## American Airlines retreats after blaming a 9-year-old for not seeing a hidden camera in a lavatory

Authored by apnews.com

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines has distanced itself from a court filing in which the carrier said a 9-year-old girl should have noticed there was a camera taped to the seat of an airplane lavatory.

A former flight attendant is accused of luring girls to use the lavatory after taping his iPhone to the toilet seat.

The 9-year-old’s family flew from Texas to California on American last year and sued the airline after the FBI told them that videos of the girl were found on the flight attendant’s phone.

An American spokesperson said Thursday that outside lawyers working for the company “made an error in this filing.”.

“We do not believe this child is at fault, and we take the allegations involving a former team member very seriously,” the spokesperson said.

Lawyers for the airline amended the filing Wednesday in a state district court in Austin, Texas.

The charges he faces carry maximum sentences of up to 30 and 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. »

### Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever

Authored by rollingstone.com

“Even after a second term, he doesn’t think any of this is going to end,” says one of the sources.

Different ideas have been kicked around, including in private discussions with Trump, about how to go about this.

I say, ‘Just stay back and pass lots of laws to stop things like this,’” Trump told reporters. »

### Texas megachurch caught manipulating traffic data to get new stoplight

Authored by friendlyatheist.com

The megachurch really wants the city to put up a traffic light near the south entrance to its Rockwall campus.

There’s also a selfish reason for the church to get that stoplight: Right now, before any given service, they have to pay officers to direct traffic.

That’s why the paperwork involved in the process involves, among other things, an accurate count of traffic at the intersection. »

### Smartphone ban at school resulted in more socialization, fewer distractions: researchers

Authored by nltimes.nl

On the other hand, students report encountering multiple practical problems now that they no longer have their phones on hand, the Volkskrant reports.

The Radboud University researchers surveyed about a thousand school students before the ban and three months afterward.

“When the policy wasn’t in place yet, everyone was on a screen, and there was hardly any talking,” one student said. »

### Russia’s Military Shaken as Top-Level Purge Unfolds

Authored by cepa.org

This did not raise many eyebrows — Ivanov was famous for his lavishly luxurious lifestyle, which had long suggested possible corruption.

Thus Putin reinstated the FSB’s military counterintelligence department as the watchdog of army morale and also charged the agency with scenting out potential mutiny.

Curiously, the huge powers given by Putin to this department didn’t make the FSB’s military counterintelligence department a political actor. »

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