Tag: Lifestyle

US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks

DETROIT -- The U.S. government's road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including i ncreasingly large SUVs and pickup...

Starbucks turns to a celebrity CEO as it struggles to define itself for an era of mobile orders

To Howard Schultz, the chaos he observed at a Starbucks in Chicago one recent morning summed up the troubles of the company he...

Tennis attire is everywhere. Credit the pandemic, social media and pickleball

While tennis fans savor the last matches of the U.S. Open, a subset of spectators and TV viewers have watched the year's final...

LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business and closing all of its stores

NEW YORK -- LL Flooring, the hardwood flooring retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business.Less than a month after...

Resources are out there for LGBTQ+ travelers looking to stay safe

NEW YORK -- Do LGBTQ+ tourists have a green book-like system for staying safe while traveling in these politically precarious times? They don't...

Autoworkers learn sign language hoping connection with deaf colleagues improves work and lives

LONDON -- One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the...