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Why Legacy Airlines Outcompete Spirit's Low‑Fare Model

About a month ago, Aran Darling booked a cheap red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York for a work event. Darling and his significant other, Izzy de la Meme, own a small business named Froot Stand. They buy avocados

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Supreme Court fight over skinny labels could raise drug prices

sinceLF/iStockphoto/Getty Images The United States pays undeniably high prices for brand-name drugs. But when it comes to generics — the cheaper copycat medicines that now fill nine out of every 10 prescriptions in America — the country gets a very good deal.

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Can Santa Marta Spark a Global Fossil Fuel Phase-Out?

SANTA MARTA, Colombia — Colombia and the Netherlands convened a two-day high-level conference in Santa Marta to focus explicitly on phasing out oil, gas and coal.

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Inflation Cuts Into Teacher Pay Gains, NEA Finds

The average salary for a public school teacher in the U.S. rose to $74,495 in the last school year, up 3.5% from the year before. But adjusted for inflation, today's teachers are estimated to be earning less, not more, than they were in 2017.

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Fertilizer and Fuel Cost Surge Threatens Delta Farmers

Sledge Taylor, 73, walks his corn fields just outside Como, Miss. on Friday, April 17, 2026. The corn stalks are currently between vegetative stages known as V3 and V5, normally when Taylor would be applying nitrogen fertilizer.