Collapsed Florida condo had ‘major structural damage’ that was reported to HOA in 2018
At least 159 people remain unaccounted for in the Champlain Towers South condo collapse, with four reported dead as of this writing.
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Biden outplayed Republicans on infrastructure, but it only counts if he gets a reconciliation deal
“We have a deal,” President Joe Biden announced Thursday, celebrating the framework of a bipartisan infrastructure deal worth $1.2 trillion, only about $580 billion of which would be new spending.
“They have my word, I’ll stick with what they’ve proposed,” Biden said, flanked by a core group of Senate Democrats and Republicans. “And they’ve given me their word as well. Where I come from, that’s good enough for me.
It could have been worse—Trump wanted to use active duty military to clear the streets of D.C.
The Insurrection Act, allowing the president to deploy military forces within the United States, was signed into law in 1807. Of the course of that 214 history, the law has been used for vastly different purposes. In 1871, Ulysses Grant used it to position federal forces against the Klu Klux Klan after Klansmen conducted waves of lynchings killing thousands, including hundreds of Black politicians, across the South.
The new space race: China has its own space station, plans for Mars, and a new deal with Russia
Just over a month ago, the world was looking upward to see where a large booster—the first stage of a Chinese Long March 5B—was going to fall to Earth. Despite a lot of publicity, and a good deal of resulting anxiety, most of the booster burned up in the atmosphere somewhere near the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and there did not appear to cause any resulting damage.
Trump’s EPA Appointees Kept Fired Employees On Payroll: Inspector General’s Report
Their “fraud” cost the agency $130,000, according to the OIG report. No charges were filed.
Veterans Call On Their Insurance Co. To Yank Tucker Carlson Ads After He Calls Gen. Milley A ‘Pig’
“So USAA, is this who you advertise with?” asks a tweet by Veterans For Responsibility, referring to a major insurer of service members and veterans.
Cop Beaten In Capitol Riot Confronts Kevin McCarthy Over GOP Downplaying Of Attack
Michael Fanone asked the House GOP leader to publicly denounce statements by Republican members. He wasn’t satisfied with McCarthy’s response.
Republicans Are Criminalizing The Democratic Process For People Of Color
After an election loss and years of mass demonstrations, Republican states are rushing to create new crimes related to voting and protesting.
Help! I Offended My Indian Sister-in-Law by Bringing Groceries for Our First Visit.
I thought this was good manners but apparently not!
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
Only about 46 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated, and the number of doses administered has fallen by almost 300,000 per day since June 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What the U.S. Loses When Americans Save Too Much
For two generations, economists and other custodians of financial propriety have chastised Americans for not saving enough. Getting the public to pay attention took a pandemic. Facing a real possibility that COVID-19 and the resulting economic havoc might leave them unable to pay their mortgages and feed their families, moderate- and middle-income Americans began saving as much as they could—and are now socking away now perhaps too much to support a healthy expansion for the U.S.
The Soft Radicalism of Erotic Fiction
Pleasure, in the novels of Jackie Collins, tends to be abundant but hard-earned—imagine Pandora, having opened the box containing every sin plaguing humanity, retiring to a beach house in Malibu with two Weimaraners and a finely muscled masseur. The titles of her later books nod to desire and its cost: Lethal Seduction, Deadly Embrace, Dangerous Kiss. And in life, the British-born author emanated a similar combination of tough glamour.
Summer Is Hot, but This Is Abnormal
Summer is hot. This is among the most basic weather concepts that we learn as children and accept without question. Heat and even heat waves have always been a reliable hallmark of the season between the June solstice and the September equinox. And yet recent weather has far outstripped that norm. For most of last week, the daily high temperature in Phoenix reached or exceeded 115 degrees, breaking records even in that desert city.
New York Daily News Flips An Old Rudy Giuliani Boast To Oprah Winfrey Back On Him
The former New York mayor is getting what he deserves, the tabloid’s editorial board declared in a scathing column about the suspension of his law license.
How to Make Peter Thiel Pay Taxes on His Shady $5 Billion Roth IRA
It’s probably legal, but it shouldn’t be.
My Mother Told My Sister She’d Make Her the Sole Heir to Her Millions
She’s played us against each other our entire lives.
We Already Know One Winner of the New York City Mayoral Race
Even if we’re still waiting for a new mayor.
States Have Cut Off Unemployment. So Why Aren’t More People Looking for Jobs?
Republicans yanked away federal help to nudge people back to work. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working.
College vaccine mandates rile GOP states
The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
The Supreme Court saved Obamacare. Now supporters want Biden to fix the law.
Pressure is building on Biden to address the law’s underlying problems now that it has survived the latest Supreme Court challenge.
FDA to add warning about rare heart inflammation to Moderna, Pfizer vaccine fact sheets
A CDC safety panel has determined there is a “likely association” between the Pfizer and Moderna shots and cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccine recipients.
FDA approved Alzheimer’s drug over internal objections
FDA gave the drug conditional approval earlier this month, making it the first new Alzheimer’s therapy approved in nearly 20 years.
Is It Legal That Britney Spears Can’t Remove Her IUD? Can’t See Her Friends? An Expert Explains What She Should Do Next.
It was probably a good idea for her to speak out.
Sniffing Around for Quick, Cruisy “Connections” This Hot Vax Summer?
Sniffies—an upstart, very upfront gay hookup site—is here to help.
Help! My Wife Wants Me to Stay With Her in the Normie Line Even Though I Have PreCheck.
Is it rude for me to leave her behind?
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.