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As Milton Moves Across Florida, Inland Counties Are ‘In the Thick of It’

As Milton swooped east across Florida overnight, people in the state’s inland counties were seeking shelter from hurricane-force winds and preparing for possible floods or tornadoes. “It’s not a good situation right now,” said Monty Askari, who was working the night shift at a Howard Johnson hotel in Lakeland, about 35 miles east of Tampa […]

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Help! My Flight to Tokyo Was Canceled, and All I Got Was a Lousy Mileage Refund

Dear Tripped Up, For a trip in June 2023, I booked a first-class ticket on Japan Airlines from New York to Tokyo (and continuing on to Osaka) using 100,000 miles I had accumulated on Alaska Airlines, one of JAL’s partners. The flight from New York to Tokyo was canceled a few hours before departure because […]

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Jami Attenberg Can’t Wait to Find a Book She’s Inscribed at a Yard Sale

What books are on your night stand? Right now a nice stack of poetry collections: Rosa Alcalá’s “You,” Zoë Hitzig’s “Not Us Now” and Tyree Daye’s “A Little Bump in the Earth.” I always keep an eye out for new collections at bookstores or at literary festivals. I save them for when life feels extra […]

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I inherited over 1000 salt and pepper shakers from my grandmother. I kept my favorites and sold the rest, and it taught me a lesson in letting go.

When I was a kid, my grandma loved to tell me about her collection of salt and pepper shakers. She would pull her favorites down from custom-built shelves she had installed in her home — she always wanted to have her assembly on display — and would tell me their history. She started collecting when […]

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The Endless Downfall of a Crypto Power Couple

He was a wealthy cryptocurrency executive with a shiny white Porsche and a luxury condo in the Bahamas. She was a crypto policy expert with political ambitions, advocating for the industry in Washington. A romance blossomed after they were brought together by an unlikely matchmaker: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange. […]

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Taiwan’s President Lai vows to preserve ‘sovereignty’

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed Thursday to “resist annexation” and that Taiwan is not “subordinate” to , as Beijing ramps up the pressure on the self-ruled island . Lai made the remarks as  celebrated its National Day against the backdrop of threats from China.  Beijing has not ruled out using force to bring the island under its control, which […]

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Malaysia could reach high-income status by 2028, World Bank says

Malaysia could reach high-income nation status as early as 2028 amid better-than-expected economic growth and a strengthening currency, a top World Bank economist has said. Malaysia is on track to hit the milestone after the Washington, DC-based lender raised the country’s 2024 growth forecast from 4.3 percent to 4.9 percent, Apurva Sanghi, lead economist for […]

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