People sit at a bar in Houston on May 4, after social-distancing guidelines were relaxed. (Callaghan O Hare/Reuters)
This is what America’s reopening looks like so far
Published 10:00 PM ET, Wed May 19, 2021
People sit at a bar in Houston on May 4, after social-distancing guidelines were relaxed. (Callaghan O Hare/Reuters)
As more and more Americans become fully vaccinated against Covid-19, life is starting to look something like it did before the pandemic.
Cities and states are relaxing their restrictions, allowing businesses to expand their capacity. People are returning to schools and their places of worship. Entertainment venues are reopening. Sports fans are starting to fill up stadiums again.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sought on Friday to advance their campaign to curb online extremism, after it received a boost when the US joined the initiative.
Their talks marked two years since the leaders launched the Christchurch Call, an initiative named after the New Zealand city where a far-right gunman massacred 51 people at two mosques on March 15, 2019, while broadcasting his rampage live on Facebook.
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The campaign, which aims to bring together governments and top tech platforms, has been boosted by US President Joe Biden s decision to join the initiative after his predecessor Donald Trump turned his back on the campaign.
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Macyâs Outlines Ambitious Plan for Herald Square
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Macyâs is proposing the construction of a commercial office tower on top of its flagship Herald Square store in New York as part of a broader redevelopment plan that would aim to improve the surrounding area and its subway stations.
The retailer said in a statement on Monday that it would commit $235 million to help improve the Herald Square subway stations and to âtransform Herald Square and Broadway Plaza into a modern, car-free pedestrian-friendly urban space for New Yorkers and visitors,â according to a website it created for the proposed project.
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Want to start a lively and possibly tense conversation among Californians? Say something about how everyone’s leaving the state. You might hear about exhaustion from fleeing fire after fire, or frustration with high taxes and business regulations.
Inevitably, someone will talk about California’s astronomical housing costs: Do you know how much house you could get in Idaho for what you’re paying in Los Angeles? Can you imagine having a yard? And yet, for all the supposed downsides of living here, the price of a home seems only to ever be going up and up.