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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told "Axios on HBO" he won't back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election. "I've never walked away from an argument, no matter who stood on the other side," Christie told me during a wide-ranging interview in New Jersey. Why it matters: This is the first hand-to-hand combat of the 2024 Republican presidential race. Many Republican candidates fear crossing Trump. But Christie — who said he still considers Trump a friend, despite their falling-out...

Cows flee after seeing McDonald's The Associated Press WEST HAVEN, Utah --McDonald's? The burger joint? Stampede! Eight cows escaped from a trailer when the rear gate opened as the driver pulled into a McDonald's. It took about two hours to round them up Monday. "Maybe they were going to ... hop in the freezer, save the middleman," Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Dave Creager said. Lt. Kevin Burns had another theory: "They didn't like their future." The roundup was called "Operation Hamburger Helper." A nearby resident even hopped on his horse. "I thought my eyes were lying," said Wayne Sanders, who...

DALLAS - Say goodbye to the Southwest Airlines "cattle call." The Dallas-based airline says it is making changes to its longtime open seating policy to assign a specific pecking order to travelers waiting to board their Boeing 737 jets. Starting in early November, customers of Southwest Airlines Co. will be assigned a letter-number combination on their boarding passes, which will reserve their spot in their boarding group. According to a Southwest statement, when a gate agent calls a boarding group, passengers will take their place in their numerical order. Southwest has tested the new boarding system since last month at...

Ohio is for Progressive Democratic Presidential Candidates..Representative Marci Kapture (Democrat-Ohio) is letting it be known that she is interested in joining fellow Representative Richard Gephardt (Democrat-Missouri) in the 2004 Democratic Presdiential Primary Election field.Both are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.Kaptur said that 'it is not likely that she would get into the race formally, but is trying to get involved enough to get the top candidates to adopt her agenda.'She said she is accepting speaking engagements in early primary states to talk about her pet issues.She said 'people have been asking me' about running.