With airplane manufacturer Boeing under intense scrutiny for the better part of a decade, the Federal Aviation Administration has been working to implement safety reforms at the company. But not everybody is satisfied with how the agency is handling things. The FAA took major regulatory actions against Boeing following a slew of safety mishaps, including a recently proposed $3.1 million fine, but also announced it will be letting the company have more control in the near future. 

‘Stamp of approval’
The FAA has been “scaling back obstacles for Boeing to deliver some of its newly produced aircraft to customers — a hopeful sign for the plane maker’s recovery,” said The Wall Street Journal. This includes allowing Boeing to “perform final safety checks on its 737 Max jets,” which the FAA had previously prohibited the company from doing itself.

Boeing will be allowed to do the same with its 787 Dreamliner jets. These airworthiness certifications “serve as a stamp of approval affirming that each new plane is designed to approved specifications and is safe to fly,” said The New York Times. 

Boeing is clearly “winning more confidence from its regulator after years of safety and manufacturing crises,” said CNBC. The FAA’s decision to ease Boeing’s “regulatory burden is a sign that government officials are satisfied with the company’s progress,” said the Journal.

‘Too much leeway’
Not everyone is convinced that the FAA’s oversight is strict enough. Boeing “got into trouble in the first place because it was given too much leeway on certifying its own work and ended up deceiving authorities,” said Bloomberg. The FAA has said allowing Boeing to certify its own planes is necessary to free up federal regulators, but with a Trump administration “focused on shrinking the federal workforce and cutting regulation, there’s a danger this may again go too far.”

Critics have also suggested the FAA’s penalties to Boeing are not aggressive enough given the company’s wealth. Unless fines “rise to the level that forces the company to invest in real safety reforms,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in a letter to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, “the risks to the flying public will persist.”

Spanish-language superstar Bad Bunny’s announcement on Sunday that he will headline February’s Super Bowl halftime show has prompted celebration among fans and consternation from critics. The grumblings are in part related to past comments from the performer, born Benito Ocasio in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, about immigration and ICE. 

‘Just one date in the United States’
The Super Bowl announcement comes just days after the close of Bad Bunny’s 31-date “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” residency at San Juan, Puerto Rico’s José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum. And the halftime show is set to be bookended by a global tour in support of his new “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” album.

The previous shows conspicuously elided stops at any states because “f**king ICE could be outside” the venue, waiting to arrest concertgoers, Bad Bunny said in an interview with I-D magazine this month. “It’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.” He has also criticized immigration officials on his Instagram account for conducting raids in Puerto Rico “instead of leaving the people alone.”

Immigration concerns notwithstanding, “I think I’ll do just one date in the United States,” Bad Bunny said Sunday on X just before the NFL confirmed his halftime show. Fans “flooded the internet with excitement” over his scheduled performance, said Rolling Stone, with many “celebrating the power of having a Latino on one of the world’s biggest stages” in a “political era that has targeted Latinos.”

NFL is ‘self-destructing’
The NFL’s choice to tap Bad Bunny as its halftime headliner “didn’t exactly sit well” with some football fans, citing many who “didn’t appear to be eager” for the upcoming performance, said Fox News. By hiring a “massive Trump hater” with “no songs in English,” the NFL is “self-destructing year after year,” said conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson on X.

Knowing that including Bad Bunny is “likely to upset certain people,” the NFL is “playing the long game,” said USA Today. The sport is increasingly eyeing a global role, and Bad Bunny is a business-minded “investment on that international future.”

A raven calls out from a charred tree in Canada’s Jasper National Park. The photograph, taken by Maxime Légaré-Vézina after wildfires devastated the region last year, won the silver award for best portrait in the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year competition.
Maxime Legare-Vezina / Bird Photographer of the Year

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