Tradition suggests the most meaningful Thanksgiving celebrations are those that involve dozens of friends gathering around a giant turkey. This year, celebrations will need to become a lot more intimate, but that doesn’t have to make them any less meaningful. Scaling down Thanksgiving does not have to mean missing out […]
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A visit to Laramie Regional Airport now can make you feel a little like Rip Van Winkle. Forced inactivity during this pandemic has meant that we have not been paying much attention to airline travel. But in Laramie, that downturn coincided with a perfect opportunity for a major change — […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Orkin was taking a break from his evening jog to sit by Prospect Park Lake when he turned around and was startled to see a tangle of wriggling snakes. “And quite a big pile — fully alive,” said Orkin, a music composer who lives near […]
As ski areas throughout Maine prepare to open for the busy winter season, they’re making some major changes to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last ski season ended abruptly in March as the pandemic swept across Maine and the country. The ski mountains are ready to reopen now. In an […]
U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Representative David Cicilline are far from ideological soulmates. But in a one-two punch, they’re about to take on the country’s biggest technology platforms and could drive the most significant changes to antitrust law enforcement in decades. Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal […]
LONDON (AP) — A global economic watchdog on Monday proposed an overhaul of international tax rules to make sure big tech companies pay their dues, and warned that failure to adopt it would make the economic recovery from COVID-19 harder. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which advises […]
Lost ended its seminal seven-season run just over 10 years ago, with the many mysteries of Oceanic Flight 815, the island, the Others, the Dharma Initiative and more mostly answered.But for a show so built around its lingering questions, its unexpected twists, and the mythology built in tandem with a […]
UNITED STATES—Vegas is hurting. Sadly that’s not because a plane load of high rolling Japanese and Russian industrialists have arrived and spun-up a couple of hundred million in the exclusive Salon Privé areas of the Bellagio, Venetian and Aria Casino. It is because people are simply not travelling to Sin City. […]
Sunita Mani and John Reynolds can’t quite recall when they first met. Probably sometime around 2014 when Mani’s claim to semi-fame was her three-person comedic dance troupe, Cocoon Central Dance Team. Reynolds had just moved to New York City from Chicago. A mutual friend recommended he attend the ensemble’s show, […]
Although most of our travel expenses are paid for by using rewards points, other expenses are paid for with cash. Additional costs include food, attraction and event tickets, souvenirs and more. We tend to use points for larger trips, opting to pay for weekend getaways and shorter road trips with […]
Founder of Sergio Mannino Studio, a leading Architectural Branding Agency that operates internationally. getty They say people have already formed an opinion of you within seven seconds of first meeting you. They look at your clothes, your hair, maybe your watch or your shoes, all in the span of just a […]
Casino and hotel giant Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR) made a $3.7 billion bid for London-based sports betting company William Hill (OTC:WIMHY) over the weekend, according to Bloomberg, potentially accelerating its push into digital wagering and online sportsbook activities. Caesars offered a bid of 272 pence per share, a 25% premium above William Hill’s […]
NEW YORK (AP) — At a University of Maryland lab, people infected with the new coronavirus take turns sitting in a chair and putting their faces into the big end of a large cone. They recite the alphabet and sing or just sit quietly for a half hour. Sometimes they […]
Joe Biden boards a plane at the airport in New Castle, Del., Monday en route to a campaign appearance in Wisconsin. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) With the help of lots of cash from Californians, including past Republican donors, Joe Biden is eclipsing President Trump in fundraising as they head […]
This was a mixed week for cannabis stocks, with some ETFs in the green and others in the red. Over the five trading days of the week: The ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (NYSE: MJ): lost 1.4% The AdvisorShares Pure Cannabis ETF (NYSE: YOLO): was up 0.8% The Cannabis ETF (NYSE: […]
Stars, heat and humidity, and the temperament of mercurial elders in one’s family have to align to set the wedding date in India. And the window to get married is anyway limited. At the time India’s coronavirus lockdown began in March, the wedding season was anyway about to close, and […]
John Taylor usually spends Election Day watching the news, excitedly tracking the returns. But after seeing images of voters across the country waiting in long lines to vote during this year’s primaries disrupted by the coronavirus, Taylor, 36, of Greensboro, North Carolina, has a new plan for November: working the […]
When you are a German quarterback preparing to play big-time college football in America, there’s going to be a learning curve. Like the time Alexander Honig met Jim Harbaugh but hadn’t known that the Michigan head coach played 14 NFL seasons. “I only knew him as a coach at first,” […]
(Bloomberg) — Hedge funds and other short sellers are beginning to set their sights on a U.S. credit-derivatives index with outsized exposure to hotel debt as the pandemic sinks the hospitality industry into distress. The firms are starting to build up wagers against the synthetic index, known as CMBX 9, […]
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Tenet” is charting a new course for blockbusters during the pandemic by opening in foreign territories before it lands in the U.S. However, many of the factors that make “Tenet” the milestone film in the cinema industry’s post-coronavirus road to recovery are simultaneously elements that expose […]
In a small room without windows, I am instructed to breathe in sync with a colorful bar on a screen in front of me. Six counts in. Six counts out. Electrodes tie me to a machine whirring on the table. My hands and feet are bare, wiped clean and placed […]