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Ted Cruz s Senate colleagues had some fun at his expense on Wednesday, according to NBC News.
Photos of Cruz from his infamous Cancun trip were plastered around the Senate gym s locker room. Bienvenido de Nuevo, Ted! the color printouts for the prank read, or welcome back.
With so many former class presidents crammed into one place, Capitol Hill proved vulnerable to high-school hijinks on Wednesday morning.
After his infamous Cancun junket, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the subject of a prank in the locker room of the Senate gym midweek, Carol Lee and Leigh Ann Caldwell of NBC News reported.
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Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on Saturday.
United said it is temporarily removing those aircraft from service, and Boeing recommended grounding aircraft with that model engine until the Federal Aviation Administration decides how to proceed with inspections.
The announcements come a day after United Airlines Flight 328 had to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport after its right engine blew apart just after takeoff. Pieces of the casing of the engine, a Pratt & Whitney PW4000, rained down on suburban neighborhoods.
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