Francesca Street, CNN It feels like the summer of travel chaos only just subsided, but the holiday travel season is now upon us. More than four million Americans are set to take to the skies for US Thanksgiving, kicking off one of the busiest stretches of the year for travel. Navigating the world of airports
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Top-tier frequent flyer Rick Hubbard spends a lot of time squeezing into airplane seats and has noticed it’s a tighter fit. “Either that or I’m getting bigger and bigger, but I don’t think so,” Hubbard told CNN recently near a baggage claim. “I can’t imagine seats or aisles
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s. He acted Friday, days before Californians finish voting on enshrining increased protections in the state Constitution in response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Laura Miner was convicted in 1949 of
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A mailer to voters across Kansas suggests that removing state Supreme Court justices in Tuesday’s election would protect access to abortion. In fact, abortion rights advocates want to keep them on the bench. The return address on the mailer says it is from VMCF Inc.,
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Girona has escaped the Spanish league’s relegation zone after beating Athletic Bilbao 2-1 at home. The Catalan club ended a seven-game winless run and jumped all the way from 17th to 12th place. Iván MartÃn scored what proved to be the winner in the 75th minute when he raced down a
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic has stayed on course for a record-extending seventh Paris Masters title by dispatching Lorenzo Musetti 6-0, 6-3 in the quarterfinals. Djokovic next faces Stefanos Tsitsipas after the fifth-seeded Greek beat unseeded American Tommy Paul. Djokovic leads Tsitsipas 8-2 overall. Unseeded Holger Rune of Denmark advanced to the semis after eliminating
Continue Reading UDINE, Italy (AP) — Udinese has had to come from behind to draw at home with relegation-threatened Lecce 1-1 in Serie A. Udinese’s winless run has stretched to six matches. Beto netted in the second half to cancel out Lorenzo Colombo’s opener for Lecce in an impressive first period for the visitors. They also hit
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Ambassador to the United Nations on Friday condemned both North Korea’s missile launches and the lack of action taken by the UN Security Council to address them as “appalling.” In remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on the matter, Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Pyongyang had launched a “staggering” 59
Continue Reading BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez is leading the TimberTech Championship after making four birdies on his last four holes. That gives the Spaniard a 67 and a one-shot lead over Paul Goydos and Rod Pampling on the PGA Tour Champions. This is the second of three postseason events on the over-50 tour.
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Columbia police have added more allegations of child sex crimes against a 76-year-old man arrested this week on suspicion of having child pornography.
Continue Reading MÖNCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) — Borussia Mönchengladbach substitute Patrick Herrmann has scored with the last kick of the Bundesliga game to seal a 3-1 win over Stuttgart and ease the team’s fears of a crisis. Jonas Hofmann and Marcus Thuram also scored as Gladbach ended a three-game losing streak including its German Cup loss at Darmstadt.
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press A just has granted an injunction halting parts of a new Missouri law that put limits on what can be done to help register voters and reach out to absentee voters. The new law bans paid solicitation of voter registration applications. It requires registration with the state by anyone seeking
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — El gobernador de Texas desde 2015, el republicano Greg Abbott, buscará la reelección en los comicios del próximo martes 8 de noviembre, el mismo dÃa en que se celebran las trascendentales elecciones legislativas de medio término a nivel nacional, en las que el presidente Joe Biden pondrá a prueba su
Continue ReadingBy Florencia Trucco, Claudia Rebaza, Hande Atay Alam, Stefano Pozzebon and Aliza Kassim, CNN A group of tourists traveling in the Peruvian Amazon, who were detained on Thursday by an indigenous community demanding government action over an oil spill, were freed on Friday, according to Abel Chiroque, head of the ombudsman office in Loreto. Chiroque
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Friday once again denied a request to challenge President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, but her brief order will not change the status quo. As things stand, there are several pending lawsuits in play, and the Biden administration already
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By Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Friday laid off employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost cutting that could potentially upend how one of the world’s most influential platforms operates one week after it was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk. Numerous Twitter employees began posting on the
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El Centro de Predicción de Tormentas emitió una alerta de tornado para casi 12 millones de personas en el centro-norte y noreste de Texas, el este y sur de Oklahoma y el noroeste de Arkansas. La alerta está vigente hasta las 8 p.m., hora local, e incluye las ciudades de Dallas, Waco
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has been here before. It’s hard not to think of the last time the Astros’ manager was up 3-2 in the Fall Classic as he leads the team back to Houston Saturday night for Game 6 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ross Chastain skyrocketed to motorsports infamy for wall-riding his way into NASCAR’s championship race with a video-game style move that has overshadowed the finale and his fellow title contenders. It puts pressure on the eighth-generation Florida watermelon farmer and journeyman NASCAR driver. He’ll race
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TONIGHT: Showers and storms likely with wind gusts between 40-50 mph. Lows falling into the low to mid-40s by morning. TOMORROW: Breezy with decreasing clouds and cool temperatures in the mid-upper 50s for highs. EXTENDED: Storms should enter Mid-Missouri by early evening along Highway 65, and then progress east through the night. Expect rain and
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