Denver-based Frontier Airlines is swooping in to steal flyers disgruntled by losing perks from other airlines. The low-fare company announced Tuesday it will offer free carry-on, seat selection, flight changes and a checked bag for a select time just as Southwest Airlines is ending its decades-long policy of offering two free checked bags for every passenger. “Some airlines are walking away from what travelers love, but we’re running towards it. Think of this as the ultimate ‘divorce your old airline’ deal,” Barry Biffle, CEO of Frontier Airlines said in a...

(CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services has removed the 2024 surgeon general’s advisory on gun violence from its website. A link to the Office of the Surgeon General’s publications on firearm violence displays a “Page Not Found” message. “HHS and the Office of the Surgeon General are complying with President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting Second Amendment Rights,” HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in an email Tuesday. Trump issued an executive order last month calling for the attorney general to “examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans,...

Passengers on an American Airlines plane that diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport report feeling a strong vibration upon takeoff and then smoke coming from a wing. Passengers fled onto a wing in a fraught evacuation amid billowing clouds of smoke. Airport officials said 12 people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. It was the latest in a series of air safety incidents. Passenger Hani Levi said she felt a “very strong vibration” after the plane took off, followed later by an announcement that there would an...

DENVER — An American Airlines plane caught fire on the tarmac at Denver International Airport on Thursday after an engine problem, forcing passengers to evacuate the aircraft, DIA and airline officials said. It’s the latest in a series of air safety incidents. The plane was at gate C38 when the fire started at around 6 p.m., said airport spokesperson Michael Konopasek. Video taken from inside the terminal shows thick smoke billowing out of the jet while people fan out on the wings and run from the scene with fire under...

Hamas said it’s willing to release a living American hostage and four bodies of other dual nationals from Gaza, a surprise move the group said would advance ceasefire talks, though was treated with suspicion by Israel. The Palestinian militant organization has agreed to free “Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who holds American citizenship, in addition to the bodies of four other dual nationals,” according to a statement on Friday. Hamas said the proposal is in response to one from mediators between the group and Israel — made up of Qatar, Egypt...

A survivor of the Columbine High School massacre's death has been declared a homicide almost 26 years after the shooting, according to a coroner's report. Anne Marie Hochhalter was found dead in her home in Westminster, Colo. at age 43 on Feb. 16, 2025. An autopsy report released by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office declared that her “manner of death is best classified as homicide," according to reports from NBC News , CBS News and KDVR-TV . The autopsy report noted, per the outlets, that she had died due to...

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