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☆ PGA Championship: Xander Schauffele ties major record again as Scottie Scheffler eagles first hole as a Dad
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Only four times in the history of all four men’s major championships has a golfer shot 62. “I’ll take a 62 in any major any day,” Schauffele told reporters Thursday. Scheffler shot 67 to pen the latest positive chapter in the unfolding story of a truly remarkable year. Matt York/APTiger Woods had looked on course to make a solid start of his own at his 23rd PGA Championship, only for a closing pair of sloppy three putts to drop him to one-over 72. Defending champion Brooks Koepka was among those to shoot 67 as he hunts a fourth PGA Championship win, two strokes better than grand slam chasing compatriot Jordan Spieth.

Persons: Xander Schauffele, Schauffele, Rickie Fowler, ” Schauffele, “ It’s, Ross Kinnaird, Branden Grace, Rory McIlroy, “, ”, ” Scheffler, Scottie Scheffler, Scheffler, Matt York, Woods, “ I’ve, I’ve, ” Woods, Christian Petersen, Tony Finau, Sahith, McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Schauffele teeing Organizations: CNN, Valhalla Golf, PGA, 126th, Wells, Getty, Scottish Ryder Locations: blitzing, Valhalla, Kentucky, Southport , England

☆ The Rent Was Too High So They Threw a Party
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Minnie Pindar’s name reappears as Minnie Gilmore in a 1952 marriage license to Scotty Eckford, a union organizer of Black hotel employees in New York City. Mr. Eckford was also the uncle of Elizabeth Eckford, the American civil rights activist who made history in 1957 when she enrolled in the all-white Little Rock Central High School and attended class. Her younger son, Cleveland Gilmore, was 2 on that unseasonably warm November night in 1929. As an adult, he never talked about rent parties, or life in Harlem at all. He would tell us little things, like how he would buy watermelon for a nickel, but I never knew about his family.”The elder Mr. Gilmore died of a brain aneurysm in 2004, when Amir was 14.

Persons: Minnie Gilmore’s, Minnie Pindar’s, Minnie Gilmore, Scotty Eckford, Eckford, Elizabeth Eckford, Pindar, Cleveland Gilmore, “, ”, Gilmore, Amir, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Calloway, Fats Waller, Harry Dial, Herman Autrey Organizations: Rock Central High School, Harlem Renaissance, Alhambra, Cotton Club Locations: New York City, Bronx, Harlem, Cleveland

☆ Cameroon squeaks by Gambia in AFCON game dubbed the ‘best match in the history of football’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is always entertaining, but few games in the history of the competition can stand up to Cameroon’s 3-2 win against Gambia on Tuesday. “The match, like all of AFCON, is insane,” he added in a separate post. The first goal didn’t come until the 56th minute though, when Cameroon striker Karl Toko Ekambi headed his country in front. Gambia looked to have stunned the five-time AFCON champion but couldn't hold on in the frantic affair. The 2019 champion, which boasts an array of top-class talent, finished bottom of Group D after failing to win a single game in the group stages.

Persons: André Onana, Andrés Onrubia Ramos, ”, didn’t, Karl Toko Ekambi, deservedly, Ablie Jallow, Kenzo Tribouillard, Colley’s, Gambia’s James Gomez, ‘, Christopher Wooh, Wooh, De verdad, Iba, Muhammed Sanneh, Tom Sainfait, ” Onrubia, “, Yali Dellahi’s Organizations: CNN, Africa, of Nations, Gambia, Cameroon, Manchester United, Getty, Lions, PARTIDO, LA HISTORIA DEL FÚTBOL, C, Nigeria, Mauritania Locations: Spanish, Cameroon, Gambia, AFP, GOL, GAMBIA, el, @AndiOnrubia, Algeria

☆ His Job Helping Drug Users Is Illegal. He Says He Does It to Save Lives.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Sharon Otterman | More About Sharon Otterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On the blocks around OnPoint at Park Avenue and 126th Street, a concentration of drug treatment programs, drug users and drug dealers lead to use that can be remarkably out in the open. While OnPoint didn’t bring the drug activity to the block, some insist it has made things worse. “So would you rather it be here or somewhere else?”This is how Mr. Ortiz sees his job. He does it, he said, because he still remembers a day during EMT training when his ambulance got a call about an overdose in Central Park. An exact location wasn’t provided, making the response difficult, and when the ambulance arrived at the park, none of the workers got out to begin the search.

Persons: OnPoint didn’t, you’re, ” Ms, Baker, “ We’re, ”, Ann, Ortiz Locations: OnPoint, Central Park

☆ Ukraine says it hit Russian military base in annexed Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency said on Friday a Ukrainian drone attack had hit a Russian military base deep inside annexed Crimea, while residents reported casualties, explosions and a road closure. Ukrainian intelligence officials said the attack struck Russia's 126th Coastal Defence Brigade based in Perevalnoye, a town more than 200 km (120 miles) from Ukraine-controlled territory. Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014, declaring it Russian territory. The United States says it supports Ukrainian attacks on Russian military targets on the Black Sea peninsula of because it should be demilitarised. "Why was a gate to the military town closed?"

Persons: Ukraine's, Andriy Yusov, Kyrylo Budanov, Abdul Has, Vlad, Julia Julia, Lis, Maria Tsvetkova, William Mallard Organizations: Coastal Defence Brigade, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Crimea, Russia, Russia's, Perevalnoye, Ukraine, Moscow, Ukraine's Crimea, United States, New York

☆ High Philippine inflation dents Marcos' approval ratings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Philippines President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. delivers a speech on the 126th founding anniversary of the Philippines army at Fort Bonifacio, in Taguig, Philippines, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File PhotoMANILA, April 12 (Reuters) - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr's approval ratings edged lower due to public dissatisfaction over his government's handling of inflation, but he remains popular, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Marcos' approval ratings were slightly lower than the 83% that his vice president, Sara Duterte, got in March. Duterte, daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, currently serves as education minister, while Marcos helms the agriculture department. In the same survey, 61% percent of respondents approved of Marcos' government in terms of "defending the integrity of Philippine territory against foreigners", up from 58% in November.

☆ Here's why the real-estate market will continue to struggle over the next 6 months, with existing home sales mired in their worst slump since 2007, according to a director at the National Association
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US housing market is firmly in a recession as existing home sales keep sliding. Nadia Evangelou of the National Association of Realtors shared what's next for the housing market. The trajectory of the housing market is heavily dependent on mortgage rates, Evangelou noted. But that's no guarantee as the Federal Reserve's interest rate-hiking cycle affects US Treasuries, which in turn sway mortgage rates, she said. So for that reason, we think that mortgage rates usually are pricing some of these upcoming rate hikes."

☆ Developers rush to convert run-down hotels and offices into shiny new apartments as the costs of new construction and borrowing money soar
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some real-estate developers are increasingly targeting offices and hotels for conversion into apartments because, they say, these projects are the only ones that make financial sense right now. The company spent a total of $14.2 million to acquire the properties, which Hubbard described as "on the run-down side." With conversions, developers are also hoping to capitalize on the increased demand for rentals as buying a home becomes less affordable. By extension, the value of office space is declining — making conversion projects more profitable when financing can be secured. The program includes zoning reforms designed to make the conversion projects easier and funding from the federal American Rescue Plan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

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