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German Labor Unions Plan Wide-Ranging Strikes Monday Leaving Air and Rail Transportation Paralyzed
Lufthansa Ticket Counter at Munich Airport Germany will be brought to a standstill on Monday if two labor unions representing transport...
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American Airlines Lets Elite Members Give ‘Status for a Day’
Flagship Check-In at JFK, reserved for international first-class passengers American Airlines introduced a new benefit for members of its...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 24: Unvaxxed Individuals Who Had Covid May Have Damaged Immunity, Court Blocks Federal Vaccine Mandate
Bourbon Street at night in New Orleans Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the...
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Summer Time for 2023 Begins Sunday in the European Union
It was just three years ago that Europe changed its clocks in the grip of a great unknown, a new coronavirus that was moving rapidly across the...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 23: Vaccination or Paxlovid Reduce Risk of Long Covid, New Variant Is Surging
A patient in the waiting room of at a doctor’s office in New York City Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 22: U.S. Could Authorize Second Bivalent Jab, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Lawmaker Stole $150,000 in Relief Funds
Kiosk no. 2 British red telephone boxes or booths in Covent Garden, desgined by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1926 Good morning. This is...
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The World’s Happiest Country in 2023 is (Once Again) Finland, But What Does That Even Mean?
Happiness is a vague, multifaceted, and subjective phenomenon that is difficult to define precisely for measurement and hard to measure in a...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 21: Data from Wuhan Wet Market Sheds Greater Light on Pandemic’s Origins, Germany Plans Research on Long Covid
Schloß Nymphenburg in Munich Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the...
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Want to Make an In-Flight PB&J or Smuggle a Gun? According to the TSA, Peanut Butter is a Liquid
The question of what constitutes a liquid had, physicists and the TSA thought, long been settled, that is until now. The case of a podcaster,...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 20: Americans Took Fewer Steps During the Pandemic, Vaccine Makers Prepare Jab Against Avian Flu for Humans
Sunset in San Francisco, viewed from the Mark Hopkins hotel Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 19: Spreading Medical Misinformation is Not a Doctor’s Form of Free Speech
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,103rd day of the pandemic....
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Say Goodbye to Winter: The Spring Equinox is Monday
Depending on where you are in the Northern Hemisphere, you’ve either been enjoying spring-like weather for weeks or you’ve wondered whether the...
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FCC Cracks Down on Text Message Spam, Tells Mobile Operators to Block Them
A spam text message received in December The Federal Communications Commission took steps on Friday to crack down on text message spam with...
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Amtrak Introduces ‘Night Owl’ Off-Peak Fares on Northeast Corridor Routes
Exterior of the Moynihan Train Hall, located inside the history General Post Office Building Amtrak, the operator of most of the United...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 18: Long Covid ‘Is a Beast,’ Patient Infected by 2 Omicron Subvariants at Same Time
A panda at the Chengdu Panda Base Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe...
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Covid’s Origin Linked to Racoon Dogs at Wuhan Market
We are now looking at the strongest evidence yet that the pandemic was not caused by a lab leak but rather by an animal at a wet market. A report...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 17: Long Covid Tied to Hours Slept, FDA Advisors Endorse Paxlovid for High-Risk Patients
Contae an Chláir, or County Clare, Ireland Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across...
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Millionaire and Silicon Valley ‘Creep’ Steve Kirsch Offers Woman in First Class on Delta Flight $100,000 to Remove Face Mask
Just because someone is a tech innovator doesn’t mean he isn’t also a creep or worse. Steve Kirsch, an American entrepreneur, is one of two...
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Today is World Sleep Day: Here’s Why Good Slumber is Important
While St. Patrick’s Day gets all the attention, March 17 is also World Sleep Day. Held on the Friday before the Northern Hemisphere vernal...
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Volkswagen to Invest $200 Billion in EV Program
The Volkswagen ID.4 1st Edition Volkswagen announced plans to invest €180 billion ($193 billion) over the coming five years to accelerate...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 16: FDA Says No Connection Between Paxlovid and Rebound, Drug for MS Might Serve as Covid Antiviral
Delta aircraft at New York’s JFK airport Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from...
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Bi-Coastal Storms Bring Tuesday’s Air Traffic in the U.S. to Its Knees
An American Airlines A321 at JFK during an earlier storm Major storms on the East and West Coasts of the United States brought a partial...
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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – March 15: A New Long Covid Symptom, Charges Filed Against California Senior Care Home After 14 Covid Deaths
The entrance to Los Angeles International Airport Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from...
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Thousands of Flights Delayed and Cancelled as Nor’ester Swoops Into the Northeast
A major winter storm that is bringing wet, heavy snow, combined with wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour (96.6 km/h) will result in...
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Fewer Than Six Hours of Sleep Cuts Immune Response to Vaccines, Study Says
Regular readers of this space know of my great interest in sleep. Not only do I enjoy getting a good night’s sleep but I’ve studied its effects...