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Memorial Day Travelers Cope With Higher Prices, Traffic In 2024
“Airports are going to be more packed than we have seen in 20 years,” an AAA spokesperson told the Associated Press.

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“Airports are going to be more packed than we have seen in 20 years,” an AAA spokesperson told the Associated Press.

It's an effort to prevent anticompetitive tactics.
Beetles are native to California and have co-existed with sequoias for thousands of years — but have recently started to kill the trees.
The 2022 fiasco of fans trying to buy tickets for Taylor Swift's massive "Eras" tour shone a light on cracks in the ticketing system.
The federal agency will be tried over claims that it allowed an environment in which multiple inmates were sexually abused.
He's accused of stabbing, beating and driving over his victims, including a teenage girl, in the killing spree.
"Even though we are angry with Biden, many still have a bad taste in their mouth from the four years of Trump," activist says.
The ex-mayor pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Some civil rights lawyers are questioning the mayor's commitment to the deal in the wake of an aggressive NYPD response to a recent protest.
Northwestern President Michael Schill and leaders at UCLA and Rutgers will testify about concessions they gave pro-Palestinian protesters.
The cash-strapped city is trying to close its budget deficit.
A judge blocked the auction of Graceland by a company that claimed the estate was used as collateral for a loan that was never repaid.
The shift was some 40 years in the making as recreational pot use became more mainstream and legal in nearly half of U.S. states.
The sun's magnetic field may form 20,000 miles beneath the sun's surface, rather than 130,000 miles below it as previusly thought.
States in the wind belt, including large swaths of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minensota, Iowa and Illinois, are prone to tornadoes.
Through Tuesday, there have been 859 confirmed tornadoes this year, 27 percent more than the U.S. sees on average, according to NOAA.
Some water systems are falling short in basic ways, including failure to change default passwords or cut off system access to ex-workers.
A security video aired Friday shows Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking Cassie, his protege and longtime girlfriend.
Declaring May 17 Shohei Ohtani Day for the duration of his Dodgers career, the Los Angeles City Council celebrated the famed slugger.
David DePape will spend decades in prison for breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and attacking her husband with a hammer