Tag: around the web
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It’s not your imagination: airline restrooms are getting smaller
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If the restroom on your next flight seems a bit snug, don’t assume you’ve picked up a few pounds. U.S. airlines increasingly are putting smaller lavatories on their planes — and the economics of the decision means they’re probably here to stay. As labor costs…
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Univ. of Louisville removing Papa John’s from stadium name
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville is removing Papa John’s from its football stadium’s name after a report the pizza chain’s founder used a racial slur. The company’s logo has been on Papa John’s…
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‘It keeps us safe’: A bathroom set up to stem overdoses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK — At an unassuming storefront on a busy Brooklyn street, people sign up to use a bathroom outfitted to try to curb an overdose crisis. Waiting his turn, a man named Robert is frank about why he’s there, instead of one of the…
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Americans say Obama the best president of their lifetime, according to poll
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save According to a survey done by the Pew Research Center, more Americans name Barack Obama when asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes. When it came to the public ranking of commanders-in-chief, the 44th president was named either the best or…
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US Navy now allows women to wear ponytails, longer hairstyles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other longer hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade them from letting their hair down. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson says it makes the Navy more inclusive. Many…
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Neo-Nazi trial puts spotlight on fate of migrants in Germany
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MUNICH — A German court found the main defendant guilty on Wednesday in a string of neo-Nazi killings more than a decade ago — a high-profile trial that raised fresh questions about the treatment of migrants at a time when Germany is grappling with an…
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Trump will get red carpet treatment in UK — and big protests
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LONDON — President Donald Trump will get the red carpet treatment on his brief visit to Britain beginning Thursday: Military bands at a gala dinner, lunch with the prime minister at her country residence, then tea with the queen at Windsor Castle before flying off…
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Chinese find suggests human relatives left Africa earlier
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK — Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we thought. Until now, the oldest evidence of human-like creatures outside Africa came from 1.8 million-year-old artifacts and skulls found in the Georgian…
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Man says he left baby after car crash because he was heavy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MISSOULA, Mont. — A man told investigators he left a 5-month-old baby boy in the woods after a weekend car crash because the baby was very heavy, court records said. Officers found the baby — cold and hungry — under a pile of debris and…