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Home » AIRLINE NEWS » Southwest and Alaska Airlines Make Bold Moves with New Services and Loyalty Programs Published on August 23, 2025This week, Southwest Airlines unveiled a significant shift in its approach to customer offerings, introducing vacation packages and adjusting its routes, including cuts to some Bay Area flights. Southwest is moving away from just offering flights, now selling complete travel packages that bundle airfare, hotel stays, rental cars, and ground transportation. This new initiative, dubbed Getaways by Southwest, provides travelers with more flexibility and added perks such as free checked bags and extra loyalty points. Along with these…
The explosion at Smitty’s Supply oil plant in Roseland, Louisiana, has prompted an evacuation emergency throughout the town, including a nearby elementary school. Source link
A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from government websites after President Donald Trump began his second term.The https://www.reginfo.gov/public/ website went offline at the end of last week and was partially restored this week. Data was missing after Aug. 1, according to dataindex,us, a collective of data scientists and advocates who monitor changes in federal data sets. As of Thursday, the…
As data becomes more abundant and information systems grow in complexity, stakeholders need solutions that reveal quality insights. Applying emerging technologies to the geospatial domain offers a unique opportunity to create transformative user experiences and intuitive workstreams for users and organizations to deliver on their missions and responsibilities. In this post, we explore how you can integrate existing systems with Amazon Bedrock to create new workflows to unlock efficiencies insights. This integration can benefit technical, nontechnical, and leadership roles alike. Introduction to geospatial data Geospatial data is associated with a position relative to Earth (latitude, longitude, altitude). Numerical and structured…
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted the Justice Department’s request to lift Boston-based U.S. District Judge William Young’s decision in June that the grant terminations violated federal law, while a legal challenge brought by researchers and 16 U.S. states plays out in a lower court. In a brief order, the majority suggested the challenge to the terminations…
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate gave final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map early Saturday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It has five new districts that would favor Republicans.Abbott, a Republican, is expected to quickly sign it into law, though Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court.The effort by Trump and Texas’ Republican-majority Legislature prompted state Democrats to hold a two-week walkout and kicked off a wave of redistricting efforts…
After a California resident tested positive for the plague, Dr. Alok Patel breaks down what to know about the bacterial infection, which dates back to the 1300s. Source link
BANGKOK — China released new interim measures Friday tightening controls on mining and processing of rare earths that are used in many high-tech products including electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets. The rules released Friday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology apply both to rare earths originating in China and those that are sent to China for refining. They require companies to comply with quotas for various minerals. Companies must have government approval to deal with rare earths and must accurately report the amount of rare earths products being handled. Violators will face legal penalties and also have…
HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the world’s most active volcanoes. The north vent at the summit crater began continuously spattering in the morning, and then lava overflowed a few hours later. The vent started shooting lava fountains in the afternoon. The eruption was contained within the summit crater, and no homes were threatened. A few lucky residents and…
A mandatory evacuation has been issued following an explosion at a plant in Louisiana on Friday.The incident occurred at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturer located in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, local officials said. A large plume of smoke could be seen following the explosion.In this screen grab from a video, flames rise high into the sky at the scene of the explosion in Roseland, LA., on Aug. 22, 2025.Lauren Hawkins/WBRZThe explosion was reported shortly before 1 p.m., according to Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller.The Tangipahoa Parish government shortly ordered a mandatory evacuation for those in the immediate area, that then…