Spirit Airlines cuts 200 jobs in bankruptcy cost-cutting scramble newsthirst.

A Spirit Airlines plane at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Leslie Josephs/CNBC Spirit Airlines is cutting about 200 jobs across the company as the struggling budget carrier seeks to reduce costs after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November. “These decisions were not made lightly, as we know they impact professional and personal lives,”…

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Russian diplomats accessed private area of UK parliament in security breach | UK news newsthirst.

Russian diplomats accessed a private area of parliament in a major security breach just before Christmas that has alarmed security officials and prompted private warnings from the speakers of both houses, the Guardian understands. The small group of diplomats joined a public tour of the Houses of Parliament and then broke off to enter a…

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Toyota Truck Unit Will Pay $1.6 Billion to Settle Emissions Fraud Case newsthirst.

Toyota Motors’ trucking unit has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $1.6 billion in civil and criminal penalties for fraudulently concealing excess emissions from diesel engines sold in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. For more than a decade, Hino Motors, a Toyota subsidiary, submitted false testing data to…

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Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios Sue Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Publicist newsthirst.

Justin Baldoni is continuing his legal crusade against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively — he and his production company just filed a massive lawsuit against Blake, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane … seeking hundreds of millions of dollars. Justin and his company, Wayfarer Studios, which produced “It Ends…

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