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Washington CNN  —  After nearly two decades, passengers going through airport security in the United States will no longer have to take their shoes off. The Transportation Security Administration will be phasing out the security requirement, a government source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN on the condition of anonymity. The White House Press Secretary responded to the reports on X, calling it “big news” from the Department of Homeland Security. An internal memo announcing the change, which was first reported by the blog Gate Access, was not officially confirmed by the TSA. “TSA and DHS are always exploring…

For the first time in almost 20 years, travelers may no longer be required to take off their shoes during security screenings at certain U.S. airports.The Transportation Security Administration is looking to abandon the additional security step that has for years bedeviled anyone passing through U.S airports, according to media reports.If implemented, it would put an end to a security screening mandate put in place almost 20 years ago, several years after “shoe bomber” Richard Reid’s failed attempt to take down a flight from Paris to Miami in late 2001.The travel newsletter Gate Access was first to report that the…

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in London on Tuesday at the start of a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrive at Windsor Castle to be welcomed by Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Windsor, England, Tuesday, July 8, 2025.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool) French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrive at Windsor Castle to be welcomed by Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Windsor, England, Tuesday, July 8, 2025.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)Read More Britain’s King…

Kirk Tanner, then chief executive officer of North America beverages for PepsiCo Inc., speaks during the Bloomberg Power Players Summit in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Marco Bello | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner has been named the new chief executive of The Hershey Company, effective August 18.Tanner will replace Michele Buck, who is retiring after almost 20 years at Hershey, including almost eight as CEO.Tanner joined Wendy’s in 2024 after more than 30 years at PepsiCo, including leading the company’s North American beverages unit. His move to Hershey marks a return to the consumer packaged…

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen a novel with a timely theme for her latest book club pick. Bruce Holsinger’s “Culpability” is a family drama that probes the morals and ethics of AI.“I appreciated the prescience of this story,” Winfrey said in a statement Tuesday, the day of the novel’s publication. “It’s where we are right now in our appreciation and dilemmas surrounding Artificial Intelligence, centered around an American family we can relate to. I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!”Holsinger, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of four previous…

The recent passage of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signaled a pair of key wins for travel advisors.On Monday, the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) lauded the Section 199A deduction being made permanent and the legislation’s expansion of qualified expenses under 529 savings plans to include postsecondary training and credentialing.Previously set to expire at the end of 2025, the aforementioned tax break allows small businesses such as independent travel advisors to deduct 20 percent of their qualified business income (QBI). The updated law increases the income limits to $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples filing jointly and…

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced Tuesday it is paying startup Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives Arbor $41 million to help it build its first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana that will burn waste biomass to generate electricity for a data center. At the same time, it’ll sequester the resulting CO2, shipping it via pipeline to be buried deep underground. “We are able to market it as two products,” Arbor co-founder and CEO Brad Hartwig told TechCrunch. “We’re selling carbon-free base load…

Landscape fabric may sound like a neat, tidy and easy solution to all your weeding woes, but, as often is the case, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it does more harm than good in ornamental beds and around perennials and crops.The woven (or sometimes non-woven) synthetic (or sometimes biodegradable) barrier is meant to suppress weeds while allowing water and air to pass through to the soil beneath it. And that’s exactly how it works -– for a…

London CNN  —  King Charles III will highlight the crucial bonds between the United Kingdom and France in the face of a “multitude of complex threats” as he welcomes President Emmanuel Macron for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit. The French leader’s three-day visit to the UK kicks off on Tuesday and sees Charles and Queen Camilla host Macron and his wife Brigitte at Windsor Castle, with a glittering banquet at the royal residence in the evening. In his toast on Tuesday evening, the King is expected to praise the strength of Anglo-French relationship as “our…

OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the company accelerated an existing security clampdown after Chinese startup DeepSeek released a competing model in January, with OpenAI alleging that DeepSeek improperly copied its models using “distillation” techniques. The beefed-up security includes “information tenting” policies that limit staff access to sensitive algorithms and new products, the report said. For example, during development of OpenAI’s o1 model, only verified team members who had been read into the project could discuss it in shared office spaces, according to the FT. There’s more. OpenAI now…