A development agency in Atlantic City approved construction Tuesday of a $100 million water park at the former Showboat casino in a move designed to make the gambling resort more appealing to families and off-season tourists. But the key to making the project work — 20 years of tax breaks […]
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Big Tech faces landmark new regulation in the European Union that includes the possibility of multibillion-dollar fines and the breaking up of companies if they don’t comply with new rules. Presented on Tuesday, the European Commission’s Digital Services Act and its Digital Markets Act usher in a new era of […]
Administrators who’ve scrapped the breaks say the spread of COVID-19 among students shows that encouraging travel, as a longer break would do, is just too risky. SAN DIEGO — Carlos Acosta’s fall semester at the University of Southern California was a lot more grueling than he expected — and it […]
Online shoppers were projected to ring up record-breaking numbers Cyber Monday, as many consumers avoid mall crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Cyber Monday is expected to remain the king of online shopping days and become the largest online sales day in history,” with between $10.8 billion and $12.7 billion spent […]
Clayton Park | The Daytona Beach News-Journal Black Friday will be different this holiday season COVID-19 necessitates a bit of a change to Black Friday tradition. Here’s how stores are adapting to this year’s global pandemic. DAYTONA BEACH — The holiday shopping season is make or break time for retailers […]
As Thanksgiving break approaches and students prepare to travel home, Elon University students are considering whether or not to get tested for the coronavirus. Beginning on Nov. 16, Elon began providing pre-departure COVID-19 testing at no cost to students, faculty and staff. To get tested before departing from campus this […]
The University of Missouri-Kansas City announced Wednesday it will transition from in-person classes to online beginning Nov. 30 for the remainder of the semester, including final exams. UMKC said exceptions will be any clinicals, labs or other experiential classes that have been in-person. They will remain in-person through semester’s end, […]
Never, as the sayings go, judge a book by its cover, a sausage by its skin or, when it comes to me, a hotel critic by her dodgy pre-visit suppositions. “Oh gawd”, I thought when I read the press release about The Falcon, “minted toff and his yoga-loving sixth wife […]
As coronavirus cases around the country continue to rise, some colleges and universities are urging students to remain on campus instead of visiting family for Thanksgiving, while others are asking that those who do travel home consider finishing the semester remotely. The University of Missouri is one of many schools […]
GOLF Magazine recently launched its latest Top 100 Courses in the United States ranking (in print and online), and there’s nothing like a new Top 100 list to inspire friendly grill-room debate. Let’s dig into the list. Which two courses in the Top 100 most surprised you in how high […]
NEW YORK – Elissa Sangster counts herself fortunate to have had early mentors who pushed to empower and promote women around them. FILE PHOTO: Forte Foundation CEO Elissa Sangster poses in an undated handout photo. Forte Foundation/Handout via REUTERS After business school, Sangster worked at Texas A&M University as assistant […]
New data has revealed drastic shifts in UK travel behaviour since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The research, from airport transfer and sightseeing company Welcome Pickups, analysed UK traveller behaviour from March to the end of September this year, comparing it to the same period in 2019. Among the […]
From Cosmopolitan This season of The Bachelorette is slightly, um, different due to Clare Crawley running off into the pandemic sunset and being replaced by fan-fave Tayshia Adams. Which, yeah, is super freakin’ exciting but also begs the question…did ABC pay both Tayshia and Clare for the season or did […]