DALLAS (AP) ??" Southwest Airlines warned nearly 7,000 workers on Thursday that they could lose their jobs unless labor unions accept concessions to help the airline cope with a sharp drop in travel caused by the pandemic. Southwest is operating far fewer flights, and it asked unions in October it...

NEW YORK (AP) ??" Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga "The War Between the Tates" and the comedy of Americans abroad "Foreign Affairs," died Thursday at age 94. Lurie, a professor emerita at Cornell of...

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) ??" Pacific Gas & Electric's household customers will be hit with an average rate increase of 8% to help the once-bankrupt utility pay for improvements designed to reduce the risks that its outdated equipment will ignite deadly wildfires in its Northern California service 1...

WASHINGTON (AP) ??" A former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email during the Russia investigation "made a grievous mistake" but should be spared prison time and given probation instead, his attorneys said in a sentencing memorandum Thursday. Kevin Clinesmith admitted in August to an...

NEW YORK (AP) ??" There's theater on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights. More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's shuttered theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, an actor recently read his lines from a huge stage. But there was no applause. Instead, all that was a...