Seven months before the vote, the International Olympic Committee is sending a panel of experts on a series of site-inspection visits that could prove influential in the race to host the 2020 Summer Games.
The nation's lifelines — its roads, airports, railways and transit systems — are getting hammered by extreme weather beyond what their builders imagined.
Now, 8,000 "leading edge" boomers are turning 65 every day, and will continue to do so for the rest of the decade. That could reshape the landscape of transportation in the U.S