Two fired Alaska Airlines flight attendants sued the carrier — and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union — Tuesday, claiming they were discriminated against for posting “biblically based” comments to a company message board.
A Chinese passenger jet veered off the runway during takeoff and caught fire on Thursday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and injuring more than 30 people.
The last two times the Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov had films playing at the Cannes Film Festival, he couldn't attend. He was under a travel ban in Russia as part of a conviction for fraud in what was widely protested as unwarranted repression of the arts in Russia. Last year, Serebrennikov, one of Russia's most celebrated directors of film and theater, appeared at a Cannes press conference by FaceTime.
The day's first caller begged for help to cross state lines and end her pregnancy. "Please," the woman from Texas said in her voicemail. "Anything would be greatly appreciated."
The White House on Monday announced sweeping changes to U.S. policy toward Cuba, easing several longstanding restrictions on travel, reinstating a dormant family reunification visa program, and removing restrictions on U.S. money entering the country.
In his first visit to the American Museum of Natural History, Morgan Guerin had a list. Not of things he wanted to check out, though - a list of things that he hated.
A North Dakota state senator who is resigning following a report about text messages he exchanged with an inmate ran up travel expenses the past decade that are more than 14 times what lawmakers bill state taxpayers on average, according to a review by The Associated Press.
German airline Lufthansa has apologized for refusing to let any members of a large group of Orthodox Jewish passengers onto a flight after some of them had refused to wear masks.
Now city data suggests that sightings are more frequent than they've been in a decade.
Three U.S. tourists have died at a resort in the Bahamas after falling ill, officials of the Atlantic island nation confirmed, and another was airlifted to a hospital for treatment.
Rescuers in Cuba's capital were searching rubble through the night to find more victims of an explosion that killed at least 22 people and injured dozens at a luxury hotel that once hosted dignitaries and celebrities, including Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Prosecutors in New York announced the repatriation Tuesday of $5 million worth of looted antiquities seized from billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt to Israel, where Steinhardt is well known as a patron of cultural institutions.
