Hearst Castle in San Simeon has been closed to visitors for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s still costing the state millions of dollars. According to Dan Falat, superintendent of the state park district that includes the Castle, California State Parks spent about $6.6 million […]
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Millions of COVID-19 survivors have lost senses of smell and taste. Researchers don’t know if they’ll come back
Edelmira Rivera was lying on her bed with her husband and 16-month-old son, selecting a movie when she heard a loud bang outside their home in Waco, Texas. Her sister screamed, “Fire!” “I dropped everything and just grabbed my son and his blanket,” said Rivera, 22. “I could not smell […]
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Millions of COVID-19 survivors have lost the sense of smell and taste. Will they come back? Not even researchers know.
Edelmira Rivera was lying on her bed with her husband and 16-month-old son selecting a movie when she heard a loud bang outside their home in Waco, Texas. Then her sister screamed, “Fire!” “I dropped everything and just grabbed my son and his blanket,” said Rivera, 22. “I could not […]
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How Millions Raised to Rebuild Beirut Is Forcing Families From Their Homes
Chris McGrath/Getty Images BEIRUT—Sitting in a one-room basement apartment in this city’s Fassouh neighborhood, Waad Hariri explains how her family lost their home following the catastrophic port explosion last year. As her three young children run circles around her, and her husband sits calmly by her side, Hariri told The […]
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The Energy 202: Trump administration opens millions more acres of Alaska to drilling
The last-minute move in the Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve is one of his administration’s biggest efforts to expand oil and gas drilling given the sheer size of the acreage involved. Casey Hammond, the Interior Department’s principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, said the decision to build out […]
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Is an alleged drug kingpin from China investing millions in a port in Laos?
What they weren’t told is this: According to the United States, Zhao is one of the world’s most notorious narcotics traffickers. Hong Kong corporate records show Zhao is the majority shareholder of Kings Romans. Both Zhao and Kings Romans were sanctioned by the US government in 2018 for their purported […]
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A company turns millions in profits bringing call-center jobs to Black communities
Taylor Pride considered a viable job opportunity in her distressed Dallas neighborhood “too good to be true.” It did not make sense to her that a company would set up a call center in the nearly desolate former Red Bird Mall (now Southwest Center Mall), and employ 500 residents from […]
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Uber, Lyft Are Spending Millions To Fight Labor Protections For Their Workers
About a year ago, Steve Smith stood outside a press conference at a hotel in Sacramento where Uber, Lyft and DoorDash announced plans to spend millions on a statewide ballot initiative that would exempt them from a state law requiring the gig economy companies to hire most of their independent […]