Frommer's

1 week ago | frommers.com | Ruffin Prevost

Even before the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, many white explorers, government officials and business owners repeated a false and pernicious fallacy that few Native Americans frequented the area. They wrongly alleged that Natives traditionally avoided the region around what is now the world’s first national park out of a “fear of evil spirits” connected to geysers and other geothermal features.

1 week ago | frommers.com | Zac Thompson

Amid efforts by the U.S. federal government to restrict how African American history is taught, preserved, and celebrated, one state just unveiled a tourism initiative to showcase more than 50 important sites connected to Black heritage. Kentucky's new African American Heritage Trail "not only keeps stories alive but also revives stories that have been forgotten," said Gov.

1 week ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

The U.S. Senate is marking public lands to be pillaged, and preservation groups are sounding the alarm to call fans of American nature to urgent action. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chaired by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, has released its additions to the Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.

1 week ago | frommers.com | Zac Thompson

Sleep specialists generally recommend lying on your side while dozing as the best position for keeping your spine in alignment, though people with back pain might find greater relief lying supine. Do you know what no sleep experts recommend? Sitting upright in a cramped airplane seat for hours on end with your chin to your chest, à la a snoozing Big Bird of Sesame Street (not that there’d ever be enough legroom in coach to accommodate the 8-foot-tall Muppet).

1 week ago | frommers.com | Jason Cochran

Dragon Images / ShutterstockAll right, savvy shoppers. It's been a month since the new federal rules about fee disclosures have kicked in. Are you seeing a difference in your online shopping? It's not often that the federal government of the United States does something to protect and inform consumers in these times. But last year a new set of rules about deceptive fees was adopted by the Federal Trade Commission, and the deadline for the rules to take effect passed on May 12, 2025.