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America’s tallest skyscraper Legends Tower WILL be built in Oklahoma City as construction gets green light to start within just two months – after shock last minute design change

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The tallest skyscraper in America, set to soar to a height of 1,907 feet, is poised to break ground in June in an unlikely place —Oklahoma City. Proposed by developer Scot Matteson, The Legends Tower is anticipated to surpass the heights of New York City’s One World Trade Center and Chicago’s Willis Tower. The Oklahoma … Read more

Eight Colorado hotels, three in Denver, win new Michelin Key award

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Eight Colorado hotels won the new Michelin Keys on Wednesday, according to the Michelin Key hotel guide. Each of these Colorado hotels received one Michelin Key. Three of the winning hotels are in Denver — the Clayton Hotel and Members Club, Four Seasons Denver and the Crawford Hotel. Three hotels in Aspen — Hotel Jerome, … Read more

5 takeaways from Trump’s Supreme Court and New York hearings

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Two of former President Trump’s legal cases collided Thursday, as the Supreme Court held a hearing on his broad claims of immunity from criminal prosecution while his trial continued in New York over a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The Supreme Court case has the capacity to derail Trump’s other three … Read more

National Enquirer’s David Pecker testifies in Trump trial: Five takeaways

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Former President Trump’s trial was dominated on Tuesday by the testimony of former magazine executive David Pecker. Pecker was previously the publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid. In that role, he engaged in the unusual practice of “catch-and-kill” — in essence securing the rights to publish a story in order to quash it. Pecker testified … Read more

JetBlue shares tumble after airline lowers 2024 revenue outlook

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Silhouette of passenger in front of the JetBlue Airbus A321neo aircraft spotted on the apron tarmac docked at the passenger jet bridge from the terminal of Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport AMS EHAM in the Netherlands.  Nicholas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Images JetBlue Airways shares tumbled more than 13% in premarket trading Tuesday after the … Read more

Qatar calls for urgent action to defuse tension in Middle East

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Doha: Qatar has called on the international community to swiftly intervene to defuse tension and prevent the Middle East region from sliding into a new conflict cycle. This came in a statement delivered by Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), before a Security Council meeting at … Read more

Biden gives $6.1B to Micron Technology for chip factories in New York

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Joe Biden’s administration reached an agreement to dole out a staggering $6.1 billion in government support for semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology to produce advanced computer memory chips in New York and Idaho. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) personally pursued US-based Micron to build what will ultimately be a set of four chip factories near … Read more

Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud CEO’s office

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Nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office. The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which … Read more

Chinese soup dumplings explode in New York’s Manhattan as YouTube and TikTok fuel a xiaolongbao craze

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Across Manhattan, in New York, diners are picking up their soup spoons and chopsticks and biting (ever so carefully) into the city’s hottest order. Xiaolongbao, aka soup dumplings, are a dim sum classic, traditionally made with ground pork and/or crab – or, increasingly, unconventional ingredients such as matzo balls – in a pool of molten … Read more