Rush is coming back to the Motor City, bringing their "Fifty Something Tour" to Detroit next summer.

Co-founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will be joined by Anika Nilles for the tour stop at Little Caesars Arena on Aug. 26, 2026.

Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, Oct. 31 at 12 p.m. but Citi cardmembers can get tickets starting Oct. 24.

Its been over 10 years since Alex and I have performed the music of RUSH alongside our fallen bandmate and friend Neil. A lifetimes worth of songs that we had put our cumulative hearts and souls into writing, recording and playing together onstage," Lee said in a statement.

Rush last played Detroit on June 10, 2008.

By SAM MEDNICK, SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA, Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys traveled to Israel Monday to shore up the tenuous ceasefire that’s holding in Gaza, a day after the fragile deal faced its first major flareup as Israel threatened to halt aid transfers and killed dozens in strikes after it accused Hamas of killing two soldiers.

The Israeli military announced it resumed enforcing the ceasefire late Sunday. Aid deliveries will resume Monday through multiple crossings after Israeli inspection, in line with the agreement, according to an Israeli security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak to the media.

By early afternoon, it was not immediately clear if the flow of aid had restarted.

Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian said on Monday that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about developments in the region.

She said U.S. Vice President JD Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, would also be visiting the country and meeting with Netanyahu, but didn’t provide a timeline.

There was no immediate confirmation from Washington regarding the vice president’s visit.

A fragile truce

More than a week has passed since the start of the U.S.-proposed truce aimed at ending two years of war. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that Hamas has been “quite rambunctious” and “they’ve been doing some shooting.”

He also suggested that the violence might be the fault of “rebels” within the organization rather than its leadership.

Since the ceasefire started, Hamas security forces have returned to the streets in Gaza, clashing with armed groups and killing alleged gangsters in what the militant group says is an attempt to restore law and order in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn.

On Sunday, Israel’s military said militants had fired at troops in areas of Rafah city that are Israeli-controlled according to agreed-upon ceasefire lines.

Retaliatory strikes by Israel killed 45 people in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry, which says a total of 80 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 11.

Hamas, which continued to accuse Israel of multiple ceasefire violations, said communication with its remaining units in Rafah had been cut off for months and “we are not responsible for any incidents occurring in those areas.”

The next stage of ceasefire

The next stage is expected to focus on disarming Hamas, Israeli withdrawal from additional areas it controls in Gaza, and future governance of the devastated territory. The U.S. plan proposes the establishment of an internationally backed authority.

In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” news program on the weekend, Kushner said the success or failure of the deal would depend on whether Israel and the international mechanism could create a viable alternative to Hamas.

“If they are successful, Hamas will fail, and Gaza will not be a threat to Israel in the future,” he said.

A Hamas delegation led by chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya was in Cairo to follow up on the implementation of the ceasefire deal with mediators and other Palestinian groups.

Fears ceasefire may not hold up

Palestinians in Gaza are wary that the deal may fall apart after Sunday’s flare-up.

Funeral services were held Monday for some of the dozens of people killed earlier by Israeli strikes across the strip. Associated Press footage showed mourners lining up for funeral prayers behind bodies draped in white sheets.

“There should be concerns as long as the matters have yet to be settled,” said Hossam Ahmed, a displaced person from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

There is also concern about how much aid Israel is letting into Gaza, which is part of the agreement.

In their Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel that sparked the war, Hamas killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 people as hostages.

The Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 68,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. Israel has disputed them without providing its own toll.

Thousands more people are missing, according to the Red Cross.

Magdy reported from Cairo and Shurafa from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip.

The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.

President Donald Trumps administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.

The Republican administration favors Second Amendment rights, but government attorneys argued that this ban is a justifiable restriction.

They asked the court to reinstate a case against Ali Danial Hemani. His lawyers got the felony charge tossed out after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the blanket ban is unconstitutional under the Supreme Courts expanded view of gun rights. The appellate judges found it could still be used against people accused of being high and armed at the same time, though.

Hemani's attorneys argue the broadly written law puts millions of people at risk of technical violations since at least 20% of Americans have tried pot, according to government health data. About half of states legalized recreational marijuana, but it's still illegal under federal law.

The Justice Department argues the law is valid when used against regular drug users because they pose a serious public safety risk. The government said the FBI found Hemani's gun and cocaine in a search of his home as they probed travel and communications allegedly linked to Iran. The gun charge was the only one filed, however, and his lawyers said the other allegations were irrelevant and were mentioned only to make him seem more dangerous.

The case marks another flashpoint in the application of the Supreme Court's new test for firearm restrictions. The conservative majority found in 2022 that the Second Amendment generally gives people the right to carry guns in public for self-defense and any firearm restrictions must have a strong grounding in the nations history.

The landmark 2022 ruling led to a cascade of challenges to firearm laws around the country, though the justices have since upheld a different federal law intended to protect victims of domestic violence by barring guns from people under restraining orders.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.

The Republican administration favors Second Amendment rights, but government attorneys argued that this ban is a justifiable restriction.

They asked the court to reinstate a case against Ali Danial Hemani. His lawyers got the felony charge tossed out after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the blanket ban is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s expanded view of gun rights. The appellate judges found it could still be used against people accused of being high and armed at the same time, though.

Hemani’s attorneys argue the broadly written law puts millions of people at risk of technical violations since at least 20% of Americans have tried pot, according to government health data. About half of states legalized recreational marijuana, but it’s still illegal under federal law.

The Justice Department argues the law is valid when used against regular drug users because they pose a serious public safety risk. The government said the FBI found Hemani’s gun and cocaine in a search of his home as they probed travel and communications allegedly linked to Iran. The gun charge was the only one filed, however, and his lawyers said the other allegations were irrelevant and were mentioned only to make him seem more dangerous.

The case marks another flashpoint in the application of the Supreme Court’s new test for firearm restrictions. The conservative majority found in 2022 that the Second Amendment generally gives people the right to carry guns in public for self-defense and any firearm restrictions must have a strong grounding in the nation’s history.

The landmark 2022 ruling led to a cascade of challenges to firearm laws around the country, though the justices have since upheld a different federal law intended to protect victims of domestic violence by barring guns from people under restraining orders.

Lukas Nelson has been known, for all of his life, as Willie Nelson’s son and occasionally part of his family band. And for 16 years of his music-making life he was the leader of the band Promise of the Real, which backed Neil Young as well as releasing eight albums of his own.

Now this Nelson, 36, is out on his own.

During June, Nelson — who won Grammy and BAFTA awards for the songs he wrote for the hit 2018 remake of “A Star is Born” — released “American Romance,” the first album to bear his name alone. Produced by longtime friend Shooter Jennings, the 12-track set includes a collaboration with Sierra Ferrell (“Friend in the End”), as well as a new version of “You Were It,” the first song Nelson ever wrote — at 11 years old — that was first released on Willie Nelson’s 2004 album “It Will Always Be.”

The set ushers in what Lukas Nelson acknowledges is a new era in his career, one he feels will allow him to make a wide array of music, entirely on his own terms…

* Nelson says via Zoom from New York that he considers stepping away from Promise of the Real — whose other members are working in Young’s Chrome Hearts band — to be “almost cosmetic. What happened to me was the name Promise of the Real was so tied into Neil Young from the times we’d been playing with him that I felt like I wanted to make sure I could do something different, that felt different, that maybe fans of Neil Young or even fans of my dad wouldn’t necessarily be bummed about. I love Neil Young fans, and I love my dad’s fans, but I want to bring other fans along, too. And I felt like sometimes people were getting a little aggressive about me not playing as much guitar or rocking out at certain points. I wanted the freedom to NOT do that, and to do what I want to, when I want to. So I just felt I had to change the name, really.”

* He acknowledges that the tenor of “American Romance” is a bit quieter and more reflective than the harder-rocking Promise of the Real material. “I have so many songs. I was in a flow of writing, and you can’t really tell yourself to write a certain song — some people can, but for me, whatever comes out comes out. So I was writing a lot of songs that were more about lyrics and vocals than they were about rockin’ out. That’s just what was coming out, and I wanted to focus on those songs. Since then, I’ve written a lot of rockers.” (laughs)

* Nelson — who splits time between homes in Nashville and Maui — considers “American Romance” to be a kind of aural travelogue, inspired by his own journeys as a musician. “Moving, traveling — up until this point in my life and, actually, continually that has been my biography the defining aspect of my life. That’s what’s kept me from getting married and having kids. It’s what keeps me from so much. It’s a romance; there’s happiness and sadness, and heartbreak and elation. It kind of covers the gamut.”

* As “American Romance” is his first “solo” album, Nelson felt it would be appropriate to include “You Were It” as the closing track. “I was on the school bus one day when I was 11, and it started playing in my head and I realized it was a song that hadn’t been written yet. So I wrote it and played it for my dad, and he liked it so much he put it on his album. That gave me a lot of confidence; I knew it wasn’t just fluff ’cause dad put it on his album. I figured it was appropriate to finally put it out, and what better way to put it out than on a record with just my name on it. It’s very stripped down; that’s me at my core, so it was kind of a nice callback.”

* Nelson says he has “so many things I’m excited about in the future, including both music and movies. “I’m working on a movie project right now that I can’t really talk about yet, but I’ve written 30 songs for that with Ernest, and that’s exciting. I’ve got some other stuff in New York that I might be doing soon. And I’m planning on recording another album coming up pretty soon; I’m writing for that now, ’cause I can’t stop the songs from coming. I just wrote a song with Ben West and Laci Kaye Booth that feels like a mix of Radiohead and country. So it’s hard to say; I can just tell you there’s a lot of music, and some fun stuff on the horizon.”

Lukas Nelson performs Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the Majestic Theatre at the Majestic Theatre, 4140 Woodward Ave. Doors at 7 p.m. 313-833-9700 or majesticdetroit.com.

Civil rights attorneys, former law enforcement officials, and mental health experts tell Metro Times that the Warren Police Department’s handling of 26-year-old Christopher Gibson was not only unnecessary but, according to several experts, it was illegal and should have led to charges.

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The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is warning drivers that it is conducting an operation targeting distracted drivers along M-59 this week and next week.

According to the sheriff's office, the traffic unit will be conducting Operation Ghost Rider along the M-59 corridor on Tuesday, Oct. 21 and Tuesday, Oct. 28.

"The operation aims to reduce distracted driving-related crashes and promote safer habits on the road," the sheriff's office said.

Ahead of tonight's Monday Night Football match-up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Detroit Lions have unveiled a lighting upgrade to the outside of Ford Field.

See video & photos of the new lighting, courtesy of Detroit Lions Communications Detroit Lions show off new lights on Ford FIeld

The letters on the east and west sides of the building are now illuminated with a white and blue glow, with the Ford Oval logo also lit up on the west roof.

The Lions say this is the first of multiple projects set to be unveiled in the next few years, as part of Ford's naming rights renewal announced last spring.

You can watch The Lions take on the Buccaneers right on WXYZ Channel 7 tonight. The game kicks off at 7 p.m., with our pregame show starting at 6:30 p.m.

The federal government shutdown entered its 20th day Monday, becoming the third longest in American history. With every week, new impacts are emerging including challenges for Americas judiciary.

The U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts nationwide began implementing shutdown procedures after court system funding ran out over the weekend. Up until now, the federal judiciary relied on existing funds to avoid disruptions.

A memo from the U.S. courts outlines what happens next.

Until the ongoing lapse in government funding is resolved, federal courts will maintain limited operations necessary to perform the judiciarys constitutional functions, the memo states. Federal judges will continue to serve in accordance with the constitution, but court staff may only perform certain excepted activities permitted under the Anti-Deficiency Act.

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At the Supreme Court, oral arguments and decisions will still happen, but the building will temporarily close to tourists.

The memo says, individual courts will determine which cases will continue on schedule, and which may be delayed. The jury program is funded by money not affected by the appropriations lapse and will continue to operate. Jurors should follow instructions from courts and report to courthouses as directed.

Over the weekend in Washington, no resolution appeared imminent. Democrats are pushing for healthcare policy changes to prevent premium increases, while Republicans want the government reopened first.

If the shutdown continues through Friday, federal workers will miss another paycheck the first full paycheck lost for many.

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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers blew away the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series. Try as all parties involved might to suggest that things could have gone differently with a few breaks here or there, the Brewers simply did not have the horsepower to keep up. They looked like a team built on a budget playing a team that spares no expense – which, of course, is exactly what they were.

Maybe that had nothing to do with the Dodgers’ sweep. Maybe, if they played this series again – say, in a stretch when the Dodgers’ starting pitching wasn’t historically dominant – the Brewers would win it. They did, after all, beat the Dodgers in all six games they played in the regular season. No one can say for sure.

But what is certain is that even the downright modest present-day value of Shohei Ohtani’s 10-year contract (roughly $460 million) could cover the Brewers’ entire payroll three times over with room to spare. In other words, the fight for this year’s NL pennant put baseball’s haves-and-have-nots economics on national display.

Twelve months and a few weeks from now, baseball’s collective bargaining agreement will expire, a moment for which the industry has been bracing for years. Payroll disparities across MLB – such as the one on display when the Dodgers and Brewers met – have widened so much that almost everyone agrees substantial economic change is necessary.

But the owners and players disagree so dramatically on what shape that change should take that both groups are bracing for a lengthy lockout, readying themselves for the possibility of an extended work stoppage so completely that players and executives alike are crafting contracts with security in the event of a missed season.

From some vantage points, then, this series had the makings of a referendum.

An easy Dodgers win would prove the point of MLB and its owners, who are in favor of a salary cap – but are careful not to say for certain whether they will push for one. Sure, their argument would go, a so-called small-market team such as the Brewers can be an annual contender in the regular season. But when it comes to the playoffs, all perceptions of parity evaporate. No small-market club has won the World Series since the Kansas City Royals in 2015, and only one other such team (the Florida Marlins in 2003) has won a title since the turn of the century.

Certainly, parity is not the only motivation that team owners would have in pushing for a salary cap, which would limit the money they could spend on payroll and, they believe, increase franchise valuations by establishing cost certainty more like that held by NFL, NBA and NHL teams.

The players union, by contrast, could look at this series as proof that parity is as strong as ever. The team in MLB’s smallest market (as measured by the CBA) had its best regular season record and home-field advantage into the NLCS. The Brewers had as good of a chance as anyone. If they had spent even a little more, they might have had the pitching they needed to keep up with the Dodgers.

Player salaries are not the problem, the union would argue; stingy owners are. Look what happened, for example, when the Seattle Mariners splurged at this year’s trade deadline after years of relative frugality: They are one win from the World Series.

“I think that we’re in a big market [and] we’re expected to win. Our fans expect us to win. I can’t speak to what revenue we’re bringing in, but our ownership puts it back into players, a big chunk of it, which I know that’s the way it should be with all ownership groups,” Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts said. “… I think that that’s what sports fans would want from everyone – to get the best of their team.”

The Dodgers batted away the Brewers with elite starting pitching – more than $1.3 billion worth by total contract value. The Brewers were not alone in finding their offense suddenly inert against this Dodgers rotation: The formerly slugging Philadelphia Phillies scored more than three runs just once in four games against them in the NL Division Series and are now reevaluating the makeup of their roster.

The Dodgers also can afford to stockpile arms and approach the regular season with only mild desperation, which is how they ended up with four top starters at full strength in October. They let Ohtani take his time working back from Tommy John surgery so that he would be fully built up by late in the season and not a moment before. They let Blake Snell take his time working back from shoulder trouble, so much so that he made just 11 starts before the postseason. They could give Tyler Glasnow a lucrative contract extension despite his injury history because they were not signing him to be their only ace but rather one of several.

“I think the one constant, at least from my time here in L.A., is we use a lot of people. We use our roster. Our front office does a really good job of providing depth from the beginning of the season and supplementing it as the season goes on,” Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior said. “And it allows us to use guys to bring in, to get big outs, even if it’s for two or three games.”

Brewers Manager Pat Murphy repeatedly brought up his team’s underdog status this past week, pointing out at one point that Snell “makes more money than our entire pitching staff.”

“That’s for a reason – because he’s great. What he demonstrated [in Game 1] was the high end of his game, unbelievable. That’s great,” Murphy said. “We can’t do anything about it.”

But even Murphy, who is not one to filter, knew better than to inflame tensions with a comment on whether his team would face a fairer fight with a salary cap in place. He insisted he does not use the Brewers’ perceived financial disadvantages as a motivator.

“That’s a correlation between great success and great payroll, so you can bring it up if you want to, but I don’t bring it up with our guys,” Murphy said. “I just try to get them to play hard and believe they can.”

Even if this series was symbolic, it is hard to see it changing many minds. Certainly, neither side’s position would be altered by its outcome. MLB Players Association bulldog Bruce Meyer, for example, seems unlikely to rethink his union’s most fundamental position because those doggone Dodgers won again.

But even a year before those negotiations begin, the questions were being asked and the stories were being written. MLB and union officials made their cases to reporters on the field. And everyone from team officials to coaches in the dugout wagered their guesses about how long a work stoppage might last – and which side will blink first.

These are supposed to be the halcyon days before collective bargaining’s cruel reality check, but the storm clouds are already here.

By SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was “positive” — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv.

Zelenskyy said Trump reneged on the possibility of sending the long-range missiles to Ukraine, which would have been a major boost for Kyiv, following his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin hours before the Ukrainian leader and American president were to meet on Friday.

“In my opinion, he does not want an escalation with the Russians until he meets with them,” Zelenskyy told reporters on Sunday. His comments were embargoed until Monday morning.

Ukraine is hoping to purchase 25 Patriot air defense systems from American firms using frozen Russian assets and assistance from partners, but Zelenskyy said procuring all of these would require time because of long production queues. He said he spoke to Trump about help procuring these quicker, potentially from European partners.

According to Zelenskyy, Trump said during their meeting that Putin’s maximalist demand — that Ukraine cede the entirety of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions — was unchanged.

Zelenskyy was diplomatic about his meeting with Trump despite reports that he faced pressure to accept Putin’s demands — a tactic he has kept up since the disastrous Oval Office spat on Feb. 28 when the Ukrainian president was scolded on live television for not being grateful for continued American support.

Zelenskyy said that because Trump ultimately supported a freeze along the current front line his overall message “is positive” for Ukraine.

He said Trump was looking to end the war and hopes his meeting in the coming weeks with Putin in Hungary — which does not support Ukraine — will pave the way for a peace deal after their first summit in Alaska in August failed to reach such an outcome.

So far, Zelenskyy said he has not been invited to attend but would consider it if the format for talks were fair to Kyiv.

“We share President Trump’s positive outlook if it leads to the end of the war. After many rounds of discussion over more than two hours with him and his team, his message, in my view, is positive — that we stand where we stand on the line of contact, provided all sides understand what is meant,” Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy expressed doubts about Hungary’s capital of Budapest being a suitable location for the next Trump-Putin meeting.

“I do not consider Budapest to be the best venue for such a meeting. Obviously, if it can bring peace, it will not matter which country hosts the meeting,” he added.

Zelenskyy took a stab at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, saying he does not believe that a prime minister “who blocks Ukraine everywhere can do anything positive for Ukrainians or even provide a balanced contribution.”

Zelenskyy also expressed skepticism about Putin’s proposal to swap some territory it holds in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions if Ukraine surrenders all of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“We wanted to understand exactly what the Russians meant. So far, there is no clear position,” he said.

Zelenskyy said he thinks that all parties have “moved closer” to a possible end to the war.

“That doesn’t mean it will definitely end, but President Trump has achieved a lot in the Middle East, and riding that wave he wants to end Russia’s war against Ukraine,” Zelenskyy added.

He said the United States is interested in bilateral gas projects with Ukraine, including the construction of an LNG terminal in the southern port city of Odesa. Other projects of interest to the U.S. include those related to nuclear energy and oil.

By CHRISTOPHER MEGERIAN, Associated Press

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.

“We would buy some beef from Argentina,” the Republican president told reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight from Florida to Washington on Sunday. “If we do that, that will bring our beef prices down.”

Trump promised days earlier to address the issue as part of his efforts to keep inflation in check.

U.S. beef prices have been stubbornly high for a variety of reasons, including drought and reduced imports from Mexico due to a flesh-eating pest in cattle herds there.

Trump has been working to help Argentina bolster its collapsing currency with a $20 billion credit swap line and additional financing from sovereign funds and the private sector ahead of midterm elections for his close ally President Javier Milei.

Have you ever booked a flight with a credit card, but then left that card at home?

That mistake only needs to happen once, to learn why you want to bring that card along if you are traveling to certain destinations.

Herb Weisbaum, a consumer expert and contributing editor at Checkbook.org, learned this lesson the hard way.

The former Today Show correspondent was stumped returning home from a trip with his wife to England when they were denied boarding their return flight home.

"Went to the kiosk where you get your boarding pass, and it said the only way we could identify ourselves and start the process was with the credit card we had purchased the ticket with," Weisbaum said.

Watch how you could be denied boarding a return flight if you don't have the correct credit card with you:

Couple denied flight home because they didn't bring the right credit card

A Delta agent said he needed to show that specific card, but that card was at home.

"Like many people, I don't travel with all my credit cards; I leave some of them home and did not think to bring the card I had purchased the ticket with three months earlier," Weisbaum said.

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Despite having a passport, driver's license and confirmation code, that wasn't enough to get their boarding passes.

Weisbaum says they were given three options: buy a $3,000 one-way ticket home ($6,000 for two tickets), stay in London, or have someone send a photo of the missing credit card. He chose option three.

"I called my good neighbor Sam; he broke into my house at 3 in the morning, legally," Weisbaum explained. "I told him how to get in, and he texted the picture and I was able to get on the flight."

Bizarre policy can mean you get stuck overseas

We reached out to Delta Air Lines for clarification on its credit card policy. A spokesperson tells us "that most customers in most instances will not have to show the card used to purchase their booking at the airport."

The airline provides this guidance to customers on its "Booking Information" webpage:

"To safeguard against credit/debit card fraud, the purchaser may have to show us the credit/debit card along with a valid photo ID. The time varies based on the billing address of the credit/debit card or the country of travel. If the purchaser is not traveling, they can show us their credit/debit card and ID at an airport ticket counter or another ticket office location, whichever is most convenient."

Weisbaum says a Delta agent told him this was not an isolated incident.

"Families send their kids over -- the kid doesn't have the credit card. Business people travel. She said no, this is not an isolated case," he said.

This appears to be more common with international flights.

Still, it might be worth carrying the card you bought the ticket with, even on domestic flights just to be safe.

"If that's the policy, tell me about it. Make it very, very clear," Weisbaum said.

Traveler Stacey Davis agrees you should always pack the credit card you used to book your flight after experiencing her own difficulties on one recent flight.

"I didn't have the right card, so we had to go through is this really your card, switch to a different card. It did make it a little difficult," Davis said.

So bring the card you booked the flight with, so you dont waste your money.

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A man is in custody and awaiting arraignment after authorities say he attempted to shoot and kill a well-known businessman in his own front yard.

Watch Brittany's report from this morning Macomb County businessman shares details about the shooting caught on home security cameras

Eddie Jawad was shot outside his home near 24 Mile and Springdale Drive in Macomb Township last Tuesday, with the suspect taken into custody on Sunday in Warren.

Macomb County SWAT, other local police, and the FBI's violent crime and gang task force executed a search warrant at a home on Rivard, taking the 32-year-old suspect into custody.

Jaward was driving a Black SUV when he was ambushed, with a gunman popping out from between parked vehicles. He began to shoot at Jawad as the businessman tried to drive away. The 61-year-old was shot in the leg and cut by glass.

Investigators used surveillance video to track the suspect's movements leading up to and right after the shooting. That video, coupled with witness statements, led investigators to the Warren home on Rivard Avenue Sunday, where police arrested the suspect for his alleged involvement in Jawad's attempted murder.

Jawad owns several metro Detroit gas stations. He is expected to be okay, and as of Monday morning, there's no date set for the suspect's arraignment.

Watch our previous coverage Man shot outside his Macomb Township home speaks out

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.

Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonalds app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.

The first signs of trouble emerged at around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Later the company reported that there were significant error rates and that engineers were actively working on the problem.

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Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services. We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered, it said, adding that it is working on a full resolution.

AWS customers include some of the worlds biggest businesses and organizations.

So much of the world now relies on these three or four big (cloud) compute companies who provide the underlying infrastructure that when theres an issue like this, it can be really impactful across a broad range, a broad spectrum of online services, said Patrick Burgess, a cybersecurity expert at U.K.-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

ALLEN PARK — If you’re familiar with Alim McNeill’s temperament, his answer shouldn’t surprise you.

Athletes and coaches speak often about the value of remaining even-keel. Never getting too high, never getting too low. Refusing to ride the inevitable emotional roller coaster that comes during a five-to-six-month NFL season. It’s easier said than done.

But McNeill, in his fifth year with the Detroit Lions, lives that mantra.

“He’s always very steady, which I appreciate about him,” teammate Aidan Hutchinson said.

McNeill is set to make his season debut against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night, about 10 months removed from the torn ACL he suffered last December. For some, a return like this draws emotion, maybe even some tears of gratitude during pregame warmups or the national anthem. McNeill, however, doesn’t see himself responding that way, and it’s not because he doesn’t appreciate the moment.

“I don’t take things for granted at all; it’s for sure going to be a huge moment. But just knowing me, it’s just going to be game day for me,” said McNeill, as nonchalant as he is talented. “I’m not going to sit here and try to make a big deal out of it and all this and that. Because people get hurt and come back all the time. So, it’s like, why would I make a big deal out of it? Let’s just go play football.”

McNeill’s return is massive for the Lions. He’s a disruptive run defender next to fellow defensive tackle DJ Reader, but perhaps more important is his ability to rush the passer from an interior alignment. The Lions have missed that this season, with not only McNeill being unavailable, but also Levi Onwuzurike, who had a season-ending knee procedure before training camp.

Before getting hurt against the Buffalo Bills in Week 15 last season, McNeill posted 45 pressures, tied for the eighth-most among all defensive tackles through Weeks 1-15. He also had seven tackles for loss and 3½ sacks. His presence on the defensive line should, at least in theory, open up even more opportunities for Hutchinson, who, entering Week 7, leads the NFL in pressures (36) and strip-sacks (three), and is fourth in sacks (six).

“It’ll be super fun,” McNeill said of playing alongside Hutchinson again. “We were already out there (at practice) trying to get that chemistry back going. It’s a couple things that we were doing out there, little head nods, little small stuff like that we were trying to get going. It’s going to be fun. That’s an electric player to be beside. He elevates everybody around him.”

Excitement around McNeill’s return isn’t limited to members of the defensive line. Linebackers coach Shaun Dion Hamilton is well aware what McNeill can do for his unit, eating up space, closing gaps and opening avenues for the team’s linebackers to come down and get run stops.

The Lions already had a handful of strong run defenders at defensive tackle, in Reader, rookie Tyleik Williams and veteran Roy Lopez. Adding a fourth stout piece to the rotation should only make everyone’s responsibilities more manageable.

“Very ecstatic, as a coach, to have that guy back,” Hamilton said. “Some of the things that he can do at 300-plus pounds, you’re not supposed to be able to do. He’s going to, for sure, help affect the quarterback, play the run. It’s so many things that guy can do. Just glad that he’s on our team and not another team.”

How many snaps McNeill plays against the Bucs remains to be seen, but he’s expecting to perform at the same level he was at before getting injured. He attacked his rehabilitation too hard to think anything different: “That’s the work that I’ve been putting in, to be the same exact way, if not better.”

Ten months of work and recovery will culminate for McNeill on Monday. Don’t expect to see watery eyes when the camera pans toward him. But rest assured, McNeill, one of Detroit’s defensive cornerstones, couldn’t be happier.

“It’s the only thing I’ve been looking forward to,” McNeill said of his upcoming return. “I don’t even know how to (properly) explain that to you. I’ve been waiting on this day for a long, long time.”

Michigan gas prices are down 13 cents since last week, with prices dropping to their lowest marks since 2021.

Drivers are now paying an average of $2.79 per gallon for regular unleaded fuel, a price that's 41 cents lower than this time last month and 49 cents less than this time last year.

Drivers are paying an average of $41 for a full 15-gallon tank of gas, a $16 discount from last year's highest prices.

"Drivers across Michigan are seeing the lowest gas prices since April of 2021," said Adrienne Woodland, a spokesperson for AAA-The Auto Club Group. "If crude oil prices and demand continue to fall, pump prices will likely follow suit."

Gas prices are also down in metro Detroit, where the current average is $2.84/gallon, about nine cents less than last week's average and 50 cents less than this time last year.

Here's a look at the priciest and cheapest prices across the state.

Most expensive gas price averages:  Ann Arbor ($2.93), Marquette ($2.87), Metro Detroit ($2.84) Least expensive gas price averages: Grand Rapids ($2.69), Flint ($2.70), Lansing ($2.72)

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Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.

Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonalds app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.

The first signs of trouble emerged at around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Later the company reported that there were significant error rates and that engineers were actively working on the problem.

Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services. We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered, it said, adding that it is working on a full resolution.

AWS customers include some of the worlds biggest businesses and organizations.

So much of the world now relies on these three or four big (cloud) compute companies who provide the underlying infrastructure that when theres an issue like this, it can be really impactful across a broad range, a broad spectrum of online services, said Patrick Burgess, a cybersecurity expert at U.K.-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

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AP writer Mustakim Hasnath in London contributed to this report.