Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said travel demand is rebounding, but he doesn’t expect business travel to ever return to the way it was before the pandemic. “It doesn’t mean business travel is dead, just business travel as we knew it isn’t coming back the way it was,” Chesky said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy
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Three former and current Harris County deputy constables allege they were being sexually exploited, molested and harassed by their superiors while assigned to a human trafficking task force, according to a federal civil lawsuit filed Monday. The female officers — Liz Gomez, Marissa Sanchez and Felecia McKinney — claim they were rookie deputies when they
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Texas is a step closer to allowing residents to carry handguns in public without obtaining a license or training. The Texas legislature on Monday approved the final version of a permitless carry gun bill, sending the legislation to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature. House Bill 1927 would allow individuals 21 and older
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The banking world nearly caved in 13 years ago. The former CEO of Washington Mutual is worried that another bubble is brewing. Kerry Killinger was named CEO of WaMu in 1990 and was fired in September 2008 — just weeks before the bank failed as a growing number of mortgage loans went bad. WaMu was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — An Atlanta mother and teacher fought off a suspect who tried to rape and strangle her, police say. He took off with her phone but it only made tracking him easier. The victim’s family used an iPhone app to help investigators locate then arrest a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — An SUV belonging to a musician Akon was recovered in Forest Park Tuesday morning after being stolen from a Buckhead gas station. According to Atlanta police, the music artist was pumping gas at the QuikTrip on Sidney Marcus Boulevard on Tuesday just after midnight. Moments
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Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has appeared in a new video after his arrest by Belarusian authorities on Sunday, following the government’s extraordinary diversion of his Ryanair flight to capital city Minsk. The video — the first since Protasevich’s arrest — comes amid mounting fears for his safety and widespread fury over the diversion of a
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It’s been 365 days since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer on a Minneapolis street. Many of the city’s residents and small business owners that serve them are still reeling from the fallout. Local business leaders say rising crime and a divided state government have obstructed their city’s ongoing recovery from both the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A year after the death of George Floyd, one expert says Canadian cities have made little progress in addressing calls to defund the police. Julius Haag, a sociology and criminology professor at the University of Toronto, told CTV’s Your Morning on Tuesday that
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Elliot Page has shared a photo of a milestone moment since revealing details of his “life changing” surgery. The Oscar-nominated star posted a shirtless picture of himself spending a joyful moment by the pool to Instagram Monday, captioned: “Trans bb’s first swim trunks.” In December, the “Juno” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past” star announced
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — Final approval on a bill that would allow online gaming and sports betting is expected from the Connecticut State Senate on Tuesday. The bill, labeled House Bill 6451 “An Act Concerning Gaming Agreements with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and the Mohegan Tribe of Indians
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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and appears to be effective in adolescents, the company said Tuesday. In a Phase 2/3 trial of 3,732 children ages 12 to 17 in the United States, blood tests showed that the vaccine produced an immune response that was equivalent to earlier findings in adults. The trial wasn’t designed to
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A senior officer who came to the scene where Louisiana State troopers were arresting Ronald Greene after a car chase did not initially report his camera footage in the evidence submitted to District Attorney John Belton, according to a spokesperson for the Louisiana State Police. Lt. John Clary’s body camera and dash camera of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, Connecticut (WFSB) — A man from South Windsor confessed to kneeling on his wife’s neck after a fight and trying to hide the body when he realized he’d killed her. Tahj Hutchinson, 22, was charged last week in connection with the death of Jessica Edwards. He was
Continue Reading A Vietnam veteran who allegedly brought Mason jar bombs to Capitol Hill on January 6 had scoped out the Capitol Building in December by driving around it, and had called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s office and tried to visit the Republican at home, a court filing revealed on Monday. The filing provides new details about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A mom in northeast Portland is warning other parents about a man she says tried to lure her son into his car Sunday night. Kattie Haws told FOX 12 it happened just off Northeast 165th and Northeast Sandy at around 8:19 p.m. when her
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HSBC CEO Noel Quinn isn’t buying into the bitcoin craze. The chief executive told Reuters in an interview this week that his bank has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk, and “given the volatility, we are not into bitcoin as an asset class.” HSBC confirmed Quinn’s remarks to CNN Business but declined to
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies plunged earlier this month after Elon Musk said Tesla would stop accepting bitcoin as payment for its vehicles because of the huge amount of energy needed to mine bitcoin. But Musk might be having a slight change of heart. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted late Monday that he spoke with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The same day the city of Portland promised to start cracking down on clearing more homeless camps, a class action lawsuit on behalf of campers was filed in Multnomah County court. The Oregon Justice Resource Center is representing four people experiencing homelessness and is
Continue Reading A blind man has had his vision partially restored using optogenetic therapy and engineered goggles — the first successful case of such therapy in humans. Researchers treated a 58-year-old man who for 40 years had been suffering from retinitis pigmentosa — a neurodegenerative eye disease where loss of photoreceptors can lead to complete blindness. Retinitis
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