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Unaccompanied 6-year-old child put on wrong Spirit Airlines flight

An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was instead put on a flight to Orlando.

In an emailed statement to CNN, Spirit Airlines apologized to the family, saying on December 21, the child was supposed to fly from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers.

Instead, Spirit Airlines said the child was “incorrectly boarded” on a plane to Orlando.

CNN affiliate WINK-TV spoke to Maria Ramos, a woman who identified the child as her 6-year-old grandson.

The airline offered to reimburse them the drive, Ramos told WINK-TV but more importantly, she wants to know why this happened.

Spirit Airlines did not address how the mistake occurred but said they “take the safety and responsibility of transporting all of our Guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation. »

Dog that survived in the wild after going missing nearly 7 years ago is rescued

Authored by edition.cnn.com

The person asked around about the dog, a Patterdale terrier, and learned locals were familiar with and sometimes fed the animal, according to the post.

On December 9, the volunteers left a trap for the dog along with a tempting meal: a warm roast chicken topped with paté.

Through some investigating, the rescue learned Rose had been sighted in the initial 10 days of going missing, but the trail then went cold. »

James Cleverly: Britain’s Home Secretary apologizes for joke about spiking his wife’s drink with date-rape drug

Authored by edition.cnn.com

Britain’s Home Secretary James Cleverly has apologized for joking about spiking his wife’s drink with a date-rape drug.

Opposition Labour politician and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wrote on X: “Spiking is a serious & devastating crime.

Between May 2022 and April 2023, there were 6,732 reports of spiking in England and Wales, PA Media reported. »

Activision Banned 23,000 COD Cheaters in a Month

Authored by insider-gaming.com

It was recently revealed that over 23,000 accounts were banned for cheating in a Call of Duty game in a single month.

At present, Team RICOCHET is working on finessing the anti-cheat features through machine learning, making the system more intelligent as the software that cheaters use also becomes more sophisticated.

For more Insider Gaming coverage, check out the news that Fallout London has a new release date. »

‘Did you just hear John Roberts scream?’: US supreme court to have outsized influence in 2024 election

Authored by theguardian.com

The legal scholar Rick Hasen likened the situation in his Election Law Blog to the 2000 election in which the supreme court in Bush v Gore effectively handed the presidency to George Bush.

Legal pundits agree that the supreme court is almost duty bound to take the Colorado case and hear it expeditiously.

The supreme court is likely to have an outsized influence on the 2024 presidential election in other less direct but potentially critical ways, not least in its stance over abortion. »