A painting by Sir Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie has been sold for £8.285m. The sale price was almost four times the upper pre-sale estimate and it also beat the previous record price for a Churchill painting, which was just under £1.8m. Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque was sold at Christie’s in London […]
Anna Ruch had never met Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019. Her first impression was positive enough. The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. Ruch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words […]
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – The Biden administration on Monday (March 1) downplayed the prospect of sharing coronavirus vaccines with Mexico, saying it is focused first on getting its own population protected against a pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans. The remarks by White House press secretary Jen Psaki came before a video conference […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – About 735 cases of a coronavirus variant that emerged in New York City in November have now been identified in the US, including 585 in the last two weeks, a federal health official said. The mutation has travelled extensively through the metropolitan New York region, and individual cases have also been […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – About 735 cases of a coronavirus variant that emerged in New York City in November have now been identified in the US, including 585 in the last two weeks, a federal health official said. The mutation has travelled extensively through the metropolitan New York region, and individual cases have also been […]
MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s populist president was poised on Monday to claim a resounding victory in the country’s legislative elections, dealing a crushing blow to establishment parties and granting the young leader, who has been accused of authoritarian tendencies, a powerful new mandate. When President Nayib Bukele, 39, swept to power in 2019, he […]
MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s populist president was poised on Monday to claim a resounding victory in the country’s legislative elections, dealing a crushing blow to establishment parties and granting the young leader, who has been accused of authoritarian tendencies, a powerful new mandate. When President Nayib Bukele, 39, swept to power in 2019, he […]
WASHINGTON – US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, plans to introduce legislation on Monday (March 1) that would tax the net worth of the wealthiest people in America, a proposal aimed at persuading President Joe Biden and other Democrats to fund sweeping new federal spending programmes by taxing the richest Americans. Warren’s wealth tax would […]
A widow has told of her love for her job at a McDonald’s restaurant and says she won’t give it up as she prepares to turn 100. Ruth Shuster celebrates the big birthday on March 3 – and will spend part of the celebrations at the restaurant where she works as a greeter and table […]
The big political story in New York City is the growing crisis surrounding Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who faced new allegations of sexual harassment over the weekend. Several Democratic mayoral candidates responded with calls for an independent investigation, and some said Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, should resign if the allegations are substantiated. And as the […]