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If you hate the middle seat on a plane, you probably won’t like the new seat configuration on United Airlines Boeing 777s. The Chicago-based company announced that it is the latest carrier to reconfigure the seating on the Boeing 777-200 to add 21 additional seats. The plane, to be used starting this winter primarily for long-haul flights, will have 50 lie-flat business class seats - known as Polaris seats - and 242 economy seats. United said it plans to configure about 90 Boeing 777-200 planes over the next few years. The good news is that the legroom for the economy seats will remain about the same as before. The distance between the back of one seat and the back of the next - known as the

Audio of a Gold Star widow’s conversation with President Donald Trump, who called to offer his condolences for the loss of her husband, was released on Friday. After her husband, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, was killed while serving in Afghanistan, President Trump called her to offer his deepest sympathies, The Washington Post reports: “Gold star widow Natasha De Alencar released the audio of a phone conversation she had with President Donald Trump in April about the death of her husband who was killed in Afghanistan. “‘I am so sorry to hear about the whole situation. What a horrible thing, except that he’s an unbelievable hero,’ Trump told her in the call about her husband Army Staff Sgt.

A young California couple who vanished during a hiking trip in the desert almost three months ago died in a murder-suicide near a trail, investigators said Friday.

Welcome to Midnight Mania! Undefeated as a professional boxer, Heather Hardy was a highly touted prospect coming into tonight’s Bellator 185. She had finished her last opponent via TKO, and seemed to have star potential. However, tonight, she suffered her first defeat in either MMA or boxing at the hands of debut fighter Kristina Williams, who broke Hardy’s nose with a brutal head kick. The fight was a kicking clinic for Williams. Heather Hardy earns points for being incredibly tough and staying on her feet despite taking shinbone to the noggin. It’s clear Hardy has some things to work on if she’s going to have a successful MMA career, though. The broken nose reminded many of Rory Macdonald’s

When shopping for a new car, more than half of drivers cite reliability as the top thing they look for in a vehicle. After all, no matter how slick your new car looks, if it breaks down when you need it, you’ve basically got a 4,000-pound paperweight. With that in mind,  Consumer Reports  has released its annual list of the most reliable cars you can buy today, as well as the least . These rankings are based on the Annual Reliability Survey . The survey looks at 17 key trouble areas, ranging from brakes that squeak to transmission repairs that fall outside of warranty. They survey 400,000 car owners, who have a combined 640,000 vehicles between them. Their survey found that it was often entirely new models of vehicles or completely redesigned vehicles that came with the most problems.  Consumer Reports  also identified infotainment systems as a pain point for many drivers as well. To calculate the score,  Consumer Reports   weighted the severity of the problems with the vehicle to develop a Predicted Reliability Score. They combined it with test track data, owner satisfaction survey results and safety data to create an Overall Score. These vehicles are the ten highest scoring, and the ten lowest. If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, here are the cars to consider - and to potentially avoid. All prices in U.S. dollars. Download the Yahoo Finance app, available for  Apple  and  Android .