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The American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) has announced a slew of new hires, including Margo Van Ness as ASTA’s new Director of Communications and Stephanie Kent to round out the organization’s new corporate travel department.Additional hires include Krystle Kimes as Senior Coordinator, Marketing and Communications; Megan Basile, Coordinator, Membership Sales Fulfillment and Jackson Bell, Advocacy Coordinator. Van Ness brings more than 15 years of strategic communications and media relations experience to her new role, including senior roles with Vail Resorts and U.S. Ski and Snowboard. She’ll report to ASTA’s VP of Membership, Marketing and Communications, Michael Schottey and oversee…
Sam Altman and “his tech CEO friends” have a betting pool on the year we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company. The idea of a single person reaching a billion-dollar valuation for a startup would have been unthinkable without AI. But single-person, AI-first businesses have been sprouting all over the tech industry and Birk Jernström, CEO of Polar, a “monetization platform to empower one-person unicorns,” is standing by to help them get there. Polar hopes to stand out from other payment infrastructure platforms by focusing on the needs of developers. With Polar as their ‘Merchant of Record’ responsible for…
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CNN — Catherine, Princess of Wales dropped out of a planned engagement at Royal Ascot at short notice on Wednesday. Kate, 43, had been expected to join her husband Prince William as well as King Charles and Queen Camilla at the horse racing event. Racegoers were hoping to see the popular royal during the traditional carriage procession at the racecourse. She is understood to be disappointed at missing the event in Berkshire, just outside of London, but is working to find the right balance as she returns to public duties after her cancer treatment. Kate announced she had been diagnosed…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after “Jaws” sunk its teeth into us, we’re still admiring the bite mark.Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, his second feature, left such a imprint on culture and Hollywood that barely any trip to the movies, let alone to the beach, has been the same since.Few films have been more perfectly suited to their time and place than “Jaws,” which half a century ago unspooled across the country in a then-novel wide release accompanied by Universal Pictures’ opening-weekend publicity blitz. “Jaws” wasn’t quite the first movie to try to gobble up moviegoers whole, in one mouthful…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:45 PM ET, Tue June 17, 2025 When MSC Seascape sets sail from Galveston this November, it will introduce Texas cruisers to ROBOTRON, the first robotic arm ride at sea and the ship’s headline attraction.ROBOTRON delivers a rollercoaster-like experience with a twist. Suspended nearly 175 feet in the air, the ride flips, spins and flies while pumping out guests’ favorite music. The three-seat gondola moves in all directions, flipping riders upside down over the edge of the ship. Guests can customize their experience, choosing their own thrill level, music, lighting and visual effects.“ROBOTRON is a…
Pope Leo XIV is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy, challenging the technology industry that has spent years courting the Vatican. The new American pope’s namesake, Leo XIII, stood up for the rights of factory workers during the Gilded Age, a period in the 19th century of swift economic change and extreme wealth inequality led by corrupt industrial robber barons. Speaking to a hall of cardinals last month, the pope said he would rely on 2,000 years of church social teaching to “respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority to approve a facility in Texas to store spent fuel.The court ruled 6-3 on technical grounds that the state of Texas and others that sued could not pursue their claims because they had failed to intervene at an earlier stage when the agency was considering the proposal. As a result, the justices did not reach the legal question of whether the NRC could authorize a temporary, privately owned storage site and allow for waste to be transported there.At issue was whether the commission correctly…
The United States government will activate an extra 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles, the military confirmed in a statement Tuesday night, as a legal battle continues over the deployment.Protests against federal immigration policies that exploded in Los Angeles and across the country in recent weeks have since died down, and a nighttime curfew has been lifted as businesses return to normality.Nevertheless, the U.S. Northern Command said the reinforcements were needed to “support the protection of federal functions, personnel, and property in the greater Los Angeles area.”The 2,000 troops are deployed at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,…
London CNN — British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion for the pregnant woman – in striking contrast to the crackdown on reproductive rights in the United States. Lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to invalidate Victorian-era legislation that makes it possible to prosecute a woman for ending her pregnancy in England and Wales, though medical professionals who help terminate a pregnancy beyond certain limits will still be breaking the law. Currently, abortion beyond the first 24 weeks of pregnancy is illegal in those two parts of the United Kingdom. Beyond that time limit, it is permitted in certain circumstances,…