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@brianack @AustinAirport @brianack hi Brian, I'm a journalist with the @AP. Doing a story about Touchless PreCheck. Could you send me a DM? Interested in hearing about what your experience was like.

@AustinAirport Which checkpoint do I use for Touchless PreCheck? Flying out in the morning and it's the first time I'll be using that. Don't see that called out on your website.

After years of growth, Georgia’s film industry hits a painful reset apnews.com/article/georgi…

@chesafreakboyz1 Hi Gray, I hope you are safe. Would you be willing to let @AP publish these videos (with credit)? Needed to ask 1) Did you personally shoot the videos? And 2) Do you give the AP permission to use the videos in accordance with is form? If yes, please respond with your full name

Odu active shooter situation. Rumor is they have suspect subdued. #norfolk #odu #activeshooter

@pramodshukla02 @MediaHarshVT hi, I'm a reporter with the @AP. We're working on a story about stranded travelers. Could you follow + DM me?

You landed, excellent but what about us, we are still stuck and everything is at stake . #MoSha (ModiShah) should also consider our urgency and safe evacuation. We are under fear ,worrysome and every day booked flight in 4 airlines got cancelled . @MediaHarshVT @DrSJaishanka

@Majed732579 @hopper hi Majed, I'm a reporter with the @AP. We're working on a story about stranded travelers. Could you follow + DM me?

@hopper I’m stuck in Qatar since my flight out to Toronto via London Heathrow was cancelled due to airport closures. I have been trying to contact you to get rebooked on a different date but you have not responded to my emails, calls or messages. I’m very disappointed

@KitCarver @DD_Geopolitics @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump hi Kit, I'm a reporter with the @AP. We're doing a story on stranded travelers. Could you follow + DM me?

@DD_Geopolitics I hv a friend who is stuck in Qatar, there on business, he literally is having to cross the desert on a camel to get to an airport to try to get out. @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump what tf are you thinking!?

USA has quite literally abandoned Americans in the Middle East while telling them to call a number which tells them not to rely on the US government. Speechless.

@Peter_H_Todd @emirates @EmiratesSupport hi Peter, I'm a reporter with the @AP . We're working on a story about stranded travelers. Could you follow + DM me?

@emirates @EmiratesSupport Do you prioritize children who are stuck in Dubai with plane tickets? If so, why has my brother & nephew's ticket been cancelled twice so far if they come under priority? (can you/they change tickets to a different UK airport if this speeds up process)

If* England reach the World Cup final (if* etc), they will not sell out their official FA allocation. The cost of tickets in the most expensive two categories are putting off members of England Supporters Travel Club. There will be only 3,409 England fans present at MetLife Stadium on July 19 via the official FA allocation of 4,500. The two cheapest categories were oversubscribed by members. But the most expensive categories were undersubscribed, especially Cat 1 ($8,680) also Cat 2 ($5,575). Semi-final also undersubscribed. Of the official FA allocation of 3,500, only 2,686 taken up by members if* England reach the semi (members baulking at the most expensive tickets, Cat 1 $3,170 and Cat 2 $2,440). All England games up to and including the quarter-final are oversubscribed. "And we’re having to fork out for those tickets now (payments taken from 9-22 Feb)," one England fan says. "We get the money back later in the summer if England don’t get knock-out games we’ve paid for." #ENG 🦁🦁🦁

Well, here we are. Another beam holding up democratic mass culture drops out. But I literally can't imagine my childhood without these.

"14th and in disarray / We're going to Budapest in May!" #COYS

@hellcatserenade hi, I'm a reporter with the @AP. Could you send me a DM?

Shooting at Farragut West Metro near the #Whitehouse two national guard apperantly shot. One taken into ambulance appears to be alive. Sad day for America going into the Thanksgiving holiday.

@JuicyyLucy_ hi, did you witness the shooting? I'm a reporter with the @AP. Could you send me a DM?

someone was just shooting at farragut west, yall be safe

Can’t overstate how much better the World Cup in the states will be if Ireland are in it

Oh this is sensational. The limbs. The commentary. All because former Millwall and Preston loanee Troy Parrott scored a hat trick winning goal in 90+ minute. Football.

I found an interesting graph about yesterday’s elections

Three years ago Will Smith was cancelled for slapping someone at the Oscars and now he just hit the game winning home run in the World Series What a comeback story

My latest with @JocelynNoveckAP on how museums are responding to the #Louvre heist. apnews.com/article/louvre…

"Museums are wonderful because they are accessible. They’re these places that will put things that are thousands of years old and incomprehensibly beautiful in front of visitors — sometimes even without a pane of glass." -- former Met security guard Patrick Bringley

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