Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman is leaning to supporting Donald Trump. According to multiple reports, Ackman is considering a public announcement backing Trump. He would join a growing list of Wall Street titans that have lined up behind the former president. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is considering endorsing former President Donald Trump, according […]
The demolition of a building that is leaning precariously after an earthquake in Taiwan has been halted because of aftershocks that made it lean even more, media reports said. The red building, about 10 storeys tall and inclined over a street in the city of Hualien, has become a lasting image from the magnitude 7.4 […]
It’s become Italy’s other “leaning tower.” And now, after mounting concern that the Torre Garisenda in Bologna might be on the verge of collapse, a plan has been hatched to save it using the same equipment that shored up the Tower of Pisa. The 48-meter (158 feet) Garisenda tower was built in the 12th century, […]
They wanna Pisa the action. There’s another leaning tower in Italy — but this time, officials are worried about a dangerous collapse. The 12th-century catastrophe-in-waiting is the Torre Garisenda, standing tall at 148-foot on a four-degree bend — for now — at the heart of Bologna. Torre Garisenda in Italy is titling at a dangerous […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it’s like to sit in his chair. Sometimes he will invite Barack Obama over to the White House for a meal or he will get on the phone with Bill Clinton. The three men share […]
MIDDLETON, Wis. — Inside a modest ranch-style house in this suburb of Madison, Democrats from across southern Wisconsin recently met at a standing-room-only gathering billed as one of several formal campaign launch events for President Joe Biden and other candidates throughout the crucial battleground state. They were all there to see Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Like […]
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because “you have to win elections.” Abortion promises to be a galvanizing issue for some women voters in the 2024 […]
INDIANOLA — Peggy Koivu, a 68-year-old retired teacher in Indianola, loves to bake. And she loves to share. She has used her hobby to help reduce food insecurity in Kitsap for more than three years now, baking 573 honey oat sandwich loaves since December 2020 to be donated to two food banks in the county. […]
If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall from high school physics, this is a trick question. Neglecting air resistance, they both fall the same way and reach the ground at the same time – gravity means that their speeds […]
CNN — In the year since Jeremy Renner almost lost his life in a freak New Year’s Day accident, the Marvel star has proved himself just as much a superhero offscreen. It was on New Year’s Day 2023 that the “Avengers” actor was crushed near his Nevada home while trying to stop his snow-removal tractor […]
Trump appears to be leaning into dark prophesies about a potential second term. He posted a word cloud in which “dictatorship” and “revenge” were especially prominent. The graphic originally came from a DailyMail article about a likely Trump vs. Biden rematch. Fresh off of declaring that he’s “not a student of Hitler,” former President Donald […]
(Refiles to restore dropped word “are” in final paragraph) ROME (Reuters) -Work to prevent the collapse of a medieval leaning tower in the heart of the northern Italian city of Bologna will cost 20 million euros ($21.5 million) and take 10 years at least, its mayor said on Wednesday. The 12th century Garisenda is one […]