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Airbnb partners with Olympics to provide ‘experiences’ with athletes and housing to tourists

November 22, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.

Airbnb is partnering with the International Olympic Committee to expand accommodations in host cities through the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, the two organizations announced Monday. The short-term-rentals platform...

A desk in a shared room at Kex Portland.

Increasingly upscale hostels shed their grungy image

November 22, 2019 at 10:23 a.m.

Budget sleeping has never been so cool. So cool, in fact, that some hostels are now self-identifying as hotels. When I wrote about them five years ago, the gist was...

You can stay at a Japanese hotel for $1 – if you live-stream almost everything

November 22, 2019 at 10:22 a.m.

The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room. Instead, the viewers were greeted with an empty...

The Pillow Room, a common area at Generator's Miami location.

Increasingly upscale hostels shed their grungy image

November 22, 2019 at 10:14 a.m.

Historically, the hostel is known as a bare-bones and predictably grungy spot for funky (and I don't mean hip) backpackers to sack out in Europe. But it's been undergoing an...

Noah Jupe plays a fictionalized version of former child star Shia LaBeouf in "Honey Boy."

‘Honey Boy’ review: Shia LaBeouf looks back in anger, wonder at his childhood

November 22, 2019 at 9:29 a.m.

Here's a recipe for disaster: Take a movie star known for indulgent, self-destructive antics on and off the set, send him to rehab, turn his therapeutic writings into a score-settling...

Personal loans are ‘growing like a weed,’ a potential warning sign for the U.S. economy

November 21, 2019 at 4:52 p.m.

Americans are hungry for personal loans that they can use as quick cash to pay for anything from vacations to credit card debt, a potential red flag for the economy....

U.S. existing-home sales climb for third time in four months

November 21, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes increased in October as buyers responded to falling mortgage rates, extending a recovery in the residential real estate market this year that's providing a...

Supporters of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin wait for results at the governor's election night watch party Nov. 5, 2019, in Louisville. Bevin, a strong ally of President Donald Trump, lost his reelection bid against Democrat Andy Beshear.

Commentary: Liberal feminist daughter. Gun-owning rural dad. What happens when we stop letting Trump divide us?

November 21, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

A month after President Donald Trump's inauguration, my dad and I stopped speaking. Sure, we disagreed politically, but we were close, and we'd kept talking until February 2017, when he...

People attend a rally on the sixth anniversary of the Euromaidan beginning in downtown Kyiv on Nov. 21, 2019. Euromaidan was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began Nov. 21, 2013, with public protests at Independence Square in Kyiv, demanding closer European integration.

Commentary: The real impeachment bombshell? How to pronounce ‘Kyiv.’

November 21, 2019 at 3:42 p.m.

As the first public impeachment hearings transfixed the country with revelations on a recalled ambassador and quid pro quos, America's collective mind was blown by another bombshell. "Wait so Kiev...

Quarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots looks on before playing against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on November 3, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Tom Brady says he’s disliked the Dallas Cowboys ‘since coming out of the womb’

November 21, 2019 at 12:33 p.m.

Tom Brady will be saying hello to an old nemesis Sunday when his Patriots take on the Cowboys. As for just how old a nemesis Dallas might actually be to...

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