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Break out binoculars for these bird-watching trips

January 28, 2018, 6:00am Life

It’s the Year of the Bird and the Centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. So grab the binoculars and head to the mountains, the coast or the canyons to observe beautiful creatures in flight. Read story

Mules are a popular way for visitors to tour the Grand Canyon.

Deep dive in to Grand Canyon stunning

Mules are a popular way for visitors to tour the Grand Canyon.

January 28, 2018, 6:00am Life

Roughly 6 million people visit Grand Canyon National Park in a year, but fewer than 100,000 of them spend a night in the park’s backcountry. Read story

American, Delta revive deal to aid stranded passengers

January 25, 2018, 4:16pm Business

American Airlines and Delta are reviving a deal that lets them put passengers on each other’s planes when travelers are stranded by disruptions such as winter storms and computer outages. Read story

In this Wednesday Jan. 10, 2018, photo, Dovid Reidel, Director of Research & Archive Division of the Amud Aish Memorial Museum, in Brooklyn, N.Y., shows plea for rescue, left, that was smuggled out of France’s Vittel internment camp on a coat lining in 1944, and the 1942 diary of Dr. Hillel Seidman, written in the Warsaw Ghetto, both part of the museum’s collection. The museum focuses on Jewish religious practice and the role of faith during the Holocaust.

Brooklyn Holocaust museum focuses on faith and survival

In this Wednesday Jan. 10, 2018, photo, Dovid Reidel, Director of Research & Archive Division of the Amud Aish Memorial Museum, in Brooklyn, N.Y., shows plea for rescue, left, that was smuggled out of France’s Vittel internment camp on a coat lining in 1944, and the 1942 diary of Dr. Hillel Seidman, written in the Warsaw Ghetto, both part of the museum’s collection. The museum focuses on Jewish religious practice and the role of faith during the Holocaust.

January 21, 2018, 6:02am Life

Faith and survival, not the machinery of death, are the central themes at an atypical Holocaust museum in Brooklyn. Read story

A detailed shot of custom made cowboy boot at Little’s Boot Company in San Antonio, Texas.

Cowboy boots are as much a part of San Antonio as the Alamo

A detailed shot of custom made cowboy boot at Little’s Boot Company in San Antonio, Texas.

January 21, 2018, 6:02am Life

A visit to San Antonio would not be complete without a stroll by the Alamo, enjoying a cheesy enchilada plate at a Tex-Mex joint off the River Walk, or browsing the cowboy boot section at the local Western wear shop. Read story

A blue heron walks along the beach at sunset in Orange Beach, Ala. The second annual National Plan for Vacation Day is Jan. 30.

Got unused vacation days? Jan. 30 is Plan for Vacation Day

A blue heron walks along the beach at sunset in Orange Beach, Ala. The second annual National Plan for Vacation Day is Jan. 30.

January 21, 2018, 5:03am Life

Stop making excuses. Start making plans. Read story

Want to visit Palau? First, you must sign the pledge

January 21, 2018, 5:03am Life

To enter the Republic of Palau, sign here. Read story

A tourist walks in front of the Capitolio on Thursday in Havana, Cuba.

Tourism booms in Cuba despite Trump’s tougher new policy

A tourist walks in front of the Capitolio on Thursday in Havana, Cuba.

January 20, 2018, 6:00am Nation & World

On a sweltering early summer afternoon in Miami’s Little Havana, President Donald Trump told a cheering Cuban-American crowd that he was rolling back some of Barack Obama’s opening to Cuba in order to starve the island’s military-run economy of U.S. tourism dollars and ratchet up pressure for regime change. Read story

Best in snow: Top West Coast ski destinations

January 14, 2018, 6:02am Life

Forget “best in show.” Liftopia, the lift ticket website, just announced its “best in snow” awards, bestowing honors on ski resorts across North America. The metrics used included survey feedback from thousands of skiers and snowboarders coupled with ratings for snow quality, crowds, experience and affordability. Read story

FILE - This Oct. 16, 2017, file photo, shows one of the 12th century churches carved from stone in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The architectural marvels are one of the country’s most magical attractions, miracles of engineering built 8,000 feet above sea level, each carved in one piece directly from soft volcanic rock.

Ethiopia: Mystery, antiquity and Lucy

FILE - This Oct. 16, 2017, file photo, shows one of the 12th century churches carved from stone in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The architectural marvels are one of the country’s most magical attractions, miracles of engineering built 8,000 feet above sea level, each carved in one piece directly from soft volcanic rock.

January 14, 2018, 6:01am Life

Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid rock and built mysterious towers of stone. Read story