San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
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In a week when Eventbrite and Stormy Daniels both went public, this also happened:
PayPal joined the list of companies ending ties to the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars website for hateful and intolerant behavior, saying that it will no longer offer its services to Infowars and related websites.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he will invest “just over $1 billion” next year in Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket program, and the company will fly people to space “this coming year.” Analysts have said New Glenn could compete with the likes of SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for national security launch contracts.
Delta and American airlines both raised their checked baggage fee for most travelers to $30 from $25, mimicking earlier increases from JetBlue and United.
A Colorado meatpacker recalled more than 132,000 pounds of ground beef after an E. coli outbreak killed one person and sickened 17. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the beef was produced and packaged at Cargill Meat Solutions and shipped to retailers nationwide with a July 11 use or freeze by date.
A federal law took effect allowing consumers to freeze their credit for free. The law came in response to last year’s huge Equifax hack, which exposed the private information of more than 145 million Americans.
When you have a typo on the side of a jet, it tends to stand out. People magazine reported that one of Cathay Pacific’s new planes spotted in Hong Kong called the airline “Cathay Paciic.”