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AI companies are buying physical books in bulk, scanning their pages for training data and destroying some originals. The practice is now drawing bookseller backlash and calls for FTC scrutiny.

U.S. airfares are up 25.5% from a year ago, yet travel demand remains resilient. Fresh ARC, BLS and KAYAK data reveal a surprising late-summer travel economy.

As AI-generated writing floods publishing, authors and readers are confronting a new question: will proof of human authorship become a selling point?

Generative AI can produce beautiful sentences, compelling scenes and even entire manuscripts. But as writers hand more of the act of writing to machines, what happens to the writer?

Long before Lake Mead became one of America’s most recognizable reservoirs, homes, farms and businesses stood where desert now surrounds the remains of a forgotten Nevada town. Nearly 90 years after its final resident left, the strange story of St. Thomas is capturing attention all over again.

Jacob Green’s second novel, Before the Chips Fell, arrives December 2026. A new teaser references “the great Reno heist” and a mysterious group called the Green Felt, hinting at a casino crime story blending historical fiction, conspiracy and the same world as The Railrunner.

Today my son walked out of school. In Reno. He’s in middle school, and today there was a student walkout in protest of ICE. Whether you agree with that or not isn’t really the point of this post—but I’ll be honest, it made me stop and think more than I expected it to. Last night, he came to me nervous. Not about getting in trouble, not about missing class, but about what it meant. He told me he had never seen a protest in real life before. He didn’t know if it would be peacef