Illinois Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin harshly criticized FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford for holding up a pay raise for air traffic controllers that Congress approved as part of legislation President Trump signed into law in April. The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act set aside $140 million to give controllers a…
Some U.S. military members who are itching to play a video game they’ve anticipated for over a decade can trade a commitment for several more years of their life in uniform for a few days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI. As an incentive to reenlist, a U.S. Army unit in Georgia is offering…
Rio de Janeiro — Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said Monday that it had suspended livestreams in Brazil after criticism that it failed to protect children and adolescents. The move came in the wake of a suicide case. Brazil’s government, under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the country’s Supreme…
Video gamers are in demand to help patrol the nation’s skies. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency’s recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a “game changer” for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA hired more than 2,000 video…
