#Why Southwest Airlines is canceling so many flights

#Why Southwest Airlines is canceling so many flights

Why Southwest Airlines is canceling so many flights Southwest Airlines is grappling with a wave of cancellations and delays that are stranding holiday travelers, a situation the CEO says highlights its need to modernize its operation. While most carriers were plagued by winter storms over the holiday weekend, only Southwest was forced to cancel a…

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#Senate strikes deal on how to advance spending agreement

#Senate strikes deal on how to advance spending agreement

Senate strikes deal on how to advance spending agreement The Senate on Thursday struck a deal to advance to final passage the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that will fund the government through the end of fiscal 2023. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the deal Thursday morning. Senators will vote on 15 amendments,…

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#Greene and Boebert trade public barbs over McCarthy, ‘space lasers’

#Greene and Boebert trade public barbs over McCarthy, ‘space lasers’

Greene and Boebert trade public barbs over McCarthy, ‘space lasers’ Tension between conservative firebrand Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has spilled into public view, with the two trading barbs over House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) Speakership ambitions, controversial and fringe statements Greene has made and Boebert’s narrow reelection. A comment…

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#Pete Buttigieg took a vacation to Portugal as rail strike loomed

#Pete Buttigieg took a vacation to Portugal as rail strike loomed

“Pete Buttigieg took a vacation to Portugal as rail strike loomed” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg jetted off for a vacation to Portugal as government and union negotiators worked to avert a nationwide rail-worker strike earlier this year.  The secretary’s previously unknown “personal trip” to the city of Porto was taken just a week before Amtrak…

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