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A wildly popular Facebook joke about “storming” Area 51 inspired plans for an enormous alien-themed party in the Nevada desert. Now there are three events in the works, including one in Las Vegas sponsored by Bud Light. The aliens, if they’re watching, probably have some questions for humanity. You might, too, so here’s a closer […]

A pack of red cattle dogs bayed with excitement as Larry Callies drove his pickup truck down a Rosenberg, Tex., ranch road one morning. He pulled up to the barn and stepped a booted foot from the cab to the dirt, and the dogs keened even more wildly, eager to get out on the range:

“Purposefully naff, twinkly, 1970s Capri glam” that is completely at odds with the London restaurant scene right now, one reviewer from The Guardian newspaper wrote. “It feels pleasantly deranged,” wrote another for The Evening Standard. As the traveling circus rolls into town for fashion week, London is sulking under the looming prospect of a chaotic

It was a hot mess — so much so that when the pilot of an international flight spilled a cup of coffee on the cockpit controls midway over the Atlantic Ocean, it melted one of the buttons and the plane was diverted to Ireland, an investigation concluded on Thursday. The Condor airlines flight had been

Where would you go if you had more than 40 million points with an airline? Hawaii 96 times? Seoul 40 times? Federal District Court in Atlanta? Gennady Podolsky, a travel agent based in Chicago, was charged on Wednesday with 12 counts of wire fraud in connection with what prosecutors describe as a 13-month scheme in

Tiffany & Company’s High Jewelry — for Men Exactly when a man’s lapel became the stage for displays of patriotic fervor, tribal affiliation or cultural distinction is open to interpretation. French men since at least Napoleon have loved exhibiting their décorations — medals, crosses or discrete bar pins, color coded to represent different honors bestowed

Rescue workers saved thousands of people from rising waters Friday as record rainfall pounded southeastern Spain, a deluge that authorities said killed at least four people and closed down airports, trains, roads and schools. The storm that slammed into the Mediterranean coastal regions of Valencia, Murcia and eastern Andalusia on Thursday and Friday left more

Dear Tripped Up, On a recent family vacation to Cartagena, Colombia, we showed up for a one-night stay at a hotel that exists only on the internet. My son had a dislocated shoulder from a mountain-biking accident earlier in the day, his pain meds were wearing off and it was New Year’s Eve. I booked

Throughout the planning process, Arrive kept in touch. When I picked a FedEx center that didn’t hold shipments, it found a convenient substitute. The Tuesday before my Friday pickup, I received an email confirming that my shipment had arrived, providing peace of mind. Getting the gear Opening the 30-by-24-by-12-inch box was a Christmas-morning thrill. Nestled

U.S. airlines are increasing their emissions of climate-changing gases much faster than they are boosting fuel efficiency, according to an environmental group’s report. The International Council on Clean Transportation said Thursday that carbon dioxide emissions and fuel burning rose 7% from 2016 to 2018, overshadowing a 3% gain in fuel efficiency. The report’s authors say