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US airlines are redesigning travel around their highest-paying passengers

They may arrive at the same destination, but two passengers on the same flight can have strikingly different travel experiences. One traveler breezes through a priority security lane and heads straight to an invite-only lounge for craft cocktails and a chef-prepared meal before boarding early. A flight attendant offering a glass of champagne and a […]

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Who says a vegetable garden needs full sun? Some plants do well in shadier spots

Conventional wisdom says vegetable gardens need full sun, but a productive garden doesn’t always require the recommended six to eight hours of direct sunlight. If fences, trees or your house cast shade on your soil, growing vegetables won’t be out of reach if you stick to plants that are grown for their leaves, stems or […]

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‘Being Heumann,’ about a disability rights activist, to open Toronto film festival

NEW YORK | “Being Heumann,” director Siân Heder’s film about the late disability rights activist Judith Heumann, will open the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. Festival organizers announced Tuesday that “Being Heumann,” starring Ruth Madeley as Heumann, will make its world premiere on the opening night of the Canadian festival Sept. 10. The festival runs […]

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Yacht owners and public housing residents once shared Venezuela’s coast. Now they share its ruin

CARABALLEDA, Venezuela | The rich and poor shared paradise in Caraballeda on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. Their apartments, a few with direct marina access and hundreds in public housing towers, stood on the same curving street and offered idyllic views of the white sandy beaches and crystal waters. The yacht owners and public transit riders who […]

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QUIDNUNC: Tina Peters is out and reminding everyone she’s like Trump — a stable genius

QUID HAS HEARD that you can take the craziness out of prison but not out of Tina Peters. Seems that from the moment Peters got her Get Out Of Jail Free card from Gov. Jared “Really” Polis, as well as her C-note and bus pass, on the way out of the hoosegow gate, it’s been […]

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Platner may be finished, but voters’ hunger for change and willingness to take risks will remain

DENVER | With Graham Platner’s campaign teetering from an allegation of sexual assault, there’s no shortage of people arguing that the 41-year-old Maine oysterman and progressive political neophyte was always too risky for a key Senate race. However, it’s likely more candidates will follow his path in the future. That’s because Platner’s starburst candidacy followed […]

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With a healthy Coach Prime, Colorado players look to their own leadership for turnaround

FRISCO, Texas | Colorado defensive back Ben Finneseth says he has seen Deion Sanders in the football building constantly this offseason. Now that he feels the presence of his high-profile coach a year after Sanders was mostly gone in the spring and summer while undergoing treatment for bladder cancer, Finneseth figures it’s time for the […]

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Trump blasts NATO for rejecting his efforts to claim Greenland as leaders hold a summit in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey | U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at his NATO partners at a summit in Turkey on Wednesday, saying he was unhappy with the alliance for pushing back against his efforts to take control of Greenland and for not supporting his war in Iran. NATO’s European members plus Canada have scrambled to meet […]

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Iran and US trade fire and Trump calls the ceasefire into question

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | Iran targeted American military sites in the Gulf on Wednesday after the U.S. launched strikes on several places in Iran and reinstated sanctions on its oil sales. Washington said it was responding to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The crossfire raised fears that the war in […]