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Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines low flight over Oklahoma City suburbs

[ad_1] DALLAS -- Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines jet that triggered a low-altitude alert as it prepared to land in Oklahoma City but was still nine miles from the airport.The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that an air traffic controller notified the Southwest pilots after an automated warning sounded around 12:05 a.m. Wednesday morning. According to data from Flightradar24, the plane descended to about 525 feet above the
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Snapchat Inc. to pay $15 million to settle discrimination and harassment lawsuit in California

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO -- Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency that claimed the company discriminated against female employees, failed to prevent workplace sexual harassment and retaliated against women who complained. The settlement with Snapchat Inc., which owns the popular disappearing-message app by the same name, covers women who worked for the company in California between 2014 and 2024, the California
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Sunil Chhetri: Indian football icon announces retirement from sport

[ad_1] At the moment, he holds the record of being the third-highest scorer of international goals among active footballers, after Argentina's Lionel Messi and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.In the nine-minute-51-second-long video post on X, Chhetri reminisced about the high and low points in his long career and expressed grief over his decision."The kid inside will probably keep fighting to play football, but the sensible, mature player and person knows that this
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Melinda French Gates to quit Gates Foundation

[ad_1] Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."This is not a decision I came to lightly," Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to X on Monday. Her last day of work will be 7 June. Ms Gates founded the foundation - the largest private body of its kind - in 2000 with her then-husband Bill Gates, the