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An interracial couple from Arizona has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines claiming they were taken into custody by law enforcement after the husband was falsely suspected of trafficking his wife by two airline employees and another passenger on their flight.The incident took place in September 2022, on an American flight from Phoenix to Miami. Anthony Williams, a black retired police officer, and his wife, Katsiarina Sasolka, who is white and a Russian national, were headed for their honeymoon, according to the federal lawsuit filed last week in the Southern District of Florida.In the lawsuit, the couple claims another passenger…

Florida orange juice. Whiskey from Tennessee. Kentucky Peanut Butter.Canada is preparing for an all-out trade war with its closest ally and one of its top ones trading partners and the list of US products that could be affected is long.Canadian officials are preparing a three-stage plan of retaliation and other trade restrictions against the United States, which will be implemented if President-elect Donald J. Trump carried out his threat to impose blanket tariffs of 25 percent on all Canadian goods imported into the United States.Canadian officials will wait until Mr. Trump is making his move – which he has said…

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will enter a new battleground in the culture wars, agreeing to decide whether the Constitution guarantees parents of public school students the right to exclude their children from classroom discussion of storybooks featuring LGBTQ characters. and issues.Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system, adopted the new curriculum in 2022. It included, its lawyers told the judges, “a handful of stories with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer characters for use in the curriculum of language-arts studies, along with the many books already in the curriculum they present heterosexual characters in traditional gender…

A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that effectively bans the wildly popular app TikTok in the United States starting Sunday. The ruling ended, at least for now, a legal battle involving national security, free speech and a cultural phenomenon that has forced millions of Americans to spend their time transfixed by their phone screens at all times.The decision, which forces the app to go dark if it remains under Chinese control, could be a fatal blow to TikTok’s US business. President-elect Donald J. Trump, who is due to be inaugurated the next day, has vowed to “save”…

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that thanks to the negotiations, Medicare prices for semaglutide products “will decrease significantly beginning in 2027.”That would also open the door to lower prices for competing obesity drugs like Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. Pharmacy benefit managers, who negotiate drug prices, will have more leverage to demand lower prices closer to what the government pays for semaglutide. If the government expanded coverage of obesity drugs, the amount Medicare would spend for each patient who took one of them would drop by about a third in 2027, the CBO predicted.That would slow the growth of government spending…

The cause of last month’s deadly plane crash in South Korea has yet to be determined, but it brought to light an issue little understood by the general public: how planes are maintained.Jeju Air, the airline that operated the flight that killed 179 people, said pre-flight checks had raised no concerns and that the jet, a Boeing 737-800 that was about 15 years old, had no history accidents.While there is no evidence that poor maintenance played a role in the crash, experts say the plane’s repair history, which includes work performed by maintenance companies in other countries, will be an…

January 17, 2025, 4:13 am ETPresident Joe Biden and his advisers have struggled for months to negotiate an end to the conflict in Gaza.Credit…Tierney L. Cross for The New York TimesPresident Biden said Thursday that in the days since the war in Gaza began, he has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent civilian deaths and address Palestinian concerns while maintaining steadfast United States support for Israel.Mr. Biden spoke with MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell in his last televised interview while in office, during which he also discussed his political career and the presidency. The interview, which aired Thursday night,…

Days before President-elect Donald J. Trump, China prepares for economic battle with the United States.He threatened a wide-ranging investigation into US chipmakers. It singled out an American retailer, accusing it of “improper conduct” that could lead to sanctions usually reserved for arms sellers. And he prepared to impose tariffs on imports of industrial plastics.The flurry of retaliatory gestures, all made this week, could have far-reaching implications for American companies. They join other measures by China in recent weeks with one goal: to alert the incoming Trump administration.”It’s a warning shot to the new administration that we won’t be left behind…

As the Supreme Court prepared on Friday to announce its landmark ruling on whether to uphold a law that would have effectively banned TikTok in the United States, the popular Chinese-owned app and its allies launched a last-minute push to fend off law enforcement.Representatives for the company have swarmed Capitol Hill in recent days, pressing lawmakers with TikTok’s case that the app, which is owned by ByteDance, will win a suspension from going dark on Sunday, when the law is scheduled to be introduced. in force, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. with the said efforts.Sen. Chuck…

UnitedHealth Group reported on Thursday that it earned less than expected this past quarter, citing higher medical costs and pressure on its insurance division at a time when the company is still reeling from the shock killing of a top executive last month.Revenue for UnitedHealth Group came in at $100.8 billion for the fourth quarter, below analysts’ expectations but still up 6.8% from the same quarter a year earlier. The company’s full-year revenue for 2024 rose to $400.3 billion. For UnitedHealthcare, the insurance division, full-year revenue rose to $298.2 billion, up 6% from 2023.The results were the company’s first since…