The national housing market has cooled, but in Los Angeles the ultrarich are still shattering price records. An heiress to the Formula One racing empire sold her home for $119.75 million last July. In December, Lachlan Murdoch paid $150 million for a home in Bel Air. The latest buyer at the top: Jeff Bezos, the […]
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Newly hired American men’s soccer coach Gregg Berhalter earned nearly as much from the U.S. Soccer Federation in the fiscal year ending last March 31 as women’s counterpart Jill Ellis By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer February 19, 2020, 11:49 PM 3 min read NEW YORK — Newly hired American men’s soccer coach Gregg Berhalter
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This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A military judge responded on Wednesday to a defense lawyer’s request to be released on health grounds from the case of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, ruling that the 75-year-old lawyer would no longer
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is slated to begin a tax trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, as the Internal Revenue Service tries to convince a judge the world’s largest social media company owes more than $9 billion linked to its decision to shift profits to Ireland. The trial, which Facebook expects
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When you enter the workforce, you may quickly realize that your job is not just to do what you were hired for, but also to compete in the world of office politics. “Avoiding office politics is like trying to avoid air, because if you have more than two people working together, you are going to
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Newman was released from a Florida hospital on Wednesday, two days after his frightening crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Roush Fenway Racing released a photo of Newman leaving a Daytona Beach hospital holding the hands of his two young daughters. The announcement came just a few
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Image copyright Reuters US lawmakers are taking steps to remove a tax break for Boeing that is at the centre of a fight between the European Union and the US. Legislators in the state of Washington, Boeing’s main manufacturing hub, introduced the plan on Wednesday. They want to avoid a trans-Atlantic tariff war triggered by
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LONDON — A British woman who in a drunken fit tried to open the door of a passenger plane thousands of feet above the North Sea has been jailed for two years and barred for life from the airline, officials said. The woman, Chloe Haines, was on an evening flight with Jet2, a British budget
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Russia’s space agency says two cosmonauts scheduled to launch to the International Space Station will be replaced with alternates for unspecified medical reasons February 19, 2020, 9:12 PM 1 min read MOSCOW — Russia’s space agency said Wednesday that two cosmonauts scheduled to launch to the International Space Station will be replaced with alternates for
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Just 60 miles east of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, one Little League director is sending a clear message to his 4,000 players that the Houston Astros and their sign-stealing scam aren’t to be emulated By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer February 19, 2020, 10:06 PM 4 min read Just 60 miles east of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, one Little
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