Have The 'Miserable' Airlines Finally Reached A Tipping Point?
In the wake of recent high profile incidents of customer mistreatment, most notably, the viral video of airport security officers dragging a passenger off a United Airlines plane last month ,...
View ArticleDespite Viral Incidents, Passengers Are More Satisfied With Airlines Than Ever
Another day and another conflict with airline employees goes viral. This time, it's a family getting kicked off a JetBlue flight because of a dispute with flight attendants over where they stored the...
View ArticleTrump Announces Plan To Privatize Air Traffic Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71s3bh8acZA President Trump announced Monday a plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system — a move that would remove the job of tracking and guiding...
View ArticleThe Cosby And Yanez Juries Appear Deadlocked. Now What?
Two juries deliberating in high profile criminal trials this week appeared to be unable to reach agreement on a verdict. The judges overseeing those trials sent the jurors in both cases back to...
View ArticleProtesters Take To The Streets After Not-Guilty Verdict In Philando Castile Case
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to St. Paul, Minn., where protesters shut down a highway last night marching to protest the acquittal of a police officer charged in...
View ArticleFrom Drug Overdose To Fires, Council Says Preventable Deaths At An All-Time High
States are not doing enough to improve safety on the roads, in the workplace and in the home, according to a new report from the National Safety Council. The group, which graded all 50 states on...
View Article10 Years After Bridge Collapse, America Is Still Crumbling
Ten years ago, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis collapsed, sending cars, trucks and even a school bus that were crawling over it in bumper-to-bumper rush...
View ArticleInside Wrigley Field, The Scorekeepers Stay True To Baseball's Beginnings
Modern technology has advanced the game of baseball in many ways. Teams use computer models to help strategize, data analytics to find the best players, and even tablets in the dugouts to instantly...
View Article3 Reasons Houston Was A 'Sitting Duck' For Harvey Flooding
There isn't a city in the United States, and there are probably very few anywhere in the world, that could have handled Hurricane Harvey's 50 inches of rain without significant flooding. But Harvey was...
View ArticleScores Of Roads Closed. 50,000+ Displaced. Houston Still Has A Long Way To Go
As some residents of South Texas begin to dry out their homes and belongings, significant challenges lie ahead as the city of Houston and others in the affected area look to recover and rebuild....
View ArticleIn California, Many Wonder Why There Were No Mass Evacuation Alerts For...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The California wildfires have now killed at least 41 people. Residents of the northern counties burnt by the fires are asking why there...
View ArticleAre Social Media Sites Doing Enough To Combat Rumors And False News?
As fire fighters in California's wine country worked frantically to contain and put out devastating wildfires that killed at least 42 people in recent weeks, and while his officers were still...
View ArticleWhite House Pushes New Truck Safety Regulation While Loosening Obama-Era Rules
Updated on Dec. 4 at 6:29 p.m. ET Some of the nation's 3.5 million truck drivers staged protests with their big rigs at truck stops and a few state capitols around the country on Monday, in hopes of...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines And Pilots Work Out Deal To Save Holiday Flights
There is no need to charter a sleigh pulled by reindeer for your air travel to holiday destinations after all. American Airlines and its pilots have worked out a deal to staff cockpits in late December...
View ArticleNTSB Looks At Disabled Signals, Locked Switch In Latest Deadly Amtrak Crash
Updated at 11:59 p.m. ET Federal investigators say a track switch locked in the wrong position appears to have led to Sunday's deadly Amtrak collision with an idle CSX freight train, and they are...
View ArticleWhy It's Infrastructure Week, Again
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's Infrastructure Week again. Since President Trump came into office, it sometimes feels as though every other week is Infrastructure Week....
View Article5 Reasons It Could Feel Like You're Traveling Without Moving This Summer
If you've already tried to get away for the long holiday weekend or are planning on leaving soon, you probably know this: the highways, airports and train stations are packed with like-minded folks...
View ArticleAnxiety Grows Over Anti-Immigrant Actions: 'We Feel They Are After Us'
The Trump administration's practice of separating children from their parents at the border is not just heartbreaking to other immigrants but also terrifying. Even immigrants who are in the country...
View ArticleEven As Cars Get Safer, Traffic Fatalities Still High
The U.S is on pace to record close to 40,000 roadway and highway deaths for the third consecutive year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the National Safety Council. The silver...
View ArticleHurricane Florence: Travel Begins To Snarl As Storm Closes In
Many seaports and airports along the southeastern U.S. coastline have been shut down, more than 1,000 flights have been canceled, and some highways and bridges in low-lying coastal areas could close...
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