Month: May 2025

U.S. travel is down in 2025, to the point where airlines are having to regroup and cancel flights that were once scheduled to take off this year. While multiple U.S. airlines have expressed their concerns about having to lower the number of domestic flights available for the upcoming summer season, it’s not just domestic airlines.

Over the past few months, both tourist and business travel from Canada to the U.S. have fallen. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at the U.S. and Canada border decreased by 12.5% in February and 18% in March, per The Street.

Now, Air Canada is cutting down on San Francisco routes, and this follows earlier cuts to Washington and Miami. According to The Street, Air Canada “has already reduced its flight schedule to the U.S. amid lower demand,” with affected routes including “flights to Washington, Houston and Miami from Vancouver International Airport.”

“If we can de-risk this a little bit and move and be a bit proactive and move capacity into other sectors [where] we see strength, I think that’s the right move right now in this context,” Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s executive vice presidency, revenue and network planning and president of cargo, told investors in March, per The Street.

Canadian airline WestJet has also canceled the start of a new, non-stop flight between Austin and Vancouver, due to a “downward shift in demand” for travel going between the United States and Canada, according to Open Jaw. The YVR-AUS route was scheduled to start May 11 and, according to Texas television station KXAN reports.

A WestJet spokesperson told KXAN, “Due to a downward shift in demand for U.S. travel, WestJet has made the difficult decision to suspend scheduled direct service between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Austin, Texas.”

WestJet added that they will “review opportunities” to offer service on the Vancouver-Austin route in the future.

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LeBron James was asked point-blank whether he is planning to retire.

James responded to the retirement question after the Los Angeles Lakers lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs on April 30, 2025.

“I don’t know,” James told reporters, according to ESPN. “I don’t have an answer to that. Something I’ll sit down with my family, my wife and my support group and kind of just talk through it and see what happens. And just have a conversation with myself on how long I want to continue to play.”

James was asked, “How much longer he planned to play before retiring,” ESPN reported.

“I don’t know the answer to that right now, to be honest. So we’ll see,” he added.

According to ESPN, the season didn’t end well for James. Not only did the Lakers lose, but he “limped out” of the arena, “his left leg swollen from a knee-to-knee collision,” the site reported.

James could return to the Lakers next year via a player option worth $52.6 million, The Sporting News reported. He would become a free agent if he doesn’t opt in by June 29, according to that site.

According to DraftKings Network, James made it clear that he wanted to play with his son Bronny, but now that he’s accomplished that, many are wondering whether he will finally retire.

James has played “a whopping 71,063 career minutes, ” including the postseason, according to Draft Kings.

“Just continuing to play, I don’t know where I’m at,” James told ESPN. “That’s what that is. Not coming back to play here. Just playing, period.”

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On April 30, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs took the field at PNC Park for a regular season match up. During the seventh inning, a fan sitting in the outfield bleachers tumbled from his seat onto the field. According to TMZ, the fall was about 20 feet.

In terrifying video shared by fans on social media, a man can be seen flipping over a few times before landing on the warning track. Within minutes, emergency personnel surrounded the man, whose body laid still on the ground. He was placed on a stretcher and transported to a nearby hospital. Both teams looked on in complete shock.

Fans have reacted to the videos on social media.

“That dude #launched up. At one point has his foot on the railing it appears, as if bracing his body weight for a jump onto the field. Maybe was leaning over, or extra excited and slipped — but all of it looks extremely irregular. Prayers with him. All the way, regardless,” one person commented on a the video shared from the game.

“I’ve seen people fall, that didn’t look like a fall…dude looked like he was ejected from his seat,” someone else said.

Pirates fan falls pic.twitter.com/sgppriM24b

— Bobby K (@Bobbk_) May 1, 2025

In a close up shot, the man lay still on a stretcher with blood on his face and his eyes closed.

“Tonight, during the seventh inning of the game at PNC Park, an adult male fell from the right field bleachers onto the field of play,” the Pirates said in a statement posted on X. “Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and other PNC Park personnel reacted and responded immediately and administered care. He was transported to Allegheny General Hospital. No further information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family,” the team’s official statement continued. 

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Apple’s earnings report on May 1, 2025, is being closely watched by nervous investors.

MarketWatch noted that Apple usually announces how much cash it will give back to shareholders in its second-quarter earnings report.

Other major companies announcing earnings reports on May 1 are Amazon, Mastercard, McDonald’s, and CVS Health, according to Yahoo Finance.

Investors will be scrutinizing the companies’ statements on tariff impact, in particular.

According to Yahoo Finance, investors expect the earnings call for Apple’s second quarter to focus on “supply chain” issues due to tariffs.

This has been a “challenging quarter for the company as it faces headwinds from tariffs and mounting competition from China,” Yahoo Finance reported.

AI is also a concern, according to Barrons, which reported that analysts surveyed by FactSet expect Apple to post “adjusted earnings of $1.62 a share on revenue of $94.4 billion. That would be an increase from last year’s earnings of $1.53 a share on revenue of $90.8 billion.”

Apple previously announced that it may shift production of iPhones from China to India by 2026, according to Reuters.

Apple “will be reporting its Q2 2025 earnings on May 1,” around 5 p.m. Eastern time in a ” standard analyst and investor conference call,” according to Apple Insider.

As tariffs hit, Apple airlifted 600 tons of iPhones from India to the U.S., Reuters reported.

According to MarketWatch, the stock price will be closely watched to see if it stays “over its critical threshold of $200.”

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “has expressed a desire to see phones made domestically,” but investors don’t believe that’s “viable” for Apple, MarketWatch reported. How Apple responds to such concerns could dominate reaction to the May 1 earnings call.

A series of CEOS in recent weeks, including the CEOS of major retailers like Walmart and Target and the makers of household products, cars, soda, and other items have raised concern about the looming impact of tariffs.

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