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Flight canceled? Experts share advice about what you can do.

With a massive storm snarling travel across the U.S. and Canada this weekend, thousands of travelers have been stuck at airports — or waiting in long lines or on hold on the phone trying to rebook their flights. More than 2,800 flights had already been canceled in the U.S. Tuesday …

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2023 tax credits for EVs: How they’ll work and who can get them

Starting January 1, many Americans will qualify for a tax credit of up to $7,500 for buying an electric vehicle. The credit, part of changes enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act, is designed to spur EV sales and reduce greenhouse emissions. But a complex web of requirements, including where vehicles …

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Fortnite game maker will pay $520M to settle FTC allegations

Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, will pay $520 million to settle allegations from federal regulators that it tricked children into making in-game purchases and violated privacy laws. The video game company will pay $275 million for violating a federal children’s privacy law and will spend another …

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President Biden marks 50 years since car crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter

President Joe Biden visited the graves of his first wife and their baby daughter Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the car crash that took their lives. The pair and other members of the Biden family also attended mass at Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, where the gravesite …

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Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire arrested in Miami after allegedly punching his teenage daughter

Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire was arrested in Miami after allegedly punching and slapping his teenage daughter, police records show. Stoudemire, 40, is charged with battery, Miami Police Department records show. He denies the charges. Stoudemire allegedly entered his daughter’s room in his Miami home Saturday night and accused her …

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Congress eyes one

Washington — Lawmakers should be prepared to act quickly to pass a resolution funding the federal government for one week as negotiators continue to work on a longer-term spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday. Schumer said the longer-term measure, known as an omnibus bill, is “by far …

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Matt Luptak was flying with his 11-year-old daughter Sophia when her eyes started swelling and her airway began to close.  “I knew an EpiPen was what I needed,” Luptak said. “The flight attendant tells me, ‘We don’t have those.'”  Commercial airlines are required by the Federal Aviation Administration to carry …

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How “Boy in the Box” mystery will help solve other cases

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — For 65 years the nation has been waiting for investigators to determine the identity of the boy who became known as America’s Unknown Child or “The Boy in the Box.” Now, we know that child was Joseph Augustus Zarelli.  Investigators used modern forensic techniques, including forensic genetic …

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Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy; owes nearly $1.5 billion to Sandy Hook families for hoax lies

Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection Friday in Texas, citing debts that include nearly $1.5 billion he has been ordered to pay to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston. His …

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Airbnb has plan to fix pesky cleaning fees

Pretty much everyone hates Airbnb cleaning fees — those pesky charges tacked on to your vacation rental bill that supposedly cover the costs to get the place ready for the next visitors. Travelers don’t like the expense — and hosts don’t like charging them, either. Dennis Shirshikov, an Airbnb host …

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