Travelers across the country have endured lengthy lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts, and into terminal lobbies. At some airports, lines during peak hours have topped 90 minutes. Airlines have reported holding planes at gates to wait for passengers to clear security.
This will cut down on the amount of carry-on luggage fliers haul on planes and speed up inspections at the notoriously slow #Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, U.S. Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal wrote in a letter to a dozen major U.S. airlines.
New Yorkers can blame themselves for unbearably long lines at area airports, the Transportation Security Administration said in response to criticism from the Port Authority.
A bag-screening issue that caused more than 3,000 checked bags to miss their outbound flights has been fixed, Transportation Security Administration officials said Friday.
“A school may not require #transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so,” the letter says, according to The New York Times, which obtained a copy.
Peruvian activist and actor Richard Torres contracted matrimony with Mexico’s famous 1,000-year-old Arbol del Tule, or Tule Tree, in an Inca ceremony replete with incense, grains and conch shells.
This is the sex house of an #ecosexual, a person who makes the land their lover, bringing a whole new meaning to “environmentally friendly” and “whore-ticulture”.
The bad news is that the help won’t kick in until after the $6,850 deductible is exhausted. The bottom line: The new mother pays $7,010 out of the $7,540 in costs.
The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the #Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in #Benghazi, an email reveals.
Asthmatic smokers who switch to #vaping could enjoy significant recovery in their lung and respiratory function, according to a new study published in Discovery Medicine.
Donald #Trump leads #Hillary Clinton by ten points among #Hispanic voters, according to a shocking new general election match-up #poll released Friday.
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The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
Tesla announced Thursday that it has received 325,000 preorders for its recently unveiled Model 3. If it sells every car that’s been reserved, the company says it will earn enough revenue to make this the “biggest one-week launch of any product ever.” A few days ago, the electric car company was saying it had received twice the number of preorders it originally expected to get. Now it’s quickly approaching three times that number, which raises questions about the company’s ability to meet its increasingly complex production goals.
The Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan think tank said Americans will pay a total of $4.9 trillion in taxes this year – 3.34 trillion in federal taxes and $1.64 trillion in state and local taxes. The combination of the three basic necessities totals $4.105 trillion, with $1.629 trillion spent on food, $360 billion on clothing and $2.117 trillion on housing.
When it comes to jobs growth in the US, all one can say is thank god for waiters and bartenders: after all, a Starbucks barista is precisely what a recently fired oil chemical engineer making half a million dollars really wants to do with their life.
“I’ve been around guns all my life. I know how to use them, and arming our people on our military bases and allowing them to carry concealed, privately owned weapons — I do not recommend that as a force protection,” Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley told Congress on Thursday.
Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing. That’s the threat against parents at Bear Branch Elementary School in Magnolia ISD. This is the school’s tactic to keep parents who live close to the school from walking on school grounds.
A Spartanburg woman has been arrested after police say she allowed her 3-year-old son and 9-year-old nephew to walk, unsupervised, to a McDonald’s restaurant near her home.
One of the activists reportedly carried a sign that referenced Hillary Clinton’s use in 1996 of the term “super-predator” to describe young black people. That sign prompted Bill Clinton to launch into a lengthy defense of his administration’s crackdown on crime and welfare abuse in the 1990’s, policies which have come under repeated attack by black activists.
Dozens of text messages that a teenage girl sent to her boyfriend that encouraged him to kill himself were just words and do not constitute a crime, her lawyer told the state’s highest court Thursday.
The Fair Housing Act doesn’t include criminals as a protected class, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says refusing to rent based on a criminal record is a form of racial discrimination, due to racial imbalances in the U.S. justice system.
Naquasia Legrand: No, I say this is great that this is happening fast. People are losing their jobs now as we speak. Whether we fight or not people are already losing their job, losing their homes. This is a way that us standing in solidarity, standing together, this is a way to keep us together and have job security. So by this movement rapidly the way it is is definitely great for all low wage workers around this country.
According to a study by Source Technologies, self-service retail banking kiosks can offer significant improvements to physical branch locations. Usually it takes customers 9 minutes to get an official check from a bank teller. When banks provide self-service kiosks for their customers to use, the time it takes to get an official check gets cut down to 40 seconds. Customers can get their checks 13.5 times faster with a self-service kiosk.
Among all respondents, nearly half (49 percent) wanted more self-service kiosks and 20 percent wanted to be able to pay with mobile or a smartwatch. Once again, among Millennials, the figures were higher: “26 percent want to be able to pay at self-service kiosks using mobile devices . . .”
But maybe you still don’t understand why’s all this necessary? Why can’t the rules stay the same for each convention? Listen, if you were a delegate you wouldn’t want to be governed by the rules of past conventions. There’s no reason that the rules that governed Romney’s delegates should be used to govern you. After all, this is a new convention for new candidates.
Matt Schlapp: I think, so much of this Bill, depends on what Donald Trump decides to do. Donald Trump, obviously if he gets the nomination he’s gonna be plenty happy. If he doesn’t get it does he endorse? You know, Ronald Reagan in 1976 lost that grueling nominating contest to Gerald Ford but he stood up there at the podium, put his arm around Gerald Ford and endorsed him. If that happens, my party is going to be OK. If we don’t get that moment my party has a big problem.
Um yeah, no. What Schlapp didn’t say is that Reagan wasn’t the frontrunner going into the 1976 convention. Far different scenario.
The Toyota Prius v is the only midsize car out of 31 evaluated to earn a good rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s first-ever headlight ratings.
The Mishawaka City Council voted unanimously to join the city of South Bend and St. Joseph County in paying for legal fees in court cases involving local big box stores seeking lower property taxes.
Another politically-motivated attempt to keep Wal-Mart out was made explicitly clear in Puerto Rico, where a law was introduced to effectively tax the company at a rate three times higher than other companies. The tax is applied to companies with revenues over $2.75 billion – and Wal-Mart is the only company on the island that even comes close.
Many hosts are engaged in open warfare with their audiences. Even among those who are not, there is a palpable awareness that this election is different from any other and may well change the future of talk radio and their individual careers.
A 32-year-old Marion County, Tenn., mother faces an April court date on child neglect charges after deputies found her driving ahead of her young daughters as she made them walk miles to school on Valley View Highway.
According to the association’s rules, student council meetings should be held in a “safe space environment” where “discriminatory language and actions” are prohibited. Such “actions” include “refraining from hand gestures which denote disagreement” or “in any other way indicating disagreement with a point or points being made.”
If Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination this summer, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is vowing not to give the billionaire’s campaign control over the party leading up to the November election, according to a report in The New York Times.
In response to a proposed guidance from the state’s Board of Education that would pressure schools to let children choose their gender-assigned bathroom of choice, Michigan parents, teachers and students have flooded the Board with pleas to change the policy.
When Pomare was contacted, he was wearing a wig and women’s clothing, including a bra, a statement from the LASD revealed. “The deputy noticed he was wearing a wig and appeared to have breasts,” LASD Sergeant Brian Hudson told the Los Angeles news outlet.
Hundreds of thousands of people could soon lose food stamps as states reimpose time limits and work requirements that were suspended in recent years because of high unemployment, state officials and advocates for the poor said Friday.
Tech startups love millennials. Tasty, tasty millennials who get underpaid, overworked, churned up and turned into nourishment for venture capitalists. Millennials are the Soylent Green of the tech world.
A 32-year-old Marion County, Tenn., mother faces an April court date on child neglect charges after deputies found her driving ahead of her young daughters as she made them walk miles to school on Valley View Highway.
According to the association’s rules, student council meetings should be held in a “safe space environment” where “discriminatory language and actions” are prohibited. Such “actions” include “refraining from hand gestures which denote disagreement” or “in any other way indicating disagreement with a point or points being made.”
If Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination this summer, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is vowing not to give the billionaire’s campaign control over the party leading up to the November election, according to a report in The New York Times.
