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Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

Good morning, everybody. Happy Hump Day to you. It's Wednesday, December 18th, 2024, a week till Christmas,

and we've got all your news here in one place for

your ride to work. Good news on junk fees in hotels and ticket prices, as the FTC is now

banning them. I'll share what that means for you, and also the internet is in an uproar over what

the NYPD said about suspected killer Luigi Mangione and also the

official charges he has going against him now in New York City and what that might mean a dangerous

precedent possibly moving forward. Plus UFO updates as the public demands answers what the Pentagon officials have to say.

Also, in lighter news, Nikki Glazier discusses her big upcoming hosting gig,

and a 35-year-old AOC lost a key race to a 75-year-old colleague,

leaving a lot of younger constituents very upset at the state of the world as far as politics go.

I'll love that story, and I got so much more, and it's all coming up next on The Rush.

Well, we always like to save money, and the FTC is the federal organization that helps prosecute against companies that are

ripping us off. Well, now they are banning hidden junk fees and hotel and event ticket prices.

This could be massive. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission passed a rule on Tuesday,

requiring ticket sellers, hotels, and vacation rental sites to disclose

total prices, including fees up front, prohibiting them from concealing add-on charges into

the last minute. This is so good because in this new world we live in with the algorithm being

so important to searching for prices, you know, every company's competing to get the top price,

but that's never the price you actually pay. And I think this is a good deal. The rule is one of the

final pieces of President Joe Biden's wide-ranging crackdown on junk fees that drive up consumer

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