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United Airlines Agrees to Give Union Pilots Big Pay Raises

United Airlines and the union representing its pilots said Saturday they reached agreement on a contract that will raise pilot pay by up to 40 percent over four years. The union valued the agreement at about $10 billion. It followed more than four years of tumultuous bargaining that included picketing and talk of a strike…


Tesla Raises US Prices for All Its Vehicles Except Model 3

Tesla Inc. increased the U.S. prices of its Model S, X, and Y electric vehicles by low single-digit percentages on Thursday, though prices were still considerably lower than at the beginning of the year. The company raised the prices for all variants of its higher-priced Model S and X vehicles by $1,000, while prices of…


Damar Hamlin Will Put the Millions Raised Into His Charity

NEW YORK—Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin will use the $10 million given to online fundraising campaigns by well-wishers after his on-field collapse to fund his own nonprofit, the Chasing M’s Foundation. The decision, first shared with The Associated Press Monday, begins the 25-year-old’s plan for the unprecedented outpouring of support that he received after his…


Ford to Raise Production as US Auto Sales Start to Recover

DEARBORN, Mich.—Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022. The automaker announced Friday that it plans to build more of the Mustang Mach-E, the Bronco Sport SUV and Maverick small pickup, the F-150 Lightning…


Delta Pilots Approve Contract to Raise Pay by More Than 30 Percent

ATLANTA—Pilots at Delta Air Lines easily approved a new contract that will raise their pay by more than 30 percent over four years and likely lead to similar agreements covering union pilots at other major U.S. airlines. The Air Line Pilots Association said 78 percent of Delta pilots who voted supported the contract. Delta has…


Delta Is Raising Pay as Airlines Cope With Travel Rebound

ATLANTA—Delta Air Lines said Tuesday it will raise pay for its non-union employees by 5 percent on April 1 and increase a pool used for merit raises. Among those getting the increases will be flight attendants, who have been the target of several close organizing campaigns by unions. The raises are far more modest than…


ECB Set to Raise Rates Again in May, Policymakers Say

VILNIUS/PRAGUE—The European Central Bank is likely to raise interest rates again in May after an already signaled hike in March, two policymakers said on Friday, with one arguing that the peak or “terminal” rate is at least starting to appear on the horizon. The ECB raised rates by a half a percentage point to 2.5…


City Lights (1931)

He is a vagrant, penniless, who meets a blind flower girl, but cannot stand by and watch. He tries his best to raise enough money to pay for the flower girl’s treatment.   – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…


Amazon to Raise Seller Fees for Holidays Amid Rising Costs

NEW YORK—Amazon is raising charges on third-party sellers again—this time adding a holiday fee for merchants who use the company’s fulfillment services to pack and ship items to customers. From Oct. 15 to Jan. 14, sellers will be hit with an average fee of $0.35 per item sold using Amazon’s fulfillment services in the United…


Bank of America Raises Hourly Minimum Wage to $22

NEW YORK—Bank of America Corp. said it was raising its U.S. minimum hourly wage to $22 on Monday, a step closer to its promise of paying workers $25 an hour by 2025. The second-largest U.S. bank by assets has been steadily raising its minimum hourly wage since 2017, when it was $15, and has been…