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By Ines Chomnalez and Sofia Rubinson
What happened: Conservative social media users are calling for a boycott of Delta Air Lines for supposedly removing a passenger from a plane because he was wearing a MAGA hat.
A closer look: On Oct. 8, conservative social media users began sharing a seven-minute video made by a passenger who claimed that a Delta pilot removed him from a plane because he was wearing a pro-Trump hat.
You can watch the video here:
The video showed the passenger being escorted off the plane and then having a conversation with the pilot and a flight...
Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris agreement. It is also a decade sin...