Thousands of pilots across the country are facing pink slips in a matter of weeks unless the airline industry receives more financial aid from the federal government. For many of them, flying has been their dream since they were kids, and the crisis in the industry has left pilots young […]
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Grace Barbic | Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Education Association, one of the largest teacher unions in the state, on Tuesday released its third annual state of education report examining attitudes towards public education in Illinois. The poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Next Generation Strategies, surveyed 1,000 […]
Refinery 29 UK Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan Has Some Secrets She’ll Never Tell — Or Will She? Warning: This interview contains major spoilers for the Bridgerton season 1 finale, now streaming on Netflix. For Nicola Coughlan, secrets are a part of the job, on-screen and off. While filming Derry Girls, her […]
BERLIN—The new coronavirus variant that is spreading across the U.K. could make it more difficult to reach so-called herd immunity, according to the chief executive of BioNTech SE, the German company that developed the Covid-19 vaccine with Pfizer Inc. British authorities have said the new variant of the coronavirus is […]
Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email There are less than two weeks until Christmas, and the retail industry, as per usual in 2020, finds itself in uncharted territory. The season has been pulled forward, leaving these final 10 days up in the air. Shipping delays are threatening the digital-first […]
In a year like no other in recent history, it would be easy to be grousing instead of grateful today. The following people, however, answered our call to share their thankful thoughts to brighten the holiday season. Enjoy. The gift of life Kari Dirks, 60, Coralville The year 2020 will […]
This year has been unique in its collective misery. In case you’ve been living in a cave for much of 2020, we’ve all been living in caves for much of 2020, and that could make writing the annual holiday newsletter a bit challenging. No amazing vacations, no graduations or weddings […]
As the Prime Minister’s language – in body and word – seemed to demonstrate on Saturday evening, the latest lockdown measures are a defeat. They represent a failure of both state capacity and policy. Those of us who supported the first lockdown did so in the expectation that we were […]
(Image: Epyx, Inc. / Pixel Games UK) It’s a real accomplishment to have a genre named after your game, and few can claim it. But Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman’s Rogue, which was first released for mainframe computers in 1980, pulled it off. You can’t throw a rock on Steam […]