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Lyft and Uber fares are estimated to be nearly 80% higher than pre-pandemic prices in some cities. The companies say a driver shortage is driving up prices. (Image credit: Education Images/Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Diners are flocking back, but owners still have trouble hiring, stocking kitchens and paying rent. And an uncertain autumn looms.

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Trump’s Repeating Donation Tactics Led to Millions in Refunds Into 2021  The New York Times

A review of earlier research shows giraffes have the markings of social creatures, including friendships, day care and grandmothers.

For six years, the filmmaker Dianne Whelan hiked, biked, paddled, snowshoed and skied from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic. Here’s what she learned along the way.

Some people welcome new neighbors with a basket of cookies or a potted plant. Others do it with a demand to take your stuff.

NPR’s Scott Simon remarks on the persistence of robocalls, which have taken on fresh annoyance these days with so many people working from home. (Image credit: PhotoAlto/Antoine Arraou/Getty Images/PhotoAlto)

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Qatari high jumper Mutaz Barshim says he gets stopped in street after he and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi asked if they could both have medals in act of sportsmanship and solidarity