The fallout from the incident on the United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, has been a public relations disaster for the airline in the United States. There are now signs that the backlash against the airline is spreading further. In China, which has five cities served by United, anger over the United’s rough
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International, Travel and Food, USAA federal court in Texas has again ruled the state’s 2011 voter identification law intentionally discriminated against minorities. It’s the latest loss in the case for Texas — which has spent years unsuccessfully defending the law. But it also has implications for the Trump administration. In February, the new administration abruptly abandoned the crux of
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USACHICAGO — United Continental Holdings’ shares dropped nearly 4 percent Tuesday morning as backlash continued over videos of security officers dragging a passenger from his seat Sunday to make way for airline employees. Passengers were already onboard the United Express flight from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Louisville, Ky., on Sunday evening when the airline
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Travel and Food, USAWashington (dpa) – White House spokesman Sean Spicer was forced to make multiple apologies Tuesday after he apparently overlooked the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler’s use of gas chambers to commit genocide against Jews. The gaffe occurred as Spicer compared Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his own people to Hitler’s actions in
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Jewish History, USAPenn State President Eric Barron warned Tuesday that “the end of Greek life at Penn State” was a possibility if students continue to flout rules laid out by the university in the wake of a student’s death at a fraternity house in February. Nine of the university’s 82 fraternities and sororities violated at least one
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USADavid Dao, a Kentucky physician who touched off a national debate over airline overbooking policies this week when he was dragged off a United Airlines flight, was still recovering in the hospital Tuesday after suffering injuries from the incident, according to a Kentucky television station that spoke to him. Dao told WLKY-TV that he was
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Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against North Korea on Tuesday, writing on Twitter that the country “is looking for trouble” and encouraging North Korea’s neighbor China to “solve the problem.” Trump signed the message: “U.S.A.” In a second message, Trump said he told China’s President Xi Jinping during his visit to Florida
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International, USAA new law that was unanimously passed in the House of Representatives last week could become the first piece of legislation in the country to prohibit the act of student “lunch shaming”. Lunch shaming is considered the practice of shaming or humiliating school children who are behind on their meal fees. Examples of this practice
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe Vietnamese doctor who was thrust into the international spotlight this week after he was dragged from an overbooked United Airlines flight against his will was reportedly convicted of multiple felony drugs charges in 2004. Videos taken Sunday by other passengers showing Dr. David Dao being manhandled on a Kentucky-bound flight at O’Hare International Airport
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who was accused of having an affair with a former top aide and of using campaign funds for personal reasons, resigned Monday. Bentley, 72, pleaded guilty to those misdemeanors. “I can no longer allow my family, my dear friends, my dedicated staff and cabinet to be subjected to consequences that my
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USAAs Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders takes on a more public profile with numerous appearances and a scathing critique of President Donald Trump’s administration, he retained his position as the United States’ most popular senator, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Sanders lost out the Democratic nomination for president to former Secretary of State Hillary
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USABATH, ENGLAND (SDJW) — Students at the University of Bath in England and at the University of British Columbia in Canada have rejected anti- Israel resolutions calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Jewish State. StandWithUs UK, reacting to a Bath Student Union vote of 249 in favor and 343 opposed, commented: “This BDS
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education“Concentration camps” for LGBT people have been allegedly opened up in Chechnya where men have been tortured and killed because of their sexuality, Novaya Gazeta reported. The allegations came after a few eyewitnesses and survivors said in interviews with the Russian publication that they were arrested and detained at one of the secret prisons in
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InternationalNorth Korea is “ready for war” the foreign ministry said the day after the U.S. redeployed an aircraft carrier from the Western Pacific toward the Korean Peninsula. According to a statement reported by state media channel the North Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA), the government has promised “catastrophic consequences” to any further “reckless moves
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