American Airlines will let travelers mix cash and miles to pay for flights

Christa Pike is unconscious and using a ventilator to breathe two days after a botched execution by lethal injection in Tennessee, her lawyers said Friday in a new statement and court filing. Pike "remains critically ill," is intubated and is receiving medical care at a Nashville-area hospital, her attorneys said. The new court filing requests an order requiring the Tennessee Department of Correction to "protect and preserve all evidence related to the State's failed attempt" to execute Pike on Wednesday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell University alleged rape case.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it has found a potential source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak that was tied to lettuce over the summer. The agency collected samples during its onsite inspections of Taylor Farms de Mexico facilities, it said. Two samples tested positive for the parasite, Cyclospora, according to the FDA. One positive sample was from a tank that held outgoing wastewater from a processing facility, the agency said. The second positive sample was from a drainage ditch of an iceberg lettuce grower, it noted.

Senate Leadership Fund is redirecting ad spending from Michael Whatley’s campaign to support other candidates A major Republican political action committee pulled the plug on financial support for its Senate candidate in North Carolina , Michael Whatley, according to multiple reports, as the party begins to triage resources amid increasingly dire midterm polling. The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), the campaign arm of the Senate majority leader, John Thune, has withdrawn its ad spending in North Carolina to redirect support to other candidates, Semafor…