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Fee-Free Day on Aug. 25 Marks the National Park Service’s Birthday. National Park Week is Aug. 22–30, celebrating both the 110th birthday of the National Park Service and the 250th anniversary of American independence. This weeklong celebration will feature hundreds of programs, family activities and patriotic events across the country under the theme “Celebrate America’s Story.” Entrance
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Concept cars are an important glimpse into the future, showing what automotive designers and engineers are exploring for what will be in our driveways before the end of the decade. While these ideas may influence future production models, all are designed to inspire and push the boundaries of automotive design and technology. Take a road
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These picturesque and iconic courses are where many champions learned to play, competed and made history, including World Golf Hall of Fame inductees, and where US Presidents, Supreme Court justices, film and theater celebrities and others have played.
Cancer patients and their caregivers can get free hotel rooms if they must travel far from home for treatment. The largest free hotel room program is the partnership between the hotel chain Extended Stay America and the American Cancer Society. Since the Keys of Hope program launched in 2013, the hotel chain has donated more
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Audi introduces its first-ever SQ9, a spacious three-row SUV built for the U.S. market. It’s a new and more powerful luxury flagship for the brand’s full-sized SUV Q9 model family. It arrives in fall 2026 as a 2027 model, with a pricetag of around $118,000 – which is about $30,000 more than the previous top-of-the
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UNESCO has added two theaters in the Brazilian Amazon to its World Heritage List. The Amazonia Theaters comprise Theatro da Paz in Belem, Para state, and Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Amazonas state. Both were built in the late 19th century at the height of the rubber boom, and combine European architectural influences with local materials and symbols.
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This is the 81st anniversary of the start of the Nuclear Age – the only time an atomic bomb has been used in warfare, and a good time to reflect on the worldwide danger. There are several places in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which memorialize their destruction, the fortitude of the Japanese people to rebuild their cities and their lives and hope for the future in a world without nuclear war.
Bertha Benz was the first documented woman driver, of the first documented road trip, and the first woman we would describe today as an automotive marketing pro or influencer. Her pioneering 65 mile drive on August 5, 1888 between home and her mother’s house became a media sensation and helped drive sales of her husband’s
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Check washing is back, and it can cost you money. Once considered an old-fashioned scam, it is popular again with fraudsters because it is so easy for crooks to alter checks with simple chemicals or with new digital tools like AI to forge identities and amounts. According to the FBI Suspicious Activity Reports, check fraud
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Club Med returns to the USA with the acquisition and planned redevelopment of the iconic Carambola Beach Resort, on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. That means no passport is needed for US passport holders to visit one of the storied locations in the Caribbean, marking the return of Club Med
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