EgyptAir’s fate and ours

EgyptAir’s fate and ours

EgyptAir Flight 804 — carrying 66 people, including three children — departed from Paris on Wednesday night. Just before it was scheduled to land in Cairo, it appears to have made a 360-degree turn before plunging 9,000 feet and disappearing from radar.

Was it terrorism? Donald Trump leaped onto Twitter at 6:27 a.m. to suggest as much: "Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!"

New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices
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New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The government's new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices.

The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid overtime. In terms of annual pay, the threshold rises to $47,476 from $23,660. The rules take effect Dec. 1.

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