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Should Mexico probe Amlo’s predecessors

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is asking Mexicans to decide whether his five predecessors should be investigated for alleged wrongdoing, part of an effort to retain his anti-graft credentials and rally his support base, even though the vote’s results are likely to be toothless. Supporters of that idea have placed posters around the country depicting fake mug shots of the ...

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Joe Biden struggles with the Delta variant

President Joe Biden is struggling with a surge in coronavirus cases, an impending wave of evictions and a spike in consumer prices that have left the White House looking unprepared and threaten to undermine months of more sure-handed work on the pandemic. Biden surprised Congress owith a last-minute plea to extend a moratorium on evictions, two days before the ban’s ...

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Grounded pilots swamp recruiters in fight for jobs

Bloomberg When UK-based Goose Recruitment kicked off a recent campaign to find 30 Boeing Co 737 cargo pilots for a client in Europe, 400 resumes poured in within 48 hours. Most of the applicants used to fly commercial passenger jets. “Pre-Covid, most airline pilots would look down their noses at flying cargo,” Goose’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Charman said in ...

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