Americans Defy Inflation Fears As Holiday Weekend Travel Hits Record High The TSA screened a high of 2.9 million passengers Friday, with Memorial Day weekend travel signaling a busy summer season ahead. 05/27/2024 - 4:51 am | View Link
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Memorial Day weekend travel to be congested with severe weather on the way AAA says this year’s total number of travelers is a 4% increase from 2023 and is coming close to matching 2005’s record of 44 million Memorial Day travelers. 05/24/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
5 Things to Do This Long Weekend That Will Simplify Your Home and Help Embrace Minimalism Perhaps you feel that your home has become too busy in its overall appearance and is no longer pleasing you. Over the course of a weekend, there are different tasks you can do that will help you ... 05/22/2024 - 8:31 pm | View Link
Staying dry through the weekend for most The ground is dry right now and that means if a brush fire is to start it would have plenty of fuel to burn and spread. We haven’t seen a lot of widespread rainfall over our area in recent weeks and ... 05/21/2024 - 4:49 pm | View Link
Seoul plans to offer financial support to residents seeking to reverse vasectomies or tubectomies in the latest step aimed at boosting birthrates as a dwindling population threatens the long-term vitality of the South Korean capital.
Seoul will offer each citizen up to 1 million won ($734) to help ease the financial burden of the medical prodecure for couples who want a child, according to a statement from the city on Tuesday.
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A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U. S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages.
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The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and were just north of an oppressive, early season heat wave setting records from south Texas to Florida.
Forecasters said the severe weather could shift to the East Coast later Monday and warned millions of people outdoors for the holiday to watch the skies.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue the work of the nation’s fallen toward a more perfect union, “for which they lived, and for which they died.”
Delivering remarks at a solemn remembrance ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Biden said each generation must ensure the sacrifice of the country’s service members is not in vain.
“Freedom has never been guaranteed,” Biden said under gray skies in the memorial amphitheater.
Charlie Blackmon loves baseball like an 8-year-old kid, works out with the energy of a teenager and views the game through the eyes of a gnarly veteran.
All of those characteristics were on display Monday afternoon at sun-splashed Coors Field.
Blackmon, who turns 38 on July 1, hit a three-run homer and two doubles and drove in four runs to lead the Rockies to an 8-6 victory over the Cleveland Guardians.
Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Famer for his NBA career and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting, died Monday, the league announced on behalf of his family. Walton, who had a prolonged fight with cancer, was 71.
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He was the NBA’s MVP in the 1977-78 season, a two-time champion and a member of both the NBA’s 50th anniversary and 75th anniversary teams.