‘The need for added safety has bolstered demand for charter flights in the last year and is expected to continue.’Sindhu Bhattacharya reports. At the height of the deadly second wave in April, a very worried prominent Indian businessman asked an air charter company for an aircraft to reach Frankfurt. His […]

Nearly 48 million Americans are expected to take a trip over the upcoming 4th of July weekend, according to AAA. That’s up 40% from last summer’s pandemic-reduced numbers and down just slightly from 2019. People across the U.S. are also eating in restaurants again — without masks. Movie theaters have […]

For the first time since MLB umpires began more rigorously checking pitchers for illegal substances, a player has been ejected for violating the rule. It happened in the bottom of the fifth inning Sunday when home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi determined there was something questionable inside the glove belonging to […]

In just a few weeks, millions of families will start to receive monthly payments from the federal government through its new, expanded child tax credit. For Marla Snead, 52, the money will mean the world. Snead and her youngest daughter, Carlee, 14, live in Chesapeake, West Virginia – her eldest, […]

The death toll has risen to nine after a 12-story condominium building collapsed in Florida, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a press conference Sunday morning. Search and rescue teams created a 125-feet-long trench at the rescue site on Saturday, which allowed authorities to recover additional bodies and human […]

After Air India, Britain’s Cairn Energy PLC plans to target assets of state-owned firms and banks in countries from the US to Singapore as it looks to ramp up efforts to recover the amount due from the Indian government after winning an arbitration against levy of retrospective taxes. A lawyer […]

Kyle Larson was racing toward history with one turn in sight. Larson, who had won three consecutive NASCAR Cup Series points races, had driven his way back to the position he's been in for most of the 2021 season — leading the way after passing Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman with […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 7 new deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, as well as 366 new positive cases. 229 County residents are currently hospitalized with Covid-19. 25% of them are in the ICU. While data showed that deaths from Covid remain low, new cases and […]

When DJ D-Nice saw former first lady Michelle Obama virtually join his “Club Quarantine” Instagram Live session during the pandemic, he knew it was something big.  “When (Obama) popped in to support what I was doing it just felt special,” Derrick “D-Nice” Jones, the recipient of ASCAP’s 2021 Voice of the Culture Award, tells USA TODAY.  “It’s […]

Story Highlights The town of Surfside received a required 40-year inspection report for the Champlain Towers South 16 hours after the beachside building’s catastrophic failure. An October 2018 inspection report found "abundant" cracking and spalling of the columns, beams and walls in the garage under the tower that collapsed early […]