This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Stanton. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… On Saturday morning at 2:28 a.m., I had an email from Spirit Airlines informing me that my flight back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had been canceled.I had…
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Northern Ireland is just a short trip across the sea from my home country, Scotland, but it wasn’t until I got into a relationship with a Northern Irish man that I finally visited. Loading audio narration… Three months into our relationship, we ventured over so that I could meet his family. Since it was my first time visiting, we also saw some of Northern Ireland’s most popular hot spots, from the Dark Hedges to Titanic…
When they’re not flying real first-person-view drones, some Ukrainian pilots are training inside “Grand Theft…
For years, philosophy majors were the butt of jokes about unemployable degrees. Loading audio narration……
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After my husband and I bought our dream house — a 2,100-square-foot ranch-style property in a peaceful Connecticut neighborhood — we never thought we’d rent again. Owning it felt like the culmination of everything we’d been working toward. Loading audio narration… But at some point, our house stopped aligning with…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a number of relief measures for Spirit Airlines customers in the wake of the beleaguered airline’s impending closure. The four major U.S. airlines — United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest — “are all capping ticket prices specifically for Spirit customers who now need to rebook canceled…
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After battling it out in court this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a surprising, if not full-throated, gesture to his rival, Elon Musk, on Saturday. Loading audio narration… OpenAI is planning a small celebration on May 5 for the release of its latest model, GPT-5.5. Altman shared an online form for…
