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Iowa election officials sued by 4 naturalized citizens who say their right to vote was harmed

Oct. 31, 2024 17:08 PM EDT

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

Oct. 15, 2024 14:24 PM EDT

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

Oct. 10, 2024 11:55 AM EDT

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

Sep. 26, 2024 23:56 PM EDT

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.,...