Ahead of Labor Day, where US airlines rank on reliability this year
Passenger complaints have soared as airlines canceled and delayed flights this year, but reliability has varied between airlines. The Department of Transportation (DOT) released its latest air travel consumer report late last month, noting that roughly 24 percent of commercial flights between destinations in the United States did not arrive on time in the first half of the year. The figure is a 52 percent jump from the same period last year, although carriers operated
Read MoreBiden to hecklers at Philadelphia primetime speech: ‘They’re entitled to be outrageous’
President Biden on Thursday responded to the hecklers during his prime-time speech in Philadelphia, saying that a democracy allows them to protest. “They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy,” the president said in the middle of his remarks. Protesters yelled from outside of the Independence National Historical Park: “Let’s go, Brandon” and “F Joe Biden.” The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” quickly became a political slogan adopted former President Trump’s base after a TV commentator mistakenly interpreted a crowd chanting of “f--- Joe Biden” as “Let’s Go Brandon,
Read MoreBiden: Trump’s influence on Republicans ‘a threat to this country’
President Biden on Thursday warned that former President Trump and Republicans aligned with him pose “a threat to this country,” in a political primetime speech that frequently referred to his predecessor and some of his GOP supporters as a danger to democracy. Biden tied Trump and other so-called “MAGA Republicans” to corrosive ideas like casting doubt on election results, spreading conspiracy theories and attacking law enforcement. "As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault," Biden said in an address from Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “Too
Read MoreCHIPS won’t be enough; America will need more to stave off China’s technological challenge
On Aug. 9, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act. The bill provides $52 billion to support semiconductor manufacturing through subsidies and tax credits while providing $200 billion to support scientific research in emerging technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The bill is the final product in a long line of negotiations designed to beef up the United States' manufacturing
Read MoreMcCarthy calls on Biden to apologize for ‘semi-fascism’ remark
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called on President Biden to use a prime-time speech to apologize for a remark calling "MAGA" philosophy “semi-fascism.” “President Biden has chosen to divide, demean and disparage his fellow Americans. Why? Simply because they disagree with his policies. That is not leadership,” McCarthy said in a prebuttal speech to Biden's planned address from the president's hometown of Scranton, Pa., Thursday evening. “When the President speaks tonight at Independence Hall, the first lines out of his mouth [should] be to apologize for
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