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#Mali #BallakéSissoko #JFKAirport #TSA #Kora One of Mali's most prominent musicians has criticized the Transportation Security Administration after his "impossible-to-replace" instrument was destroyed by agents at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Ballaké Sissoko told NBC News via email that his custom-made kora — a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa — was "totally destroyed." "Normally they just open the flight case because of the strange shape of the instrument and case," he said. "This time, they disassembled and broke it." Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings. Calling it a "terrible situation," he added that he hoped "to get an apology at some point." In an earlier  Facebook post  about the incident, Sissoko, 52, said he discovered the instrument in pieces Tuesday at his home in Paris. He said

A#    Thanksgiving #Travel #Airport #Traffic #Airlines #TSA America will be traveling in big numbers this Thanksgiving. It's estimated to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period since 2005, with more than 55 million Americans making a trip longer than 50 miles, according to the AAA. That's 1.6 million more than last year, a nearly 2.9 percent increase. Nearly 32 million of those are expected to fly,  according  to Airlines for America (A4A), an industry trade group, a 3.7 percent jump from 2018. American Airlines alone said it expects to operate 74,396 flights and fly more than 7.4 million passengers during the 12 day period between November 22 and December 3. Delta expects to carry 3.2 million passengers between Monday, November 25 and Sunday, December 1. To accommodate the extra traffic, US airlines are adding an average of 859 flights per day, according to A4A, averaging 108,000 seats added per day. During the travel period, the busiest days are