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American Airlines Becomes First U.S. Airline to Offer Unionized Flight Attendants ‘Boarding Pay,’ But Union Rejects Overall Offer
An American Airlines 777-300ER at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport American Airlines, as part of currently ongoing federally...
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JetBlue to Cut Routes and Pull Out of Cities from Los Angeles to Lima in Wake of Failed Merger
JetBlue Mint business-class cabin on an Airbus A321 On the heels of its failed merger with Spirit Airlines and its abandonment of its...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 19: N.Y.C. Schools Relax Isolation Guidance, Bolsonaro Indicted, ‘It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?’
A fruit stand in São Paulo’s Mercadão or Municipal Market Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center...
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Flight Attendant Fired for Using Smartphone While Working In Flight Wins Judgment Against Airline for $22,000
A Finnair Airbus A319 in oneworld livery at Zürich Airport United Airlines cracked down on the use of iPhones and other personal electronic...
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It’s a GDP Miracle So Let’s Not Do the Hamsterkauf
In early 2020, the global economy screeched to a halt not seen since the Great Depression. With shutdowns and social distancing and spiraling...
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Climate Activists Disrupt New Broadway Production of ‘An Enemy of the People’: ‘No Theater on a Dead Planet’
Theatergoers arriving at a performance of “An Enemy of the People” at Circle in the Square Theatre A performance of the new...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 18: In U.S., Covid is Waning in Wastewater, CDC Revisits Guidance on Airborne Virus Transmission
Austrian coronavirus-themed stamp featuring Kibali the baby elephant that represented 1 m (3.3′) of social distancing, printed on toilet...
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The Pandemic, by the Numbers
This past Monday marked the four-year anniversary of the declaration by the World Health Organization that the Covid-19 outbreak was a pandemic....
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Say Goodbye to Winter: The Spring Equinox is Tuesday
Just as what always seems to be the case, depending on where you are in the Northern Hemisphere, you’ve either been enjoying spring-like weather...
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Spring Arrives Tomorrow… But Tell That to the 170 Million in the U.S. Who Are Shivering
Snickers the Wonderdog after enjoying a snow cone Spring officially arrives tomorrow, Tuesday, but for millions of people across the...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 17: New Covid Screenings at Miami Airport, Covid Per Capita Death Rate Highest in South and Southwest
American Airlines aircraft in Miami, where new Covid screenings are taking place Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of...
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Iceland Declares State of Emergency, Blue Lagoon Evacuated After Largest Volcanic Eruption in Three Years
The the Reykjanes Peninsula.and the Blue Lagoon, Norðurljósavegur, in a lava field near Grindavík, as seen from the air. Icelandic...
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Hertz CEO Resigns After Discovering the Low Resale Value and High Repair Cost of the 100,000 Teslas He Purchased
A Hertz location at Munich Airport Hertz Global Holdings announced late Friday the resignation of CEO Stephen Scherr, who had joined the...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 15: Number of Long Covid Patients Has ‘Startling’ Increase, Long Covid Trials for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction Begin
A sign advising of a park closure in the Northport (Long Island) Nautical Mile Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research...
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Severe Late Winter Storm Leaves Colorado Under 4’ of Snow and Spawns Tornadoes in Ohio and Indiana
The Rocky Mountains in Colorado A powerful late winter storm hit the Mountain West subregion of the country with up to 4’ (122 cm) of snow...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 14: Is It Time to Stop Using the Term ‘Long Covid?’, Fear of Covid Fades Despite ‘Significant Risk’
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. The sign was...
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Bach Rocks Lincoln Center With the American Classical Orchestra and Bach’s Mass in B-Minor
Bach’s Mass in B-Minor was bouncing off the walls at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, performed by the American Classical Orchestra conducted by...
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Happy Pi Day! Here’s a Look at How This Tasty Holiday Came About.
Today, March 14, is Pi Day, the annual celebration of the mathematical constant denoted by the Greek letter π, facilitated by the all-numeric date...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 13: 22% of Americans Clueless About Long Covid, First Covid Death in New York Was Four Years Ago Today
More pigeons than people at the New York Public Library in Manhattan Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the...
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United Airlines CEO Asks Boeing to Stop Making Long-Delayed 737 Max 10 Aircraft
A United Airlines Boeing 737 tail United Airlines has told Boeing it should stop manufacturing its long-delayed 737 Max 10 aircraft for the...
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LATAM Air Flight Experiences Mid-Flight ‘Drop.’ Passengers “Flew Through the Cabin
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner At least 60 people were injured during a LATAM Airlines flight by what officials termed a “strong movement” as the...
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LaGuardia, Formerly a ‘Third-World Airport,’ Flies to the Top of Best Airports Survey. Just Don’t Order the Sushi.
The “Shorter Than The Day” sculpture at LaGuardia Airport “If I blindfolded you… and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you’d...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief –March 12: Pandemic Reduced Life Expectancy by 1.6 Years, Vaccines Cut Risk of Virus-Related Cardio Complications
In front of a shuttered McDonald’s restaurant on 42nd Street in Manhattan, a man demonstrates the proper way to wear a face mask in a...
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Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett, Who Raised Doubts About Production Standards at Dreamliner Factory, Found Dead
A former Boeing manager who raised concerns about the plane maker’s shoddy production standards at its North Charleston 787 Dreamliner factory was...
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Four Years Ago Today, It Was the Beginning of the End: The Pandemic Shuttered Broadway. The Rest of the World Followed
The events of four years ago today are indelibly engraved in my memory like almost no other, except perhaps where I was when the space shuttle...