SURFSIDE, Fla. — Modern Florida was built on condos like Champlain Towers South. “A new lifestyle is evolving in Florida and with it, a new habitat, the condominium,” Florida Trend magazine declared in 1970, when it first used the word. Condos promised an entree to the Florida dream of sunshine and fresh starts, affordable because […]
MIAMI — Shouting “Freedom” and other anti-government slogans, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in cities around the country on Sunday to protest food and medicine shortages, in a remarkable eruption of discontent not seen in nearly 30 years. Thousands of people marched through San Antonio de los Baños, southwest of Havana, with videos […]
NEW MEXICO (NYTIMES) – Soaring more than 80km into the hot, glaringly bright skies above New Mexico, Richard Branson at last fulfilled a dream that took decades to realise: He can now call himself an astronaut. On Sunday (July 11) morning, a small rocket plane operated by Virgin Galactic, which Branson founded in 2004, carried […]
There was at least one Englishman with something to celebrate on Sunday night. It will go down in the life story of Sir Richard Branson as the day he was officially handed the title of astronaut after his successful trip to the edge of space and back. And if the live feed of the England game […]
WASHINGTON — Whatever else might be said about the curious lawsuits filed last week by former President Donald J. Trump, in which he accused three big tech companies of violating his First Amendment rights by denying him access to their platforms, it is fitting that he sued in Florida. The state has long been on […]
WASHINGTON — Whatever else might be said about the curious lawsuits filed last week by former President Donald J. Trump, in which he accused three big tech companies of violating his First Amendment rights by denying him access to their platforms, it is fitting that he sued in Florida. The state has long been on […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Mr Donald Trump overwhelmingly won the 2024 presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which showed the extent of the former president’s dominance over the Republican Party. Mr Trump had an approval rating of 98 per cent and was the choice of 70 per cent of CPAC attendees in […]
WASHINGTON – For Ms Marianna, 38, who works in the marketing department of a financial institution, just commuting to work in New York from her home in New Jersey costs US$16 (S$21.60) if she pays cash and US$13.75 with an E-ZPass card – every day. Not to speak of the time spent on the commute. […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA (NYTIMES) – Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, workers removed the statue on Saturday (July 10), along with a nearby monument to Stonewall Jackson, another Confederate general. The larger-than-life-sized statue of Lee […]
CALIFORNIA (BLOOMBERG) – A wildfire raging uncontrollably across southern Oregon has knocked out three electrical lines so critical to the stability of grids in the western US that California has warned of rotating blackouts and Nevada faced a power emergency. The fast-moving Bootleg fire has crippled a key transmission system known as the California Oregon […]