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Bottom corner icon The icon is a corner pointing downwards. AirAsia flight attendants in front of an AirAsia Airbus A320. Lim Huey Teng/Reuters Airline rating company Skytrax has released its list of the world’s best low-cost airlines for 2024.AirAsia has been named the world’s best low-cost airline for 15 consecutive years. Allegiant Air is the highest-ranking US airline on the list. AirAsia has been named the world’s best low-cost airline by travellers surveyed by travel industry rankings firm Skytrax.Skytrax published the results of its latest survey in June as part of the World Airline Awards 2024, which named Qatar Airways…
President Joe Biden appeared by phone on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, aiming to turn the tide of growing criticism from members of his own party and ease concerns about his age by offering more “improvised,” unscripted remarks. A defiant Biden vowed he wasn’t going anywhere and mocked Democrats who called for him to step down as part of the “elite.” Biden gave a confused response to a question about a letter calling on Democratic lawmakers to unite, including a slamming of former President Donald Trump, who was on the golf course after the debate. As Biden struggles with the…
In a recent advisory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared that gun violence in America is a public health crisis that requires immediate national recognition and action. According to the recommendations, firearm-related injuries will become the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States after 2020, surpassing motor vehicle accidents, cancer, and drug overdoses and poisonings. In 2022, a total of 48,204 people will die from firearm-related injuries, including suicides, homicides, and unintentional deaths. The recommendations on gun violence cite the work of several Northwestern professors, and Northwestern Now spoke with three of them about…
Sen. Mark Warner: We need ‘a conversation about the strongest path forward’ for 2024+2Frank Thorpe VProducer and off-air reporterSen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said today that Biden needs to “make his case more aggressively” to voters and that a discussion is needed about how best to proceed.”With so much at stake in the upcoming election, now is the time to discuss the strongest path forward,” Warner said in a statement this afternoon. “As these conversations continue, I believe the President owes it to the American people to make his case more vigorously and to listen directly to a broader range of…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. David Ellison is pitching the new Paramount as a technology company. Getty Images David Ellison says the new Paramount will be a “world-class media and technology company.”He’s the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, so he definitely has tech connections.But why does that make Paramount a technology company? And does it need to be? In finally acquiring Paramount, Hollywood producer David Ellison might think he’s buying a struggling movie studio and TV conglomerate.And you would be right!But Ellison says he’s getting much more than that with his multi-billion dollar…
Rather than waking up to a country dominated by the far right, France woke up on Monday to Italy, where only painstaking negotiations in parliament could eventually produce a viable coalition government.France voted no to Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally party in parliamentary elections, another sign of deep-rooted resistance to nationalist adventures. France elected a resurgent left party to the top of the political ladder, but it came nowhere close to giving it power, and the center of national politics has shifted from an all-powerful president to parliament.With the Paris Olympics due to open in three weeks and the…
The Orioles hired Catie Griggs as president of business operations on Monday, making the former Seattle Mariners executive the first woman to hold the title in franchise history.Griggs, 42, will oversee the business side of the ball club, a responsibility that was held by former team president and CEO John Angelos before he sold the team to an ownership group led by David Rubenstein in January.He resigned from the same position with the Mariners on Friday, citing a desire to move closer to his family on the East Coast. The North Carolina native and Dartmouth graduate spent three years in…
Beryl made landfall near the Texas city on Monday, causing problems for the heart of the US energy sector.The Texas energy industry is assessing the impact of Hurricane Beryl after the powerful storm slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, shutting down major shipping ports and hitting the oil refining and production sectors. Beryl made landfall near the coastal town of Matagorda, Texas, on Monday morning, packing maximum sustained winds of 129 km/h (80 mph) and causing problems for the heart of the nation’s energy sector. The storm strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall, but was downgraded to…
MOSCOW (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday on a two-day visit.This is the first time Russia has sent troops to Ukraine. Long-term relationships with partners And it is pushing Russia closer to India’s rival, China.Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin at his official residence outside Moscow and is due to meet at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Modi last visited Russia in 2019 to attend a forum in the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok and meet Putin. The two leaders are due to meet again in September 2022 at the Shanghai Cooperation…
Key Takeaways Air travel over the Fourth of July Independence Day weekend broke records, while the Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it screened more than 3 million people.More than 10 million people passed through TSA screening points between Wednesday and Sunday.As travel demand remains strong, several major U.S. airlines are due to release earnings reports later this month. Demand for air travel has remained high throughout the first half of the summer, with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reporting that more than 3 million people passed through TSA checkpoints on the Sunday after the Independence Day holiday. The figure surpassed…