WASHINGTON — President Trump and Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, have been slinging insults at each other for weeks, but their Twitter war reached a new level on Thursday. Mr. Trump called his rival a “mass of dead energy.” Mr. Bloomberg described the president as “a carnival barking clown.” The […]
Ms. Trauss sued a few months later. The great irony was that nobody was more unhappy about it than Mr. O’Brien. He had spent years and millions of dollars proposing two completely different projects. Now some activist group he’d never heard of was suing the city, and him, on behalf of his original project —
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European Union health ministers have agreed to boost preparations and organize a coordinated response to prevent the virus that emerged in China from further spreading across Europe By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press February 13, 2020, 6:33 PM 3 min read BRUSSELS — European Union health ministers agreed Thursday to boost preparations and organize a coordinated
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Jeff Probst has seen a lot in his 20 years as host and executive producer of “Survivor,” a competition series that could be credited with ushering in and sustaining reality television. He was there when Sue Hawk famously waxed poetic on snakes and rats in Season 1. He was as gobsmacked as anyone when he
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Many concert promoters keep a low profile. Theirs is mostly a backstage job, dealing with the mundane: contracts and equipment, schedules and security, advertising and accounting. Yet those tasks are essential to building any live music scene. Bill Graham — the promoter who got started in hippie-era San Francisco, opened the Fillmore East in New
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The Houston Astros apologized Thursday for stealing signs during the 2017 World Series, but all it did was remind people of a scene from “The Office.” Although the purpose of the press conference was supposedly to express regret, many observers noted that no one on the team really seemed that sorry. At one point, team owner Jim
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KHIVA, Uzbekistan — Inside the ancient walls of the Silk Road oasis town of Khiva, China has put down a marker of its geopolitical ambitions. A sign promotes a Chinese aid project to renovate a once-crumbling mosque and a faded madrasa. Outside the town’s northern gate, a billboard-size video screen shows clips of President Shavkat
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Tesla is selling $2 billion worth of additional stock to take advantage of a big jump in its share price By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer February 13, 2020, 5:49 PM 4 min read DETROIT — Tesla said that is selling $2 billion worth of additional stock, that its U.S. revenue fell last year and
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Vietnam has put 10,000 people in quarantine after six cases were found in villages north of Hanoi Coronavirus cases are not rising dramatically outside China despite a spike in Hubei province, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The only exception was on a cruise liner docked in Japan, where 44
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Image copyright Getty Images Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis says the festival has to achieve a gender balanced line-up as soon as it can. “Our future has to be 50/50,” she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. “It’s a challenge. Everyone’s finding it hard – but the acts are there,” she says, adding that past Glastonbury line-ups have
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