Frost Advisory goes into effect for most of Chicago area
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Day: October 10, 2023
Vomit and pay: Eatery charging cleaning fees
Some restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area are fed up with patrons literally losing their brunch, and one eatery has decided to charge a fee for those who decides to upchuck in public areas.
Some Americans are tired of being asked to tip
It’s become common to see screens with a tipping option when people buy food and drinks. It’s a situation that some are calling ‘tip creep’ and with more prompts for tipping, more people are having so-called ‘tip fatigue.’ Reporter Chelsea Torres has m…
Iran at their ‘sweet spot’: Celebrating ‘bloody conflagration’ in Israel, yet weary of ‘escalation’
Iran took the lead in celebrations following the surprise attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Tehran’s arch-enemy Israel, even as it rejected accusations of direct involvement. The Islamic republic’s backing was made manifest by billboards in…
‘One more war will not solve the problem’: Palestinian’s viewpoint on the Israel-Gaza conflict
Palestinian National Initiative General Secretary Dr Mustafa Barghouti – who’s not affiliated with Hamas – says the Israel-Gaza conflict is a “continuation of an illegal Israeli occupation”.
Dr Barghouti is against killing Israeli and Palestinian civi…
Lawsuit alleges famous child-trafficking opponent sexually abused women who posed as his wife
Five women are suing the founder of an anti-child-trafficking group that inspired a popular movie this year, alleging he sexually manipulated, abused and harassed them on overseas trips designed to lure and catch child sex traffickers.
‘She inspired me then; she inspires me now’: Sheryl Sandberg on Harvard professor winning the Nobel Prize
In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”
Australia doing ‘very poorly’ at protecting unique plants, researchers warn
Study finds only 39% of unique species have had threats and status assessed – less than half of New Zealand’sGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMore than half of Australia’s unique plants have not been assessed to …