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Bit By The Travel Bug, Now What? 6 Things You Should Expect When Traveling Internationally
According to most Instagram accounts, international travel is common. However, contrary to popular belief, international travelers are still a minority group. Now maybe the royal wedding put you in the position to get bit by the travel bug. Maybe it’s those Facebook ads with the most succulent fruit, and refreshing blue waters you have ever seen, or maybe it’s just your time to travel. Either way, if you have your passport in hand and you’re standing in the customs line, or you’re on a website looking for your first international trip, we want you to #TravelWithStyle by reading a couple of our tips.
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President and Congress Roll Back Anti-Discriminatory Auto Lending Guidance: What’s Next for Consumers?
Despite federal laws addressing discrimination in housing, credit, and more, President Donald Trump signed on May 21, a rollback of an anti-discrimination guidance affecting auto lending. The presidential signature also marked the first time that a policy that had been in effect for several years was reversed through a special, streamlined legislative process under the Congressional Review Act.
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Texans Join Historic BBQ Restaurant Grand Opening and Food Challenge
Houston Texans join the 5-Pound Challenge
Houston staple and iconic Third Ward smokehouse, Ray's Real Pit BBQ Shack kick-offs Memorial Day weekend with a Grand-Opening celebration and the launch of their first BBQ Food Challenge! This celebration and 5-pound smoked enthused eating competition is slated for Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. outside of their new location, 3929 Old Spanish Trail | Houston, TX. 77021.
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To Fulfil Dr. King's Vision, We Must Lift Up the Poor
Dr. Martin Luther King's final mission was to build and launch a Poor People's Campaign across lines of race, religion and region. He called for a "revolution of values" to address the "triplets of evil" -- militarism, racism and economic injustice. People should not die from poverty in the richest nation in the world, he argued. It was time to speak out; silence was a betrayal.
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Where will Prince Harry and Meghan spend their honeymoon?
So now they're married, where will Prince Harry and his new bride Meghan be going on their honeymoon?
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A judge sides with parents and rules their 30-year-old son must move out
A 30-year-old man didn't get the message that it was time to move out of his parents' home, even after they left him five notices and an offer of cash to help find new digs.
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Dare to bare: 15 of the world's best nude beaches
Although still taboo in many places, casting aside your clothes at the shore has become a customary practice around the world in recent times.
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H-E-B presents Juneteenth Heritage Celebration at Washington on the Brazos State Historic Site
On the 19th of June 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and made a declaration of freedom ending the bondage of approximately 250,000 enslaved men, women and children in Texas. Since that time, Juneteenth has been celebrated and remembered by picnics, parades, family reunions, pageants, barbecues and games. The Brazos Valley has a rich history in celebrating Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth parade in Brenham, TX, which began in the early 1870s and continues to this day.
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Tesla is cutting prices in China
Tesla cars are getting cheaper in China. The company is cutting the prices of its Model X and Model S cars in China by about 6% after Beijing said it would slash duties on imported passenger vehicles, starting July 1.
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Pompeo says the US has not done enough to protect 2018 elections
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the US has a "great deal more work to do" to safeguard the integrity of American elections ahead of the upcoming 2018 midterms.
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40,000 pounds of chicken feathers spill onto highway
A semi driver rolled his vehicle over on northbound I-5 in Federal Way blocking multiple lanes of traffic Wednesday morning.
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Opportunity Zone Program has Much Potential
Over the last three decades there has been little significant legislation come out of our congressional small business committees. When the late, great Parren J. Mitchell retired from the House Small Business Committee as Chairperson, it kind of marked the end of great legislation relative to small and minority business procurement and investment. Fortunately, the Honorable Tim Scott, Black Republican senator from South Carolina had a vision and has made it a reality. The Opportunity Zone Program, officially the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is now law and quite active.
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Enjoy a Movie and Concert in One with The Wizard of Oz—Film with Live Orchestra May 31
Celebrate the end of school and start of summer with a concert and movie! On Thursday, May 31, journey over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road with the Houston Symphony at The Wizard of Oz—Film with Live Orchestra, sponsored by Huntsman. Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are $20 for reserved orchestra seating. Mezzanine and lawn seating are free. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Due to the popularity of this show, attendees utilizing free seating are encouraged to arrive early to ensure entry.
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Trouble in Big Food: America's cereal, soda and soup companies are in turmoil
America's cereal, soda and soup companies are having a rough 2018. General Mills, Campbell Soup, Hershey and Pepsi are all failing to convince investors they have a plan to navigate shoppers' changing tastes.
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Daymond John started out selling T-shirts from a van. Now he's on 'Shark Tank'
Daymond John always wanted to be an entrepreneur. "As a young kid growing up, I was always trying to sell something," John told CNNMoney. "Whether it was pencils in school ... Super Soakers on the beach. I was always selling something."
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John Legend and Rashad Robinson: End money bail now
No one should have to stay in jail because they lack the money to buy their freedom. Yet every night, according to the Justice Department's statistics, nearly 450,000 people who have not been convicted of a crime sit in jail, a large number trapped there simply because they don't have enough money to post bail.
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Manifest Destiny in Modern America
One weekend evening in 1966, while traveling from Camp LeJeune in Eastern North Carolina to Myrtle Beach, S.C., my Marine buddies and I began to see roadside signs advertising a “Fish Fry” near the South Carolina border. It was late, we had not eaten dinner, and fried fish sounded like a pretty good idea. We followed the signs that led down a dark country road to a point where cars were turning into an open field.
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Houston Native Serves Aboard USS Antietam
180521-N-HE318-1153 SEA OF JAPAN (May 21, 2018) Ensign Jordan Brooks, from Houston, Texas, communicates with the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14) on the bridge wing of the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) during a replenishment-at-sea. Antietam is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation supporting security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William McCann/Released)
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Why ESPN is going big on basketball
ESPN is doubling down on basketball content. For good reason. Millennials love basketball. About a quarter — 26% — of NBA fans are between the ages of 18-34, according to the Simmons National Consumer Study.
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Shootout between Texas school gunman and deputies lasted 25 minutes
The gunfire tearing through Santa Fe High School didn't stop for half an hour. And during that time, Texas deputies were in a 25-minute shootout with the gunman, authorities said.
