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Travelers wait for their luggage May 28, 2021, at a baggage carousel at Miami International Airport in Miami. A rebound in travel demand coupled with flight schedules that remain below 2019 levels is pushing up trip costs for the peak summer season. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
John McAfee, founder of the antivirus program that bears his name, listens Aug. 16, 2016, at an Internet security conference in Beijing. In June 2021, McAfee testified in a Spanish court as part of his fight against extradition to the United States. McAfee, 75, appeared from prison via videolink at a hearing in Spain’s National Court. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
An Airbus A380, left, and a Boeing 747, both from Lufthansa, pass each other Feb. 14, 2019, at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The United States and the European Union on June 15, 2021, said they had a deal to end a damaging dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing and lift billions of dollars in punitive tariffs. (Michael Probst/AP)
“Lurie Children’s Hospital was once again close to being in the ten-hospital honor roll,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in an email. “It’s one of just 22 hospitals in the country that ranked among the best in all specialties we evaluate, and 6 of those 22 are located in the Midwest.”
In the Chicago area, Washington Prime’s properties include Lincolnwood Town Center in Lincolnwood; Lake Plaza in Waukegan; Bloomingdale Court in Bloomingdale; Countryside Plaza in Countryside; and Lake View Plaza in Orland Park. It also has properties in Rockford, Peoria, Springfield and O’Fallon, according to its website. The company owns about 100 shopping centers, mainly in the Midwest, East Coast and Florida.
As a result, around 15 million boxes of cookies were left over as the cookie season wound down. Most — around 12 million boxes — remain with the two bakers, Louisville, Kentucky-based Little Brownie Bakers and Brownsburg, Indiana-based ABC Bakers. Another 3 million boxes are in the hands of the Girl Scout councils, which are scrambling to sell or donate them. The cookies have a 12-month shelf life.
With six family members spending their days mostly at home during the pandemic, sharing a kitchen and overhearing phone calls and TV shows, Ballou, 47, is ready for more privacy and wants her parents to have independence. But North Center is expensive, meaning her parents have less buying or renting power if they want to stay nearby, she said.
Demonstrators protest Houston Methodist Hospital system’s policy of firing any employee who is not immunized on June 7, 2021, at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas. A federal judge tossed a lawsuit challenging the policy on June 12. (Yi-Chin Lee/AP)
Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns, right, listens Sept. 28. 2020, as President Donald Trump talks about the Endurance electric pickup truck at the White House in Washington. Burns and Chief Financial Officer Julio Rodriguez have resigned from the startup commercial electric vehicle maker, it was announced June 14. 2021. (Evan Vucci/AP)
In May, vaccines alliance Gavi announced it had signed an agreement to buy 350 million doses of Novavax’s vaccine, with deliveries estimated to begin in the third quarter. COVAX, the global initiative to provide vaccines to countries, is facing a critical shortage of vaccines after its biggest supplier in India suspended exports until the end of the year,