FedEx board member Steiner is picked to be next USPS postmaster general

(AP) — A former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors will take over control of the U.S. Postal Service. The chair of the service’s Board of Governors announced Friday that David Steiner will become the nation’s 76th postmaster general, pending his successful completion of ethics and security clearance processes. Steiner was CEO of Waste Management Inc. The announcement comes as President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have floated the idea of privatizing the nearly 250-year-old postal service. Postal unions have protested over potential privatization, job cuts and possibly ending the USPS’ universal service obligation.

Judge releases the Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by ICE

(AP) — A federal judge in Vermont has released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb. U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk on Friday pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote lsat year that criticized the school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza. Ozturk appeared at her bail hearing remotely from Louisiana, describing her growing asthma attacks in detention and her desire to finish her doctorate degree focusing on children and social media.

Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21. That’s according to a memo issued to the force on Friday. It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign to rid the military of diversity and equity programs, policies and instructional materials. And it follows similar efforts to remove hundreds of books from the libraries at the military academies. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the memo.

Air traffic controllers for Newark airport briefly lose radar access again

(AP) — The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks. The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar at the facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark airport went black for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. Friday. That’s similar to what happened on April 28. That first radar outage led to hundreds of flights being cancelled or delayed at the Newark airport in the past two weeks after the FAA slowed down traffic at the airport to ensure safety. U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer blamed the problems on the lack of proper air traffic controller staffing and modern technology.