In-person meetings are on the rebound, but it could be several years – if ever – before conferences attract the crowds they did before COVID-19.
Tim Allen
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Airlines say rise in COVID-19 cases is hurting ticket sales
Industry executives anticipate that bookings will pick up as soon as case counts go down.
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Klobuchar reveals she had breast cancer, is doing well
The Minnesota senator 61, says it was detected during a routine mammogram, and eventually she had a lumpectomy to remove it.
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Supreme Court halts execution of death row inmate in Texas
John Henry Ramirez, who stabbed a convenience store worker to death during a 2004 robbery, claims the state would violate his religious freedom by not letting his pastor lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection.
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Grief comes home to U.S. towns week after Afghanistan war ends
Americans are beginning to honor and bury the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul two weeks ago.
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Judge: Florida can’t enforce ban on school mask mandates
The case next goes before an appeals court in Tallahassee and could ultimately be decided by the Florida Supreme Court.
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Summer of hope ends in gloom amid latest COVID-19 surge
The delta variant is filling hospitals, sickening alarming numbers of children and driving coronavirus deaths in some places to the highest levels of the entire pandemic.
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Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks
Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around the French capital on Nov. 13, 2015, leaving 130 people dead.
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Economic oddity: Record job openings and many unemployed
The puzzling mismatch is a reflection of an unsettled economy – one that all but shut down at the height of the pandemic, then bounced back with unexpected speed and strength.
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Biden tells Israeli leader he’ll try diplomacy first with Iran
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived at the White House aiming to dissuade the president from returning to the Iran nuclear deal.