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TSA workers are getting an extra financial boost on the heels of the longest-ever government shutdown in American history.The Department of Homeland Security began distributing $10,000 bonus checks to TSA officers who went “above and beyond” during the 43-day shutdown, according to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. During the government’s closure, TSA workers were among the thousands of critical federal employees required to show up to work with no pay. “Every single one of these individuals served with exemplary service,” Noem said at a press conference on Thursday. “They went above and beyond. They helped individuals, they served extra…
Meta is getting ready to launch third-party chat integration on WhatsApp in Europe, the company announced on Friday. The tech giant notes that the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires it to give users in Europe the option to chat with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to make their apps interoperable. “Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, the option for WhatsApp users to chat with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket directly via third-party chats will soon be rolling out across Europe,” Meta wrote in a blog post. “This marks a significant milestone in…
Princess Cruises is debuting its most extensive and varied collection of Caribbean and Panama Canal itineraries for the 2027-28 season, and, on November 1, 2026, the line will unveil calls at Celebration Key as part of its expanded Caribbean deployment.“Purpose-built on Grand Bahama Island, the exclusive destination is the largest of its kind ever undertaken by Carnival Corporation,” Princess Cruises said, noting that the line’s newest ship, Star Princess, is making the first call at the destination. The roster of Caribbean itineraries will comprise 187 departures, 31 ports,43 itineraries ranging from four to 15 days, nine ships, including the new Star Princess…
A German court has found that Google has abused its dominant market position in the price comparison sector and ruled that the company must pay a total of €572 million ($665.6 million) in damages to two German price comparison companies, according to a report by Reuters. Google must pay the price comparison platform Idealo about €465 million (about $540 million) in damages, and €107 million (about $124 million) to Producto, another price comparison tool, the report said. Idealo had claimed damages of €3.3 billion from Google, arguing that its lawsuit was a direct response to the European Court of Justice’s…
Walmart logo is seen near the store in Austin, United States on Oct. 23, 2025.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWhen incoming Walmart CEO John Furner steps into the retailer’s top role, he will try to follow up a period of dramatic share growth that many of Walmart’s rivals have failed to match.Walmart’s stock has more than quadrupled since outgoing CEO Doug McMillon began in the role in February 2014. Across nine of the 12 calendar years when was Walmart’s leader, the company posted positive stock returns.Among Walmart’s main rivals in the retail and grocery business, only Amazon and Costco…
When clients need a real vacation, the Caribbean’s best-value all-inclusive experience is closer than they think. Sandals Resorts was born in Jamaica more than 40 years ago and has been sharing the best of the Caribbean ever since. The brand pioneered the region’s all-inclusive experience in 1981 and has continued to raise the bar throughout the decades, building a reputation as all-inclusive experts. At Sandals, all-inclusive means guests can go all in on the best the Caribbean has to offer. This style of vacationing was created four decades ago to share the simple, vibrant island life with everyone. Dining covers every style,…
Boeing has signed a deal with startup Charm Industrial to remove 100,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere. Charm collects agricultural and forestry waste and uses heat to turn it into a product it calls “bio-oil,” a messy jumble of hydrocarbons that it injects underground, including into former oil wells. Once sequestered, Charm can sell carbon removal credits to companies. Axios first reported on the startup’s deal with Boeing. Aviation has made little progress on cutting its carbon emissions. That has left companies in the sector searching for alternatives. Carbon removal has emerged as a contender given that it…
Americans love to travel for the holidays and that will once again be the case in 2025 despite the government shutdown’s crippling effect on air travel and ongoing economic woes, according to a new study from Upgraded Points.The travel experts recently polled 2,370 U.S. adults—balanced by state and gender—to measure typical holiday travel behaviors and plans for the period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. More than half of Americans (56 percent) will celebrate at home, while about one-third (34 percent) will go to someone else’s place, and nearly one in 10 (9 percent) will head out on vacation.When it comes…
Five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud U.S. companies by posing as remote IT workers, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday. The five people are accused of working as “facilitators” who helped North Koreans get jobs by providing their own real identities, or false and stolen identities of more than a dozen U.S. nationals. The facilitators also hosted company-provided laptops in their homes across the U.S. to make it look like the North Korean workers lived locally, according to the DOJ press release. These actions affected 136 U.S. companies and netted Kim Jong Un’s…
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, ad copy, and more. The inclusion of the em dash has led people to criticize those writers for being lazy and turning to an AI chatbot to do their work. Of course, many have also argued for the em dash, saying it’s been a part of their writing well before LLMs adopted the punctuation. However, the…