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FAA issues warning to travelers amid omicron surge: Delays will continue
GETTY/Anna Moneymaker(NEW YORK) -- The travel chaos continues for an eighth consecutive day Friday, with almost 1,300 U.S. cancellations as of 11 a.m. ET. The airlines have been grappling wi...
Dec 31, 2021
New Year's Day Powerball Jackpot soars to $500 million
GETTY/Joe Raedle (NEW YORK) -- The New Year's Day Powerball jackpot rose to $500 million, up from $483 million. The new jackpot estimate has a cash equivalent of $355.9 million. The jackpot...
Dec 31, 2021
'It's cool to be green': Jeep CEO on how he's transforming the 80-year-old brand
Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Variety(NEW YORK) -- Jeep evangelists listen up: Your rugged adventure mobile is going silent. The gas-guzzling SUVs that have rolled off Jeep's assembly lines for 80 ye...
Dec 31, 2021
A week of travel woes: More than 8,000 flights canceled since Christmas Eve
Radoslav Zilinsky/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Thursday marks a week of travel woes across the country with more than 8,000 flight cancellations nationwide since Christmas Eve. As millions of Americans t...
Dec 30, 2021
The year in tech: Space tourism lifts off, NFTs go mainstream and Big Tech faces reckoning
Mario Tama/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over the past year, routine space tourism emerged from science fiction to reality, digital art you can't even touch auctioned for millions at Christie's, and malic...
Dec 29, 2021
Holiday travel nightmare continues with COVID-related flight cancellations
Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The omicron variant continues to wreak havoc on holiday travel from coast to coast. Over the weekend, airlines reported more than 3,000 flight ...
Dec 28, 2021
NYC entertainment industry workers worry about future amid show cancellations
Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With the number of COVID-19 cases surging in New York, workers in the entertainment industry, many of whom are freelancers, are worried about the prosp...
Dec 27, 2021
Airlines cancel more than 300 holiday flights due to omicron impacts on crews
IronHeart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As pre-pandemic level crowds hit the airports for the holidays, three major U.S. airlines have been forced to proactively cancel more than 300 Christmas Eve flights...
Dec 23, 2021
Private jet firms are soaring in popularity after big COVID-19 bailouts. Were they a 'handout to the wealthy'?
Viaframe/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Lingering health concerns about commercial air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled a boom in private jet travel, a trend that has led to fresh scrutiny o...
Dec 23, 2021
NHTSA probing Tesla after reports that drivers can play video games in motion
Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- U.S. traffic safety regulators have launched a formal probe into certain Tesla vehicles after reports emerged that drivers can play video games on the car'...
Dec 22, 2021
