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Deepak Patel, 43, conducts a room inspection at the Country Inn and Suites, Baltimore North, a hotel he owns and manages with his family in Rosedale, Maryland.

Hotels say goodbye to daily room cleanings and hello to robots as workers stay scarce

Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.

Researchers believe <em>Girl with a Flute</em> could not have been painted by Vermeer because it lacked his precision and paint application.

Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.

Matryoshka doll statues near a Mediterranean Sea beach in Antalya, Turkey, on Aug. 7. This small park is known as Matryoshka Park. More than half the traditional Russian dolls are missing since vandals destroyed them after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Thousands of Russians continue to arrive in Turkey, fleeing conscription

Antalya is a longtime Russian tourist destination that's become a refuge for those who don't want to fight in the war. But things are getting more complicated for Russians in Turkey.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 trial

A federal jury found the Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other defendant guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Students enter Atlanta's Beecher Hills Elementary School in August.

Student math scores are down from pre-COVID levels, the National Report Card finds

The test measures reading and math proficiency for fourth- and eighth-graders. It's administered every two years, but the pandemic delayed the 2021 report until now.

President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 10, 2022, in Washington.

Biden to talk crime, gun control in swing state Pennsylvania

President Joe Biden will push for a new ban on assault-style weapons when he talks about his crime prevention plans in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine perform during the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy, on May 14. The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in the English city of Liverpool after Britain was asked to hold the event on behalf of Ukraine.

Liverpool will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine

The contest will be staged next May in the birthplace of The Beatles after Britain was asked to hold the event in place of war-torn Ukraine, the designated host country.

People hold signs and shout slogans as they protest before the cancellation of the Los Angeles City Council meeting Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Councilwoman Nury Martinez resigns following her leaked racist remarks

The resignation comes hours after protesters disrupted a scheduled Wednesday city council meeting inside Los Angeles City Hall.

Statues at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy on Nov. 3.

Discovery of ancient bronze statues in Italy may rewrite Etruscan and Roman history

The discoveries shed light on what the Italian Culture Ministry calls a "unique multicultural and multilingual haven of peace" between Etruscans and Romans at a time when they were mostly at war.

South Korean women take part in a march supporting feminism during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul on March 8, 2019. Anti-feminism has been on the rise, turbocharged this year by President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that's swept South Korea

Many men in South Korea claim to be victims of gender discrimination, a movement turbocharged by President Yoon. Meanwhile, women lag far behind men in pay and face unrealistic beauty standards.

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