It was the hoagie heard around the world. Now the man who hurled it—and the footlong itself—are on trial. A jury in Washington D.C. started hearing Tuesday the case against the man who agrees he threw a footlong at a federal agent surged into Washington D.

The shrinking C-suite has also been a function of cost-cutting. In 2025, Southwest Airlines announced it would be eliminating 15 percent of corporate jobs in order to cut annual expenses by $300 million. This reduction included the elimination of 11 senior executive roles, 15 percent of Southwest’s senior management committee.