Triple-A expects more than 109 million Americans will travel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2. That’s a 34 percent from last year.

The Biden administration has held off on tightening any travel restrictions but did make another push for the unvaccinated to get the shot.

The New York Times says, with COVID-related hospitalizations up 20-percent across the country over the past two weeks, doctors and nurses are pleading with people to get vaccinated.

People awaiting trial for the January 6th US Capitol insurrection have raised hundred of thousands of dollars, according to the Guardian, to go toward their defense funds.

A new federal regulation requires higher safety standards for pipelines carrying oil and other hazardous liquids through the Great Lakes region, marine coastal waters and beaches, officials said Thursday.

Witnesses told police they says a man in his 60s inside the clinic carrying a bag that was leaking fluid.

The Washington Post says, however, that strict rules in some states will still complicate things.

The Department of Justice had appealed the settlement that would have seen the Sackler family paying billions to settle lawsuits while also giving up ownership of the company.

Soaring infections in Britain driven in part by the omicron variant of the coronavirus rattled Europe on Thursday, prompting new restrictions on the Continent and fueling a familiar dread on both sides of the Atlantic about entering a new phase of the pandemic just in time for the holidays.

Jordan forwarded texts from a former US defense department inspector general outlining a plan for then vice president Mike Pence, to refuse to certify the election results.