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FORT WORTH, TX – American Airlines has announced the debut of its Airbus A321XLR, becoming the first U.S. airline to operate the aircraft and the only global carrier to offer a three-cabin configuration on the model. The inaugural flight will take place December 18, 2025, operating as Flight 3 from New York’s JFK Airport to Los Angeles. Customers can now purchase tickets for this route, as well as other select transcontinental flights through February 11, 2026. The A321XLR is configured with 20 Flagship Suite® seats, 12 Premium Economy seats, and 123 Main Cabin seats. The Flagship Suite® section features lie-flat seating with privacy doors, personal storage, wireless charging, a cocktail tray, and reading lights. Premium Economy includes enhanced winged headrests, footrests, wire...

EMPIRE, CA – A teacher with the Empire Union School District has been arrested after two students at Glick Middle School reported being inappropriately touched, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office. File Photo (November 2022) On October 22, 2025, at approximately 1:30 p.m., investigators from the Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit responded to the campus after school staff notified law enforcement of the allegations. The inappropriate contact allegedly occurred during the 2024–2025 school year, with the most recent incident reported on October 20. Detectives identified 52-year-old Javier Villanueva, primarily an 8th grade English teacher, as the suspect. He was arrested near his home in Patterson with assistance from Patterson Police Services and booked into the Stanisl...

WASHINGTON, DC – Dozens of retired United Airlines pilots have been denied claims for FICA tax refunds after a federal appeals court ruled they missed strict statutory deadlines and lacked entitlement under current tax law. (File Photo) September 2025 On October 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the U.S. Court of Federal Claims’ decision to dismiss the pilots’ lawsuits. The case involved multiple pro se plaintiffs, including James H. Biestek and others, who sought refunds for employment taxes they paid on retirement benefits they never received due to the airline’s bankruptcy and termination of its nonqualified deferred compensation plan. The court found the pilots failed to timely file refund claims with the IRS as required under 26 U.S.C. § 6511...