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Global Weather Forecast: Four Inch ‘Giant Hail,’ Long Range Tornadoes, and ‘Most Extreme Event’ in Climate History
Light rain near Times Square at night in New York City Across the globe, this week’s weather forecasts are largely for severe and extreme...
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Auto Industry Wants AM Radio Out of Car Radios. Congress Has Other Plans.
AM radio, which is celebrating its 102nd birthday as an option for new autos this year, sure has staying power. The amplitude modulation...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – May 5: Covid Hospitalizations Hit Record Low, TB Outbreak Causes Public Health Emergency
The show floor of the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research...
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Dutch Remember the War Dead, Observe Liberation from the Nazis: ‘Evil Triumphed Here, at Least for a While’
Several minutes ago, at 6 p.m. Central European time, the people of the Netherlands observed the Dodenherdenking, the Remembrance of the Dead,...
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Fiery Crash Close I-95 in Connecticut, Highway Will Be Shut Down for Days
A section of I-95 in Connecticut near the Harvard Avenue exit in Old Greenwich A section of Interstate 95 in Connecticut – a portion of the...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – May 3: Diabetes Drug May Prevent Long Covid, Louisiana Woman Stole $440K in Pandemic Relief Funds
Saint Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square, New Orleans Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long...
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New York’s Five Boro Bike Tour Returns This Weekend, Along With Bridge, Tunnel, and Street Closures
A variable message sign on the Throgs Neck Bridge advising of the upcoming Five Boro Bike Tour Sunday is the annual Five Boro Bike Tour in...
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California Junk Fee Law Will Ban All Surcharges at Restaurants Including Credit Card Fees and Health Insurance Levies
A cocktail at the Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco Following months of uncertainty, the California...
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Tesla Shocks Auto Industry With Overnight Firing of Entire Supercharger Department
A Tesla at a Supercharger charging station Tesla CEO Elon Musk effectively shut down the division that runs Tesla’s Supercharger business,...
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Got Milk? FDA Says Pasteurized Milk is Safe and Vaccines for Humans Could Easily Be Deployed Against H5N1
One day in 1993, Jeff Goodby of Goodby Silverstein & Partners jotted down a tagline, namely “Got milk .” Then he added a question mark. And...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – May 2: Bird Flu Has Circulated in Cows For Months, Banning Smartphones in Schools Leads to Improved Mental Health
The statue “Unsolicited Advice” by G. Seward Johnson Jr. on Main Street in Stamford, Ct. Good afternoon. This is Jonathan...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – May 1: Fraud Investigator Charged with Covid Fraud, N.Y.C. Saw Sustained Increase in Subway Assaults After Pandemic Declaration
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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Great Moments in Travel History – May 2024
May, the fifth month in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars is typically the epitome of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the...
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Should We Worry About Bird Flu in Our Milk? The Answer is No, But You Should Worry About Drinking Raw Milk
While headlines such as “Bird Flu Found in Grocery Store Milk” are meant to shock, it appears extraordinarily unlikely that a consumer of...
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Review: ‘The Great Gatsby’ at the Broadway Theatre. A Gatsby Without the ‘Great’
The reader might be surprised to learn that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby,” considered a literary masterpiece and contender...
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Westin Upgrades Its Iconic Heavenly Bed
Sally the Chihuahua mix lounging on her canine-sized Heavenly Bed at the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort and Spa Marriott International...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – April 30: RFK Jr.’s Dilbertian Statistics Moment, Chinese Scientist First to Publish Covid Sequence Locked Out of Lab
The Münchner Oktoberfest Musikanten performing in the Festzelt Tradition at Oktoberfest Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of...
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The 1964 New York World’s Fair Opened 60 Years Ago This Month: You Can Still Attend The Fair to This Very Day
Were one to walk down the straight avenues of today’s Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, it would be impossible not to come across major...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – April 29: ‘FLiRT’ Variants of Virus Pose New Problem, May Brings Change in Hospital Admissions Reporting
A glass of refreshing, pasteurized milk Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research,...
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Weekend of Tornadoes Leaves At Least 5 Dead
Light snowfall in wetern Nebraska in the week prior to the storm Two separate storm systems wreaked havoc in the Midwest over the weekend,...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – April 28: Fauci Agrees to Testify in Congress on Covid Origins, Astra Zeneca Admits Vaccine Side Effect
The U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research,...
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Delta Air Lines Aircraft Loses Emergency Slide After Takeoff, Officials Say
A Delta 767 at JFK A Boeing 767 aircraft owned and operated by Delta Air Lines and bound for California lost one of its emergency slides...
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FCC Restores Obama-Era ‘Net Neutrality,’ Making Internet Service a Public Utility No Different Than Water or Electricity
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to classify internet service as a public utility. The move will apply utility-like...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – April 26: WHO Issues New Vaccine Formulation Guidance, Covid Patient’s Unusual Symptoms Save Her Life
The set of the recent Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company” Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira,...
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Theater Review: ‘Five,’ The Parody Musical… Or The Five Angry Women of Donald Trump
King Henry VIII may have had six wives (divorced, beheaded, died, … well you know what happened), but former President Donald Trump has five angry...