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Hoping Southwest Airlines and other airlines are going to discount flights to woo travelers when the beleaguered Boeing 737 Max returns?Don't count on it – at least not when it comes to Southwest, executives said during the airline's earnings conference call Thursday."At this point, there's no notion of discounting Max flights,'' Southwest President Tom Nealon told reporters. "That's not in our consideration set at this point.''Nealon acknowledged that [...]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol.Rodney Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained Friday by The Associated Press from Mark Morgan, acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Scott has been a member of the Border Patrol for 27 years. He takes over the law enforcement agency at a critical time. The Border Patrol and its 19,000 agents have been under a [...]

NEW YORK — "Do the Right Thing" actress Rosie Perez testified Friday that fellow screen star Annabella Sciorra told her in the mid-1990s that Harvey Weinstein had raped her but that she couldn't go to the police because "he'd destroy me."Taking the stand at the former Hollywood mogul's rape trial, Perez said her friend Sciorra had told at some point in 1993, her voice shaking on the phone, that something had happened to her: "I think it was rape."Perez said she [...]

Influenza rarely gets the sort of attention that coronavirus has, even though flu has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter and killed 6,600 people. In a bad year, the flu kills up to 61,000 Americans.

BEIJING — China expanded its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims Friday as the outbreak cast a pall over Lunar New Year, the country's biggest, most festive holiday.The number of confirmed cases around the world climbed sharply to more than 850, with at least 26 deaths, all of them in China.Meanwhile, France announced two cases of the virus — the first [...]

The Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries stemming from an Iranian missile strike on U.S. troops in Iraq, nearly tripling the number initially reported as injured.Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said eight soldiers who had been treated in Germany were sent to the U.S. for treatment.Nine others were being evaluated in Germany, he said, while one soldier who was evacuated to Kuwait for treatment had returned to [...]

WASHINGTON — A recording of President Donald Trump calling for the firing of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during a private meeting that included indicted Rudy Giuliani associates was made public Friday morning while Democrats prepared to enter their final day of opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial."Get rid of her!" Trump appeared to say in the recording, which was reviewed and reported by ABC News. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out [...]

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.Attorneys for about two dozen men suing the church say in court filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is devoutly Catholic, [...]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed to stand with anti-abortion activists Friday as he became the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life, an annual gathering that is one of the movement's highest profile and most symbolic events."Today as President of the United States, I am truly proud to stand with you," he told a crowd of thousands braving the cold on the National Mall. "Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House. [...]

Members of the San Joaquin County bomb squad and technicians from Travis Air Force Base will be at a north Stockton home today and possibly into the weekend to go through the hundreds of potential military devices discovered there yesterday."Since there are so many, safety is the No.1 concern right now because the technicians have to go one by one through those devices to see if they’re live or not and that’s what’s going to take a long time,” Stockton [...]