World Leaders Face Tough Budget Choices in 2025
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | A brief holiday travel snafu after a technical issue temporarily grounds all American Airlines flights. |
| 0:27.6 | Plus, U.S. Steel's potential takeover by Japan's Nippon Steel goes to President Biden for review |
| 0:33.7 | and why 2025 could spell more trouble for political incumbents contending with |
| 0:39.3 | tricky fiscal math around the world. In country after country, you're starting to have |
| 0:44.2 | worse budget fights. At the same time, voters are just unhappy with their political leadership. |
| 0:50.8 | This is something that both Europeans and Americans and really voters across the |
| 0:54.6 | industrialized world can agree on. It's Tuesday, December 24th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street |
| 1:00.1 | Journal, and here's today's edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories |
| 1:05.1 | moving your world today. American Airlines says its flights are resuming after a technical outage led it to halt them for about an hour this morning. |
| 1:20.6 | However, Journal Aviation reporter Alison Sider says that the outage, which affected systems critical to launching flights, hasn't resulted in mass cancellations. |
| 1:29.8 | So it seems like a big Christmas Eve crisis has kind of been averted. You know, it obviously |
| 1:34.2 | takes some time to kind of spool back up. There are a lot of flights that got off to a late start, |
| 1:38.0 | and some delays have been mounting as the airline works through it. But there's also a lot of |
| 1:42.4 | weather today. Dallas-Four Worth is seeing some |
| 1:44.8 | thunderstorms and some snow and icy conditions on the East Coast. People are probably a little bit |
| 1:50.8 | scarred by two Christmases ago when Southwest Airlines had kind of a big meltdown. But so far, |
| 1:56.2 | things seem to be more or less back on track today. American Airlines shares started at the day lower, but clawed back losses over the course |
| 2:03.6 | of the morning. |
| 2:05.2 | President Biden is set to decide the fate of Nippon Steel's plan to acquire U.S. Steel |
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