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cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport.

The crash happens Sunday, five people were killed in PR's Shondalee Stuster reports on

what national transportation safety board officials are saying. NTSB chair Jennifer Homides said the plane landed and then left the runway. The plane first hit a van owned by a cleaning company that services the airport. We learned that there were seven people inside. She said the van was torn apart.

The plane also hit an SUV, mangling the vehicle. But it's still an active recovery scene. NTSB says the plane's flight recorders have been recovered and that investigators are focusing on whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. Canada's retaliatory terrorist are now in effect.

They impose import taxes on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, including steel, aluminum,

and cheese, Canada says its terrorists match the taxes, President Trump imposed dollar for dollar and rate for rate.

Other countries are watching to see what happens.

A century ago, labor unions fought for eight hour days and a 40-hour work week today. They find themselves confronting AI. NPR's Andrea Shew reports it's a complicated for movement made up of all kinds of workers. With AI on the rise, labor leaders have been calling for guardrails. They want more transparency into how companies are using AI, and more say in what that's

going to mean for workers. At the same time, some building trade unions have welcomed the growth of AI, and specifically the boom in data centers. Don Slayman is with the international brotherhood of electrical workers, local 26. He says his members are flush with work.

We haven't seen this kind of growth for skilled tradespeople in generations. The union has called on its members to ask their elected officials to oppose any more torturiums on data centers. Local leaders have increasingly issued pauses on new construction, as community concerns have soared, Andrea Shew and PR news.

Food giant Campbell's company, cutting costs and raising prices and piercingly in a celigoc explains why. Kimbles has been one of the food companies, and pretty rough shape. It sales dropped eight percent in the latest quarter, especially on snacks. Its big brands include goldfish, kettle chips, melano cookies, and sniders pretzels.

Members of Titans, they're snacking budgets, and they're not reaching for the name brands as often. Campbell's forecasting of a drop in sales for the full year, sent its shares tumbling down.

The company is cutting costs by closing two snack plants, and laying off 13 percent

of its salary to workers. It's also slashing the dividend at pace to shareholders, and its raised prices up by four to five percent across nearly two thirds of its products, hoping for a financial boost even if people buy fewer of Campbell's offerings, alina seluch, and per news. This is in PR news.

It's not clear when the search for a small plane that's gone missing will resume. Police in the Bahamas say the search has been suspended because of bad weather. The US Coast Guard and Bahamas in authorities say the plane carrying four family members back home to Florida and went missing on Monday. The President Trump's push for control of Greenland, the European Union is promising

a stronger partnership, and hundreds of millions of euros in investment. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Greenland on Sunday for a two day visit saying Greenland's future is for its people and Denmark to decide. The long Labor Day weekend, Mark C. on official end of summer, and the start to school around the country impures to knocking meta visited in elementary school in Los Angeles.

At Mitchell Terena Street Elementary, kindergartners are starting the year with some big feelings.

That's why Mitchell Terena has a longstanding tradition of older and wiser fifth graders, welcoming

new kindergartners telemetry school. Fifth graders like Gerald Gomez Reina, who says part of his job is to help the new students with the transition by accessing emotional tools like breathing and quite safe place and garbage can with garbage can. And he said the idea is to make sure kindergartners start the year off hand in hand with the built-in friend, Jnaki Petha and Pyrenees Los Angeles.

You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that SPF rating on the bottom might not be exactly as advertised. So you can measure an SPF 50 at one lob and SPF 30 at another. On the Sunday story, is it time to update sunscreen guidance?

And listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the inner year app.

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