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Southwest Airlines is experiencing a fifth straight day of widespread cancellations. Early numbers show 7% of Southwest flights have been canceled today. On Monday, 435 Southwest flights were canceled, bringing the total above 2,000 since Friday. Some Southwest passengers have had to pick between paying for other transportation or staying …

He ruled the streets of Chicago through fear during most of the Prohibition era. Now, nearly 75 years after the death of the gangster Al Capone, some of his most prized possessions are up for sale. This Friday, Capone’s surviving granddaughters, helped by Witherell’s auction house in California, will sell …

The White House is warning state and local governments that the consequences for them will be dire if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling and the U.S. goes into default.  In a memo, the White House said that if the U.S. can no longer pay its obligations and defaults, “billions …