By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
An American Eagle pilot was suspended after failing a blood-alcohol test as he prepared to fly on Friday from Minneapolis to New York City, authorities said.
Officials at Egypt's main international airport were reducing a backlog of delayed flights and trying to placate angry passengers on Sunday, after two days of strikes left planes grounded and some travelers stranded.
American Airlines argued before a federal bankruptcy judge Monday that its union contracts need to be changed to make the company financially stable.
It took Thomas W. Horton 26 years to reach the corner office, but the promotion came with a catch: His company was going into bankruptcy protection.
An iPhone 4S buyer has sued Apple for promising more than it delivered with automated "Siri" voice-activated assistant software built into the coveted smartphones.
American Airlines wants to cut labor costs by 20 percent and eliminate 12,000 to 14,000 jobs at the nation's third-biggest airline.
Applications for weekly unemployment benefits spiked last week, largely because companies let go of thousands of workers after the holiday season.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 26 points, or 0.2 percent, at 12,262 at noon Friday. The S&P 500 fell 1 point at 1,262. It's up just 0.3 percent for 2011. The Nasdaq rose 1 point to 2,615.
The parent company of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, seeking relief from crushing debt caused by high fuel prices and expensive labor contracts that its competitors shed years ago.
The parent company of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, seeking relief from crushing debt caused by high fuel prices and expensive labor contracts that its competitors shed years ago.
Even higher fares couldn't pull American Airlines out of its financial nosedive.
A third Nevada jury has found pharmaceutical companies liable and awarded $14 million to a couple in a lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak.
American Airlines is buying at least 460 new planes over the next five years in what it calls the biggest airline order in history. And in a victory for Airbus, it's splitting the work between the European plane maker and Boeing.
An unexpected jump in claims for unemployment benefits and plummeting oil prices drove stocks lower early Thursday.
Stocks were lower for a fourth straight day with banks and energy companies leading the decline. Worries about a slowing economy also continued to weigh on the broader market Monday.
