The loyalty reward program for Hilton Hotels has been renamed and overhauled to make it easier to spend your points. But it’s not clear that the changes will get you more for you points.

Once called HHonors, the program now called Hilton Honors lets you pool your points with friends and family to book a room, combine your points with cash to pay for lodging and use Hilton points to buy stuff on Amazon.com. Also, travelers who reach “Diamond” status in the program can extend it for one year without paying extra.

The changes include lots of small print but experts on reward programs say the overall impact should be positive for travelers.

Brian Kelly, the pointsguy, 

 

 

Ali Vayeghan was one of an unknown number of people whose plans were disrupted by President Trump’s entry ban. UC Berkeley was home of the free speech movement. Today, California’s flagship university is under fire from the right and left. Tread cautiously. That’s how Super Bowl advertisers are feeling in the fraught political landscape. Snapchat app maker Snap’s IPO filing might be the biggest ever for a Los Angeles company.

Ali Vayeghan was one of an unknown number of people whose plans were disrupted by President Trump’s entry ban. UC Berkeley was home of the free speech movement. Today, California’s flagship university is under fire from the right and left. Tread cautiously. That’s how Super Bowl advertisers are feeling in the fraught political landscape. Snapchat app maker Snap’s IPO filing might be the biggest ever for a Los Angeles company.

Ali Vayeghan was one of an unknown number of people whose plans were disrupted by President Trump’s entry ban. UC Berkeley was home of the free speech movement. Today, California’s flagship university is under fire from the right and left. Tread cautiously. That’s how Super Bowl advertisers are feeling in the fraught political landscape. Snapchat app maker Snap’s IPO filing might be the biggest ever for a Los Angeles company.

Ali Vayeghan was one of an unknown number of people whose plans were disrupted by President Trump’s entry ban. UC Berkeley was home of the free speech movement. Today, California’s flagship university is under fire from the right and left. Tread cautiously. That’s how Super Bowl advertisers are feeling in the fraught political landscape. Snapchat app maker Snap’s IPO filing might be the biggest ever for a Los Angeles company.

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New research from Georgia Tech reveals how frog tongues work.

A speech by conservative firebrand and  Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley on Wednesday amid violent protests that prompted President Trump to suggest cutting funding to the university.

A speech by conservative firebrand and  Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley on Wednesday amid violent protests that prompted President Trump to suggest cutting funding to the university.

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Neil M. Gorsuch, a highly regarded conservative jurist best known for upholding religious liberty rights in the legal battles over Obamacare, is President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

Neil M. Gorsuch, a highly regarded conservative jurist best known for upholding religious liberty rights in the legal battles over Obamacare, is President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

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