deal for Hollywood giant follows string of flops | Media

    Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix deal for Hollywood giant follows string of flops | Media

    It’s less than five years since David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, negotiated what looked like the deal of his career. Now as Netflix plans a landscape-changing takeover of Warner Bros, he’s in the middle of an even bigger one.

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  • ‘I climbed a building to get this shot’: Ahmad Mansour’s best phone picture | Photography

    ‘I climbed a building to get this shot’: Ahmad Mansour’s best phone picture | Photography

    Freelance photographer Ahmad Mansour was visiting Al Max, a fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, when he took this image on his mobile phone. Mansour was there with friends, documenting the area and the fishermen who resided there.

    “The…

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  • And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is… • The Register

    And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is… • The Register

    The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft is… open to debate.

    We asked The Register‘s nearest and dearest for thoughts on if, and when, peak Microsoft occurred. Up for grabs was one of Microsoft’s Ugly Christmas sweaters: the…

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