The Wall Street Journal
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River Davis
– Jul 8, 8:31 AM
TOKYO—At the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park recently, the chief executive and his corporate boss took a ride on the park's No. 1 attraction, the Fujiyama roller coaster, and plunged 230 feet without so much as a peep. A video showed the two…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has reported 673 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, the state's second-highest daily total since the start of the pandemic, health officials said Wednesday. The new cases reported by the Oklahoma State…
The New York Times
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Elaine Glusac
– Jul 8, 2:00 AM
On a June 30 flight on American Airlines from Dallas to Newark, Joy Gonzalez, an aviation engineer based in Seattle, found herself seated at a window with two older passengers beside her in the middle and aisle seats. In order to gain more social…
To find Bruce Maxwell 's America, you first have to leave it, as he did, by crossing over into another country, into an exile both self-imposed and voluntary. It is to journey 165 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Laredo, Texas, into the…
(CNN) While the Covid-19 mortality rate may be on the decline, the nearly 3 million cases and ICUs at capacity show the US is still in the grips of a pandemic with no signs of slowing. 'It's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of…
