Saying that American Airlines mistreated disabled air travelers who use wheelchairs, the U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday announced a $50 million fine against the carrier. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the agency’s penalty the highest ever levied against an airline for violating protections for fliers with disabilities. The Transportation Department …
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The documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” traces the life of the Juilliard-trained actor who found megastardom in the 1970s and ’80s playing Superman, and in 1995 as a different kind of hero, after an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. It features never-before-seen footage of Reeve, who …
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New York City “regularly fails” to provide special education services to students with disabilities, leading to chronic absences, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society. The suit seeks to confront a pervasive problem in the city’s school system, the nation’s largest. Tens of thousands of …
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Wins over the Netherlands’ women’s wheelchair basketball team are so rare that its Paralympic opponents have been settling for moral victories. Spain, an upstart among the European powerhouses, held the team, known as the Dutch Angels, to a 3-point lead at halftime in Wednesday’s quarterfinal, but never recovered from a …
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