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Heather Kindred, Senior Vice President, Nexion Travel Group. (Photo Credit: Nexion Travel Group)WHY IT RATES: The two proven leaders bring impressive resumes to their new roles and have the mammoth host agency poised to achieve its goals in 2026 and beyond.—Patrick Clarke, TravelPulse Senior EditorNexion Travel Group, the travel industry’s premier host agency in North America, today announced two updates to its executive team, promoting Heather Kindred to Senior Vice President and naming Laura Bjorne as Vice President, Business Operations. Kindred previously served as Nexion’s Vice President, Business Development and Education & Partner Relations, as well as the founding Program Director…

A decade ago, two college students built a fire extinguisher that snuffed out a fire using nothing more than a booming 10-inch subwoofer. The internet lapped it up, and Jimmy Fallon even booked a demonstration for “The Tonight Show.” But since that brief viral moment, there hasn’t been much more than a whisper about the technology. It’s not for lack of trying. The college kids weren’t the first to prove the concept. DARPA was on the case in 2012; and a search of the scientific literature reveals dozens of researchers investigating the idea. One startup now claims to have cracked…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brown University is rejecting a Trump administration proposal that would provide favorable access to funding in exchange for a wide range of commitments, saying the deal would curtail academic freedom and undermine the university’s independence.Brown is the latest university to turn down the proposal, which White House officials said would bring “multiple positive benefits” including “substantial and meaningful federal grants.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology backed away from the proposal last week after its president said it would restrict free speech and campus autonomy.Brown President Christina Paxson turned down the proposal on Wednesday in a letter to…

Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, Charlie Scharf, Wells Fargo & Company CEO and Kathy Warden, Northrop Grumman Chair & CEO speak during the Invest in America Forum on Oct. 15, 2025.Aaron Clamage | CNBCWells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sounded the alarm Wednesday over the potential for the the U.S. to lose its competitive edge to China, but said artificial intelligence could help America maintain its lead.Speaking at CNBC’s inaugural Invest in America Forum in Washington, D.C., the two executives said that while the U.S. still leads in many sectors, inconsistent policy and underinvestment is ceding…

In less than two years, struggling budget carrier Spirit Airlines predicts its operations will be profitable once again.The carrier, which is in the middle of a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring in less than a year, said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it expects to post its first full-year profit in eight years in 2027, according to Reuters. In the document, Spirit said that in 2027, it predicts an annual profit of $219 million, which would mark its annual profit since before the pandemic in 2019.Getting to that point, however, might prove difficult. The company said that in 2025,…

SpaceX is quietly standing up a volunteer fire department to serve the sprawling launch-and-manufacturing Starbase complex, tightening its control over emergency response at a site known for rapid — and sometimes explosive — rocket development.  A certificate of formation filed with the Texas Secretary of State on June 30 shows the creation of what’s called the Starbase Volunteer Fire Department. The nonprofit entity lists its headquarters as 1 Rocket Road in Brownsville, the principal address of SpaceX. Two of the three directors named on the filing are SpaceX employees: Cody Dye, environmental health and safety manager, and Kevin Bagnall, in-house…

Thanks to a new partnership between the Mississippi Department of Education and Mississippi Public Broadcasting, students across the state will be getting new teachers this year. But those teachers won’t be in classrooms, sitting behind desks. They’ll be on the screen. The REACH MS program, also called the Mississippi Virtual Synchronous Learning Initiative, funded by a $2.2 million appropriation from the Legislature, is a response to the teacher shortage afflicting swaths of Mississippi schools. There are thousands of vacant teaching posts in Mississippi, according to a recent MDE survey. While the virtual-teacher program doesn’t replace recruitment efforts, said associate state…

A United Airlines Boeing 737-MAX 8 aircraft departs at San Diego International Airport en route to New York on Aug. 24, 2024.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines on Wednesday forecast higher-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter after a rocky start to 2025.The carrier expects to earn between $3 and $3.50 a share for the last three months of the year, compared with analysts’ estimate of $2.86 a share.United has been expanding its flying capacity, while its rivals have scaled back some of their growth plans after a glut of flights weighed on fares this year. The airline increased capacity 7%…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday the company will soon relax some of ChatGPT’s safety restrictions, allowing users to make the chatbot’s responses friendlier or more “human-like,” and for “verified adults” to engage in erotic conversations. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right,” said Altman. “In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part…

TRIPKIT is a self-paced educational program for new advisors. (Source: The Travel Institute)The Travel Institute unveiled $100 savings, representing a discount of 23% on its TRIPKIT advisor training program through October, in tandem with its Trip of a Lifetime fall drive to promote fundamental knowledge for new advisors. The savings are being offered in conjunction with The Travel Institute’s Lifetime fall drive to promote fundamental knowledge for new advisors.“Self-paced, TRIPKIT augments student learning with support and engagement tools including expert-led insights from insider sessions with industry experts, online guided curriculum, on-demand coaching, recurring quizzes and automated ‘just-in-time’ TRIPKIT Tracks communications…