The TSA has launched Gateside by TSA PreCheck at 13 US airports, allowing eligible non-ticketed visitors to pass through security and meet family at the gate for the first time since September 11, 2001. Also: CD sales jumped 16% in the first half of 2026 — outpacing vinyl's 2.4% growth — driven by Gen Z collectors, K-pop fans, and one remarkable data point: roughly half of Gen Z buyers who purchased a CD this year don't own a CD player. And a Baylor University study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that five minutes of writing a specific to-do list before bed caused participants to fall asleep nine minutes faster than those who wrote about what they'd already done. Plus a duct-taped first-class passenger, an MMA fighter offered $500K to fight a chimp, a crocodile head in Italian airport luggage, and the one bathroom trip rule.
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