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Alaska Airlines announced seven new routes throughout the West Coast. Several of the new routes start in October with the remainder rolling out through January 2026. Fall and winter vacations just got easier to plan on the West Coast.  That’s thanks to Alaska Airlines, which will launch seven new routes to popular destinations across the Pacific Northwest and California starting in October, according to the carrier. The new routes include three flights from Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR), along with seasonal flights between San Diego and Idaho’s Sun Valley, and more. “We’re the only global airline based on the West Coast, and…

A march has begun from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas northward to the central part of the country, in protest of policies that make legal immigration status difficult to achieve.Wednesday’s march set out from the border city of Tapachula, near Guatemala, and nearly 300 migrants, asylum seekers and supporters took part.But the demonstration was overshadowed by the arrest one day earlier of one of its leaders, prominent immigration activist Luis Garcia Villagran.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed the arrest in her morning news conference on Wednesday. She alleged that Garcia Villagran had been detained for taking part in human trafficking.“That…

United Airlines is having major operational difficulties with a computer system that helps determine the weight and balance of a departing aircraft. The airline is preventing all of its departures from taking off. Flights already in the air are not affected by the computer problems. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — Hundreds of United Airlines flights were disrupted on Wednesday evening as the carrier grappled with a major computer system outage. “Due to a technology issue, we are holding United mainline flights at their departure airports,” the airline said in…

Sony LIV’s new Telugu web series, Mayasabha, opens with a familiar disclaimer: any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental. Yet it does not take long to draw parallels between its characters and the political giants who shaped undivided Andhra Pradesh. Echoes of NT Rama Rao, the actor-turned-leader; YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the doctor-turned-politician; and the current chief minister, N Chandrababu Naidu, and several others ripple throughout the storyline.Titled Rise of the Titans, the show’s first season is a sharp and dramatic commentary on the socio-political fabric of the State. Ambitious in scope and often gripping in execution, the series draws…

Here are the key events on day 1,260 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 7:Fighting Russian artillery shelling on a car belonging to Ukraine’s state emergency services killed three people, including an emergency worker, and injured four others in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol, the regional governor, Serhiy Lysak, said. Dozens of Russian drones attacked a gas pumping station in southern Ukraine, part of an LNG imports scheme from the United States and Azerbaijan, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said. Russia struck a gas facility in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as…

Barely a few months before the Bihar Assembly elections, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the implementation of a domicile policy in mass recruitment of teachers under the Teachers Recruitment Examination (TRE), providing over 85% reservation for it for natives of the state, which will start with the TRE-4 to be held later this year for 1.10 lakh jobs.On July 8, the NDA government had earmarked the existing 35% women reservation in government jobs for native Bihar women. This quota, in force since 2016, had earlier been open to women from other states as well. The government’s Tuesday move came a day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar directed the…

In 2024, the Biden Administration secured the release of all four men, and the State Department reduced its travel advisory to Level 2.Today, Chinese citizens who work for foreign companies, dual nationals, or even people of Chinese heritage and their family members may be at heightened risk of facing exit bans or arbitrary detention, experts say.“There have been cases where the Chinese government does tend to regard ethnic Chinese as Chinese, even if their citizen documents say otherwise,” says Gabriel Wildau, China political risk analyst at Teneo, a global CEO consulting and advisory firm. “We’ve had cases where … the…

In Africa’s most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation’s crumbling power grid cannot rely on it. And the situation isn’t improving. We go to Nigeria to see how people cope with the lack of access to power.(Image credit: Emmanuel Akinwotu)

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook react as U.S. Vice President JD Vance stands next to them on the day they present Apple’s announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook joined U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in US manufacturing by an additional $100 billion over the next four years.”This is a significant…

The rise in entourage costs of Bollywood actors and how it is starting to burden film producers has been a topic of discussion and contention for many months now. Recently, trade analyst Komal Nahta weighed in on the debate and shared that the massive entourages of actors only add “irritation value” to a film set. He went on to share his personal experience, where a big star’s costume designer charged Rs 20,000 just to fix the actor’s collar. Speaking to Faridoon Shahryar on his YouTube channel, he said, “Entourage doesn’t interfere in the script of the film or its making.…