By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans know the No. 1 rule in real estate: “location, location, location.” But for some developers, there’s a new winning strategy: “recycle, recycle, recycle.” A growing number of office buildings have found second lives as apartments, boosted by the Covid-era work-from-home movement that slashed office attendance and thinned
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A faint burst of applause broke out from the Republican National Convention floor as Sen. JD Vance took the stage Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee for the first time as Donald Trump’s running mate. The Gettysburg Address was loaded into the teleprompters, adjusted for Vance’s towering frame. Arms crossed over
Continue ReadingCNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests. Also Wednesday, protest organizers said they would shut down all but essential services as relentless clashes between demonstrators and police stretched into the night. Protesters are demanding an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that the Islamic State group is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double this year, compared to the year before. IS claimed 153 attacks in the two countries in the first six months of
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Una destacada experta en Corea del Norte y antigua analista de la CIA fue acusada por un jurado investigador de Nueva York de trabajar en secreto para el gobierno surcoreano a cambio de artículos de diseño, comidas con estrellas Michelin y US$ 37.000 para un fondo que ella controlaba. Sue Mi
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. held steady at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% in June. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the largest upward contribution came from restaurants and hotels, with some economists attributing the increases to Taylor Swift’s tour of the U.K. The biggest downward
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Crook County School District is excited to welcome Dr. Melissa Skinner as the new superintendent, effective this week. Dr. Skinner’s first day on the job included attending her first school board meeting Monday night, where she was welcomed by the board and community, setting the stage for her first 100 days
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The community showed up in full force for Tuesday night’s Bend Park & Rec Board meeting to weigh in on a proposed Deschutes River footbridge that’s been discussed and debated since the mid-’90s. It was standing room only as community members came out to either express their support or rejection over the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El primer ministro de Hungría Viktor Orban les dijo a los líderes europeos que Donald Trump está “dispuesto a actuar como mediador de paz” entre Rusia y Ucrania si es elegido presidente, en medio de la preocupación en todo el continente de que Trump intente forzar a Kyiv a ceder
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics as well as part of the opening ceremony, now only nine days away. Daily water quality tests in
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion Tuesday, after the city was hit by a torrential rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and power outages. “This better be Espresso Martini,” Drake joked on Instagram alongside a video of murky
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — In a year of major elections setting the course of many countries for years to come, China’s ruling Communist Party is holding top-level meetings in Beijing to draft policies for reviving its slowing economy. The closed-door meetings come at a time of growing pressure to fix chronic problems dragging
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent and make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall. Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerbaijan ecology minister who will preside over the November talks in his home country, said time
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The fatal stabbing of two people by a man at a residential compound in southern China has ignited an online debate that has amplified during a summer scarred by a spree of similar crimes across the country. Two days after those June 28 killings in the Guangxi region, national
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — La exgobernadora de Carolina del Sur Nikki Haley, en su discurso ante la Convención Nacional Republicana (RNC, por sus siglas en inglés) este martes, aplaudió la “increíble capacidad de autocorrección” de Estados Unidos. Haley, tan recientemente rival política y feroz crítica del expresidente Donald Trump, podría haber estado hablando de sí
Continue ReadingBy Michael Mitsanas, Audry Jeong and Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — A prominent North Korea expert and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — No fue sino hasta que se mudó cerca de un aeródromo del Reino Unido, hace más de una década, cuando el ingeniero mecánico Ashok Aliseril Thamarakshan empezó a plantearse seriamente aprender a pilotar un avión. Tuvo su primera experiencia de vuelo unos años más tarde, cuando su esposa Abhilasha le
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una creciente facción de demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes, convencidos de que el presidente Joe Biden está demasiado dañado políticamente para derrotar a Donald Trump en noviembre, está pidiendo al Comité Nacional Demócrata que abandone los planes de elegir virtualmente como candidato presidencial demócrata a Biden en las próximas
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