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“Dogs in their perfect world would just be sitting on your laps, and that’s really what they did for a year,” said Betsy Puterbaugh, co-owner of Yuppy Puppy, a dog day care, boarding and grooming business in Lake Bluff. “No matter what you do, you’re about to mess up their perfect world.”

In Chicago, the Willis Tower observation deck, Skydeck Chicago, offers the Ledge, a glass box that juts out from the building, giving visitors a view straight down. And 360 Chicago, the observation deck at the former John Hancock Building, touts Tilt as “Chicago’s highest thrill ride,” which leans out from the building to offer viewers a look down at a 30 degree angle.

NYU Lagone Health’s Tisch Hospital in Manhattan, March 14, 2020. NYU Langone Health, which received over $500 million in relief during the pandemic, has said recently it seeks to merge with Long Island Community Hospital, the last remaining independent hospital on Long Island. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)

The suit was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Entertainment Studios Networks, which owns a series of lifestyle television networks, and Weather Group, which runs The Weather Channel. Allen, a comedian, actor and media mogul, started Entertainment Studios in 1993 and purchased the Weather Group in 2018 for $300 million, according to the complaint.

At the same time, the electric truck, due in showrooms by the middle of next year, comes at a time when American drivers remain reluctant to jettison gas vehicles. Through April, automakers sold about 108,000 fully electric vehicles in the U.S. Though that’s nearly twice the number from the same period last year, EVs still account for only 2% of U.S. vehicle sales, according to Edmunds.

Psaki said the new proposal drops the president’s proposed expenditures on broadband as well as roads, bridges and other major investments to meet the Republicans’ lower level. She said the administration’s proposal also involved “shifting investments in research and development, supply chains, manufacturing and small business” out of the infrastructure talks, since they could be considered elsewhere, noting in Endless Frontiers Act, which is a separate bipartisan bill pending in the Senate.

United Airlines said searches for flights to Europe were up 19% the day after reports first surfaced in April that Europe would soon reopen. The airline is starting new flights between New York and Dubrovnik, Croatia, a week earlier than expected and adding a fourth weekly flight. The Croatia flights will start July 1, the same day as two other recently announced flights from Chicago to Reykjavik, Iceland, and Washington, D.C., to Athens, Greece. United also said it will resume service to Barcelona and Madrid and add additional flights to Italy in July.

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“For us, the customer is everything,” Cook explained while wearing a face shield, but no mask in an Oakland, California, courtroom that has limited access to a handful of people because of the pandemic. That commitment includes ensuring technology remains “simple, not complex” for users of Apple products, Cook said, and protecting their privacy, which he called “one of the most important issues of the century.”

“Dr. Soon-Shiong abstained from voting,” said Hillary Manning, a spokeswoman for Soon-Shiong. “For the past several years, Tribune Publishing has been a passive investment, as he has remained focused on the leadership roles he holds across his companies. When he made the investment in 2016, he hoped it would be a pathway to local newspaper ownership in Southern California. In 2018, he and his family were proud to acquire the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune from Tribune Publishing, creating the California Times. Their focus is and will be on the continued rebuilding and revitalization of The Times and Union-Tribune.”