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Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, is making a change to retirement benefits that would affect thousands of employees and could spark a move to unionize. Delta is the least unionized of all the major airlines, but like its rivals is facing financial times. Joshua Levs reports.

Delta Air Lines and its pilots' union have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract, according to a federal mediator. No details of the deal have been announced, but the company was seeking significant cuts in pay and benefits to reduce its cost. Delta pilots will vote on the tentative deal.

Kerstin Gier's new young adult novel takes place at a grandly faded resort high up in the Swiss Alps, where young intern Sophie is surrounded by a complex, international cast of characters.

A new book uncovers the research of John Work, who accompanied folklorist Alan Lomax on a trip to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1940s. They documented the music heard in churches, blues joints and cotton fields of the South.

College students are heading back to campus this month — and with the delta variant spreading, many aren't sure what to expect from this school year.

Delta Air Lines is facing a federal investigation as it struggles to recover from a global software meltdown. The Atlanta-based carrier canceled hundreds of flights Tuesday for the fifth day in a row.

With bankruptcy filings by Delta and Northwest Wednesday, it's becoming easier to list the major airlines that are in Chapter 11 than those that aren't. In a filing submitted after the stock market closed, Delta listed debt totaling more than $28 billion. Minneapolis-based Northwest is in somewhat better shape.

The alluvial plain that is the Mississippi Delta was once home to a thriving cotton plantation economy. But the decline of manual labor and exodus of manufacturing jobs have made difficult conditions worse in one of the nation's poorest regions.

Sing the Delta is the roots-folk singer-songwriter's first album of new songs in 16 years.

Delta congratulated the U.S. men's soccer team for its victory over Ghana using images: the Statue of Liberty to symbolize America and a giraffe for Ghana. The problem, there are no giraffes in Ghana.