NYC towers put final touches on major upgrades as they buck downtown malaise
The bad news about Downtown is well known: 30% of the offices are vacant, Water Street is a near ghost town, and some of the older buildings are at risk of foreclosure. But there's good news, too. And it's not just the World Trade Center and Brookfield Place. Two large buildings on Liberty Street have […]
Hunter of beloved ‘Hollywood Buck’ in Virginia faces jail time, loses hunting license for 25-plus years
A Virginia hunter is facing prison time and more after pleading guilty to killing a well-known and beloved deer on the grounds of historic Hollywood Cemetery. Two hunters are implicated in the killing of “Hollywood Buck” and are each facing separate charges. According to reports from Fox Richmond and other outlets, Jason Walters of Richmond, […]
Century-old NYC office building signs two deals to buck trend toward newer towers
While some older buildings are declining, others are thriving: Two new deals totaling 104,000 square feet have brought occupancy at George Comfort & Sons’ 960,000-square-foot 498 Seventh Ave. to 95 percent. Publicly traded technology company Pubmatic signed a direct lease for 60,000 square feet. The subtenant plans to nearly double its space in the first […]
‘Buck Stops With Me’ But Will Not Resign
In an interview two days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle said she takes responsibility but has no plans to resign. Cheatle spoke about the assassination attempt on ABC News. To tell“This is unacceptable and must never happen again.” “The responsibility is mine. I am the director […]
Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle says ‘the buck stops with me,’ calls Trump rally shooting response ‘unacceptable,’ but still won’t resign
Kimberly Cheatle, the under-fire director of the Secret Service, has acknowledged that “I take responsibility” for criticism of the agency’s disastrous response to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, but has refused to resign. “This is unacceptable,” Cheatle told ABC News on Monday about the agency’s response to Saturday’s Trump campaign rally in […]
‘Buck Stops With Me’: Secret Service Director Refuses To Quit After Slamming Assassination Attempt As ‘Unacceptable’
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in an interview with ABC on Monday that she has no plans to resign and called the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump “unacceptable.” Cheatle spoke to ABC News’ Supreme Court correspondent Pierre Thomas in his first interview since Saturday’s attack on the Pennsylvania rally, which has […]
‘Buck Stops with Me,’ But ‘I Do Plan to Stay on’
In a segment of an ABC News interview that aired on “World News Tonight” on Monday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, “should never have happened” and that “I take responsibility,” but that she intends to remain in her position. “This is […]
Buck says America ‘would understand’ if Biden pardons his son
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) suggested the American people would understand if President Biden chooses to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted on Tuesday of three firearms-related felonies. “Number one, President Biden is not going to do anything until the appeals are exhausted, and that will happen after the election,” Buck said on […]
Four Democrats buck party on funding bill despite White House veto threat
Four House Democrats on Wednesday overrode party opposition to pass the annual Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction funding bill, days after the White House threatened to veto the bill over a partisan rider they called a “poison pill.” The Republican-led House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Wednesday morning to pass a […]
Ken Buck: Trump hush money trial, verdict set ‘dangerous precedent’
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) said former President Trump’s hush money trial and sentence set a “dangerous precedent.” “This is a dangerous precedent. Even if you don’t think that Republican district attorneys and attorneys general are going to turn things around, they will,” Buck said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday. “And what […]