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Large and small U.S. airlines were criticized by a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday for charging to select seats on flights. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reported that between 2018 and 2023, American, Delta, United, Spirit, and Frontier brought in $12.4 billion in seating fees, including for seats with extra legroom and those in preferred locations closer to the front of the plane, or window or aisle seats. According to the report, United's revenue from seating fees reached $1.3 billion last year, surpassing revenue from checked bags for the first time since at least 2018. Standard economy tickets no longer require a ticket change fee, however the majority of major U.S. airlines have introduced fees for choosing more popular or spacious seats. In an effort to boost rev...

Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two of the biggest shopping events of the year, Amazon employees in more than 20 countries, including the US and the UK, are planning to stage rallies or go on strike, according to organizers. The initiative's organizers, the grassroots activist group Progressive International and the Switzerland-based labor federation UNI Global Union, say the goal of the planned Make Amazon Pay demonstrations is to hold Amazon responsible for labor violations, environmental damage, and threats to democracy. We are united in our demand that Amazon respect fundamental rights, treat its employees fairly, and cease undermining the safeguards that are in place to protect us all. Christy Hoffman, general secretary of the UNI Global Union, stated that Make Amazon Pay Day ...

Paul Bissonnette, a former NHL player, was hospitalized following an altercation that broke out at a restaurant in Arizona over the weekend, where he was beaten by seven individuals, according to him. In a video posted to Xon Monday, Bissonnette, a former Phoenix Coyotes player who now works as a hockey pundit and podcaster, said that the altercation started at Houston's, a Scottsdale eatery he often visits. On a Sunday evening, he was sitting in the dining room when he saw a small commotion taking place at the bar. A group of inebriated golfers were involved. Clearly, things kept getting worse," Bissonnette remarked. One of the guys kept getting in the manager's face and touching him after they asked him to leave, and that continued for perhaps thirty to forty-five seconds. And it was evi...

In a federal complaint, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield accused his father, James Mayfield,'s financial firm of not repaying roughly $12 million that was obtained without his consent. On Friday, the 29-year-old NFL player filed a $11.7 million civil case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. According to the lawsuit, between 2018 and 2021, Camwood Capital Management Group paid over $12 million to a company named Texas Contract Manufacturing Group "without his authorization, proper documentation, or adequate accounting of the transactions" from Mayfield and his wife. According to the lawsuit, Camwood reportedly spent the funds "however they desired," which may include paying for acquisitions or ordinary running costs. Plaintiffs were the main source o...

Red Sea Provincial Governor Amr Hanafi told Reuters that rescue crews were still looking for 13 missing persons after three dead were found Tuesday morning from a tourist boat that sank off the coast of Egypt's Red Sea. Thirteen crew members and thirty-one guests were on a multi-day diving vacation when the Sea Story overturned on Monday close to Sataya Reef. High waves hit it, and it sank in five to seven minutes. A Red Sea Governorate statement on Monday said that 16 people were thought to be trapped inside. No hospitalization was necessary for the twenty-eight survivors who were recovered with only minor injuries. Authorities were collaborating with embassies and consulates to give support and documentation, and survivors were being housed in a hotel in Marsa Alam. The yacht passed its ...

According to officials on Monday, more than 18,000 people have registered online to contest for federal judgeships and Supreme Court seats in Mexico's controversial new selection method. In the end, however, a random drawing will decide who is on the ballot. In September, the ruling party pushed through a constitutional amendment that would require all federal judges to run for office, doing away with the current system in which lawyers and court personnel mostly advance via the ranks. Numerous protests against the reforms have been organized by current court personnel and their allies, who claim that the changes are part of a ruling-party effort to undermine independent regulatory and monitoring organizations and erode checks and balances. Candidates for federal judgeships and Supreme Cou...

Although Sarah McBride is the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress, she is not the first trans politician to have a hostile fellow member forbid her from using the restroom of her choosing. When Vladimir Luxuria was elected to the Italian Parliament in 2006, she was temporarily prohibited from accessing the ladies' room. She expressed her sympathy for Delaware Democrat McBride. "They did that to me," Luxuria, 59, stated over the phone from her Rome home to NBC News. "What is happening to Sarah McBride is rank politics." Last week, Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina and a fervent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, introduced a resolution to forbid lawmakers and House staff from using single-sex facilities other than those that correspond to the...

In the process of making history, Moana 2 is sailing to theaters. In addition to its English version, the film is the first Disney animated film to be released in an Indigenous language. Moana 2 Reo M ori, which will have voiceovers in the native Polynesian language, will be a special release in New Zealand theaters on Thursday to coincide with the Wednesday worldwide debut. The translation of the title is "Moana 2 M ori language." Some people just call the language "te reo" or "reo M ori." In addition to Moana 2, Three years later, Reo M ori reunites Moana with Maui for a new sailing adventure after she has got an unexpected call from her navigational ancestors. Both the first and second translations include Tair whiti, one of the many M ori dialects, and the original Moana was also trans...

Human error was the cause of a 2-year-old western lowland gorilla's death in a Canadian zoo earlier this month, the zoo said. Colleen Baird, director of animal care, health, and welfare at the Calgary Zoo, said in a statement on Wednesday that Eyare, the female gorilla, had been wandering between various rooms in the zoo's gorilla enclosure on November 12 when a member of her care team triggered a hydraulic door. When the care team member unintentionally opened the incorrect door while attempting to remove Eyare from other gorillas for a private training session, the young gorilla was struck and suffered severe head injuries. Eyare passed away from her wounds even though the zoo's veterinary staff started life-saving procedures right away, according to Baird. A official inquiry into Eyare'...

FRAMINGHAM, MA (AP) During his nearly three decades in prison, Michael Sullivan suffered severe beatings in multiple prison attacks, lost his mother and four brothers, and saw his girlfriend move on with her life. All for a murder he denied for a long time. Sullivan, 64, received some justice earlier this month when a Massachusetts jury found him not guilty of Wilfred McGrath's 1986 murder and robbery. Despite state laws capping awards for unjust convictions at $1 million, he received $13 million. Although Sullivan's conviction was not assured by his evidence, the jury also discovered that a state police scientist had given a false statement throughout the trial. In recent years, the state has overturned a number of convictions, this one being the most recent. Speaking in his primary lawye...