Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.4 Billion
The idea of Amazon, a company founded 23 years ago on the premise of shopping from the comfort of a computer screen, moving forcefully into the crowded field of brick-and-mortar retail, with its limitations on selection and lack of customer reviews, once seemed ludicrous. But in the past several years, the company has dabbled with stores, opening or planning more than a dozen bookstores around the country. Amazon Is Trying to Do (and Sell) Everything ..>> view original10 Things to Do in NYC Now
10 Things to Do in NYC NowIt’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. Here’s a sampling of cultural highlights this weekend and over the week ahead.The singer-songwriter Laura Mvula at last year’s Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.CreditNicole Fara Silver for The New York TimesPop & RockA Park Becomes a ‘Dreaming Room’Laura Mvula at Central Park SummerStageBorn in Birmingham, England, and classically trained, the singer-songwriter Laura Mvula is a virtuosic talent: Her widely acclaimed albu..>> view originalTrump's Businesses Show Mixed Returns During Campaign and ...
Revenues also jumped at Mar-a-Lago, which Mr. Trump has called the “Winter White House,” reaching $37.3 million. That was an increase from $29.8 million in a roughly corresponding 16-month period that began in January 2015, and $15.6 million in a similar time period that began in early 2014. The Trump Organization doubled the initiation fee that new members must pay to join the club, shortly after Mr. Trump was elected president. The document released Friday provides no new information about an..>> view originalTrump Attacks Rosenstein in Latest Rebuke of Justice Department
The nation’s law enforcement agency is under siege, short-staffed because of delays in filling senior positions and increasingly at odds with a president who had already engaged in a monthslong feud with the government’s intelligence agencies. Several current and former assistant United States attorneys described a sense of listlessness and uncertainty, with some expressing hesitation about pursuing new investigations, not knowing whether there would be an appetite for them once leadership was ..>> view originalTrump Family Wedding Planner to Head New York's Federal ...
Representative Grace Meng, Democrat of New York, wrote a letter to the president, demanding Ms. Patton’s immediate removal. Ms. Patton doesn’t start the job until July 5. “This is not The Apprentice; the federal government is not your personal patronage system,” Ms. Meng wrote.While the administrator of HUD’s Region II office does not have direct control over the agency’s budget, the office chief does promote and administer federal policies and direct feedback from New York and New Jersey to he..>> view originalThe Apples of New York
Photo The remnant of an old apple orchard among wheat fields in Steptoe Butte State Park in Washington. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times To the Editor:The romance and history of apples was temptingly described in “In Search of an Ancient Harvest” (news article, May 30). As exciting as this apple culture is as practiced in the Pacific Northwest, we should acknowledge the many decades of similar experimentation by Cornell University at the agricultural station at Ge..>> view originalCould the Grenfell Tower Disaster Happen in New York?
The remains of Grenfell tower. Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images There is no such thing as an accident when a high-rise building fails. If gas leaks, wires spark, or a wall crumbles, those are not acts of fate, but the preventable consequence of people not doing their jobs. Terminology matters; if it turned out that the fire that consumed Grenfell Tower in London, killing at least 30 people (and probably many more), had been set by a radicalized Muslim immigrant or an anti-Muslim white supre..>> view originalTrump Reverses Pieces of Obama-Era Engagement With Cuba
But Mr. Trump’s action fell well short of doing so. After the speech, he signed a six-page directive that ordered new travel and commercial restrictions while leaving in place some key Obama-era measures that eased sanctions. As part of the new policy, Americans will no longer be able to plan their own private trips to Cuba, and those who go as part of authorized educational tours will be subject to strict new rules and audits to ensure that they are not going just as tourists. American compani..>> view originalNew York City to Name a 'Nighttime Ambassador' to Advocate for ...
Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock On Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released New York Works, a series of 25 initiatives to spur 100,000 jobs with solid wages over the coming decade. Within that initiative is a new role for the city that has been discussed for some time: a Nightlife Ambassador who will head up a nightlife office, which will be part of the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment. The Nighttime Ambassador will serve as an advocate for the music and nightlife indus..>> view originalHow Is New York's Free College Program Actually Going to Work?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on March 16. Monica Schipper/Getty Images Days after opening the application window for its free public college tuition program, New York received more than 21,000 applications. It looks like a quick clip for a state that had projected Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature free tuition program would cover about 22,000 students in its first year. But it’s not yet clear how many applicants will actually receive awards. The nu..>> view original
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