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Passports open the doors of the world. But not all of them are equal. Depending on the country that issues them and various other factors, some are much more powerful than others. And the advantages of being the holder of a powerful passport are countless. To begin with, they allow the holder to easily enter most countries without additional entry requirements such as visas. So, which is the world’s most powerful passport for travel in 2024? According to a well-known index published earlier this month, the Spanish passport is the best that a traveler can have today to travel next year. Travele......

Time magazine released its shortlist for its perennial Person of the Year selection. The annual honor began in 1927 when Charles Lindbergh received the distinction following his solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis and climate activist Greta Thunberg have received the honor, along with several world leaders and every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt (except Gerald Ford). The magazine has also swerved in the past and awarded “concepts,” like “The Silence Breakers” who started the MeToo movement a......

NEW YORK — Selene Sanchez wakes up early in the morning and kisses her 2-year-old son before dashing off to cleaning jobs across the city. She travels to different houses, scrubbing floors and tidying up before heading home, to the emergency shelter where she lives. Sanchez, 30, makes it back by lunchtime, when she and her husband switch places. Then he goes off to work, while she stays with Beymar, their son. Later in the day she heads out again to search for more work. Sometimes she gets lucky — a new job comes up, and she can work an hour or two, bringing home a few more dollars. The massiv......

SEATTLE — Have we checked the spare parachute packing card slot? What about the rip cords? Wait, the parachute, was it a 24-foot canopy or a 26-foot canopy? Is there DNA on the tie clip? And, my goodness, how did the money end up at Tena Bar? The questions linger, they spiral, becoming ever more arcane. If you're not versed, if you don't know about the copycats and the diatoms and the titanium particles, it all sounds like Greek. But for those who've been hooked, captivated, enthralled, the legend of D.B. Cooper does not fade. It is a subculture — like Swifties, 12s, the BeyHive — focused arou......

Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will take the title for world’s largest cruise ship when it begins sailing from Miami in January, and will hold the title at least until 2025 when its sister ship comes into service. The cruise line announced that ship’s name Thursday going with Star of the Seas, which will begin sailing in summer 2025, although details about the ship and where it will be home ported were not revealed. It’s the second in the line’s new Icon class, which the line said would include class-specific features “from the beach retreat to the resort escape and the theme park adventur......

Former President Donald Trump reportedly warned his longtime personal assistant not to cooperate with the federal investigation into the classified documents he took to Mar-a-Lago, according to a new report out Monday. Molly Michael told the FBI that Trump ordered her to feign ignorance after he discovered the feds were interviewing insiders about his refusal to hand over boxes of classified documents, ABC reported. “You don’t know anything about the boxes,” Trump told Michael, the report said. The statement mirrors remarks Trump made to his own lawyers that prosecutors consider to be strong e......