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Iowa sues Biden administration for citizenship status of over 2,000 registered voters
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials on Tuesday sued the Biden administration for access to information on the citizenship status of more than 2,000 registered voters they had questioned in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election. The complaint details a back and forth with...
Walmart's DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump's election victory
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart's sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups. ...
Iowa election officials sued by 4 naturalized citizens who say their right to vote was harmed
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four voters and a Hispanic civil rights group sued Iowa’s top election official, alleging he infringed upon their rights when he directed election workers to challenge some voters’ ballots in an attempt to keep ineligible noncitizens from illegally voting. ...
US fines Lufthansa $4 million for treatment of Orthodox Jewish passengers on a 2022 flight
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States fined German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its treatment of a group of Jewish passengers who were denied boarding a 2022 flight in Frankfurt after they had flown to Germany from New York. The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday that...
Delta's Q3 profit fell below $1 billion after global tech outage led to thousands of cancellations
Third-quarter earnings fell 26% at Delta Air Lines, which struggled to overcome a global technology outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations, and indications that growth in air travel is beginning to slow. Delta earned $971 million, down from $1.31 billion a year earlier....
Tropical Weather Latest: Helene makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in northwestern Florida
Fast-moving Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida's northwestern coast as a Category 4 storm Thursday evening, threatening a “catastrophic” storm surge as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S.,...
