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Airline sparks anger as it demands extra fees from already booked passengers as oil prices spike

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A Spanish budget airline named Volotea is sparking flight passengers’ anger after reportedly asking them to pay extra charges for fuel after their tickets have already been purchased.

At first glance, the added charge — which will be $8 to $11 per passenger, per the “Simple Flying” aviation blog — does not sound high. But travelers are concerned the fee could herald higher prices for additional airlines as fuel prices continue to skyrocket.

The airline has a clause similar to clauses on some cruise lines — which allows the company to tack on charges based on the cost of oil. Volotea refers to the rule as its “Fair Travel Promise.”

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When a traveler purchases a ticket, there is a warning that an extra charge may be imposed around seven days before departure if the price of oil has increased, according to multiple reports.

“In the event of extraordinary variations in fuel prices affecting international energy markets, Volotea may apply a limited and temporary adjustment to the ticket price prior to the scheduled departure of the flight,” the company’s website says.

“The exact amount of any such adjustment will be communicated to passengers prior to departure, once the applicable fuel cost variation has been determined,” the website also says. 

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“Such adjustments will only apply to passengers who have been informed of this possibility during the booking process, allowing them to make an informed decision before completing their purchase,” the website adds.

Fox News Digital reached out to Volotea, which is headquartered in Barcelona, for comment.

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Since news broke of the company’s extra charges, travelers have been reacting online.

“Pity to see a funky airline like Volotea resort to such a gritty survival instinct. I understand the ‘why’ behind the fuel costs, but charging for already booked seats is a bold move that risks a lot of goodwill,” one reader wrote on the blog “Simple Flying.”

“A loophole in the conditions of carriage allows them to do this? Who ever reads the conditions of carriage?” a second reader added.

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A third commenter disagreed, saying, “Airlines could, of course, just cancel flights, as some apparently already have. Next thing, there’ll be a shortage of seats, and guess what — prices will really rise.”

The same person also wrote, “$10 seems a small price to keep flights operating as normally as possible.”

The much bigger concern is that Volotea’s surcharge could be a sign of things to come.

Popular travel guide The Points Guy recommended that people not wait to book flights.

“If you’re planning to fly this summer, go ahead and lock in your airfare now,” The Points Guy wrote. 

“As experts noted, prices could surge any day now. That’s especially true if you’re hoping to fly in June or July, which in recent years have been the busiest and most expensive months of the summer to travel.”

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Caitlin Clark’s newest Fever teammate has dramatic history with superstar

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The newest member of the Indiana Fever, Raven Johnson, who the team took with the 10th overall pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday, will join forces with Caitlin Clark after a tensely competitive moment between the two many years ago.

In the 2023 NCAA women’s Final Four, Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes met Johnson’s South Carolina Gamecocks. During that game, there was a moment when Clark was supposed to be guarding Johnson, but Clark waved Johnson off to double-team another South Carolina player.

The clip of Clark waving off Johnson ended up going viral, and Johnson later said it resulted in online mockery against her.

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“I was all over the internet,” Johnson said on the “I AM NEXT” podcast in March. “That’s one reason I hate the internet now, because of that situation. I got bashed, I got bullied, I got called all these things I wasn’t, aka like a monkey and things like that, and I just think I wanted to quit basketball at that time, and I just wanted to go in this little bubble of isolation and just be by myself.”

Still, Johnson appears excited to now be on the same side as Clark.

After Johnson was drafted by the Fever on Monday, she said Clark is the teammate she’s most excited to play with in the pros.

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“Caitlin Clark,” Johnson said immediately when asked by Overtime WBB which new teammate she’s most excited to play with. “… She’s a phenomenal player, with the things she does, it’s bar standard. She can shoot the ball, she can lead a team, and they win. She has a winning mentality, and I think that’s the biggest thing.”

The Fever have solidified their roster going into the 2026 season as a true championship contender.

The team recently re-signed key players Kelsey Mitchell, Lexie Hull and Sophie Cunningham, while adding veteran Monique Billings in free agency.

The Fever have the fourth-best odds to win the WNBA title in 2026 behind the Minnesota Lynx, the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty.

The Fever’s season ended in 107-98 overtime loss to the Las Vegas Aces in Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals last year.

With Clark returning from injury, their core intact and at least one new addition, Indiana is looking to finish the job.

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Suspect in Sam Altman Molotov cocktail plot cries meltdown, not attempted murder, as judge keeps him locked up

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A Texas man accused of firebombing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home was held without bail Tuesday as his lawyer claimed he was in a mental health crisis.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, appeared in a San Francisco courtroom but did not enter a plea on multiple charges, including attempted murder. A judge granted a delay in his arraignment, and he is due back in court May 5.

His public defender, Diamond Ward, pushed back hard on the prosecution’s case, saying Moreno-Gama has autism and was experiencing an “acute mental health crisis” at the time of the alleged attack.

“This case is a property crime, at best,” Ward said, accusing prosecutors of overcharging her client and suggesting the charges were influenced by Altman’s high profile.

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Prosecutors say the attack was anything but minor.

Authorities allege Moreno-Gama traveled from Texas to San Francisco in a planned, targeted attempt to kill the OpenAI CEO. Early Friday morning, he allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home, setting an exterior gate on fire before fleeing on foot. No one was injured, and officials have not said whether Altman was home at the time.

Less than an hour later, investigators say Moreno-Gama showed up at OpenAI’s headquarters about three miles away, where he allegedly threatened to burn the building down and kill anyone inside. Surveillance video captured him throwing a chair at the glass doors, according to police.

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He was arrested outside the building, where authorities say he was carrying a jug of kerosene, a lighter and writings outlining his hostility toward artificial intelligence.

Sources familiar with the investigation previously told Fox News the suspect was carrying what they described as a manifesto — a multi-part document that included a list of AI executives and investors, along with their names and addresses.

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“This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted and extremely serious,” FBI San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge Matt Cobo said.

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San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has charged Moreno-Gama with two counts of attempted murder, alleging he targeted both Altman and a security guard at the residence, along with multiple arson-related offenses. She has said the charges carry potential penalties ranging from 19 years to life in prison.

Federal prosecutors have also filed charges, including possession of an unregistered firearm and destruction of property using explosives, which could add decades to any sentence if he is convicted.

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“We are at the beginning of this investigation, but if the evidence shows that Mr. Moreno-Gama executed these attacks to change public policy or to coerce government or other officials, we will treat this as an act of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Craig Missakian said Monday.

Meanwhile, FBI agents raided Moreno-Gama’s home in Spring, Texas, on Monday, with Fox News on the ground as agents collected evidence for several hours.

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Officials say the suspect’s writings also included threats against other leaders in the artificial intelligence industry, raising broader concerns about escalating rhetoric surrounding the rapidly evolving technology.

Even groups that have warned about the risks of AI condemned the violence. The Future of Life Institute said intimidation has “no place” in the debate, while PauseAI said the suspect had no formal ties to the organization.

Prosecutors, however, are framing the case as a clear warning, urging cooler public discourse as tensions around artificial intelligence continue to rise.

Fox News’ Brooke Taylor, Greg Wehner, and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Amanda Peet says parents compared her acting dreams to being a ‘hooker’

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Amanda Peet’s parents weren’t impressed when she first told them she wanted to be an actor.

“I feel like they saw acting in the beginning similar to just ‘Oh, so you want to start modeling or you want to be a hooker,’” she told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett on the “Smartless” podcast on Monday.

Her parents were “as far from the entertainment business as you could possibly be,” Peet added, explaining that her father was a corporate lawyer and her mom was a social worker and psychotherapist.

Peet said that she also had terrible stage fright surrounding anything “high brow,” but when she’d audition for anything “low brow,” like a chapstick commercial or a soap opera, she could “kill it.”

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“And so then I was undoing what I wanted to portray to my parents,” she admitted. “I’d be like ‘I’m on a Skittles commercial,’ and they’d be like ‘I rest my case.’”

Her parents did relent somewhat, she said, with her mom helping her find an acting class when she turned 13.

Peet said she did all the school plays at her tiny high school and was one of the best singers there, “which is saying nothing.”

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“And then as soon as I got to college, I started — I sort of walked in confidently to all these auditions, and I never got a single play. I auditioned for 20 plays. It was as if they had already decided, they already had their own clique.”

She called herself a “self-hating actor.”

“I couldn’t quite admit that I wanted to do this as more than a hobby,” she said.

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Once she got into an adult acting class with actor and teacher Uta Hagen, Peet said she finally was able to get an agent.

And amid the excitement of finally getting representation, Peet said the rep walked her over to a corner of the room and told her she had a mustache.  

“She was saying ‘Congratulations, we want to rep you,’ she started giving me the lay of the land. And then was like, ‘And we just wanted to know, so for your, you have a little bit of, you’ve got a mustache, a little bit here. We’re just wondering if…what can we do about that?’ ‘And boy, was she right.’”

Peet told the co-hosts that she tried to get rid of the hair above her upper lip by any means necessary, including bleaching, waxing and hair removal cream.

“You f—ing name it, I did it,” she admitted.

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Peet got her breakthrough role in “The Whole Nine Yards in her late 20s, and went on to star in movies like “Something’s Gotta Give,” “Saving Silverman,” “Identity,” “Identity Thief,” and she currently stars in the Apple TV+ show “Your Friends & Neighbors.”

She said she has also found a lot of joy in working behind the camera.

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“Once I started writing a little bit, when I was shooting ‘The Chair,’ which, you know, when I was behind the camera and all the ladies like Sandra Oh had to get there earlier and I could roll in in my snowpants with my mustache and my hair and but still be the boss, I was like ‘This is f—ing great. What have I been doing this whole time?’” she said on the Netflix show she co-created about the chair of a college English department. “And it’s really fun to have last cut, final cut.”

The 54-year-old actress also discussed her breast cancer diagnosis that she received last fall while her parents were in hospice care. Her father Charles died in late 2025 and her mother Penny died in January 2026.

“And I was very lucky. I’m clear, I did radiation,” she explained, adding that her op-ed in the New Yorker last month was the first time she went public about her condition because she and her husband hadn’t told their children right away as they waited to find out how serious it was.

“We didn’t want to tell the kids for a while until we knew whether I was going to do chemo and what the course of treatment was going to be, so I wanted to keep it a secret because I wasn’t even telling my children,” she added.

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