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American Airlines Cancels Hundreds of Weekend Flights

American Airlines Cancels Hundreds of Weekend Flights

DALLAS (AP) – Flight cancellations are skyrocketing at American Airlines. The airline has canceled more than 900 flights on Sunday, or one-third of its schedule for the day. That brings American’s three-day total to more than 1,800 canceled flights. The airline is blaming staffing shortages and high winds that at times shut down its busiest…MORE

SWA Pilot Under Fire for ‘Let’s go Brandon’ Comment

SWA Pilot Under Fire for ‘Let’s go Brandon’ Comment

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is dealing is conducting an internal investigation over one of its pilot’s alleged ‘Let’s go Brandon’ comment over the public address system during a flight. The phase has grown in popularity on the right as an insult to President Biden. The line has become conservative code for something far…MORE

Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions

Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the law, which…MORE

Patterson out as Head Football Coach at TCU

Patterson out as Head Football Coach at TCU

FT. WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – In a written statement TCU has confirmed the university has parted ways with longtime Head Football Coach Gary Patterson. The statement said that TCU Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Jeremiah Donati and Chancellor Boschini met with Patterson on Sunday and mutually agreed that the time had come for a “new voice and…MORE

Lawsuit Adds To Highway Encounter Allegations

Lawsuit Adds To Highway Encounter Allegations

San Marcos (AP) – An updated federal lawsuit alleges that police officials in San Marcos refused to provide an escort for a Joe Biden campaign bus when it was surrounded by supporters of then-President Donald Trump on a Texas interstate in October 2020. The updated lawsuit, filed Friday, included transcribed 9-1-1 audio recordings. The Texas…MORE