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This new hotel scam will have you seeing five stars and it’s all legal.

Hotels across the country have been caught slapping customers with often-outrageous charges for checking in early or checking out late a perk until only recently offered as a courtesy when available, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The latest travel travesty comes as the hospitality industry explores new ways to boost the bottom line while quietly doing away with basic amenities like daily housekeeping.

In recent years, hotels have been found guilty of sticking up their guests with a growing number of “junk fees,” from bewildering resort charges to steep parking tabs a trend the White House recently pledged to fight against.

President Biden announced he’s asking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to squash the rising tide of secret add-ons that “cost Americans tens of billions of dollars.”

Meanwhile, visitors to NYC’s TWA Hotel, located at Kennedy Airport, will find themselves paying anywhere up to $150 for a late check-out.

In Beantown, the Hyatt Place Boston Seaport tacks on $50 for guests who stay past 1 p.m., with the price increasing $25 every hour through 3 p.m., according to the Journal.

Once you start paying…it creates a precedent. Its going to be harder to not pay it in the future,” frequent traveler anda precious-metals dealer Wei Chang told a reporter. I always encourage people not to pay it.

Ask those in the industry, like the vice president of San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko which charges $50 to get into a room before 1 p.m. and they will say you’re justly covering the price of convenience.

Because we had to pay a housekeeper to get in early and get the rooms ready. Were basically passing the cost on to the consumer,” the hotel’s VP and general manager Anna Marie Presutti said, claiming that they don’t profit off the early fees.

And apparently, loyalty doesn’t get you very much in the new rumble for a room.

Amy Franks is a Florida travel agent with has diamond status inHiltons loyalty program yet she was still got the “nickel and dime” treatment at an Orlando Doubletree, which charged her $35 to check in early.

They just gave me a cookie-cutter answer that its their policy,” Franks said.

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JPMorgan CEO: Fed cuts not assured, stablecoins no threat to banks

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JPMorgan CEO: Fed cuts not assured, stablecoins no threat to banks

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the Federal Reserve won’t cut rates until inflation cools, and adds he is “not particularly worried” about stablecoins.

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Is Ed Davey the future of the Lib Dems?

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Is Ed Davey the future of the Lib Dems?

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What can Sir Ed Davey achieve in 55 minutes? That’s how long his speech to Lib Dem conference delegates is coming in at.

Sam, who’s at the conference in Bournemouth, and Anne consider the behind-the-scenes tussles and where the Liberal Democrats are trying to position themselves ahead of the next set of elections.

Away from conference, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will release its latest economic outlook, but will it be a good or bad result for Rachel Reeves?

Plus, we have our weekly look at the state of the parties in our voting intentions poll.

Sam and Anne will debrief Ed Davey’s speech in an extra episode late on Tuesday afternoon.

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SpaceX Boosts NROL-48 in Key U.S. Intelligence Mission

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SpaceX successfully launched NROL-48 on Sept. 22, 2025, for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The mission deployed small satellites into orbit, supporting the “proliferated architecture,” a strategy to boost resilience by using many small spacecraft for surveillance and intelligence.

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