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Laurie Baratti | TravelPulse (TNS) The upcoming total solar eclipse, whose path of totality will sweep across areas of North America on April 8, is driving U.S. travelers to select destinations that will offer the best viewing of the rare celestial event. One travel provider, Alaska Airlines, is facilitating prime viewing opportunities by offering a series of flights to destinations positioned along the path of totality and, as it turns out, they’re selling out fast. In fact, the carrier has seen a threefold increase in customer demand in comparison to years past for flights to places like Texas, Ohio and Mazatlán, Mexico, Alaska Airlines told Travel + Leisure. Due to heightened interest, flights to these eclipse-optimal locations are increasingly getting sold out well in advance. “Travelers are excited to experience the upcoming solar eclipse and we’ve seen this reflected in our bookings,” Kirsten Amrine, Alaska Airlines’ Vice President of Revenue Management and Network Planning. “Across our network, flights to destinations along the projected path of the eclipse … are seeing impressive demand, with many flights selling out months in advance. “We’ve even added extra service

By Aamer Madhani and Seung Min Kim | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris and other top Biden administration officials were holding talks on Monday with a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. White House officials said Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, requested the meeting and the Democratic administration believed it was important to meet with the prominent Israeli official despite Netanyahu’s objections. The meeting comes as President Joe Biden, Harris and other senior administration officials have become increasingly blunt about their dissatisfaction with the mounting death toll in Gaza and suffering of innocent Palestinians as the war nears the five-month mark. “We’re going to discuss a number of things in terms of the priorities that certainly we have, which includes getting a hostage deal done, getting aid in and then getting that six-week ceasefire,” Harris told reporters before her meeting with Gantz. The U.S. on Saturday carried out the first of what is expected to be ongoing aidrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The moment is reflective of

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is rallying support in Texas before that state and 14 others hold primaries on Tuesday. Haley hopes to remain competitive with former President Donald Trump, the current GOP front-runner. CBS News campaign reporter Taurean Small is following the latest in the 2024 presidential elections.

As a participant in multiple affiliate marketing programs, Localish will earn a commission for certain purchases. See full disclaimer below* Setting up the right theme for your viewing party is crucial, and so are the props you use to make it happen. ABC anchors Sam Champion and Dani Beckstrom have rounded up the best Oscars viewing party essentials below, including a way to capture your memories and make your space feel more like a movie theater. Shop these viewing party essentials from our newest segment of “It’s a Big Deal.” This sleek stainless steel set comes with everything you need to craft the perfect cocktail – from shakers to strainers, jiggers to muddlers. Elevate your cocktail game and impress your guests with professional-grade drinks. Transform your living room into a movie theater with this charming cart. Complete with a vintage-style popcorn maker and measuring cups, it’s perfect for creating classic movie snacks at home. And since it’s relatively lightweight you can move it from room to room to keep the party going. This 2-in-1 camera and printer combo lets you instantly print your favorite party

By Nishka Dhawan Monday, March 4, 2024 8:57PM KFSN – KFSN As a participant in multiple affiliate marketing programs, Localish will earn a commission for certain purchases. See full disclaimer below* The Oscars are here, and if you’re wondering how to look red-carpet-ready at home, ABC anchors Sam Champion and Dani Beckstrom have rounded up the best beauty essentials as part of our weekly segment, “It’s a Big Deal.” All these gold-infused essentials and more are available to shop now, so grab them while they’re available for a limited time only. Ahava Gold Face Mask Infused with authentic dead sea mud, this luxurious mask nourishes and revitalizes your skin. It’s designed to deeply cleanse pores and remove impurities for a radiant complexion. Suitable for all skin types, this mask is a must-have for your skincare routine, not to mention it’s infused with 24-karat gold to truly make you feel red carpet-ready. TATCHA Gold Camellia Beauty Oil This item is suitable for your face, body, and hair. It nourishes and hydrates your skin, while also adding a subtle glow. You can use it to highlight your

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Two Valley lawmakers are offering resources and support for employees who the Prima Wawona closure will impact. The local produce company filed for bankruptcy back in October, then sent notices to workers about massive layoffs that could start March 12. Monday morning, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula and Senator Anna Caballero hosted a town hall in partnership with Proteus Incorporated. They went over resources and services for impacted workers, including assistance with unemployment applications, career counseling, job training and access to food and housing. The stone fruits company with a decades-long history in Central California declared bankruptcy in October of last year. “Receiving a layoff notice is almost always a stressful situation; our hearts go out to the workers and their families that have been affected,” said Alice Berliner from the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. 5,400 employees with Prima Wawona will find out soon whether they will be out of a job. Prima Wawona was once one of the largest growers of peaches, plums, and nectarines in the nation. In January of this year, the agricultural and fruit-growing and packing

By Tammy Webber | Associated Press Trillions of gallons are lost from aging drinking water systems across the U.S., underscoring an economic and public health reckoning after decades of deferred maintenance and disinvestment that leave some communities struggling to provide reliable service. The problem is especially acute in older industrial and rural areas in the eastern half of the country that have experienced significant population and industrial decline that leave behind poorer residents, vacant neighborhoods and too-large water systems. In the Detroit enclave of Highland Park, where the population halved in the past 20 years, an estimated 70% of the water is lost from pipes up to 120 years old. Several Chicago suburbs likely are losing more than 40% of water. And some Georgia systems are losing more than 80% of their treated drinking water, said Sunil Sinha, a water researcher at Virginia Tech. A January cold snap caused water line breaks in dozens of communities, including Memphis, Tennessee, and an Arkansas town that was without water for two weeks. But systems crack and leak year-round. Jackson, Mississippi’s system almost collapsed in August 2022, leaving

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Hadriana Lowenkron | Bloomberg News (TNS) Nikki Haley signaled she may decline to endorse Donald Trump in an election rematch with President Joe Biden, saying she no longer considers herself bound by a pledge to the Republican National Committee to support the party’s 2024 nominee. “I think I’ll make what decision I want to make,” Haley said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” for broadcast Sunday. “But that’s not something I’m thinking about.” Haley said “the RNC is now not the same RNC” — her latest attack on the organization since Trump said he’d nominate his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to co-lead it with Michael Whatley, the North Carolina state party chairman who has supported Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election. Haley is keeping up attacks on the GOP front-runner in the buildup to Super Tuesday on March 5, when more than a dozen states hold presidential nominating contests. Trump swept the first four contests and leads Haley by 64 percentage points in the nomination race, according to the RealClearPolitics average of national polls. Haley has said she’ll stay in

By JOSH BOAK and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — A poll finds that a significant share of U.S. adults doubt the mental capabilities of 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican front-runner in what could be a rematch of the 2020 election. More than 6 in 10 (63%) say they’re not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental capability to serve effectively as president, turning his coming State of the Union address into something of a real-time audition for a second term. A similar but slightly smaller share (57%) say that Trump lacks the memory and acuity for the job. The findings from a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research point to a tough presidential election in which issues such as age and mental competence could be more prevalent than in any other political contest in modern times. People’s views of Biden’s memory and acuity have soured since January 2022, when about half of those polled expressed similar concerns. (That survey didn’t ask a similar question about Trump.) In

By SOPHIA TAREEN (Associated Press) Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states, according to a lawsuit settlement reached Monday that makes public months of texts and emails. Under their agreements, Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis turned over more than 1,400 pages of documents, emails and text messages, along with photos and video, offering a detailed account of the scheme’s origins in Wisconsin. The communications show how they, with coordination from Trump campaign officials, replicated the strategy in six other states including Georgia, where Chesebro has already pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2020 election. The agreements settle a civil lawsuit brought by Democrats in 2022 against the two attorneys and 10 Republicans in Wisconsin who posed as fake electors. The Republicans settled in December. “Our democracy demands better than this,” said Scott Thompson, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys who helped negotiate the agreements. “That is why this lawsuit … consistently sought transparency, accountability and deterrence.

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is hosting a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, is sitting down with several senior Biden administration officials this week, including Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Council Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk and Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser. President Joe Biden is at Camp David, the presidential retreat just outside Washington, until Tuesday. The meeting comes after Harris issued a forceful call for a temporary cease-fire deal in Gaza, which administration officials say would halt fighting for at least six weeks, and also increased pressure on Israel to not impede the aid that workers were trying to get into the region. The White House has been advocating for that framework deal for weeks. “Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table,” Harris said during an appearance

By Linley Sanders, Jesse Bedayn and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November’s general election, according to AP VoteCast. An analysis of the data shows that many of those voters were unlikely to vote for Trump, some even before this year, but it still points to potential problems for the former president as he looks to consolidate the nomination and pivot toward an expected rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. According to AP VoteCast surveys of the first three head-to-head Republican contests, 2 in 10 Iowa voters, one-third of New Hampshire voters, and one-quarter of South Carolina voters would be so disappointed by Trump’s renomination that they would refuse to vote for him in the fall. This unwillingness to contemplate a presidential vote for Trump isn’t confined to voters in the earliest states. Lee and Bill Baltzell defected from the Republican Party to register as independents a year ago. They attended

If you’ve ever read a book that is super place-specific and then visited that area immediately after, you’ll know how I felt on a recent trip to Spokane, Washington. I’d recently read Jess Walter’s 2020 best seller, “The Cold Millions,” a novel set during the labor and free speech demonstrations that exploded here in the early 1900s. Surfacing from the book’s pages into its real world setting evoked an eerie sense of deja vu, with the city’s modern self lightly superimposed over the historic landmarks that fill a reader’s imagination. Spokane is less touristy than other Pacific Northwest gems, and its mix of past and present makes it a delightful destination, even if you haven’t read “Cold Millions.” And there’s no better place to set up headquarters for your dive into the past than the Historic Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane. This century-old, majestic beauty is a treasure. When it opened in 1914, it was the height of modernity, the first hotel in the country to offer air conditioning. Obviously, that’s not why you’ll be checking in here. You’re coming for the grandeur, the ornate

By Bob Slovak Monday, March 4, 2024 4:02PM A devastating disease took her mobility but not her zest for life. Former Deer Park High School teacher Sherri Moody is inspiring through her positivity. DEER PARK, Texas — Teaching, encouraging and inspiring filled Sherri Moody’s life as a Deer Park ISD teacher for almost three decades. In April 2023, Sherri’s life would change, but her positivity and zest for life wouldn’t. Sherri said, “I did teach for 28 years and there wasn’t a day I didn’t love it but now I think there is something else I need to do.” April 21, 2023, Sherri’s husband David would rush her to the hospital with a case of double pneumonia which developed into sepsis shock, Sherri would be in for a fight for her life. “I didn’t know what was going on but I remember David saying, ‘Fight, Sherri, fight for our family.’ And I said, ‘I will,'” Sherri recalled. Sherri was given life-saving medicine to protect her vital organs. As a result she lost circulation in her arms and legs, they would later be amputated. Sherri refused

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states, without action from Congress first, cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. The outcome ends efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine and elsewhere to kick Trump, the front-runner for his party’s nomination, off the ballot because of his attempts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Trump’s case was the first at the Supreme Court dealing with a provision of the 14th Amendment that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again. Colorado’s Supreme Court, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, had decided that the provision, Section 3, could be applied to Trump, who that court found incited the Capitol attack. No court before had applied Section 3 to a presidential candidate. Some election

By 6abc Digital Staff Monday, March 4, 2024 3:34PM A longtime General Hospital star returns to the soap opera. A longtime General Hospital star is returning to the soap opera. Steve Burton has played Jason Morgan off and on for three decades. Burton was last on the show in the fall of 2021, when he said he was let go due his refusal to comply with the on-set COVID vaccine mandate. “General Hospital” airs weekdays on ABC. Copyright © 2024 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN Monday, March 4, 2024 2:24PM A federal judge is blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8 billion deal would reduce competition. NEW YORK — JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion combination after a court ruling blocked their merger. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the benefits of a combination, they felt they were unlikely to meet the required closing conditions before the July 24 deadline and mutually agreed that terminating the deal was the best decision for both. “We are proud of the work we did with Spirit to lay out a vision to challenge the status quo, but given the hurdles to closing that remain, we decided together that both airlines’ interests are better served by moving forward independently,” JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty said in a statement. “We are disappointed we cannot move forward with a deal that would save hundreds of millions for consumers and create a real challenger to the dominant ‘Big 4’ U.S. airlines. However, we remain confident in our future as a successful independent airline,”

Monday, March 4, 2024 2:11PM The 110th Clovis Rodeo is just around the corner, and you can get your hands on tickets for the upcoming event. CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) — The 110th Clovis Rodeo is just around the corner, and you can get your hands on tickets for the upcoming event. They go on sale at the rodeo box office starting Monday morning. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 2 pm. It’s located at 748 Rodeo Drive near 5th Street. Tickets are also available on the Clovis Rodeo’s website. Prices range from $20 to $35, with no extra charge for concerts. The rodeo begins Wednesday, April 24, through Sunday, April 28. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

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