If you don’t want it to get even harder for a U.S. citizen to get a passport — now required for travel even to Canada or Mexico — you only have until Monday to let the State Department know. The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for some passport applicants: The [...]

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to think of a travel industry topic that has garnered more speculation or prognostication than Google's proposed acquisition of ITA Software. From starched executives to conspiracy-minded bloggers, the prospect of the search giant stepping into the travel sandbox has had imagination, as well as anxiety, running rampant for about a year. There is a verdict.