All three carriers said they were responding to a sharp drop in demand for the flights and Thursday’s U.S. State Department advisory telling Americans not to travel to China.
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Britain leaves European Union, leaps into the unknown
Thousands of enthusiastic Brexit supporters gather outside Britain’s Parliament to welcome the moment they’d longed for since the 2016 referendum.
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Weinstein rape accuser testifying in pivotal trial moment
The woman whose rape allegations are at the heart of the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein was testifying Friday.
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U.S. reports first case of person-to-person spread of coronavirus
The new case is the sixth reported in the United States.
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Super Bowl halftime has gone from marching bands to The Boss to Lady Gaga
Regardless of your musical tastes it seems the Super Bowl halftime show has gone there.
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Bloomberg, Trump spending millions on Super Bowl campaign ads
Each campaign is spending an estimated $10 million on 60 seconds of airtime.
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Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat
President Donald Trump has been conspicuously quiet about a big issue that has much of the globe on pins and needles.
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Democratic AGs sue to force U.S. to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
Before Virginia’s vote this week that made it the critical 38th state to approve the ERA, Nevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018 were the most recent to ratify the amendment.
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Weinstein excused lewd acts as a showbiz norm, accusers say
Prosecutors call two women as witnesses under a state law that allows testimony about so-called ‘prior bad acts.’
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One pastor’s fight against KKK becomes a movie that may aid his battle
A pastor in South Carolina wants to make a shrine of reconciliation out of a store that once sold racist merchandise and had a museum to the Ku Klux Klan.