Overview
- Leonardo DiCaprio was honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award for One Battle After Another but accepted via a prerecorded message played at the ceremony.
- Festival officials cited “unexpected travel disruptions and restricted airspace,” with DiCaprio unable to depart St. Barts as routes across the eastern Caribbean were curtailed.
- President Donald Trump said Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were taken into U.S. custody after overnight strikes, a development tied to the regional airspace shutdown.
- The Associated Press reported no airline flights were crossing Venezuelan airspace that day as major carriers canceled or rerouted hundreds of flights in the region.
- Palm Springs International Airport reported a separate FAA air traffic control issue that briefly imposed a ground stop in Southern California before departures slowly resumed with delays.