A free stopover on your flight could be the start of an even better vacation
You know all about one-way flights and round-trip flights, and nonstop flights and connecting flights, but do you know about stopover flights? That’s when you connect through a particular airport, deplane for a day or two, then continue to your destination. Besides the visit-two-cities-for-the-price-of-one aspect, stopovers let you recover from a long flight by breaking…
GM strike's fate hinges on a few factories' workers
A tentative agreement between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union to end a more than five-week strike hinges on ratification by a handful of large branches, including a pickup-truck plant in Flint, Mich., that voted on the deal Wednesday. The factory’s 4,800 workers and two other big facilities — another truck plant…
Rapper Tyga leases brand-new Bel-Air mansion for $58,000 a month
Hip-hop star Tyga is getting a taste of the Westside. The Grammy-nominated artist has inked a deal to lease a hillside mansion in Bel-Air for $58,000 a month, records show. The scenic estate — which is still available for purchase at $12.88 million — expands horizontally across the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Set…
Tesla's stock price surges as Musk’s cost cuts and Smart Summon deliver a profit
Tesla Inc.’s stock price surged in late trading after the electric-car maker reined in expenses and posted its first profit in almost a year — a shock almost no one saw coming. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 The Model 3 sedan maker earned $1.86 a share in the third quarter, beating analysts’ average…
Google is accused of creating spy tool to squelch worker dissent
Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor rights. This month, employees said they discovered that a team within the company was creating the new tool for the custom Google Chrome browser installed on…
Carbon38 co-founder Katie Warner Johnson is disrupting activewear one sports bra at a time
Katie Warner Johnson, chief executive officer and co-founder of upscale activewear company Carbon38, pumped her arms into the air with Richard Simmons-esque enthusiasm. It was as if she was leading an exercise class or performing a routine from a Broadway musical, both of which are familiar for the former professional dancer and fitness instructor. Johnson,…
How the 'ugliest home on the block' became a minimalist refuge for Poketo's Ted Vadakan and Angie Myung
“I don’t want to see anything when I get home,” says Angie Myung, creative director of Los Angeles-based Poketo. “We have so much stimuli at work. I spend hours looking at Pantone paint color chips. It’s nice to come home to a clean palette.” She is standing in the open kitchen of her Mt. Washington…
'This is our land': How a tiny Alaskan village stymied Pebble Mine
PEDRO BAY, Alaska — Mine company managers came bearing gifts 15 years ago for residents of this Native village at the far end of Alaska’s biggest lake, off the state’s road system. Alighting from a plane on Pedro Bay’s gravel airstrip, the representatives of Canada’s Northern Dynasty Minerals brought platters of catered food to the community…
News Analysis: Russian and Syrian troops take the place of Kurdish forces in key cities
IRBIL, Iraq — In 2014, Kurdish-led forces, aided by U.S. air power, pushed back Islamic State militants who invaded the Syrian city of Kobani. The city of Raqqah — the headquarters of the extremists’ self-declared caliphate in Syria — fell to the same Kurdish-led militiamen in 2017. Those triumphs, which cost thousands of Kurdish lives, were…
'My parents are from a frightened generation, but there is another generation that is not afraid'
SANTIAGO, Chile — “The people, united, will never be defeated,” chanted a lone masked woman in the middle of Plaza Baquedano, a central gathering spot in Chile’s capital. As she repeated the phrase, thousands of people, mostly young, ran in all directions, fleeing water cannons and tear gas, as Chilean police sought to disperse some 20,000…