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We hear filming will begin Friday on a new real-estate reality television series, and it will feature this $250 million New York penthouse -- the priciest residential property currently for sale in the city.Evan Joseph; Cody Boone
This smashing $250 million penthouse at Central Park Tower is ready for its close-up.

While glamming it up on Cannes red carpets, Alex Sapir is looking to sell a lavish waterfront Miami property.Luxe Living Realty / @chloehautierpro
Real estate mogul Alex Sapir, son of the late Soviet-era billionaire Tamir Sapir, has listed his Miami home for a cool $54 million.The property - at 126 and 206 W. San Marino Dr. on the Venetian Islands - features a five-bedroom, 5½-bath home, plus a teardown on 0.6 acres with 150 feet on the water overlooking the downtown skyline.

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as "the grave dancer" for his ability to revive moribund properties has died due to complications from a recent illness.He was 81.Bearded and blunt-spoken, Zell reveled in bucking traditional wisdom.

A home adjacent to that of A-list couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick has just sold -- and is ready to convert back to single-family status.Penske Media via Getty Images / Dolly Lenz Real Estate
A historic West Village townhouse adjacent to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's megamansion on West 11th Street has sold for $26.75 million, according to property records.

A Fifth Avenue penthouse tied to Guo Wengui, which this week was damaged by fire, is off-market -- and still luring in luxury clients looking for a discount.Helayne Seidman
An 18th-floor penthouse at the Sherry-Netherland, 781 Fifth Ave., is now a crime scene following the dramatic arrest of accused fraudster Guo Wengui inside the apartment on Wednesday - and a suspicious fire that may have been triggered remotely while FBI agents were still inside, even afterGuo was carted out in handcuffs.

Rep. Kevin Hern speaks at a press conference on vaccine mandates for businesses with House Republicans on Capitol Hill on November 18, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images A panel comprised of three-quarters of the House Republican caucus released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the Social Security retirement age - cutting benefits across the board-while further privatizing Medicare and slashing taxes for the rich, a plan that Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups said is a clear statement of the GOP's warped priorities ahead of a critical spending fight this fall.

While the plan still keeps corporate tax rates relatively low, progressives applauded the hikes as "long overdue."President Joe Biden talks about his proposed FY2024 federal budget during an event at the Finishing Trades Institute on March 9, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images While far-right Republicans continue threatening to blow up the global economy unless Congress makes cuts to popular social programs, progressive taxation experts are celebrating U.S. President Joe Biden's latest push to invest in "widespread prosperity" by raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.

(WASHINGTON) With Republicans in control of the House, there's no chance that President Joe Biden's new budget plan will become law as it stands.Instead, the financial blueprint that he's announcing in Philadelphia on Thursday will serve as a political talking point for a president preparing to run for reelection.

WASHINGTON Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday confirmed that his committee will hold a vote this week to open an investigation into federal labor law violations by major corporations and subpoena Howard Schultz, the billionaire chief executive of Starbucks, as the first witness.Mr. Sanders, the Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, last week announced his intent to try to compel Mr. Schultz to appear on Capitol Hill, stating that Starbucks had declined an invitation in February for him to testify about his violation of federal labor law and defied congressional oversight inquiries, including by refusing requests for meetings and documents.

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The recent merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf ended a long battle between the two, typically framed as a struggle between pure, upright American values and brute economic, political and even murderous force.Many associated LIV backers with 9/11 and the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist who launched his 2024 presidential bid earlier this year, discussed the importance of a democratic election and critiqued the Democratic National Committee over the push to change the presidential nominating calendar in a Thursday address to the New Hampshire Senate.

The Treasury Department's cash balance fell to just under $49.5 billion on Wednesday, as the United States inched toward running out of cash to pay its bills.That was significantly lower than the $316 billion the department had in operating cash, which is held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at the start of the month.

In the cut-throat world of hit TV show Succession, it is the go-to private jet for the Roy dynasty, providing a backdrop to the programme's high-level plotting amid luxury leather upholstery.Now it has emerged that an Embraer Lineage 1000E lauded as the creme de la creme of private business jets has also been the choice of aircraft for the British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, on his eight-day tour of the Caribbean and Latin America.

Rishi Sunak has seen his personal family fortune fall by more than 200m over the last year.Sunak, a former hedge fund manager and reputedly the UK's wealthiest ever prime minister, and his heiress wife, Akshata Murty, have an estimated worth of about 529m in the latest Sunday Times rich list, a fall from 730m in 2022.

The US government should confiscate 100% of any money that Americans make above $999m, the leftwing independent senator Bernie Sanders said late last week.Sanders expressed that belief in an exchange on Friday evening with the host of Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? on HBO Max.We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage | Bernie Sanders Wallace had asked Sanders about the general assertion in his book It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism that billionaires should not exist.

Youth climate activists are calling on Labour to be bolder or risk losing the support of a generation of young voters at the next election.Activists from Green New Deal Rising, which has doorstepped dozens of politicians over the past 18 months, are calling for more urgent action on the climate emergency, and want Labour to commit to a decade of green new deal action.

The Ineos founder, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has moved up to be the second wealthiest person in Britain, with a near 30bn fortune, as the number of UK billionaires dropped last year for the first time in 14 years.Ratcliffe, who is battling to take control of Manchester United football club, is the highest climber in the annual Sunday Times rich list, up 27 places as his chemicals fortune climbed by 23.6bn compared with last year, with his net worth estimated at 29.6bn.

T he personal fortune of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty has fallen by more than 200 million over the last year as the value of her stake in her father's company plummeted.The couple's wealth is estimated at around 529 million in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, a fall from 730 million a year earlier.

The personal fortune of prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty has fallen by more than 200 million over the last year as the value of her stake in her father's company plummeted.The couple's wealth is estimated at around 529 million in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, a fall from 730 million a year earlier.

So the minor signs of progress that are visible in the Capitol are leaving some lawmakers to wonder whether they're meaningful or more of a mirage as the deadline to avoid a full-blown economic crisis draws nearer."[Democrats] are negotiating right now," said Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.),one of the GOP's most vulnerable incumbents this cycle.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Western nations are debating whether to send fighter jets to Ukraine, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Danish TV2 on Thursday.This is something we're discussing in the group of allied countries.

Credit...Giulio Bonasera New documents released last week revealed the disconnect between the Fox News anchors' privately held opinions and those they espoused publicly and shared with millions of viewers on their television programs.In particular, Tucker Carlson's views on Donald J. Trump and the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have been shown to contrast sharply with the messaging of his show, which supported Mr. Trump and promoted his unfounded belief that the election had been stolen.

The 5 o'clock club is published from time to time during the season, and aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn't much being published.Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below.We've seen a number of reports in the media that have hinted at problems with the Josh Harris bid to buy the Commanders, and suggesting that the structure of the financing, the number of limited partners, and the inclusion of foreign investors are all potential problems.

By Erin Felgar
The conference center at the William Vale hotel is positively aflutter on a Friday night with romance novel fans here to see a live taping of the romance-centric podcast " Fated Mates."Hosted by author Sarah MacLean and romance critic Jen Prokop, the two are here to lead a panel of bestselling romance authors, an audience Q&A, and book giveaways.

As a builder of mini walled gardens for publishers, Swedish self-serve platform provider DanAds has a front-row seat to the challenges of monetization.Ad tech take rates and macroeconomic pressures are squeezing publishers.But for DanAds, which helps publishers seize more control over the advertising supply chain and cuts out middlemen, business has been good.

Has the Washington Commanders sale taken a positive step forward after an apparent power play that saw two billionaires join forces this week?Mercifully, finally, the Washington Commanders' ownership race could be drawing to a close.There's a relatively long way to go just yet, but the latest developments indicate a clear frontrunner with Dan Snyder reportedly still ruling out the prospect of selling the franchise to Jeff Bezos.

The sale of the Washington Commanders is an ever-evolving beast with stories coming out almost daily that can seem conflicting.Dan Snyder has been known to use certain media outlets in New York to get his message out, and that seems to be happening again with this sale.The range of "bids" placed on the team started with reports from Forbes that there were several well north of $7 billion.

Elon Musk said on Thursday he has found a new chief executive for Twitter, but did not name the person, while the Wall Street Journal reported that Comcast NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino was in talks for the job.Musk said in a tweet: "Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter.

By Mayor Eric Adams Posted on May 9, 2023 Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Water is a precious resource, and New York City has some of the best municipal drinking water on the planet.Our water comes from reservoirs in the Catskills and beyond, and travels hundreds of miles to reach our taps.

The headline on an internet story about Jerry Reinsdorf's bombshell comments in Los Angeles was gobsmacking."Jerry Reinsdorf, why don't you stop talkin' for a while?"Reinsdorf, as most Chicago White Sox fans know, rarely talks publicly - at least on the record - thus avoiding putting his foot in his mouth.

During a visit to The Drew Barrymore Show, Michelle Obama, as she often does, got into it with some excellent advice about how a parent can maintain their identity as something more than just "mom" or "dad."This all came up when Drew Barrymore wondered about life after the kids go off into the world.

Activists hold signs calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2023.STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images A report published Monday highlights potential connections between the political influence of Harlan Crow's family and the billionaire GOP megadonor's yearslong endeavor to shower U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with lavish vacations and other undisclosed gifts.

One researcher called the SVB bailout "a good illustration of the enormous class bias in American policymaking."Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg during a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on September 9, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.Alex Wong / Getty Images In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reveals that the 10 largest deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bank held a combined $13.3 billion, a detail that's likely to intensify criticism of federal regulators' intervention in the firm's recent collapse.

Women CEOs are becoming slightly less rare, but more women billionaires won't lead to greater equity for all.(L-R) Charles Scharf, CEO and President of Wells Fargo, Brian Thomas Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America, Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup, William H. Rogers Jr., Chairman and CEO of Truist Financial Corporation, Andy Cecere, Chairman, President, and CEO of US Bancorp, and William Demchak, Chairman, President, and CEO, of The PNC Financial Services Group, are sworn in as they prepare to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Hearing on the Annual Oversight of the Nation's Largest Banks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 22, 2022.

When Congress put a cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn't anticipate 40 years of rising inequality.Dennis Dunne and Aileen Kirshoff attend a rally against cuts to social security on February 23, 2023 in Huntington, New York.Sean Zanni / Getty Images for MoveOn Is your salary less than $160,200?

In today's episode, we're trying something different!Usually, y'all know I have one guest and I ask them a whole bunch of questions.BUT today, I have THREE guests.And I asked each of them to give me the advice they wish they could tell their 20-year-old self.In today's episode, you'll hear from:



Bing Gordon: Former chief creative officer of the video game company Electronic Arts

Paul Orfalea: Founder of Kinkos... which sold for over $2.6 BILLION dollars!!

And Bob Metcalfe: Who invented the ethernet cable... which was the original internet.

What are the biggest surprises to emerge from an eventful free agency period so far for the Washington Commanders in 2023?It's been another fascinating offseason for the Washington Commanders highlighted by some encouraging free-agent moves.It was never going to be the flashiest - not while Ron Rivera is around - but this is a newfound way of doing business more in keeping with traditional success around the NFL.

Another day, another conflicting report on the sale of the Washington Commanders.The New York Post first reported that Dan Snyder had blocked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from placing a bid on the Washington Commanders.The Athletic followed suit with their own sources story.Bezos owns the Washington Post which has been one of the leading media outlets investigating Snyder and the toxic workplace he ran for over two decades.

The latest twist in the ongoing saga surrounding Dan Snyder cast another dark stain on the Washington Commanders owner.If these are Dan Snyder 's final few weeks as an NFL owner, he's not going quietly.Something that many anticipated following his turbulent run with the Washington Commanders in recent years.

This morning, Adam Schefter is reporting that a local billionaire, Mitchell Rales, is teaming with Josh Harris in an attempt to buy Washington's football team.With an estimated net worth of $5.6B, Rales strengthens the Harris bid significantly.Had been a belief Harris had other big $$ with him.Harris is 1 of 2 known groups that are bidding on the Commanders.

The latest report from Front Office Sports' A.J. Perez says that "Dan Snyder and Bank of America - the bank handling the sale - have narrowed its list of billionaires interested in the team down.A source told FOS that [there are] two finalists: Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils owner Josh Harris, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."

Authorities are investigating whether a mysterious blaze inside the palatial Manhattan apartment of Chinese billionaire and accused fraudster Guo Wengui was sparked remotely, sources told The Post Thursday.Guo, a controversial figure whose real name is Ho Wan Kwok, also had the 18th-floor luxury apartment overlooking Central Park wired for sound to record his visitors, the sources said.

Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office Thursday morning, police sources said.Cops responded to a 911 call at 767 Fifth Ave. - where Thomas H. Lee Capital LLC is located on the sixth floor - around 11:10 a.m., the sources said.

Thomas H. Lee, the billionaire financier who suddenly took his own life last week, was mourned Monday as both a financial genius and a humble family man.High-profile attendees, including the Clintons and Dr. Oz, rubbed elbows with former associates and grieving relatives at funeral services at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall for the man once known as the "envy of Wall Street."His

In a sweeping decision, an administrative judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that Starbucks had violated federal labor law dozens of times in responding to a union campaign in the Buffalo area shortly after the campaign began roughly 18 months ago.Michael A. Rosas, a judge for the National Labor Relations Board, concluded that Starbucks had illegally monitored, disciplined and fired employees engaged in union organizing; added workers to stores to dilute support for the union; and promised new benefits to workers in an attempt to defuse support for the union.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Israel Englander allegedly "terrorized" his estranged wife and her new gallerist girlfriend in an effort to bilk her of billions in their divorce settlement, the women claim in new court papers.The 74-year-old Millennium Management co-founder "became enraged" when his wife Caryl Englander, 68, "fell in love" with Swiss gallerist Dominique Levy, 55, - and set out to break up their relationship, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Thursday.

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[Note: These ideas are not entirely fleshed out.But since I have this space, I thought I would start fleshing them out in public.]Writing a unique NFL column at this time of the year is often a difficult proposition.Look around the internet and you'll understand what I mean.

With the ides of March now safely behind us, it's the ideas of March we turn to.Namely, what ideas you been tossing around?As far as the New York Knicks?I suppose about life, too, but while life brought us all here in a big-picture sense the ties that bind are orange and blue.The regular season nears its end, and what a season it's been.

Do you miss the New York Knicks?I don't.Not yet, anyway.I'm enjoying a rare nine-day stretch of no games, which is my wont given I recap 70 games per season.It's been an oasis of relaxation, leaving me free to focus on my other teams.There's the Mets, whose capitalist-endgame owner has 29 billionaires wetting themselves with fear so badly they're already upset about a CBA they approved only one year ago.

Vladimir Gruzdev is currently sanctioned by Ukraine, and listed his young daughter as the owner of his luxury London home.Google Maps
This little girl has quite the impressive property portfolio.A Russian supermarket magnate and politician would appear to have turned his young daughter into a landlord just 20 days before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

There was a time say, just before a certain incident near the end of last year's Academy Awards show when the ceremony itself was a dignified proceeding and the embarrassment was largely confined to the preshow red carpet program.That's the spirit that Saturday Night Live tried to return to this weekend with an opening sketch that imagined the celebrity arrival for Sunday's Oscars, complete with vacuous hosts and overly excited nominees.

Daniel Boulud is on a tear: Shortly after opening Joji and Joji Box at One Grand Central, and on the heels of his announcing an upcoming 16,000 square-foot French steakhouse and marketplace, he's just signed the lease to resurrect Cafe Boulud, an anchor of Uptown dining for 20 years.The new location for Cafe Boulud will reopen in the former Vaucluse space, what had been a Michael White restaurant, at 100 East 63rd Street, near Park Avenue, in late 2023.

Meta is in the early stages of developing a text-based social media app that could rival Twitter, MoneyControl reported yesterday (March 9).Unlike its other social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram-and unlike Twitter-the app will reportedly be decentralized.Meta didn't clarify what this would mean, but other decentralized apps like Mastodon, a Twitter rival, support independent servers where users create their own rules about content moderation.

Emmanuel Macron has carried out a discreet ceremony to give the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, the Legion d'honneur at the Elysee Palace while hundreds of thousands of workers protested across France over changes to pensions.The French president presented the country's highest honour in front of a number of VIP guests and influential business leaders last Thursday, when there was a day of industrial action against Macron's plan to raise the retirement age to 64.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have added six players over the past two weeks, but are they good enough to win the Stanley Cup?The rest of the Eastern Conference continues to add depth to their rosters, so it's still hard to believe whether this is the Toronto Maple Leafs' time or not.Thankfully the Leafs won't have to face the Boston Bruins in the First Round this year, because they're clearly the favorites in the East.

By Simon Jack & Faisal Islam


Business editor & Economics editor


The chancellor is expected to extend the Energy Price Guarantee at current levels for a further three months, the BBC understands.Typical household energy bills were scheduled to rise to £3,000 a year from April, but calls have been made for the government to retain its current level of support with the cap at £2,500.

Commanders announce upgrades to videoboards and audio systems at FedExField for the upcoming 2023 NFL season "The upgraded video displays and audio systems are the next steps in modernizing our stadium to create an exciting and immersive gameday experience.The upgraded resolution will immediately improve the in-game experience for our fans by providing crisp views of video content and game information, as well as immersive play-by-play engagement," said Trista Langdon, SVP of Operations & Guest Experience for the Washington Commanders.

With less than two weeks to go before Chicago's election, Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn't laughing at the Bears anymore.Her first reaction to the team's interest in Arlington Heights was to mock the NFL franchise and encourage its leaders to "focus on putting a winning team on the field, beating the Packers finally and being relevant past October."

The sale of the Washington Commanders will be in the news more and more as we get past tomorrow's Super Bowl, and new deadlines pass.It has been mostly good news(or no news) if you want to see Dan Snyder sell the team, but a story from the New York Post yesterday brings some bad news.According to Josh Kosman, who appeared on the Kevin Sheehan Show yesterday, the bidding is down to two billionaires, and the potential sale price is not going to be anywhere close to the reported $7 billion that Dan and Tanya Snyder are looking for to get out of the NFL business.

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NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would begin sharing ad revenues with its users.Friday morning.Creators will get paid for ads that appear in their threads, though it's not clear yet what kind of percentage will be handed out.