[unable to retrieve full-text content]The relatives frozen in time on Google Street View  BBC News Source link

The sky’s the limit, according to Frontier Airlines (ULCC) CEO Barry Biffle. “Bookings have been surging for several months.” Biffle told Yahoo Finance Live, “If you’re planning on going somewhere, you need to book it, because, you know, people are literally going to run out of seats.” More than 2 million passengers moved through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport checkpoints from June 11 to 13, which is still about 600,000 fewer than the numbers on those days in 2019…. Source link

(Bloomberg) — CureVac NV lost more than half its value in German trading after a preliminary analysis of a large study found its vaccine fell short of the high efficacy bar set by other messenger RNA shots. Hong Kong is planning to shorten quarantine periods for fully vaccinated travelers from most places to seven days from as much as 21 days, so long as they pass an antibody test. Moderna Inc. said the U.S. government exercised an option to buy 200 million more doses of its vaccine, bringing… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, June 17, 2021 The tapering conversation has begun. One of the most unique phrases the Federal Reserve has ever used to communicate with markets has been retired.  At least according to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Asked Wednesday during a press conference about whether the Fed discussed plans to begin slowing down its pace of… Source link

In the mid-1980s, Jill Dodd was a 20-year-old model working in Paris when she got an unexpected offer from her agent: She was invited to a gala pirate-themed party on the beach in Monte Carlo being thrown by the billionaire Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Dodd had no idea who Khashoggi was or why she was invited. But, she says, being “naive and gullible,” she jumped at the chance and soon found herself on the beach dancing with the short, pudgy Saudi mogul. He ended up writing “I… Source link

Bitcoin enthusiasts at El Zonte Beach in Chiltiupan, El Salvador. Photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters The price of bitcoin (BTC-USD) hovered just below $40,000 (£28,633) on Thursday as the World Bank rejected a request from El Salvador to help with the implementation of the cryptocurrency as a legal tender. The bank said it could not assist El Salvador’s implementation of bitcoin due to the environmental impact of bitcoin mining, and transparency drawbacks. It comes as research from the Financial… Source link

The Liberty Bell tolls for the Philadelphia 76ers in the fourth quarter. The top-seeded Sixers would be in the Eastern Conference finals right now if not for respective blown leads of 18 and 26 points to the Atlanta Hawks in Games 4 and 5 of their second-round series. The tragic flaws of their All-NBA cornerstones created what is now a chronic closing problem. Ben Simmons still cannot shoot, and Joel Embiid still cannot put forth 48 minutes of consistent effort. It is about to be their… Source link

COVID is receding and the economy is rebounding. Talk about it, and most analysts will focus on consumer spending, government stimulus, and the rise and fall of jobs numbers. These are important metrics, and they merit their headlines, but they don’t necessarily give a full picture. While the US economy is consumer based – and consumer spending makes up almost three-fourths of the GDP – we cannot discount heavy industry. The steel sector may be old technology, but it’s still a… Source link

Victoria’s Secret marketing is about to look quite different. The embattled lingerie brand announced a new marketing direction on Wednesday featuring a group of faces intended to move it beyond its famous “Angel” models. One of those faces: USWNT star Megan Rapinoe. That may sound like a surprise for those who are familiar with both Rapinoe, one of the most outspoken progressive voices in sports, and Victoria’s Secret, which has long drawn criticism for its narrow reinforcement of women’s… Source link

There have been plenty of pop-ups over the years, but tomorrow Google’s first store opens in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. The brick and mortar model finds the company joining peers like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and even Amazon, all of whom have a retail presence in Manhattan, including several just around the corner from Google’s new digs. The new space, which opens tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. local time, fills 5,000 square feet of selling space in Google’s big, pricey West Side… Source link