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President Trump speaks as an image of an F-47 fighter jet is displayed in the Oval Office in Washington on Friday.
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President Trump has announced that Boeing will build the U.S. Air Force’s next generation of fighter jets.
“They will have unprecedented power,” Trump said on Friday, adding that “America’s enemies will never see [them] coming.”
Trump is the 47th U.S. president and the jet is being called the F-47.
“The generals picked a title, and it’s a beautiful number,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office. “Nothing in the world comes even close to it.”
Known as the Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, the F-47 will join a legacy of high-performance jets, though little is known about its exact specifications, appearance or capabilities. Trump teased that the sixth-generation fighter aircraft would be “virtually unseeable” on radar.
Although details on the contract’s cost remain unclear, early estimates suggest development costs will exceed $20 billion, according to The Associated Press, while the final price tag would be in the hundreds of billions, The War Zone reported.
“We’ve given an order for a lot. We can’t tell you the price,” Trump said.
The announcement is a big win for Boeing, which has struggled to recover from a series of public relations crises and operational setbacks. The company’s reputation has taken a hit after 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019, a door plug blowout in 2024, and longstanding problems with its KC-46 refueling tanker program.
The F-47 will be built at a Boeing manufacturing space in St. Louis, according to St. Louis Public Radio.
Boeing’s stock rose by about 5% on Friday, shortly after Trump’s announcement.
Its largest competitor, Lockheed Martin, saw its shares drop nearly 7%.
Lockheed Martin produces the F-35 jet, which still forms the backbone of the Air Force’s air combat capabilities. But the F-35’s have faced criticism — notably from Trump ally Elon Musk, who has called the F-35 an “expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none.”
Musk has instead called on the U.S. Department of Defense to invest more in drone technology in lieu of stealth jets.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the new warplanes would send a strong message about America’s commitment to remaining a global leader in military aviation.
The new fighter jet, he said, “sends a very clear, direct message to our allies that we’re not going anywhere.”
Three people were killed and at least 16 people were injured during a shooting at a park Friday night in Las Cruces, N.M., according to Johana Bencomo, the mayor pro tem.
“Part of me wanted to write that this is something you never really think is going to happen in your city, but that actually feels deeply untrue,” Ms. Bencomo wrote.
The shooting happened around 10 p.m. on Friday near the parking lot at Young Park, the police said on social media.
Officers arrived and found multiple people with gunshot wounds. They were sent to hospitals, including the University Medical Center of El Paso in Texas.
Andrew Cummins, a spokesman for Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, said the center received six patients, all with gunshot wounds, and five of them were flown from the medical center to El Paso.
Witnesses said the shooting took place at a monthly gathering where drivers of modified sports cars show them off.
Around 200 people had gathered for the event, they said, which had a party-like atmosphere. They described seeing an altercation before shots rang out and people began to flee. At least one man had what looked like an assault-style weapon, witnesses said.
“They just started shooting and they just started running around everybody,” said Angel Legaspy, a 20-year-old whose parked car was hit by bullets. The shooting was indiscriminate, “like all over the place,” he said.
Manuel Urbina, who was visiting from Wyoming, came to the park to check out the city’s car scene. He said things were calm aside from the occasional squeal of a skidding car or the roar of its engine. Then he heard shots.
“People were running everywhere,” he said. “We all started to run, and then I saw a young man laid out on the ground.”
The police said they had not identified any suspects or possible motive.
“We’re still trying to identify who the shooter or shooters are,” Danny Trujillo, a public information officer for the city of Las Cruces, said early Saturday.
The police asked anyone who has video or images of the events, particularly any that show the shooting or people with firearms, to submit them.
While the circumstances of the shooting in Las Cruces remain unclear, New Mexico has struggled in recent years with violent crime.
The violent crime rate there was twice the national average in 2023, according to the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, has made combating crime a priority.
Las Cruces became a flashpoint in the state’s debate over crime in February 2024, when a police officer, Jonah Hernandez, was stabbed to death after responding to a trespassing call.
By August of 2024, violent crime in the city was up 46 percent compared to the same period in 2023.
Isabelle Taft and Michael Corkery contributed reporting.
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Heathrow airport reopened on Saturday morning following a complete shutdown caused by an electrical outage, but airlines warned of further disruption as they restarted operations.
Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s chief executive, defended the airport’s contingency planning and said he was “proud” of its response to the fire caused by an electrical outage.
The airport fully reopened for flights on Saturday morning and the first aeroplanes took off just after 6am.
Heathrow said it was “open and fully operational”, but airlines had cancelled 100 of Saturday’s flights by 11.30am as they began the logistical challenge of restarting their operations with planes, crews and passengers out of place and scattered across the world.
Some airline executives were privately frustrated at the airport’s messages that it had fully recovered, given that they were still cancelling flights and dealing with stranded passengers.
British Airways, by far the largest airline operator at Heathrow, said it expected to cancel about 15 per cent of its schedule to and from Heathrow on Saturday, which would be about 90 flights.
“To recover an operation of our size after such a significant incident is extremely complex . . . it is likely that all travelling customers will experience delays as we continue to navigate the challenges posed by Friday’s power outage at the airport,” the airline said.
Heathrow was closed in the early hours of Friday after a fire at a local electricity substation in west London caused a power outage at the airport.
The airport and National Grid both face intense scrutiny over how the failure of one of the three substations could lead to Heathrow’s closure for nearly 24 hours.
Willie Walsh, the former boss of BA and a long-standing critic of Heathrow, said there had been a “clear planning failure” by the airport.
Woldbye said the airport’s backup power supplies for its critical functions including the runway lights and control tower had kicked in, but that these were not designed to power the entire airport.
“We would need a separate standby power plant on the site . . . I don’t know of an airport that has that,” he told the BBC.
“We will of course look into this and say can we learn from this, do we need a different level of resilience if we cannot trust that the grid around us is working the way it should.”
National Grid on Saturday said it was taking steps to improve resilience on its network.
The FTSE 100 company owns and operates the North Hyde substation in Hayes, west London, which caught fire late on Thursday night, triggering questions about the vulnerability of the UK’s critical infrastructure.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated but National Grid said power had now been restored to all customers.
“Power supplies have been restored to all customers connected to our North Hyde substation, including Heathrow, allowing operations to resume at the airport. We are now implementing measures to help further improve the resilience levels of our network,” it said.
On Saturday morning at Heathrow, passengers noted minimal disruption.
Dana Pane, a passenger flying home to Bologna, had arrived at the airport six hours early “just in case” of disruption, but had not seen any.
“British Airways advised to get here early, so I did,” she said. “But honestly there has been very little issue.”
Heather Moore, who landed at Heathrow just after 7am from Vietnam, said she had seen the news on Friday and feared her flight would be cancelled.
“[But] everything has been fine in the end,” she said.
About 1,300 flights were cancelled on Friday and flights already in the air were either turned around to their original airport or diverted to other hubs around Europe.
That has left airlines facing a big challenge as they restart their schedules: many of their planes, pilots and cabin crew are in the wrong places, while many staff will also be unable to work because of strict rules on rest between flights.
“All these long-haul aircraft — particularly BA’s — have ended up at airports they were never supposed to be at. If there are no crews there to pick them up, then airlines will struggle to get their aircraft moving again as normal,” said John Strickland, an aviation consultant.
“Crew will also need a day or two’s rest before they can restart, and every additional day is extra cancellations running into the days ahead. It’s a domino effect.”
Heathrow said it has added an extra 50 take-off and landing slots to its schedule, which would enable a further 10,000 passengers to travel on Saturday, if airlines can find planes and crew for them.
London’s Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism command continued to lead enquiries into the fire at the substation, but on Friday evening the Met said they were not treating the incident as suspicious.
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