Welcome to The Check-In, our weekend feature focusing on all things travel. Stay safe on the hiking trail Hiking is a great way to spend time outdoors, learn more about flora and fauna and get your heart rate up. It can also be hazardous, even for those who have experience. On Southern California’s Mount San…
This week’s question: Dissatisfied workers in Japan can now hire professional “quitters” to save them the anxiety of telling their bosses they’re resigning. Come up with a name for a company that offers this severance service. Click here to see the results of last week’s contest: Lighthouse B&B RESULTS: THE WINNER: “Middlefinger Associates” Skip advert Norm Carrier,…
Meta announced that it would block access to news posts on its platforms in Canada after the country passed Bill C-18, or the Online News Act, a law that would require tech companies to pay media outlets a fee for news content. “We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed…
Dear lawmakers: Border-adjustable tax can’t shrink trade deficit while producing trillions in revenue Some lawmakers claim a border-adjustable tax will raise massive amounts of revenue to help pay for corporate tax cuts and give a powerful jolt to US-based manufacturers. But both cannot be true. | View caption Hide caption Lawmakers who back a border…
Texas has been breaking all sorts of records, and that’s mostly bad news. As a heat dome settled over Texas in June, trapping brutal heat and humidity underneath, high temperature records were broken across the state. It was so hot in Texas, meteorologist Ben Noll noted, that the only rivals on planet Earth were “the Sahara…
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual conference voted overwhelmingly this week to confirm the expulsion of Saddleback Church in California, previously the second-largest Southern Baptist church, and Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, for having female pastors. After the results of Tuesday’s votes were announced on Wednesday, the delegates enshrined the ban on…
Safety The Explainer Shoplifting is on the rise. So are solutions. | View caption Hide caption High-profile cases of shoplifting seem to be everywhere. Policymakers, researchers, and businesses are all trying to both assess and solve the problem. “She actually did purchase a couple items, but she also stole a couple items,” says the security…
A body was found in a 55-gallon drum Monday near Malibu’s famous Surfrider State Beach, authorities said. A report was called in around 10:30 a.m. about a body in a barrel that had washed up on the beach. Details about the cause of death or the identity of the person in the barrel were not…