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Complaints against airlines jump 70%

June 15, 2017, 3:59pm Business

The same month that a viral video depicted a United Airlines passenger being dragged from his seat, complaints against airlines in the U.S. soared 70 percent. Read story

Buffalo trail tour traces history

June 11, 2017, 6:05am Life

From historical details of Native Americans’ final great wild buffalo hunts to tales of the species’ rescue from near extinction, a new self-guided tour across 10 sites in the western Dakotas tells the story of the last stand of the American bison, the national mammal. Read story

Workers go over the final installation of the permanent exhibit “Salute to the Home Front” Monday at the National World War II Museum, which opened to the public Saturday. The exhibit tells the home front story from the 1920s to the development of the atomic bomb.

WWII exhibit details homefront struggle

June 11, 2017, 6:04am Life

A rusted fragment of the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman’s munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Read story

John Simpson, project director of exhibitions for The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum, paints a mural based on artwork in the Dr. Seuss book “Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?” on a wall at the museum, in Springfield, Mass.

Dr. Seuss museum now open

June 7, 2017, 6:06am Life

From the squiggly, pink handrails outside the entrance to the front hall decorated with scenes from “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” — a real street just blocks away — the new Amazing World of Dr. Seuss museum says, “You’re off to Great Places!” Read story

Travel

Complaints against airlines jump 70%

Snow in June dots California slopes with skiers

Programs ease U.S. border crossings

Buffalo trail tour traces history

WWII exhibit details homefront struggle

Dr. Seuss museum now open

‘Jurassic World’ exhibit is mix of art, science

New Pixar concert at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Will future amusement park rides be based on original ideas and not movies?

Summer travel season could break records