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Congress Advances Bill in House to Ban Chinese Batteries
The Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol A bill aimed at cutting major Chinese battery manufacturers out of the Department of Homeland...
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How Junk Fees and Drip Pricing Cost Consumers Untold Billions Each Year and What’s Been Done to Put an End to This Racket
Bob Frankston, who co-invented the first spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin, knows how to add up columns and rows. That’s why he was more than...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 11: KP.3 is the New Dominant Variant in U.S., Cuomo Grilled on Capitol Hill Over Nursing Home Deaths
An empty Times Square, an area usually bustling with tourists, during the height of the pandemic in N.Y.C. Good afternoon. This is Jonathan...
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Westchester Airport Found It Was Barking Up the Wrong Tree With Bark Air
Franz Ferdinand is happy that Westchester Airport will play ball. The New York airport that objected to the use of its private jet area by...
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JetBlue Expands to Long Island, Enters Partnership with British Airways
A BA aircraft on taxi at Heathrow JetBlue Airways announced plans to offer service to multiple destinations from Long Island MacArthur...
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Did It Matter That ‘There Was No Science Behind’ the Six-Foot Social Distancing Rule?
The latest rallying call in the war on science was the testimony by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious disease who spent...
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Apple Unveils Latest Mobile Operating System, iOS 18, With a Host of New Features Including AI, Improved Security, a New ‘Passwords’ App, and More Customization Options
CUPERTINO—At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference held Monday, the company best known for its iPod and iPhone devices jumped into the...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 10: Rare Cancers Began to Appear as Pandemic Got Underway, Moderna Combi Shot Outperforms Standalone Jabs
The Cape Fear Cafe, in Duncans Mills, California Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid...
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Weekend Update – Here Are the Headline Stories You Missed: Israel’s Hostage Rescue, Man Who Transformed Miami’s Skyline Dies at 96, New Nutritional Labels Coming, and World Cup Cricket
“Weekend Update – Here Are the Headlines You Missed” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that might have been...
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Hailstorm Damages Nose, Cockpit Windows of Austrian Airlines Airbus Jet While in Flight
An Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 retrojet at the gate at London Heathrow An Austrian Airlines aircraft suffered damage from a sudden...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 9: Trump Won’t Give ‘One Penny’ to Schools With Vaccine Mandates If Elected, Los Angeles Issues Advisor Over Rising Cases
Theatre of Dionysus, on the south slope of the Acropolis hill Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center...
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U.S. Shifts Into Reverse on Auto and SUV Fuel Economy Standards, But Passenger Autos Will Nonetheless Have to Average 65 MPG by 2031
Photo caption: A 1970s Ford LTD with an EPA fuel-economy rating of 17 mpg (13.83 l/100 km). Today’s sedans average from 27 mpg (10.46...
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New York City’s Christopher Street Subway Station to be Renamed in Honor of Stonewall Inn
Street theater on Christopher Street The Christopher Street-Sheridan Square Station stop on the New York City Subway will be renamed...
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New Airline Bark Air is Going to the Dogs, and to Court
Snickers the Wonderdog prepares for a brief nap in his hotel suite after a long flight Bark Air, a new airline that is focused on...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 7: Paxlovid Does Not Improve Long Covid Symptoms, All Signs Point to a Summer Covid Wave
Sunrise at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long...
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Determined Spirit Airlines Flyer Tracks Her ‘Lost’ Bag to Airport Shop Worker’s Home. Thief Now in Custody.
A Spirit Airlines jet at JFK in 2014, prior to the introduction of a new livery A Spirit Airlines passenger whose checked luggage failed to...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 6: Positive Test Not Needed for Long Covid Diagnosis, Condition May Be More Devastating Than We Thought
An arch adjacent to the Arch of San Cabo, known locally as El Arco, a distinctive granite rock formation at the tip of Cabo San Lucas Good...
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The Next Pandemic May Already Be Here: It’s Time to Take Our Heads Out of the H5N1 Sand Before it is Too Late
A strain of avian flu that had not previously detected in humans took the life of a person in Mexico, and last Thursday, a third human case of...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 5: Long Covid May Be More Devastating Than We Had Ever Imagined, One Person Dead from Bird Flu
An Austrian Airlines A320 retrojet Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research,...
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Countdown Begins to New York City’s New Outdoor Dining Program. Revamped Rules and Designs Herald a New Era of Sideway and Roadway Dining
In the beginning, the was the sidewalk shack. Those who wished to “dine out” could, provided they sat in a wooden covered outdoor structure with...
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Tomorrow Is Brooklyn-Queens Day in 2024: Here’s What’s Open and What’s Closed
Thursday, June 6, is Brooklyn-Queens Day in New York, a holiday that very few people fully understand what it commemorates. The boroughs of...
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New York City’s Controversial Congestion-Pricing Plan ‘Indefinitely Postponed’
The Lower Manhattan section of the “indefinitely postponed” congestion-pricing zone Days after it was revealed the New York...
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Trying to Reach Out and Touch Someone by Phone? AT&T and Verizon Are Experiencing a Nationwide Service Outage
Somewhere in the United States, someone left a phone off the hook and brought down the nation’s voice telephone network. Customers of...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – June 4: Greene’s Attacks on Social Distancing Were Not Based in Science, Dr. Birx Says We Will ‘Never Know’ Covid’s Origins
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and most populous area of Scandinavia Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the...
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In 25th Anniversary Year, Oneworld Welcomes New Member Fiji Airlines
Oneworld officials at a news conference after the governing board meeting in 2018 Fiji Airways, formerly known as Air Pacific and the flag...