The middle seat on a plane is already an undesirable spot. Soon passengers on Frontier Airlines flights will be able to pay extra to keep the middle seat of their row empty. The airline is to offer a “More Room” seating option to guarantee the middle seat stays unoccupied during flights. It allows passengers a
Continue Reading Much of the world’s population is confined to their homes during the coronavirus pandemic — but animals aren’t feeling sheepish about heading outdoors. In the latest sighting, residents in a Turkish city were stunned to see a flock of sheep strolling down a usually busy road during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. People in Samsun, on
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A 5-year-old boy with $3 in his pocket was pulled over by Utah police while driving his parent’s car to California to buy a Lamborghini. The boy left in the SUV after arguing with his mother, who said she would not buy the luxury car for him, Utah Highway Patrol said on Twitter. A trooper
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A 5-year-old boy with $3 in his pocket was pulled over by Utah police while driving his parent’s car to California to buy a Lamborghini. The boy left in the SUV after arguing with his mother, who said she would not buy the luxury car for him, Utah Highway Patrol said on Twitter. A trooper
Continue Reading Antiquities experts are always on the lookout for fake artifacts, but one haul analyzed by staff at the British Museum took the biscuit. Two metal trunks shipped from Bahrain to the UK were opened by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport in July. Officers found up to 190 objects which appeared to be clay tablets,
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Hertz has received a temporary lifeline from a group of its lenders, as it tries to find a way to survive near-zero travel during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company had missed an April 27 payment due to a group of lenders who lease vehicles used in Hertz’s day-to-day United States rental car fleet. The one-week
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that the country needs to reopen, despite separate key coronavirus models forecasting that thousands may die daily in the United States from Covid-19 and that more than 100,000 may die in total. “Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can — but the question is,
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You know the old saying, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question?” Turns out, there is. And when it comes to Cinco de Mayo — the annual fiesta that gives Americans an excuse to load up on tacos and margaritas — people ask a LOT of them. These are actual questions people asked on
Continue Reading Three family members have been charged in the killing of a security guard who told a customer at a Michigan Family Dollar store to wear a state-mandated face mask, officials said on Monday. Calvin Munerlyn, 43, died at a Flint hospital after he was shot in the head Friday, said Michigan State Police Lt. David
Continue Reading Chris Brown and Young Thug have teamed up for a duet mixtape called “Slime & B.” Brown first teased the joint project in April, saying on Instagram the album would drop on the “5th DAY OF THE 5th MONTH.” “ME AND THUGGA THUGGA @thuggerthugger1 Got a mixtape coming soon,” he wrote. The mixtape follows a
Continue Reading The need to wear facemasks in public during the coronavirus pandemic established a new normal for people around the world. But it also created a new challenge for the hearing impaired. During curbside treatments, Dr. Sheri Mello, an audiologist in Raleigh, North Carolina, discovered that her patients were really struggling to hear because of street
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For Donald Trump, adoration is oxygen. So it must have been a good feeling to be sitting there Sunday under the well-lit gaze of Abraham Lincoln, freely opining on his success in fighting coronavirus. It felt so good, in fact, that he couldn’t help himself: He’s been treated worse than Lincoln by the press, he
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Fifteen children in New York City have been hospitalized with symptoms compatible with a multi-system inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to the coronavirus, according to a health alert issued by the New York City Health Department on Monday. The patients, ages 2 to 15 years, were hospitalized from April 17 to May 1, according to the
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Enforced lockdowns. Isolation from friends and loved ones. Loss of job, income, economic stability. Grief and loss on so many levels — from missing milestones such as birthdays and graduations to severe illness and death. Difficult times made worse by the fear of an invisible, deadly enemy who strikes via the very air we breathe.
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The ABC-7 StormTRACK Weather team lifted the ABC-7 First Alert. A cold front pushed through the area early Tuesday morning bringing strong winds to parts of the borderland, mainly the west sides of town. Expect winds to continue to peak between 30 to 35 mph this afternoon. Temperatures will cool about 10 degrees behind the
Continue Reading Don’t call it a comeback. Jerry Seinfeld’s new hourlong comedy special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill,” dropped Tuesday on Netflix. According to the streaming giant, Seinfeld’s first stand-up special since 1998 “reinforces his reputation as the precision-craftsman of standup comedy.” “Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage in New York and tackles talking vs. texting, bad
Continue Reading It’s a pesky problem: As soon as you strap on your cloth face mask and head out the door, your glasses fog up. But there’s a simple fix for that, and it’ll only take a minute or two. All you need is soap and water. This advice comes from the medical journal Annals of the
Continue Reading I’ve crossed America, by land, nine times so far. Once by a series of buses, twice by train and the rest driving. I’ve driven one-way with all three of my girlfriends (one was a fiancée at the time), once with a fish, once with a cat, one time was in tandem with a friend using
Continue Reading At a time when traveling more than two kilometers is a pipe dream beyond the reach of millions, it’s not surprising the mood isn’t right to press on with plans for a 19-hour nonstop flight service between London and Sydney. Australian airline Qantas broke two world records last November with its experimental research flight GF789,
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The Supreme Court is continuing to hold oral arguments via teleconference due to the coronavirus pandemic. And in a historic first, it’s also allowing oral arguments to be aired live to the public. Here’s what to know for Tuesday’s case: Time: 10:00 a.m. ET Case: USAID v. Alliance for Open Society International Inc. Significance: In
Continue Reading The Met Gala was postponed this year due to the pandemic, but that didn’t stop some stars from honoring it. Celebs shared their favorite looks from past galas on social media, while one teased what she might have worn. Actress Amanda Seyfried posted a photo of herself wearing a blue ball gown with a floral
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Monday evening that calls for his dismissal are “part of the game” as he continues to urge Americans to practice social distancing. Fauci has been targeted by critics online who are unhappy with his recommendations to continue social distancing in order
Continue Reading When a half-dozen inmates reported in for their prison jobs in Nebraska in late March, they found themselves with a new assignment: turning vats of ethanol into 2,500 gallons of coronavirus-killing hand sanitizer, for a wage of $1.08 an hour. But while their work has helped the state government stave off a sanitizer shortage, the
Continue Reading A film crew working in a national park in northwestern Spain has captured footage of the first brown bear believed to have been seen in the local area in 150 years. Cameras left in the Natural Park O Invernadeiro, in Ourense, Galicia, as part of a movie project, recorded a young male bear, thought to
Continue Reading Talk about wild casting news. Nicolas Cage has been tapped to play Joe Exotic, the subject of the popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” in a limited series that is currently in development. CBS TV Studios, Imagine Television Studios and Make Good Content are among those behind the eight-episode TV series, which will be taken to
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The city of New Orleans is facing a huge budget shortfall following economic losses blamed on the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a news conference Monday. That shortfall could reach $170 million, the city’s Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montano, said. The city’s budget woes are because of a loss of tourism amid the
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The city of New Orleans is facing a huge budget shortfall following economic losses blamed on the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a news conference Monday. That shortfall could reach $170 million, the city’s Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montano, said. The city’s budget woes are because of a loss of tourism amid the
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Has wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic made you suddenly realize you have bad breath? Tip: If you can smell it there, then your breath is flat-out noxious, as most of us can’t tell on our own, dentists say. That means you — and all those sheltering closely around you — are victims of
Continue Reading A Walmart in Quincy, Massachusetts, closed after a cluster of coronavirus cases was identified among employees, according to Quincy Commissioner of Health Ruth Jones. One employee from that location has died, Jones said. It is unclear how many employees have tested positive at the store. The Quincy store is the second Walmart in the state
Continue Reading On Easter Sunday, as much of America faced another day in quarantine, Kathryn Pettus of Centreville, Virginia, woke up to a terrible toothache. “I was having some pain,” she said. “With the pandemic I said, ‘I’ll just have to wait until everything’s over.’” That Sunday, though, the pain became extreme. When she found a dentist
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