Like other airlines, American encouraged thousands of workers to quit last year when air travel collapsed during the pandemic, only to be caught short-staffed this year when travel recovered faster than expected.
Carol Semple
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Maine House Speaker Fecteau tests positive for COVID-19
Ryan Fecteau, a Biddeford Democrat, says he is vaccinated and is experiencing minimal symptoms.
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Hundreds of Massachusetts state workers suspended over vaccine order
The governor announced in August that executive branch workers will have to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or seek an exemption from the state, otherwise they’d risk being fired.
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FDA clears the way for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5-11
On Tuesday, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will make more detailed recommendations on which youngsters should get vaccinated, with a final decision by the agency’s director expected shortly afterward.
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U.S. intelligence agencies don’t expect to determine origins of COVID-19
A White House-ordered review does, however, say that analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon and that most agencies conclude it was not genetically engineered.
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Three years after Boston mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing: No charges, still questions
The lack of answers has only spurred claims by the crime boss’s family that the frail 89-year-old was ‘deliberately sent to his death’ at the penitentiary nicknamed ‘Misery Mountain.’
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Cuomo accused of forcible touching in criminal complaint
A lawyer for the ex-New York governor says he never assaulted anyone, and a newspaper quoted officials as saying the complaint had been issued ‘prematurely’ before a final decision had been made on prosecution.
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U.S. to pay $88 million to families of victims in racist massacre at S.C. church
A faulty background check allowed the killer to buy the gun he used in the 2015 mass shooting.
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Sudan’s military leader fires 6 diplomats, including envoy to U.S., who criticized coup
The general has dissolved the transitional government and detained many government officials and political leaders in a coup condemned by the U.S. and the West.
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Vaccine reluctance in Eastern Europe leads to painful COVID-19 cost
Russia on Thursday recorded its largest daily toll since the pandemic began and the Kremlin ordered people not to go to work until Nov. 7.