Current Events - March 2025

American boxer George Foreman is well-known for promoting the George Foreman Grill, a portable indoor grill that reduces fat due to an incline on the grilling surface.

The product sold more than 100 million units worldwide by 2011. In 1999, Foreman sold the commercial rights to the grill for $138 million.

Donatella Versace announced that she is stepping down as chief creative officer of Versace, ending her nearly 30-year-long stint at the Italian luxury fashion empire's helm.

Versace, 69, took on the role to lead the luxury fashion house after her brother and its founder, Gianni Versace, was fatally gunned down outside his Miami Beach mansion in 1997.

Southwest Airlines announced in March that it will start charging for checked bags for the first time in its history starting in May of 2025.

The airline has long-touted its "Bags Fly Free" slogan (even trademarking it) but its board has had a change of heart amid a lackluster outlook for the company. Southwest has cut routes and laid off 1,750 workers in an attempt to slash $1 billion in spending over the next three years. It will also cease its open seating concept as well.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, held a highly contentious bilateral meeting televised live in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. It was to discuss continued U.S. support for Ukraine and was expected to conclude with the signing of the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement; but the meeting ended abruptly without a clear resolution.

London’s Heathrow Airport was shut down almost all day on March 21st, after a nearby substation fire caused a massive power outage. The shutdown was unprecedented for one of the busiest airports in the world, and experts were shocked that such a vital hub could be wiped out.