DON’T EXPECT EARLY CHECK-INS TO BE FREE ANYMORE:
More hotels are monetizing requests for early arrivals and late checkouts with fees. Charges have piled up as travel has surged back and given hotels fewer reasons to worry about the repercussions.
Employers Pushing Back On Rising Price Of Healthcare:
Most working-age people get their health coverage through their jobs, the cost of which now tops $22,000 a year for a family on average, according to the health-research nonprofit KFF. Employers in Indiana found that they were paying more than other states for hospital services received by their workers, and battled for legislation to limit hospital fees. Now employer groups in other states are following suit, saying they are fed up with increasing rates and fees, as well as the failure of private efforts to contain them.
THE DATA EXAMINER – LENS:
The goal with her new musical, Alicia Keys said, is “for it to be tremendously beloved and really something that comes into the world in a way that is just like a storm, an incredible storm.”
Mosquitoes Kill More People Every Year Than Any Other Creature:
Malaria deaths rose about 8% between 2019 and 2021, the first increases in decades. The mosquito toll is rising for two main reasons. First, mosquitoes have evolved to elude strategies that were once working against them. The increasing use of bed nets has led to a decline in the population of mosquitoes that tend to live indoors – but mosquitoes that thrive outdoors have increased in number, and bed nets can’t fight them so easily. Mosquitoes have also evolved to become more resistant to current insecticides.
Second, climate change has expanded the areas where the weather is warm enough for the most dangerous species of mosquitoes – those that carry deadly diseases – to thrive. Dengue, which used to be a purely tropical disease, has moved into Florida and France. This past summer, a small number of malaria cases spread in Texas, Florida and Maryland, the first local transmissions of the disease in the U.S. in 20 years.
** Merriam-Webster adds 690 new words to its dictionary, including doggo, chef”s kiss, and thirst trap.
** Travis Kelce jersey sales see nearly 400% increase after Taylor Swift attends Kansas City Chiefs game.
** How the colors got their names. WATCH
** Meet the guy who designed the most famous tongue in history. WATCH
** How the best pregnancy test was once a frog. WATCH
** The locations of “Star Trek” and other sci-fi star systems in real space. WATCH
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Illegal migrants sleep on the floor of New York’s Roosevelt Hotel mega shelter as they wait to be processed.
** A jury of six women and one man found ex-Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler guilty of using his position to retaliate against a teacher for cooperating with a grand jury investigating how the district handled sexual assault. After a four-day trial plus a day of deliberations, the jury found that Ziegler wrongfully fired a teacher who had disclosed to Virginia investigators about mishandling of sexual assault in her classroom.
** The American College of Pediatricians launched a new “biological integrity” initiative this week with the goal of exposing the dangers of transgender procedures on children. The initiative has compiled online resources for teens, physicians, schools, policymakers, and parents whose children struggle with gender dysphoria.
** Hunter Biden’s legal bills could be costing him $1 million a month, legal experts said. The first son – and his fleet of top-shelf attorneys – have launched at least four lawsuits in addition to their ongoing fight against special counsel David Weiss.
** Malcolm Gladwell is laying off staffers from his podcasting studio a year after the best-selling author sparked anger on social media by tearfully pleading with Americans to return to the office. Nearly a third of staffers at Gladwell’s firm, Pushkin Industries, were given pink slips while the author of hit books such as “The Tipping Point” and “Blink” will assume the role of editorial director while stepping down from the company as president.
** Anheuser-Busch’s former chief creative officer – whose iconic ads included the “I Love You, Man” commercials and the talking frogs – blasted the company’s Belgian parent InBev over Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco. “It took us 20 years to take Bud Light beer to the No. 1 beer in the country, and it took them one week to dismantle it,” Robert Lachky said.
** TurboTax will pay $141m to 4.4m customers to settle claims that it tricked millions into paying for tax services advertised as free.
** Adidas is planning to donate the proceeds it makes from selling its $500 million stockpile of Yeezy shoes after cutting ties with Kanye West.
** Free returns could soon be a thing of the past as 41% of online retailers now charge, up from 33% in 2021.
** Weather does affect an athlete’s performance, as a study of 170 ironman contestants found taller athletes perform best in warmer weather, and shorter people should stick to the cold.
** China’s youth unemployment rate has just risen to 20.4%, the highest point on record.
** New Netflix show Queen Cleopatra has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 2%, possibly taking the crown for lowest audience rating in TV history.
** U.S. consumers are gorging on snacks, fueling boom times for cookie and candy giants while other packaged-food companies vie for bigger shares of the snack aisle. Nearly half of U.S. consumers are eating three or more snacks a day, up 8% in the past two years, according to Circana Group, a market-research firm. U.S. snack sales rose to $181 billion last year, up 11% from the year prior, the firm said.
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Climate of Alarm
Many media outlets often describe extreme weather events – wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, and more – as being caused by climate change. But pinning down how much warming temperatures are responsible for such disasters is much more nuanced than portrayed. WATCH
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The Marriage Rate Has Fallen
Marriages per 1,000 people in U.S. population.
It Takes A Village
A rural community in Virginia experiments with communal parenting, where there are 20 adults for every three children, and members must apply for approval to birth more. LISTEN
HUMANKIND:
** First grader goes door to door, offering to read books to the elderly. MORE
** Meet 10 activists under 17 years old who have been honored for helping to fight food insecurity. MORE
** IHOP server in Massachusetts surprised with $1,300 tip from group that calls itself the “$1,000 Breakfast Club.” MORE
** Chicago’s Lyric Opera debuts shirts allowing patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing to literally feel the music. MORE
** Cleveland hospital throws teen a surprise homecoming dance after she missed her high school homecoming following brain surgery. MORE
** Starbucks worker raises more than $40k for fellow barista after her car was burglarized. MORE
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The number of Subway restaurant locations in the U.S. in 2023 according to the market research firm Technomic, down from 27,129 in 2015. The sandwich chain, which is going private after selling to private-equity firm Roark Capital in August, is undergoing a turnaround under CEO John Chidsey that is focused on improving established U.S. locations rather than building new ones.
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** The cartel responsible for the slaughter of six teenagers in Mexico filmed them being led to their deaths and sent the footage to their parents, according to local reports. The video shows an armed cartel member in a skull mask leading the teens – ages 14 to 18 – who are dressed with black hoods over their faces obscuring their view and their hands tied behind their backs. Gun-toting gangsters follow the barefoot hostages as they walk up a mountainside in the state of Zacatecas in Central Mexico. Out of the seven teenagers six were killed and a seventh was beaten to a pulp but survived, Mexican authorities said.
** The secret might be as simple as opting for the stairs! New research reveals that regularly climbing stairs might be your heart’s secret ally against a condition known as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). This condition can cause your arteries to narrow and harden due to plaque, leading to heart diseases and strokes.
** A new poll shows that a large number of French citizens support banning people from flying more than four times in their lives due to climate change. A poll from research firm Consumer Science and Analytics Institute (CSA) found that 41% of citizens would support such a limit. That number rose to 59% support among 18-24-year-olds. The suggested limit, proposed by engineer Jean-Marc Jancovici, would apply to air travel for business and pleasure.
** Tesla CEO Elon Musk lambasted remote working as “bulls–t” and “morally wrong” in his latest round of criticism against the employment practice that defined the pandemic era. Musk, one of the richest people in the world, referred to Silicon Valley’s tech workers as the “laptop classes living in la-la-land,” in an interview with CNBC’s David Faber. He told Faber he believes working in the office boosts productivity – and that employees who refused to return to an in-person setting after COVID-19 restrictions ended need to “get off their moral high horse” and get back to work like everyone else.
** Former Attorney General William Barr said the Durham report proved that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was a “grave injustice” to President Donald Trump. “I think the real story here from the FBI’s perspective is what an abomination this was, this so-called investigation,” he said. “If it wasn’t a witch hunt, it’s a damn good imitation of one.”
** Taco Bell revealed that it had begun a legal fight to undo the trademark “Taco Tuesday” – a legal protection that much smaller rival Taco John’s has owned for over three decades. The primarily Midwest-based chain has held the trademark since 1989, a fact that doesn’t sit right with Taco Bell execs, who have filed petitions via the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, arguing that Taco Tuesday should belong “to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos.”
** Gen Z fashion giant Shein has raised another $2 billion in funding, but at a valuation that’s down by a third since the last funding round (still some $66bn).
** The World Values Survey, conducted from 2017 to 2020, indicates that 95% of Chinese participants had significant confidence in their government, compared to 33% in the United States. Similarly, 93% of Chinese participants valued security over freedom; only 28% of Americans did so.
** Target said that organized retail crime will fuel $500 million more in stolen and lost merchandise this year compared with a year ago. Target’s inventory loss, called shrink, totaled about $763 million last fiscal year, based on calculations from the company’s financial filings. With the anticipated increase, shrink this year would surpass $1 billion.
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