March 2020

Voices From Travel’s Frontlines: ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’

Travel /

Across the globe, workers in the tourism industry — from pilots to tour guides to chauffeurs — are worrying about their livelihoods as governments close borders, prohibit large gatherings and implement strict quarantines on entire regions and countries. A flight attendant feared that with ever-changing border rules, she might become stranded during an overnight layover […]

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‘A Week of Snow Days’? Ha! Families Deal With Cabin Fever

Technology /

Not all cabin fever families are dealing with toddlers. College students have been sent home, repopulating their parents’ empty nests. Other adult children, sometimes with friends and fiancés in tow, are turning their parents’ kitchens into co-working spaces. But the reunions, at least initially, are careful. Many young adults said they were scared they could

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Pentagon Takes Restrained Role in Coronavirus Response, Despite Calls for Help

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But there are pitfalls. In Spain, it was the military that discovered that patients in a nursing home had been abandoned amid the pandemic. But that led to a spitting match between the country’s minister of defense, who criticized health workers for leaving their posts, and the union representing those workers, who said they had

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Inside American Airlines’ Scramble as Virus Grounds Jets by Hundreds

Finance /

On Monday morning, American Airlines Flight 1 departed John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, bound for Los Angeles. It had six passengers. The flight is normally one of the airline’s busiest and most profitable. Now it is a money pit, a cross-country symbol of how thoroughly the coronavirus pandemic has decimated commercial air travel

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Jim Carrey Hits Donald Trump With NSFW Coronavirus Cartoon

Entertainment /

Jim Carrey isn’t done with doodling Donald Trump after all. The actor-artist in January announced a self-imposed ban on creating politically-charged cartoons that he’s previously used to pour scorn on the president, members of his administration and allies. Carrey made an exception on Tuesday, however, with this NSFW coronavirus-themed artwork of POTUS: As cases of

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Coronavirus: Joe Wicks keeps children fit with online PE classes

Technology /

Fitness coach, Joe Wicks, has offered to become the UK’s PE teacher by running free classes every weekday for children and their parents to keep fit while self-isolating. The trainer was due to start a school tour to promote fitness and healthy living this week, but the coronavirus outbreak changed those plans when schools were

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Tokyo’s delayed Olympics: Who pays bills for another year?

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TOKYO — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be? The most likely answer is — primarily Japanese taxpayers. “Of course there will be costs,” organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said when the postponement was announced. “As for

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Congress and White House Strike Deal for $2 Trillion Stimulus Package

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WASHINGTON — Senators and Trump administration officials reached an agreement early Wednesday on a sweeping, roughly $2 trillion stimulus measure to send direct payments and jobless benefits to individuals as well as money to states and businesses devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation, which is expected to be enacted within days, is the biggest

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