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Drones Close Denmark’s Airspace for Second Time

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

44K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Sept. 25. Multiple drones flew over airports and a military base housing most of the country's fighter jets, with Denmark’s government calling the hybrid attack a threat to freedom and safety. Plus, the White House is planning for mass firings if there is a government shutdown next week. And, Delta is upgrading plane engines that are often behind toxic fumes leaking into the air supply on flights. But WSJ aviation reporter Ben Katz explains why the airline’s effort won’t entirely stop the risks. Caitlin McCabe hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Get out of the headlines and into real conversations happening inside global organizations with the Executive Insights podcast, brought to by AWS.

0:08.9

Listen in on the Executive Insights podcast, available on all major podcast platforms.

0:18.5

The Trump administration tells federal agencies to prepare for permanent mass firings if the government shuts down.

0:25.9

Plus, we look at how Delta Airlines is racing to address a surge of toxic fume events happening on planes.

0:31.9

The Airbus A320, which is the best-selling aircraft in the world today, is kind of driving this increase in incidents that we measured in our reporting.

0:42.2

And that's really the plane that Delta is trying to deal with,

0:45.1

trying to curb some of these fume events.

0:47.3

And senators question big tech companies over how they use H-1B visas.

0:52.2

It's Thursday, September 25th.

0:55.9

I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal,

1:01.7

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:10.0

We begin with Breaking News from Denmark, which has suffered a professional hybrid drone attack overnight.

1:16.3

Drones were observed over multiple airports late Wednesday, including a military airbase housing most of the country's F-16 and F-35 fighter jets.

1:20.7

It's the second time in less than a week that unmanned aircraft have disrupted air traffic

1:26.0

in the NATO country and follows Russian violations

1:29.0

of Estonian and Polish airspace in recent weeks. The Danish Minister of Defense said a professional

1:35.2

actor was behind the attack and that the drones were launched from Denmark's vicinity. He added that

1:40.9

there was currently no evidence linking the drone activity to Russia, but called

1:45.1

the action a danger to freedom and safety. The Danish government is now considering calling for

1:50.8

national security consultations under NATO's Article 4. U.S. lawmakers have less than a week to reach

1:59.8

a spending agreement before the government shuts down.

2:02.8

And the situation just got all the more complicated.

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