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“Mendell Station” is Korean American writer J.B. Hwang’s first novel. And it is all about death — its horror, finality and mystery, and, most of all, how those who knew and loved that person must cope.Miriam, the main character, who is a Korean American postal worker living in San Francisco, learns that her best friend, Esther, was found dead, having fallen two stories onto the train tracks at Van Ness station. The mystery of how Esther died is never solved in the book, although we learn she had been intoxicated and wobbly on her feet when last seen at a…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC. Customers can start buying tickets with assigned seats on July 29.The move ends more than half a century of open seating on the airline, a policy that has set it apart from rivals for decades — along with two free checked bags. Both things are changing as Southwest’s leaders seek…
AI-powered browsers are nowhere near the easy future they promise, when they would be able to do complex multi-step tasks for you. However, the makers of these browsers are trying to make users’ lives easier by adding a way to easily repeat some prompts for the tasks they frequently perform. The Browser Company’s new Dia browser already has a skills feature, which lets users ask the browser to execute a command or create a code snippet based on a prompt. For instance, you could ask the browser to find interesting events happening in the next few days near you. You…
At least 19 people have been killed after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a private school campus in the south Asian country’s capital city on Monday. It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.Details are still emerging. Here’s a look at what is known so far: What happened? Firemen look for the survivors after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed onto a school campus shortly after takeoff in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, July 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) Firemen look for the survivors after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that…
Want a little autumn in your August? You’re in luck.Starbucks said Monday that its Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to store menus in the U.S. and Canada on Aug. 26.The Pumpkin Spice Latte is Starbucks’ most popular seasonal beverage, with hundreds of millions sold since the espresso drink’s 2003 launch. It’s also produced a host of imitations; Dunkin’ introduced pumpkin-flavored drinks in 2007, while McDonald’s brought them to its menu in 2013.Here’s a look at the Pumpkin Spice Latte by the numbers:— 100: Number of Starbucks stores that sold the Pumpkin Spice Latte during a test run in Vancouver and…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 10:00 AM ET, Sat July 19, 2025 Hospitality group Accor is launching a new travel advisor challenge rewarding 33 of the top advisors to stay at two new properties in Colombia, called the HERA Challenge. Named for Accor’s HERA travel advisor loyalty and rewards program, which launched a year ago, the HERA Challenge provides eleven different categories, with the top three advisors from each category earning an invitation to an exclusive hosted trip in Cartagena on March 9-12, 2026. The top three advisors in each category will earn an invite to the trip: Performance Champions, the…
AP — Police in northwestern Germany on Sunday said that several people were injured when a car veered off a road, hit a 7-year-old boy on a trampoline and went flying into a barn roof on its side. Police said that the car first collided with a parked vehicle in the town of Bohmte, broke through a hedge and drove into a garden where it hit the boy. The car then went over uneven ground and it was apparently catapulted into the air and ended up crashing into the roof of a neighboring barn about 3 meters (10 feet) off…
Flavor-packed, spicy-sweet gochujang elevates a couldn’t-be-simpler, 30-minute chicken stir-fry. Gochujang is a fermented chili paste used widely in Korean cooking. Made the traditional way, it ferments in clay pots for months or years to create a concentrated paste with tremendous depth and complex chili heat.In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” the complexly flavored Korean refrigerator staple is balanced by the pepperiness and pungency of ginger and garlic, plus a splash of salty soy sauce and a spoonful of sugar to round everything out.Many brands of gochujang are…
A FlexJet Gulfstream G450 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on May 9, 2025 in San Diego, California.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAn investment group led by LVMH’s private equity arm is buying 20% of private jet company FlexJet, marking the latest push by the luxury industry to expand into travel.L Catterton, the private equity firm backed French luxury giant LVMH, is leading an $800 million investment in FlexJet that will also include brand partnerships and collaborations. The investment group also includes affiliates of KSL Capital Partners and the J Safra Group. FlexJet will…
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in northern Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 16 people, including its pilot, and injuring dozens, officials and local media said.According to the military and a fire official, the Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI aircraft crashed into the campus of Milestone School and College, in Dhaka’s Uttara neighborhood, on Monday afternoon, where students were taking tests or attending regular classes.Saidur Rahman, a National Burn Institute official in Dhaka, told Bangladesh’s leading English daily, The Daily Star, reported that the death toll rose to 16 within…