(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that with the rapidly increasing number of coronavirus cases, the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to postpone travel and celebrate with the people who live at home with you. If you plan to travel by bus, train or […]
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Gobble gobble. Oh, wait, I was muted. (Photo illustration by Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times / Getty) Many of us are about to spend the holidays the same way we spent most of 2020: at home. If you’re one of the people planning to hit the road for Thanksgiving […]
People flying through Charlotte Douglas International Airport could be in for packed lines this week, as the airport prepares to see its busiest days of travel since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The busiest single day of travel during the Thanksgiving holiday is expected to be this coming Sunday, […]
The reduction of the quarantine period from 14 days to five will offer a timely boost for holidaymakers – but tour operators have warned they will not be able to offer trips to “high-risk” destinations unless the Foreign Office (FCDO) changes its travel advice. Currently, countries not on the travel […]
Lockdown is set to end on December 2, with the three-tier system reinstated with additional restrictions. For many, this means the blanket ban on travel abroad will be lifted. Previously, travel was allowed in all three tiers but advised against in the highest tier. More details on the return to […]
WASHINGTON – With nationwide coronavirus hospitalizations topping 80,000 and case counts on the cusp of 200,000 a day, officials and experts are giving their final pleas for caution in the days before Thanksgiving. Average cases reported each day in the United States have jumped nearly 15% in a week, according […]
National Espresso Day is today, November 23, making it the perfect day to indulge in some coffee. Major coffee chains including Caribou Coffee and Tim Hortons have ongoing offers for free and discounted coffee—and when better to make the most of these deals than National Espresso Day? Alternatively, if you […]
Europe’s struggle with the virus on many fronts The latest wave of the coronavirus in Europe appears to have crested in recent days, but not before setting records that prompted another series of shutdowns. The rate of new cases reported across the continent quintupled between September and November to about […]
Here’s a hint: Thanksgiving travel. SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash — Spokane medical professionals say they are swamped with COVID-19 testing, which would make sense since the cases keep rising. However, the people coming in for testing are not always sick. Many people without symptoms are trying to get tested for travel […]
Top infectious disease expert Anthony FauciAnthony FauciSunday shows preview: Biden transition, COVID-19 spike in spotlight Pressure rises for rapid COVID-19 testing White House largely silent on health precautions for Thanksgiving MORE urged Americans on Sunday to conduct a “risk-benefit assessment” before traveling for the holidays as Thanksgiving approaches this week. […]
“If you look at the map of spread across the country, you can see the risk; it’s very visible. And moving through airports or travel hubs, I think that will increase people’s risk,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Even […]
After being released from the Scotland squad to make way for Duncan Taylor, who started on the bench against France after being drafted in, centre Nick Grigg is a surprise inclusion in the Glasgow Warriors team to play Munster at Scotstoun tomorrow for the first time since October 2018. The 28-year-old […]
“Make it crash or something,” Bart tells Milhouse of his remote-control plane in the classic Simpsons episode “Bart After Dark.” Milhouse responds, “perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale model pilot.” While that answer doesn’t sit well with Bart, Milhouse is absolutely correct. It is hard to […]
By Shoa Moosavi “Mars.” “Jimi Hendrix’s ‘The Sky is Crying.’ ” “The apocalypse.” These are a few of the comments made by Oakland Athletics’ players and staff about the eerie skies that resulted from the wildfires that devastated the team’s home state of California in September. During one stretch of […]
Karen McCullough never wanted a dog. “It would have tied me down, and I had a great, very busy life,” she says. Her career as a keynote speaker at conferences has taken her across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. “My job is to get everybody engaged, excited and ready to […]
The daily tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan has hit a record for the fourth day at 2,508 ByThe Associated Press November 22, 2020, 2:24 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article TOKYO — The daily tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan hit […]
Thanksgiving travel week is upon us, but coronavirus cases have surged across the country and sapped much of that annual excitement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued advice last week that couldn’t have come at a worse time for those hoping for holiday comfort from loved ones: Postpone […]
The conventional wisdom is that 2020 has nearly destroyed travel. And though it’s true that COVID-19 ruined vacations and took a wrecking ball to a large part of the industry, the conventional wisdom is wrong. “Actually, the pandemic is making travel better in many ways,” says Clayton Reid, CEO of […]
Julisa, 8, hugged her grandparents after a judge finalized her adoption Friday over Zoom in their Newark home to make the couple her legal guardians. Her grandparents, Reynaldo and Secundina Peña, began to cry a little, but there was no time for tears. A surprise was in store for them […]
Universities in eastern Washington are telling students not to come back if they head home for the holidays. SPOKANE, Wash. — As the COVID-19 pandemic raged throughout the year, university leaders across the Inland Northwest spent their late Spring and Summer months forming a plan to safely teach college students […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dealt a blow to airlines and the broader travel industry Thursday by recommending Americans stay home for Thanksgiving as coronavirus cases surge in almost every state. Airlines are countering that passengers are safe on planes because of precautionary measures in place, and […]
The Thursday press conference by President TrumpDonald John TrumpBen Carson says he’s ‘out of the woods’ after being ‘extremely sick’ with COVID-19 Biden will receive @POTUS Twitter account on Jan. 20 even if Trump doesn’t concede, company says Trump to participate in virtual G-20 summit amid coronavirus surge MORE’s legal […]