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The owner of Chicago's iconic One Two Pru office complex at Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street said it's taking steps to head off potential financial trouble amid the rise of remote work and a decimated office market.Wanxiang America Real Estate Group, which bought the two towers in 2018 for $680 million, said it requested a transfer of the property's $389 million loan to special servicing, more than two years ahead of the 2025 maturity date.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Mar. 6-12.Details and times are subject to change.THE VOICE 8 p.m. on NBC.The singing-competition show that discovered Cassadee Pope and Morgan Wallen is back, and one of the judges, Blake Shelton, is gearing up for his 23rd and last season.

Carroll Cooley, a detective whose interrogation of a rape suspect named Ernesto Miranda helped lead to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court that compelled the police to make criminal suspects aware of their right against self-incrimination and their right to have a lawyer present, died on May 29 at his home in Phoenix.

As the legal battle over abortion pills winds through the federal courts, anti-abortion activists are citing a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act of 1873, to bolster their case.For most of the past century, that law has rarely if ever been enforced, with many of its anti-vice provisions narrowed by federal courts or considered to be vastly out of date.

Voters in Alberta, the epicenter of conservative politics in Canada, will select a new provincial government on Monday.Before the pandemic, the governing United Conservative Party appeared to have a firm hold on power.But last year, large and angry demonstrations against pandemic restrictions and against vaccine mandates helped spark a trucker convoy in the province .

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It was Christmas Eve 1944 and Alfred Arrieta was among a nine-member crew aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress, providing support to ground troops in the French countryside during the Battle of the Bulge, one of the bloodiest battles in World War II.The 21-year-old U.S. sergeant had participated in 28 successful missions but this time would be different.

Google has released a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people in the United States and Britain.Bard competes with similar technologies from Microsoft and its partner, the San Francisco start-up OpenAI.But Google has been cautious with its release as it tries to control the unexpected behavior exhibited by this kind of technology.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.On Friday, federal regulars seized control of Silicon Valley Bank, which was the 16th largest bank in the United States before its collapse.

Jean Pare, a cookbook author who taught millions of Canadians how to cook with her series of more than 200 self-published cookbooks called Company's Coming, died on Dec. 24 in Edmonton, Alberta.She was 95.Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her granddaughter Amanda Lovig Hagg.She did not specify a cause but said that Ms. Pare's health had been deteriorating for about a year.

Many readers responded to my newsletter last Friday about my great-grandfather's life during the Depression in Vermont.I heard from neighbors, relatives and readers as far away as Australia.While some wrote glowingly about the resilience and camaraderie fostered by the Depression, others focused on the suffering.

It is a fallacy to think we protect children from the world around them, Todd Brewster writes in AMERICAN CHILDHOOD: A Photographic History (Scribner, $36).Children suffered from slavery and racism, from the deprivation of the Great Depression.They marched during the civil rights movement and witnessed the attacks on Sept. 11.

The small auction held last week outside a Manhattan courthouse 11 bidders holding white paddles gathered around a plastic folding table seemed like the last-resort liquidation of some foreclosed house or deserted suburban office park.But the property being sold on the courthouse steps was different.

Is it possible to talk about financial contagion without perpetuating it?Regulators and public officials are anxious to be reassuring, but for Canadians trying to understand how a series of ostensibly unconnected global bank failures could affect them, being like the meme dog in the burning kitchen that turned 10 this year may not be the best plan either.

Braves Franchise History
1995 - Braves replacement player Dave Shotkoski is held up while out for a walk in West Palm Beach during spring training.Shotkoski is murdered by the assailant.Fellow replacement player Terry Blocker will help the police track down Neal Douglas Evans, who was out on parole.

Braves Franchise History
2010 - The Braves re-sign Eric Hinske to a one-year deal.Hanse hit .256/.338/.456with 11 home runs in 131 games for Atlanta in 2010.He will appear in 117 games in 2011 while hitting .233/.311/.403with 10 home runs in 2011.MLB History
1915 - The Yankees acquire Wally Pipp from the Tigers off of waivers.

During the depths of Great Depression, the federally sponsored programs known as the New Deal put millions of jobless Americans back to work in service of constructing a modern civic landscape that left nearly every city and town marked by inspiring communal structures characterized by their utility, craftsmanship, and artistry.

Matthew Rhys plays the unbeatable defense attorney Perry Mason in HBO's series.Merrick Morton /HBO Movies and TV have always been notorious for taking literary works and then making adaptations that flatten them out.But lately, ambitious writers and directors have been trying to do just the opposite.

In the early 1930s it looked as if Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party would be unlikely to ever take power.By the autumn of 1932, the Nazis were losing support as the Depression-hit economy began to improve.In the November 1932 federal election the last free and fair one held before the Nazis seized power Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) won the most votes, but failed to obtain a majority, which meant he had to form a coalition amid ongoing political deadlock.

John Steinbeck talks to media in the office of his publisher in New York on Oct. 25, 1962.Anthony Camerano/AP NEW YORK  Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck  a resident of Paris at the time  often found himself asked about the headlines from his native country.

As someone who grew up just a 15-minute drive across the border in Northeast Texas, I have done my fair share of shit-talking about the state of Oklahoma: "The wind blows so hard in Texas because Oklahoma sucks," and so on.But as fortune would have it, I fell in love with and married an Okie, which has necessitated spending a lot more time in the Sooner State over the past decade - and a lot more time with the Oklahoma onion burger.

Low math and reading indicators on the 2022 California School Dashboard are reviving grim predictions about students' future after COVID shutdowns.Data from the 2021-2022 school year shows that, along with declines in academic performance, the state saw rates of chronic absenteeism triple.Californians are no doubt asking themselves once again that difficult question: Were children's lives so disrupted by the pandemic's turmoil, sickness and learning loss that they'll never fully recover?

Realtor.comA New England farmhouse in Winchester, NH, is the oldest property to hit the market this week on Realtor.com®.The Scales House is accompanied by more than 100 acres, which boast open fields, a year-round stream, and even a waterfall.It also abuts three lots with an additional 60 acres available for purchase.

Caleb Williams stood in the deepest recesses of Tulane territory, his back suddenly, inexplicably against the wall, his team suddenly, inexplicably unraveling before our eyes.It wasn't supposed to be this way.Not after USC had vowed to finish its terrific turnaround season on a high note.Not after USC led by 15 in the final minutes.

Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Fitness, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide will help you ease into a healthy routine, backed by experts.Despite volunteering and working out at the gym several days each week, socializing frequently with friends and family, reading all manner of books and doing daily crossword puzzles, 85-year-old Carol Siegler is restless.

It's the worst time of the year.Spending time with family not bad, but fuck the stress that goes with it.Don't want the drama of others politics, I swear to Christ people forget what little they know about driving during the holidays.Food?Traditional spread?Might have been awesome during the great depression, but now it's an unappetizing fiscal drain.

Service workers from across the U.S. South signed union cards Saturday at the conclusion of a three-day summit in Columbia, South Carolina, where they agreed to join forces to combat exploitative corporations and the politicians who enable them.The workers - who are employed at fast food restaurants, gas stations, retail stores, and other workplaces - joined the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and an affiliate of the nationwide economic justice group Fight for $15.
"With eyes wide open to the past and immense hope for a better future, we are building a union to fight for living wages, fair working conditions, and a voice on the job," said Brandon Beachum, a Panera Bread worker from Atlanta.

Details of the recent, sudden FTX collapse are still unfolding, yet it is fair to say that clarifying rules and strengthening enforcement will accelerate the development of the broader crypto ecosystem for the benefit of society.After the U.S. stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression, we needed the 1933 U.S. Securities Act to stabilize markets and protect consumers.

By his own admission, Pennsylvania's new senator-elect, John Fetterman, does not look like a typical politician.Just over 6ft 8in with a goatee, tattoos on his forearms and a strong tendency toward workwear (for his official portrait, he chose to sit in a creased, grey Dickies camp shirt in front of the US flag), Fetterman has been described as the state's first workwear senator as well as a dude in shorts.

Over the past few months, at a state school in the centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka, it has become common for children to faint in the middle of class.Students, coming from homes in the capital where parents can barely afford a meal a day, have been arriving at school quietly starving, as the country continues to grapple with the worst economic crisis since the great depression.