Southwest Airlines expects the flight chaos caused by the massive winter storm that battered the US to continue for at least another few days as the government questioned whether the airline is complying with its customer service plan.
“In all likelihood we’ll have another tough day tomorrow as we work our way out of this,” Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan said in an i…
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Southwest Airlines Co. asked a federal court to reject a request from its pilots to temporarily block the carrier from carrying out federally mandated coronavirus vaccinations, saying such an order would put the company’s business, employees and customers at risk.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association is seeking to stop the airline from moving ahead with the Nov. 24 deadline for…
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A decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been selling you solar panels. Now, they are probably selling you a financial product—likely a lease or a loan.
Mary Ann Jones, 83, didn’t realize this had happened to her until she received a call last year from GoodLeap, a financial technology company, saying she owed $52,564.28 for a solar panel l…
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For a writer-director-actor who’s had every chance to sit on top of the world, few have cultivated an aura of pathos like Ben Affleck. We’ve seen him staring mournfully at the roaring surf, a garish and probably-not-temporary tattoo splayed fully across his back, his flabby middle-aged middle ignominiously wrapped in a blue towel. Gazing into middle space during a promotional interv…
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An open letter with signatures from hundreds of the biggest names in tech, including Elon Musk, has urged the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs to pause the training of new super-powerful systems for six months, saying that recent advances in AI present “profound risks to society and humanity.”
The letter comes just two weeks after the public release of OpenA…
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On Dec. 1, a diverse set of leaders—including an indigenous activist fighting oil drilling, a car manufacturer, a fashion designer, and a shipping magnate—sat down together for dinner in Dubai for the same purpose: to speak about how they can better work together to address global climate change. At the dinner, which honored those on the first TIME100 Climate list, speakers emphasized the u…
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British model Kate Moss took to the stand Wednesday morning as a witness for Johnny Depp’s legal team in the defamation case against his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard.
During her short testimony over a video call, Moss refuted a rumor that Heard had mentioned about Depp pushing Moss down a flight of stairs while they dated in the 1990s.
“[Depp] never pushed me, kicked me o…
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Before Priscilla Presley became Priscilla Presley—the Queen of Graceland glamor icon known for her skyhigh beehive, sophisticated shift dresses, and dramatic cat eye—she was Priscilla Beaulieu, a fresh-faced teen sporting a simple ponytail.
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, out Nov. 3, traces Priscilla Presley’s transformation from ingénue into a figure who became synonym…
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The COVID era has brought us many new experiences: mask-wearing, remote schooling, sheltering in place. The majority of these have been onerous and dreary. It’s amazing how energy-sapping it is to just have to wait for something to be over. But now at last we can do a new activity! An activity that will help reduce the spread of COVID! An activity that takes us places we haven’t bee…
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