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The Qualcomm representative was saying smart speakers can recommend hotels and restaurants while people are driving. Alexa said, "That's not true." It's not clear why Alexa chimed in at that point.

President Obama on Thursday nominated Penny Pritzker to run the Commerce Department. An heiress to the Hyatt hotel empire and one of Forbes' 300 richest Americans, she also served on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Obama also nominated a new U.S. Trade Representative. Michael Froman is a senior economic adviser to the president and a former Citigroup executive.

Boston's real mayor-elect was celebrating at the Park Plaza Hotel. The Marty Walsh Vice President Joe Biden called was sitting on the couch watching TV with his wife. Walsh told the Boston Globe he wasn't surprised at the mix up.He says he knows eight other Mary Walshes.

Linda stopped by the hotel where the Ohio delegation is staying to talk with some of them about taxes. Senator Bob Dole's proposal for an across- the-board 15 percent tax cut is appealing to many voters. The Ohio delegates agree about its appeal, but say that the numbers don't add up, that the proposal ignores the continuing deficit problem. Some of them think Bill Clinton should not address tax cuts, despite their appeal to voters. Some of them would like to see him propose SOME tax cuts, specifically targeted to the middle class, working families, children going to college. They call these types of cuts "meaningful" and "productive".

Twin terrorist attacks against Israelis took place in Kenya today. More than a dozen people were killed when suicide bombers attacked the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, an Israeli-owned resort on the Indian Ocean. And two missiles were fired at an Israeli airliner as it took off from the airport in the city of Mombasa. The missiles missed their target. We hear from Jerusalem Post reporter Kelly Hartog who is near Mombasa, Kenya. And Jacki Lyden talks with Cathy Jenkins of the BBC, who is in Nairobi.

A car bombing outside the Baghdad hotel that houses the United Nations kills the driver and an Iraqi policeman. The attack is near the location of last month's bombing of U.N. offices that killed more than 20 people. The incident follows a weekend of violence in Iraq that left at least three U.S. soldiers dead and a leading member of the country's governing council seriously wounded. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

The team announced his death and police in Southlake, Texas, said Skaggs had been found unresponsive in his hotel room. The Angels were due to start a series against the Rangers on Monday.

The newlyweds and members of the wedding party were stuck for hours in a hotel elevator that stopped between floors. Firefighters had to turn to a rope rigging system to get members of the party out.

When Joan and Izzy Schwartz got married, they spent their wedding night in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Back then, the room cost $16.80. For their 60th anniversary, the Waldorf will give the couple a room for the same rate they paid in 1952.

We continue celebrating 25 years of Something Wild by going back to another favorite episode. This one features a glimpse of peregrine falcons up close on cliffs in Rumney.