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When Chris Voss showed up at his hotel in Los Angeles recently before the official check-in time, the clerk informed him there would be an early check-in fee. Minutes later, he left the reception desk with the fee waived and a key to an upgraded room. A former lead international kidnapping negotiator for the F.B.I., […]

But the disconnect from nature inherent to the creation of such artificial pleasure biomes can also unsettle. We can ski indoors in a mall in New Jersey, surf in an artificial wave pool in Lemoore, Calif., and ice skate in shorts in Mexico City. Should every place, even in the Caribbean, offer winter sports? “It

When the monstrous hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017, the damage was devastating. Some islands are still recovering. Others, like Puerto Rico, are reeling again from recent disasters. The 2017 storms forced hoteliers to regroup and rebuild — which has, according to leading travel advisers, ushered in a new age of

Countries surrounding China, including Mongolia, Russia and Singapore, have moved to shut down their borders. But some officials from the Center for Disease Control and Department of Health and Human Services have expressed concerns about imposing such a measure in the United States, the people said. Mr. Trump, sources familiar with his thinking said, has

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Delta Air Lines said on Friday morning that it would suspend flights to and from China from Feb. 6 to April 30 as concerns about coronavirus spread across the globe. In a statement posted on its site and emailed to The Times, the airline said the last flight to China leaving from the United States

BEIJING — Some Americans plan to leave China after the U.S. government advised about a spreading virus outbreak, but many others are staying. The State Department issued a travel advisory Friday saying Americans in China “should consider departing.” That followed the evacuation earlier this week of about 200 Americans from Wuhan, the locked-down city at

I have spent a lot of money in Las Vegas, and I don’t gamble much. I’ve paid $250 for a Cirque du Soleil ticket, taken a gondola down the faux canals of Venice for $60 and, on occasion, vastly exceeded my wine budget. Las Vegas thrives on convincing visitors to splurge, which I considered when

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a new virus that has spread from China to more than a dozen countries a global emergency By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer January 31, 2020, 7:33 AM 4 min read Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after

North Korea has postponed plans to tear down South Korean-made hotels and other facilities at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort to prevent the spread of a new virus that has reached the South after sickening thousands in China By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press January 31, 2020, 4:07 AM 4 min read SEOUL, South Korea —