And we start the day's other headlines with the ongoing troubles at Boeing.

The plane maker reported a $6 billion loss for the latest quarter, even as striking union

workers vote on a new contract.

The company's CEO, Kelly Ortberg, announced plans today

to turn Boeing around by improving company culture and boosting airplane production. But that

can't be done until some 33,000 striking machinists returned to work after nearly six weeks on the picket line.

They're voting on a new contract today, with results expected tonight.

Portberg said today that he's hopeful about the outcome.

The vote is important.

It's more important in terms of our long term getting back to building airplanes,

delivering good airplanes.

And so we've worked really hard to find that overlap where we've got a deal that the employees

can feel good about and the company can be successful going forward.

The deal offers bonuses in a 35% wage increase over four years.

It stops short of restoring a pension plan that was frozen a decade ago.

The U.S. government is finding American Airlines $50 million for the carrier's mistreatment

of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs.

The transportation department says the company failed to provide assistance to passengers

with disabilities and damaged thousands of wheelchairs between 2019 and 2023. of authorities say that American will only need to pay half of the fine because it's

getting credit for money spent on improving its handling of wheelchairs and for

compensating those affected. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin touched down in Saudi Arabia today his second stop of his

latest visit to the Middle East.

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