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The condo in Surfside that collapsed two years ago had a pool deck with a "severe strength deficiency" and its construction in some areas failed to meet both building codes and its original design parameters, federal investigators have found.Concerns about the pool deck have surfaced repeatedly since the June 2021 collapse at Champlain Towers South that left 98 people dead, but the preliminary analysis from a federal team shows the extent of the problems uncovered so far.

12/21/2022December 21, 2022 Berlin says it opposes multimillion-euro payouts for Lufthansa executives.The German state saved the airline from bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the government says the bonuses violate the bailout terms.A German government spokesman on Wednesday said the government would seek legal clarification for Lufthansa's plan to distribute bonuses to bosses  despite the fact it recently needed a government bailout to avoid bankruptcy.

They came from the owners' suites, the second floor of the grandstand, the rail.From California and Michigan and beyond.They were not going to miss this moment.Their horse had just won the Kentucky Derby, and the winner's circle beckoned.Among those wearing white Mage hats were Brian Doxtator and Chase Chamberlin, whose Commonwealth app allows fans to buy shares in racehorses like Mage for as little as $50.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Eva Green suggested pretending to be in hospital if she was called to make a later-abandoned multimillion-pound sci-fi movie, the High Court has been told.

Realtor.comThose of us who like our sunlight hours to extend into the evening will appreciate the upcoming transition to daylight saving time-as well as houses that take full advantage of it.We've found five gorgeous glass houses that look out on some of the most glorious landscapes in the country: the mountains around Sundance, scenic Lake Placid, and the Mojave Desert's Joshua Tree, just to name a few highlights.

Actress Eva Green could make a B-movie without ending her career, her long-time agent has told the High Court in a legal battle over the collapse of a multimillion-pound sci-fi movie.Casino Royale actress Ms Green was due to play the lead role in dystopian thriller A Patriot, but the production was abandoned in October 2019.

The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil field that sits atop the coastal bluffs of Newport Beach, guaranteeing the property will be cleaned up and preserved as open space.The 384-acre Banning Ranch property, whose future was at the center of an intense decades-long fight in Orange County, is considered the last piece of undeveloped coastal real estate left in Southern California.

Leaseholders living in former council homes are facing refurbishment bills of thousands of pounds, despite a legal cap introduced nine years ago.Campaigners told the BBC that they were facing bills of up to £65,000, for works they say are not needed.A £15,000 cap for council refurbishment costs was introduced in 2014 but it is not clear that it has ever been used.

S mall business owners have said they are struggling to survive as postal workers are set to walk out and amid the looming threat of rail strikes.Matt Harris, 49, who runs wine bars Planet Of The Grapes and Fox Fine Wines in London, said that strike action is just another dagger for already struggling hospitality businesses.

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Who owns the phrase "Taco Tuesday"?According to the government's patent office, the answer in 49 states is Taco John's, a fast-food chain based in Wyoming.But if Taco Bell had its way, the answer would be everyone.A decades-long, taco-promotion turf war reached new heights on Tuesday when Taco Bell launched a campaign to cancel federal trademarks for "Taco Tuesday," held through much of the country by Taco John's since 1989.

A mayor who denied there was "industrial-scale corruption" at a multimillion-pound redevelopment has said he would support a full investigation being carried out.Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has faced concerns over the transfer of millions of pounds of assets at Teesworks to private developers.

There have been moments this year when both sides in the interminable rail dispute have made positive sounds, suggesting a resolution could be close.But as Mick Whelan, leader of Aslef, holds forth from his desk at the train drivers' union HQ, it becomes clear this is not one of them.Pay talks have foundered and Whelan is fuming at the rail firms and the government, whose dead hand he sees as sabotaging progress: I've never dealt with such dissembling, deceitful, disingenuous, dishonourable people in my 38 years of operating on all levels of this industry.

Photo by Fred Duval / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images Actor Tom Hanks opened up about his thoughts on book censorship after the release of his first novel.The two-time Academy Award winner spoke with the BBC about his new book The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel.

One by one the tour buses descended on the blue collar neighborhood in Hong Kong known as To Kwa Wan literally translated as Potato Bay unloading throngs of travelers from mainland China outside large restaurants where a quick lunch awaited them inside.Outfitted in white, red and orange ball caps to denote which tour they belonged to, the visitors crowded the sidewalks, smoked cigarettes under a No Smoking sign and bumped into the glass storefront of a real estate office where Nicky Lam, a property agent, was rolling her eyes.

The former head of the British Army has said he is uncomfortable with the Government's plans to send migrants who enter the UK unlawfully to Rwanda.General Lord Richard Dannatt pointed to the dark history of the east African nation which he said is still cast in the shadow of the genocide.He accused the Home Secretary of running down the remaining political capital of Rishi Sunak's Government with the unpopular policy.

Prince Andrew may not have enough money to challenge his settlement with Virginia Giuffre and his strategy to clear his name is high risk, friends of the duke have warned.Sources close to Andrew say he risks going down a lonely path of more legal bills as he weighs a bid to overturn the multimillion-pound settlement reached with a woman who accused him of sexual assault and even force an apology.

The chairman of the Conservative Party, Nadhim Zahawi, is coming under increasing political pressure to fully explain the circumstances of a multimillion-pound tax settlement.The BBC has been told Mr Zahawi paid a penalty over previously unpaid tax while he was chancellor.But despite acknowledging the tax issue, Mr Zahawi has left some questions unanswered.

Amber Heard has announced that she has settled her defamation case against ex-husband Johnny Depp.The Aquaman star, 36, shared a post to her Instagram page calling the decision to settle with Depp very difficult, and something that had required a great deal of deliberation.After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia, she wrote.

The meeting is taking place following the Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers' arrival in Islamabad.. Pakistan is set to host a day-long trilateral dialogue with China and Afghanistan in Islamabad after the arrival of the Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers, Qin Gang and Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, on Friday.

An autopsy report released on Thursday confirmed that Tyre Nichols died as a result of blunt force injuries to his head after a group of Memphis police officers brutally kicked and bludgeoned him.Shelby County medical examiners formally declared his death on Jan. 10 a homicide, describing severe injuries to Mr. Nichols's head and neck as well as bruises and cuts all over his body.

Alex Murdaugh was at the center of this trial.Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool The five-week trial of Alex Murdaugh has dominated headlines and cable news channels, and the murders have been the subject of podcasts and even two documentaries.It comes amid a frenzy of interest in true crime media, that can be both incredibly popular and also problematic.

Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's former public security secretary and architect of its deadly and protracted war on drugs, was found guilty in federal court in New York on Tuesday of taking bribes from the drug cartels he had sworn to combat, the US Attorney's Office said.The former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico, who served as his country's equivalent of the FBI director from 2006 to 2012, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on five counts of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former lover and business partner of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif. on Dec. 7, 2022.Jeff Chiu/AP A federal judge in California sentenced former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving Theranos and its now-disgraced CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, who received an 11-year sentence in a separate trial.

The winner of the $2-billion Powerball jackpot bought his second multimillion-dollar home in recent weeks, dropping $3.98 million on an Altadena house not far from where he purchased his life-changing lottery ticket.Edwin Castro, who came forward last month as California Lottery's first billionaire winner, closed on the Altadena home not long after purchasing a $25.5-million home in Hollywood Hills.

Blockchain firm Radix Tokens has raised $10 million in fresh funding ahead of the introduction of its Babylon mainnet, which will allow smart contract capability on the Radix network for the first time.The funding round was led by market maker and investment firm DWF Labs and gives Radix Tokens a valuation of $400 million, the Jersey-based firm said in email on Thursday.

Keanu Reeves, left, in "John Wick: Chapter 4." (Murray Close/Lionsgate)(3.5 stars) Is "John Wick: Chapter 4" the best John Wick movie in the franchise, as early reviews suggest?Quite possibly.But what does that even mean?Readers who have never seen Keanu Reeves as John Wick, who don't even like violent action movies - especially not ones about an elite assassin in a fantastical hierarchy of three-piece-suited assassins that is run like an efficient corporation, on the run from his co-workers, and with a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head - won't understand why the film deserves the star rating I've given it.

Realtor.com / Getty Images A California home renovated by HGTV stars Heather Rae and Tarek El Moussa popped up on the market recently.This home was featured on the second episode of the couple's new series, "The Flipping El Moussas."On the show, Tarek works on flips with his new wife, Heather Rae, a real estate agent on the Netflix reality show "Selling Sunset."

Like so many kids of the 1970s and '80s, I'm grateful for the hero just out of the frame.And it's not because Steven Spielberg launched "Indiana Jones" and "E.T." and wrote about a Mikey ("The Goonies") just like me who finds the treasure to save his family.It's because nobody mines the heartbreak and alienation of the dual citizen that is the child of divorce any better than Spielberg, and I'm guessing nobody ever will.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is asking Illinois state legislators for $54 million to help fund emergency services to asylum-seeking individuals and migrants.Lightfoot made the request in a letter to state legislators from Chicago, obtained by the Tribune.She noted that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration sent a letter to the city saying the state is "out of funds and will no longer be able to support city migrant services efforts as of February 1, 2023."

Tax bills are landing in mailboxes across Cook County - you can also find yours online - meaning home and business owners will finally know how much of the county's $16.7 billion bill they'll be picking up.That overall figure is about 4% higher than last year.In its annual analysis of all 1.8 million bills, Treasurer Maria Pappas' office - the one that sends those bills out - sought to identify what was driving those taxes up.

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Yes, Cocaine Bear is a real movie.And after it opens in theaters Friday, it might even be a hit.Since the trailer first debuted for Elizabeth Banks' very, very loosely based-on-a-true-story R-rated comedy has stoked a rabid zeitgeist.

A landmark Belfast city centre office building has reopened following a multimillion-pound refurbishment.The Riverside Tower building at Lanyon Place houses over 2,000 employees of BT Group.The new building boasts state-of-the-art technology and marks Belfast as a significant long-term location for the communication company.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Johnny Depp bought three guitars, a skull-encrusted vase and an easel to furnish his new London home during a surprise visit to an antiques centre in Lincolnshire on Friday.

Atlanta police on Monday charged 23 people with state domestic terrorism charges, a day after officers detained dozens of people following a violent clash at the proposed construction site of what has been dubbed Cop City a $90m police and firefighter training center in a forest near Atlanta.As a week of action against Cop City unfolds, the charges amplify alarm from activists and experts that Georgia authorities would rely on charging demonstrators with domestic terrorism as a way to suppress opposition.

A leading independent girls' school attended by actress Sienna Miller named its theatre after a fraudster following a 250,000 donation from the proceeds of crime, a court has heard.Francis Holland School, next to London's Regent's Park, removed the plaque and returned 92,500 after Achilleas Kallakis, 54, was jailed over a sophisticated five-year property and luxury yacht scam in 2013.

Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to announce a mini reshuffle of his Cabinet as soon as Tuesday.The Prime Minister is expected to appoint a new Tory Party chair, after he sacked Nadhim Zahawi over his tax affairs more than a week ago.The potential overhaul could be relatively limited, with a domino effect caused by the naming of a successor for Mr Zahawi, The Times reported, citing a Government source.

Jackie Rogers, a fiery American model and aspiring actress whose experience mingling with the elite of Europe and the United States during the jet-setting 1960s, along with her eye for elegance and her boundless (if at times abrasive) personality, fueled a five-decade career as a go-to couturier for film stars and socialites, died on Jan. 29 in Manhattan.

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.Herschel Walker fired back at Barack Obama this week after the former president said that having been a good football player didn't qualify Walker for the Senate.

Eva Green was described as fragile, volatile and likely to combust ahead of the collapse of a multimillion-pound sci-fi film, a movie financier has told the High Court.Financier and executive producer Alastair Burlingham said he believed Ms Green had become increasingly hard, if not impossible to manage during the pre-production of dystopian thriller A Patriot.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opened an investigation Monday into allegations that the chairman of the governing Conservative Party settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country's Treasury.It's one of multiple stories about secret loans and unpaid taxes causing discomfort for Sunak, who has faced scrutiny of his own personal wealth and family tax arrangements.

The government has refused to accept a proposed change in the law to stop super-rich oligarchs from using their fortunes to exploit British courts to intimidate and silence investigative journalists.Tom Tugendhat, the minister of state for security, on Thursday refused to accept an amendment to the economic crime bill that would have given judges the power to dismiss legal cases brought against journalists if they found them to be strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps) designed to chill public-interest journalism.

A number of staff at Queen's University and Ulster University took part in what they have termed a depressingly long strike over pay, conditions and pensions.Some students joined staff on the picket lines on Wednesday.It is set to be the first of 18 days of strikes organised by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) at 150 universities across the UK across February and March.

Actress Eva Green is due to give evidence in her High Court battle over the collapse of a multimillion-pound independent film project.The Casino Royale star, 42, had been set to star in the sci-fi film A Patriot before production was shut down in October 2019.She is now suing production company White Lantern Films, claiming she is entitled to her million dollar (approximately 810,000) fee for the movie, despite its cancellation.

Nadhim Zahawi should not have to step aside as Conservative Party chairman while an ethics investigation into his tax affairs takes place, according to a minister.It comes after a senior Tory MP broke ranks to call for Mr Zahawi to temporarily recuse himself from his party and Cabinet role until a probe into his conduct is over.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be braced for further questions about Nadhim Zahawi in the Commons as the Tory chairman fights for his political future.Mr Sunak will face MPs at Prime Minister's Questions after launching an investigation into Mr Zahawi over his tax affairs.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to seize on the fallout from the multimillion-pound settlement with HM Revenue and Customs at a time when Mr Zahawi was chancellor when he goes head-to-head with Mr Sunak in Parliament on Wednesday.

A stalker who left actor Claire Foy fearing for her and her daughter's lives has been spared a prison sentence.US citizen Jason Penrose, 49, was sentenced to 22 months in jail, suspended for two years, for one count of stalking and two counts of breaching an interim stalking order.He has also agreed to be repatriated to the US after he admitted to stalking The Crown star.

Tory party chairman Nadhim Zahawi's position is untenable, Labour has said after reports that he paid a penalty as part of a multimillion-pound tax settlement.The former chancellor, who attends Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, has been under pressure since it was reported that he paid HM Revenue & Customs a seven-figure sum to end a dispute.

A girl who had all four of her limbs amputated after she was wrongfully discharged from hospital has won a multimillion-pound payout.The child was taken to the emergency department at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey displaying red flags for meningitis and sepsis, including a high temperature, fast heart rate, leg pain, drowsiness, and vomiting.

Andrew McMahon has readied Tilt at the Wind No More, his fourth studio album under his In the Wilderness moniker.The project arrives March 31st via Nettwerk, and as a preview, he's shared the new single "Lying on the Hood of Your Car." What's more, in a Consequence exclusive, the singer-songwriter has shared the Origins of the new track, a synth-heavy slice of pop.

Edward H. Hamm Jr. and 28060 Sea Lane Drive, Malibu (Daniel Tacconelli/Sotheby's International Realty, Getty) The buyer of a $91 million manse in Malibu last month has been hamming it up in Paradise Cove.Edward Hamm Jr., a movie producer and heir to the Hamm's Beer fortune, was revealed as the buyer of the 17,000-square-foot mansion at 28060 Sea Lane Drive, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Jon Burton and 28060 Sea Lane Drive, Malibu (LEGO Dimensions Wiki, Zillow, Getty) Six months after listing his Malibu blufftop estate for $125 million, video game mogul Jon Burton has sliced $15 million off the asking price.The British-born resident has relisted the nearly 17,000-square-foot estate at 28060 Sea Lane Drive in Paradise Cove for $110 million, Dirt.com reported.

Flashy Mexican restaurant Lolita is back in action after a two-year, $2.75 million renovation to crank up the volume again on the decadent, design-forward party spot.Fans of Lolita's original location will notice some similarities.The taco-laden menu is the same, as is the overall layout of the space.

The final part of the Sussexes' controversial Netflix documentary airs on Thursday, with claims the Palace briefed against Harry and Meghan to deflect attention from less favourable coverage of other royals.The royal family and Palace aides will be steeling themselves for bombshells in Volume II of the Harry & Meghan series after the royal household faced accusations it leaked negative stories as part of a war against Meghan.

The Philadelphia Union agreed to transfer homegrown midfielder Paxten Aaronson to Eintracht Frankfurt of the Bundesliga on Thursday for a multimillion-dollar transfer fee.The Union will also retain a percentage of any future transfer fees for Aaronson, who will join Frankfurt in January.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) "Paxten has accomplished so much in a short amount of time.

Re the multimillion-pound deal with the French government to police Channel coastlines to prevent migrants crossing in small boats (Report, 14 November), how much cheaper, not to say more humane, would it be to allow applications for asylum in all British embassies and consulates overseas?This would save lives, which the government says that it wants to do, use existing organisations and buildings, and tackle at a single stroke most of the people smugglers' trade.