[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Soon after a stop-work order had been lifted on a hotel and condominium project in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a developer got a phone call. It was Mayor Bill de Blasio, hitting up the developer for a donation to his […]
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A peculiar thing is happening in financial markets this week: an oft-overlooked corner of Wall Street where banks and others go for billions of dollars in short-term loans is suddenly in need of cash. To that end, the Federal Reserve has stepped in to inject about $200 billion over the past three days, with plans
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Rhys has epidermolysis bullosa, a painful, life-limiting condition that has left him unable to walk. As he turns 14, his mother has made an appeal for people to send him birthday cards to help improve his mood. He has received 18,000, which he says has made him feel “a lot better”. Watch the Victoria Derbyshire
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Gus Kenworthy moves from the slopes to the small screen this fall as one of the stars of “American Horror Story: 1984,” playing Chet Clancy, the hunky, fitness-obsessed love interest of Emma Roberts’ Brooke Thompson. The Olympic freeskier has tried his hand at acting before, having appeared in an episode of ABC’s “The Real O’Neals” and
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In the 1930s, an unemployed American architect desperately needed to invent something to make ends meet. What he came up with was a board game combining anagrams, crosswords and chance. It was Scrabble, and 200 million sets of it have been sold since then. But the inventor’s biggest problem was coming up with the catchy
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Online shopping giant Amazon revealed a carbon footprint Thursday that rivals that of a small country and vowed to reduce the damage to the planet by cutting its use of fossil fuels. The company, which ships more than 10 billion items a year on fuel-guzzling planes and trucks, said it has ordered 100,000 electric vans
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Tom Hoge felt relieved to make his way back to the PGA Tour. He is starting the new season with a clear head, no stress and great scores. One week after he was runner-up at the Greenbrier for the best finish of his PGA Tour career, Hoge opened with three straight birdies and closed with
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In this episode of Brexitcast, presenters Katya Adler and Adam Fleming share their thoughts on the Luxembourg PM’s art collection and the limitations of his news conference facilities that led to Boris Johnson not attending a planned press conference. You can watch Brexitcast on Thursdays at 23.35 BST on BBC One, catch up on the
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A year after my now-husband Chris and I started dating, we decided it would be a great idea to adopt a dog together. Never mind that we were in our early 20s, technically hadn’t been together all that long and that our parents thought it was a terrible idea — we really wanted a dog.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe star brought his mum on stage as he accepted the award. Rapper Dave has won the Mercury Prize for his debut album, Psychodrama. A thought-provoking reflection on his upbringing in London, it has been hailed as “the boldest and best British rap album in a generation“.
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