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Worshippers gather after breaking their Ramadan fast at the JFK International Airport mosque in the Queens borough of New York City on July 14, 2015.Tanya BasuBy Tanya BasuUpdated: August 21, 2015 10:52 AM [ET] | Originally published: August 21, 2015 10:17 AM EDT;Correction appended, Aug. 21, 2015Several times a day, Essam Matwaoy leaves his job arranging luggage on EgyptAir planes at New York City John F. Kennedy International Airport. He makes his way through the cacophony of Terminal 4mdash;past the endlessly ringing phones and maze of snaking lines and Babel-like hum of languagesmdash;toward a sil
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ent corridor where he finds something that is rare in an American airport: a mosque.I come here all the time, he told TIME at the JFK International Islamic Center recently. When it time to pray, my co-workers even tell me, Essam, it time to praymdash;
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e mosque! The mosque, a maroon-carpeted room where an imam leads daily prayers, is one of only seven Muslim prayer spaces in America largest airports, according to a recent Pew Research Center reportmdash;and it the busiest in the country, according to the International Association of Civil Aviation Chaplains. While Pew found that religious chapels are becoming more common in the nation airports, many are multipurpose interfaith spaces that transform to house services for several different religions. Much rarer, at least outside of the U.S. Tlom Why Historians Aren t Really Sure Whether Meghan Markle Will Be the First British Royal of Color
Katy SteinmetzBy Katy SteinmetzSeptember 12, 2016 7:43 AM EDTOn Interstate 280 outside San Francisco, towering white Volvo semitrucks have been driving themselves around for monthsunder the careful supervision of humans in the cab. Otto, a startup founded by automation experts eager to
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get their inventions out of the lab and onto the road, has been working to reinvent commercial trucking since it was founded in January. And in August, ride-sharing giant Uber announced it was acquiring Otto and its 91 employees in a deal worth an estimated $680 million.One fresh shake-up keeps following another among companies that have promised to sell self-driving vehicles and services. Along with the Otto buy, Uber revealed that customers would be able to summon autonomous rides in Pittsbur
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gh by September. Weeks earlier, it sold its Chinese division to market leader Didi Chuxing, getting a hefty stake in return. Didi had previously forged a partnership with Uber bitter U.S. rival Lyft, which has reportedly held talks to sell itself to Googlea company with its own ambitious self-driving-car divisionor General Motors, which invested $500 million in Lyft earlier this year with avowals that the two would automate ride-shar
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ing vehicles together. Lyft executives deny that they have shopped the company around. Many in the automotive and technology worlds are convinced that self-driving vehicles are the future. But who gets there first old-line automakers, new-economy