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Surviving Memorial Day weekend: Navigate travel chaos with these tips

As the Memorial Day weekend approaches, travelers across the U.S. are bracing themselves for significant crowds and airport delays due to increased demand and air traffic control constraints. The Federal Aviation Administration anticipates a record-breaking number of flights this Thursday, with close to 54,000 nationwide departures — marking the busiest travel day of 2025 so far. According to the American Automobile Association, nearly 45 million Americans plan to travel at least 50 miles away from home over the long weekend. Of those, approximately 3.6 million will travel by air, repres

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How a water bottle, family tree and DNA testing helped solve a 24-year-old murder mystery!

More than 20 years after the brutal murder of Leslie Preer in 2001, the case finally came to a close. Investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland, used tools of modern forensic science — a bottle of water, a family tree, and the evolving science of genetic genealogy — to solve the case. Eugene Gligor, 45, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Preer’s Chevy Chase home. According to prosecutors, the break in the case came not from a new eyewitness or confession, but DNA evidence re-examined using technology unavailable at the time of the crime. Investigators identified Gligor t

Sextortion nightmare: How one teen's trust cost him everything

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51 kiosks offer free COVID-19 tests and health supplies across Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County has deployed 51 Community Health Station kiosks offering free COVID-19 self-test kits, fentanyl test strips, and other health supplies to residents across the region. The self-service stations, accessible seven days a week, aim to increase access to essential health resources, particularly in communities with limited healthcare options. Initially established to distribute COVID-19 antigen tests, the program has expanded to address multiple public health crises affecting the county. Officials cite alarming statistics as motivation for the expansion, including a 48% increa

From Gulf of Mexico to Persian Gulf: Trump's name-change diplomacy stirs global tides

California bar exam’s AI fallout: $6 million in unplanned costs

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Trump pardons former New York lawmaker Michael Grimm

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a full pardon for former U.S. Representative Michael Grimm of New York, who had pleaded guilty to a felony tax evasion charge in 2014, a White House official said on Wednesday.A Republican like Trump, Grimm represented districts that included Staten Island and a small portion of southern Brooklyn. He was sentenced to eight months in prison and served seven months in 2015 and 2016. The former congressman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Grimm admitted to under-reporting employee wages at Healthalicious, a restaurant he co-owned before star

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US Treasury's Bessent urges IMF, World Bank to refocus on core missions

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to refocus on their core missions of macroeconomic stability and development, arguing that they have strayed too far into vanity projects such as climate change that have reduced their effectiveness.Bessent, in remarks outlining his vision for U.S. engagement with the IMF and World Bank on the sidelines of the institutions' spring meetings, said that they serve critical roles in the international financial system."And the Trump administration is eager to work with them - so long as they

Wall Street ends higher on earnings, hopes of easing tariff tensions

Kraken hire Lane Lambert as head coach, replacing the fired Dan Bylsma

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Bears QB Caleb Williams addresses controversy from book excerpt

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams sought to quiet the controversy about how he hadn’t wanted to come to his current team prior to the 2024 draft. Williams admitted an ESPN story about an upcoming book by Seth Wickersham on quarterbacks was true in that he did like the idea of going to the Minnesota Vikings initially, but this was prior to his first visit to Chicago. Then, Williams said, he wanted to be with the Bears. “Yeah, I had a good visit at the other place — Minnesota, with (coach) Kevin O’Connell,” Williams said. “Good staff and all of tha

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Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.The situation was entirely foreseeable.After handing down an opaque 5-4 order earlier this month that allowed both sides to claim victory, the nation’s highest court is being asked for a second time to halt the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act. That review will take place as lower courts begin to wrangle over what kind

Canadians to Maine: No, thanks!

Auto tariffs are now in effect. What it means for America - and you

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Five-year forecast paints a troubling picture of extreme weather and deadly heat

Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the stage for more deadly extreme weather, according to an annual report from two of the world’s top meteorological agencies.There is now a 70% chance that global warming over the next five years will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, Wednesday’s report from the World Meteorological Organization and UK Met Office found.More than 1.5 degrees of global warming increases the risks of more severe impacts, including triggering tipping points in the climate system. Melting sea ice and glaciers co

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Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge. Regional police said a 64-year-old man was reported missing, and search and rescue operations involving a drone with thermal camera were under way.

McDavid and Oilers going back to Stanley Cup Final after 6-3 win over Stars in Game 5

Trump administration brings first terror-related case against alleged high-ranking Tren de Aragua gang member

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See the moment Vatican announces death of Pope Francis

Following the death of Pope Francis, a cardinal from the United States has become acting head of the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected.He is Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a Dublin-born cleric who became a naturalized American citizen after spending many years ministering in the United States. Farrell, a former Bishop of Dallas, holds the position of “camerlengo” (or chamberlain) which tasks him with “overseeing and administering the temporal goods and rights of the Apostolic See” following the death or resignation of a pope.It is the camerlengo’s job to “officially ascertain the Pop

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A South African woman is sentenced to life in prison for selling her young daughter

A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her boyfriend and another man, who also received life sentences. All three were convicted earlier this month on kidnapping and human trafficking charges. Smith's daughter, Joshlin, went missing in February 2024 when she was 6, sparking a nationwide hunt by police in South Africa. She has still not been found. Smith, boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were sentenced to l

NYPD probing detectives who worked security at house where man says he was tortured, AP source says

Authorities eyeing whether a kitchen job had a role in the 'Devil in the Ozarks' prison escape

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Appeals court pauses ruling that blocked Trump’s tariffs

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Trump pardons former New York lawmaker Michael Grimm

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a full pardon for former U.S.

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Smoke to pour into the US as Canada wildfires force province’s largest evacuation in ‘living memory’

Markets ask how soon Nippon Steel will benefit from $15 billion bid for U.S. Steel

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Fed's Goolsbee: US trade court ruling may extend tariff uncertainty

A U.S. trade court ruling blocking some of the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs may not clear up the uncertainty that is holding back U.S. businesses, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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