Columbia University quad was never public — can close anytime despite local outrage, NYC says
The Big Apple supports Columbia University in the war to keep the gates closed. City lawyers said Ivy League schools should be allowed to block the public from their beloved community spaces on the Morningside Heights campus. “It’s always been private property,” Rachel Moston, a senior adviser to the City Department of Justice, argued in […]
GOP Cracking, Dems Close to Taking Tariff Authority Back from Trump
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday claimed there was a “crack in the wall” in Republican lawmakers’ support for President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “Donald Trump said, ‘Yeah, it’s going to be a 57% tariff, it’s going to be a 10% tariff, it’s going to be a 145% tariff,” Warren said. Markets […]
Hamas Reportedly Struggling To Pay Its Own Fighters As Walls Close In
Hamas is reportedly running out of money to pay fighter jets as Israeli forces slowly approach the terrorist organization, an intelligence reporting official told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Arab, Israeli and the US intelligence agency I said Targeting strikes against major Hamas officials, the WSJ has halted resale of its aid package and […]
Karen Read jury selection comes to a close, clearing way for 2nd trial
The full roster of ju umpire and alternatives was selected in the second murder trial of former financial adviser Karen Reed, who was accused of killing Boston boyfriend John O’Keefe in a drunken hit-and-run after the January 2022 blizzard. All 12 ju umpires and six alternatives were enpaneled on Tuesday to clear the path to […]
Ray Dalio says Trump trade war has put US ‘close to a recession’
Ray Dalio, founder of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, said on Sunday that President Trump’s trade war brought the US closer to a recession. He was asked on NBC’s Match the Press if he thought the world’s biggest economy could immerse himself in a recession. Usually understood As a meaningful reduction in output, […]
Bridgewater founder: 'We are at a decisionmaking point and very close to a recession'
Raydario, a billionaire investor and founder of Hedge Fund Bridgewater Associates, said on Sunday that the US was “very close to a recession.” In an interview with NBC News on “Meet the Press,” Dalio raised concerns about the confluence of various economic and political factors that he said could send the US economy to “something […]
Senators grill aviation leaders over 15,000 close calls at DC airport before deadly collision
Thursday Senators burned some aviation leaders during a Hearing It caused 67 deaths in relation to an airborne collision between American Airlines commercial jets and the Army Black Hawk helicopters in January. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chair of the subcommittee on aviation, space and innovation; Preliminary report In his opening statement from the National Transportation […]
GOP Warns Of Close Margins In Florida Special Election
Republicans are warning of a tougher than expected margin at Florida's sixth Congressional District Special Election to fill the seats left by President Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz. Republican Florida Sen. Randy Fine and Trump Approval In November, he opposed Democratic candidate Josh Weil, an Orlando middle school mathematics teacher. Republican Florida Gov. […]
GameStop plans to invest in bitcoin, close ‘significant number’ of stores
GameStop said Tuesday that its board unanimously approved the addition of Bitcoin as a Treasury protected asset. GameStop shares rose 7% to $27.23 in after-hours trading. The decision reflects the reaction of Bitcoin's biggest business owner, and in February it dropped the word “micro” from its name and unveiled a new logo to highlight its […]
Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close | Family
lAST WEEK My phone told me I made a little slideshow. It's one of them “It's good to remember!” The features you probably know well, such as the kind of wedding you did, or the kind of collated dozens of beach trips you took, scored with heart tagging music, like enough chili peppers, not pausing […]