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Association: Tone down the rhetoric about travel

A new campaign from the U.S Travel Association aims to “challenge policymakers to tone down the dangerous rhetoric, embrace sensible guidelines for companies receiving assistance and promote travel as an economic solution.” Business travel, the group says, accounts for 15 percent of the nation’s travel, creates 1 million jobs and generates $16 billion in tax revenues annually. But, in recent weeks, some politicians have called out companies for taking junkets, saying they are unnecessary and
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Airplane Crashes Into Hudson River

NEW YORK — A U.S. Airways plane that took off from LaGuardia Airport crashed in the Hudson River. Officials said terrorism did not play a role in the crash of the Charlotte, N.C.,- bound flight. “I saw what appeared to be a tail fin of a plane sticking out of the water,” The Associated Press quoted one witness as saying. “All the boats have sort of circled the area. … I can’t tell what’s what