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BOSTON — The FAA is investigating after a Delta plane en route to Los Angeles struck another plane as it exited the gate at Logan Airport Friday night. Delta said it was a minor, low-speed collision.

“As a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 backed out of its gate at Boston Logan International Airport at about 7 p.m. local time, its left winglet grazed the horizontal stabilizer of an empty Delta Air Lines Bombardier CRJ-900 parked at an adjacent gate. ‘ said the FAA.

No injuries were reported.

Pictures taken by passengers on board show damage to the Delta’s winglet.

A Delta plane’s winglet brushed another plane at Logan Airport Samantha Butler

“For me, the crazy thing was after they realized they had hit the other plane, they had someone from maintenance come over and check it out to see if it was still airworthy,” said passenger Alyssa Ramirez. “So they still kept us on the plane and considered flying the plane even though one of the wings had a hole in it.”

Air traffic controllers were not operating the aircraft when the collision occurred.

Delta found alternate flights for all passengers on another plane and apologized for the inconvenience.

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On the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased COVID-19 guidelines, the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement warning that at-home rapid antigen tests can give false negative results and people who Those who require testing should plan to do so more than once to ensure they are not “unknowingly spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus to others”.

Health experts recommend testing for people who have been exposed to the virus or are showing symptoms.

“Today’s recommendations are based on the latest study results from people with likely Omicron infection, showing that repeat testing after a negative at-home COVID-19 antigen test result increases the chance of an accurate result,” the FDA said in a safety notice released on Thursday.

Previously, the FDA advised people to have two rapid antigen tests for two or three days to rule out infection.

These recommendations, the FDA says, are based on data from a comprehensive study conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, which showed that this testing method repeatedly reduced the risk of negative results . More than 7,000 participants are said to have taken part in the study.

In the warning, the agency said antigen testing, also known as at-home COVID-19 testing, is less accurate than molecular testing, such as B. Polymerase chain reaction tests (PCR). This means that testing at home too soon after exposure to COVID-19 can result in a false-negative result, especially if a person has no symptoms.

The FDA now recommends that people who want to do tests at home get several of them so they can test more than once. For people with COVID-19 symptoms who test at home and get a negative result, the agency recommends taking a second home COVID-19 test 48 hours after the first, for a minimum of two tests total.

“If you get a negative result on the second test and are concerned you may have COVID-19, you can choose to test again 48 hours after the second test, consider a molecular-based lab test, or call your provider,” said the FDA.

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For those who suspect COVID-19 exposure but have no symptoms, the FDA now recommends up to three tests, each separated by a 48-hour period.

If a person tests positive at home, initially or after repeat testing, the agency emphasized that it likely means a person has COVID-19 and they “should follow CDC guidelines for people with COVID-19.”

Health experts warn that testing too soon can lead to false negative results. For those who have been exposed to COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends waiting at least five days after exposure to COVID-19 before having an antigen test. This is because it can take several days for these home tests to detect an infection.

The FDA also said people don’t have to stick to a specific brand of test and can use tests from different manufacturers for this repeated testing approach each time. For a list of all FDA-approved home tests and more information on at-home testing for COVID-19, click here.

Calm in defeat, Canada’s Bianca Andreescu delivered an impressive testimony at a news conference after her career ended in the third round of the National Bank Open in Toronto on Thursday night.

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“The match was very difficult,” she admitted. She played good tennis and I wasn’t at my best. »

Andreescu lost in three sets with 5: 7, 7: 5 and 2: 6 against the Chinese Zheng Qinwen after an almost three-hour match.

“I gave everything I could and I fought hard,” she added. In the decisive set, she scored important points that made the difference.

“Of course I would have liked to win here in Toronto because without the crowd I wouldn’t have even reached the first round. »

social media pressure

Then, in front of the journalists, she wanted to answer all those people who enjoy unreservedly denigrating her on social networks.

“Don’t let the haters get you down,” she said. believe in us It is important to be surrounded by people who support you.

“What helped me growing up was not letting others tell me my dreams were too big. »

The memory of 2019

Brilliant from the start against the eleventh batter in the world, the Russian Daria Kasatkina, who she defeated in two sets 7:6 and 6:4 on Tuesday, Andreescu brought the trainer onto the field twice during the match.

“Maybe I ate too much, she wondered, or maybe it had to do with the stress of coming back to play in front of my audience. »

In 2019 she won the National Bank Open presented in Queen City. A few weeks later, she became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam tournament – when she defeated Serena Williams – and also the first in modern times to win a title in her first-ever appearance at Flushing Meadows.

Results that allowed him to reach fourth place in the WTA rankings in October 2019.

A cry from the heart

Andreescu might like to say that she was unaffected by the negative comments made about her, but felt it appropriate to respond to her critics, who targeted her after her two medical breaks on Tuesday.

“I apologize for my attitude and I never meant to harm or distract my opponent,” she revealed. It’s sad to see people think like that.

“We athletes are injured and sick. The last thing you want is to expend any more energy on it, especially when it’s not the truth. »

“The Greatest Diva”

At the Miami tournament in March 2019, Andreescu had drawn the wrath of Angelique Kerber, who had just eliminated her for the second time in less than a week.

During her game against the German, she had requested the intervention of a therapist to treat pain in her right arm.

At the end of the duel, after a very cold handshake, Kerber described her opponent as “the greatest diva in history”.

Andreescu, ranked 53rd in the WTA, has no plans to give up.

“I’m going to give myself three days of rest before I go back to work and come back stronger,” concluded the 22-year-old Toronto native, who appears to be trying to pull herself together at the final big meeting of the season in New York. At the end of the month.

Wild video shows a mob of teenagers vandalizing a Philadelphia restaurant, knocking over tables, throwing chairs – and even throwing a bike – as violence mounts in the city.

The videotaped shooting at Zion Cuisine, a Jamaican restaurant in the Germantown neighborhood, had workers taking cover behind a locked door and safety glass, which was shattered by a chair thrown by one of the attackers.

Saturday’s viral video made the rounds on social media and showed a dozen or more teenagers entering the restaurant after some sort of confrontation.

A man who appears to be a laborer in Zion recoils and falls. He quickly gets to his feet and ducks behind a door with others while the teens come down and throw objects at him.

The attack caused the workers to take cover behind a locked door. NBC10

A person then throws a chair into a glass barrier in front of the cash register. Another throws a bike that seems to hit one of the others in the crowd.

“They shattered the glass, they broke my chairs, they trashed my fridge,” Zion’s owner told NBC 10 Philadelphia. “It may be small stuff, but it costs a lot.”

“We haven’t done anything to anyone other than open a restaurant trying to make a living and trying to provide a service,” added the owner, who asked not to be named. “No one expects them to do business to trash their home.”

This is because the crime rate has increased in Philly and many other cities. NBC10

The scene happened despite a curfew in the city for those under the age of 18, NBC noted.

The City of Brotherly Love imposed a curfew this summer amid rising violence, ordering children under 14 to be off the streets by 9:30 p.m. and children 14 to 17 to be off the streets by 10:00 p.m. reported Fox 29.

It was unclear when the alleged looting of the restaurant took place. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Police Department said Postal Police are aware of the video and are investigating.

The Toronto Blue Jays didn’t give their fans a chance to celebrate Friday at the Rogers Center after being humiliated in all facets of the game in the first game of their series against the Cleveland Guardians, going 8-0.

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Returning home after traveling eight games in as many days in three different cities didn’t seem to be a source of motivation for the big guns of Canada’s only major league baseball team to manage just three strikes in one safe spot.

Visitor starting pitcher Cal Quantrill (9-5) terrorized the crowd favorites and only allowed one player to hit the trails in seven innings of work. He’s also gotten seven Blue Jays to bite the dust.

Quantrill’s opposite, Jose Berrios (8-5), endured a completely opposite scenario, largely mistreated by his opponents. In four short innings on the mound, he allowed all eight runs for the Guardians to score as many and gave up eight free passes.

The Ohio team was particularly prolific in their third round at bat, scoring their first five runs before adding three more in the next round.

Jose Ramirez was satisfied, scoring half of his points by first hitting a sacrificial fly and then a three-point homer. Amed Rosario and Josh Naylor scored the other points for the visitors, two each.

The Blue Jays have a chance to avenge that affront on Saturday and Sunday to wrap up this streak.

A little over two weeks ago, a budding union campaign, Trader Joe’s United, won an election in Massachusetts to form the grocery chain’s first union. But the independent group of Trader Joe’s employees has already proven that the win was no accident.

The union won its second election Friday at a downtown Minneapolis store, where workers voted 55-5 to join Trader Joe’s United. Like their Massachusetts counterparts, the Minnesota workers are urging the chain to come to the negotiating table to negotiate an initial contract.

Trader Joe’s has resisted union efforts at its stores for years, but back-to-back victories could encourage more workers at the chain to engage in collective bargaining. Organizers say they’ve heard from Trader Joe workers across the country and plan to unionize more of the grocer’s more than 500 locations.

Sarah Beth Ryther, an employee at the Minneapolis store involved in the campaign, told HuffPost ahead of the vote that pro-union workers are increasingly confident they can take on the company.

“We talk to people about this movement all day,” Ryther said. “I think it’s just about time.”

Trader Joe’s United is not affiliated with any established working group. The workers did the organizing on their own, with the help of lawyers helping out for free. Minneapolis workers joined with workers in Massachusetts in May after the latter went public with their campaign.

The group’s past success — like that of Starbucks Workers United and the Amazon Labor Union, both of which recently founded the first unions at those companies — reflects a moment of opportunity for the labor movement at large after decades of decline. Today, only about one in ten US workers is unionized, down from about one in three in the post-World War II years.

Trader Joe has a week to contest the results of the Minneapolis election. The company decided against it after the union’s victory in Massachusetts, saying it would begin negotiations with Trader Joe’s United immediately and was willing to use other food industry contracts as a framework.

Organizing the US retail space has been difficult for unions, but unions have made progress in recent months. In addition to Starbucks, workers at REI and Apple also formed the first unions. Though unions have been gaining a foothold in the food industry for decades — the United Food and Commercial Workers union represents hundreds of thousands of store workers — Trader Joe’s managed to keep them in check until recently. In addition to being organized by Trader Joe’s United, the UFCW has petitioned for an election at Trader Joe’s Store in Boulder, Colorado.

Trader Joe’s has long had a reputation for decent pay and benefits, but many workers have complained that the California-based company has become stingier in recent years. Management quietly informed workers in January that the 401(k) contribution would be halved for workers with less than 10 years of service, a decision many workers cited in their decision to unionize.

Shortly before the Massachusetts vote, Trader Joe’s informed employees that certain benefits would be improved, including offering bonuses for working on Sundays and holidays. The company did not respond to HuffPost’s question about whether the new rules would apply to stores that have unionized or filed a ballot.

Hannah Nybakken, who works at the Minneapolis store, told HuffPost ahead of the election that she sees the improvements as a clear response to the ongoing organization.

“We were quite shocked to see that they were willing to answer so many of the things we had been looking at by just saying ‘union,'” she said.

Bitcoin BTC/USD Bulls regained optimism as the world’s largest investment manager BlackRock announced yesterday that it has launched a private trust offering exposure to spot Bitcoin to institutional clients in the United States.

BlackRock said, “Despite the sharp downturn in the digital asset market, we still see significant interest from some institutional clients in how our technology and product capabilities can efficiently and cost-effectively access these assets.”

The message this sends to other institutions is not to be underestimated and is a significant milestone for the entire crypto industry.

Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets is also investing more in the future of Bitcoin, having announced that it will secure 708 megawatts (MW) of mining power, potentially leading to 130 full-time jobs in the United States.

For price to follow BlackRock’s incredible news, inflation needs to show convincing signs of slowing down – are we finally seeing those signs?

Last month’s fall in headline inflation from 1.3% in June to 0.0% in July, the largest since the 1980s, is certainly worth noting.

Although the 6-month moving average of monthly core inflation remains elevated at 0.5%, the core CPI of 0.3%m/m shows that momentum has stabilized slightly.

Energy and other commodities were the big drivers behind the big fall in headline inflation, but the supply chains for these items have not improved noticeably, so their fall could be due to weaker demand.

Also, prices for lagging core services, including accommodation, still remain stubbornly high.

We can conclude that we are certainly not out of the woods and that further inflation deceleration is clearly needed, but we see encouraging signs for long-term investors.

The suspension of ticket sales to access the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in southeastern Peru on Friday angered traders and sparked protests from tourists, according to an AFP journalist on the ground.

The protests took place around the citadel as well as in the village of Machu Picchu, also known by its old name of Aguas Calientes.

“I paid for my (train) tickets with Inca Rail for a day with a tour guide, we even paid extra for the bus that takes us to Machu Picchu where the ruins are and they didn’t want to let us through because we didn’t have a ticket,” Israel Gonzales Rizoo, a Mexican tourist, told AFP.

“It’s a scam,” said the angry tourist, who says he paid $65 for the train from Ollantaytambo, about 90 miles away.

Merchants in the city also expressed their displeasure.

Dozens of them blocked the railway line to prevent train traffic and demanded that the Ministry of Culture resume sales of tickets to Machu Picchu to revitalize the local economy.

The suspension decided on Friday was not explained by the authorities, but tickets to Machu Picchu are subject to quotas.

In view of the demonstrations, the Ministry of Culture announced that it had decided to finally resume ticket sales, respecting the limits established to protect archaeological heritage.

This is the second demonstration in just over two weeks against the lack of tickets to visit this tourist attraction.

Before the first demonstrations, around 4,000 people could enter the citadel every day.

The ministry agreed in late July to increase that capacity to 5,000 people a day.

Located 110 km from Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire, this ancient city was built by Emperor Pachacutec in the 15th century.

Machu Picchu has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.