SXSW, which began as a music festival in Austin, Texas, in 1987, has expanded to a two-week event that now features three tracks of programming: music, film and interactive. Penske, which owns publications like Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter and events like the Golden Globes, first invested in the festival in 2021. At the…
The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday. The New York Times obtained a recording of the meeting. Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not publicly…
NEW DELHI: A man murdered his wife and attempted to pass it off as a suicide in southwest Delhi’s Mahipalpur. After the post-mortem found signs that she had been killed by strangulation, police interrogated the woman’s husband, who confessed to the crime, stating that he was drunk after attending a party and had an altercation…
“Tower, Southwest 2504, how’d that happen?” Those were the words of a US pilot seconds after he cancelled his plane’s landing attempt in order to avoid hitting a business jet at a Chicago airport. Just moments earlier, the business jet had entered the runway the pilot’s plane — Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 — was to…
Southwest Airlines on Monday announced plans to cut 1,750 jobs, the first round of broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history. The company said the cuts would mostly focus on corporate positions, accounting to about 15 percent of that work force. The layoffs will include 11 senior leaders with titles of vice president or higher,…
SAVANNAH: Police at a Georgia airport arrested an airline pilot on a DUI charge as he was making pre-flight checks aboard a Southwest Airlines flight with bloodshot eyes and reeking of what smelled like alcohol, according to a police report. Passengers had boarded the Southwest Airlines flight from Savannah to Chicago and were awaiting takeoff…