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Photo credit: The Plaza website New York City’s Plaza Hotel is preparing to close again, this time for a restoration of its landmark-protected facade. The hotel, which opened in 1907, will shut from January 2027 for at least four years while crews carry out repair and preservation work on the 119-year-old building. The Plaza said…

When entrepreneur Tope Awotona founded Calendly in 2013, he put his financial security on the line to solve a problem he had repeatedly encountered while working in sales: the frustrating back-and-forth involved in scheduling meetings. In an interview with How I Built This, Awotona said building the initial product was expected to cost a little…

Peacekeeper Gate at McClellan Air Force Base in 1995 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) When McClellan Air Force Base closed in July 2001, the decision threatened thousands of jobs and raised concerns about the economic future of the surrounding Sacramento community. A quarter-century later, the former military installation has become McClellan Park, a business and industrial hub…

A Miami high school senior who chased down and helped detain a man accused of theft despite being pepper-sprayed has received a hero award from Miami Police for his brave actions, 7News reported.The Good Samaritan, identified as Harry Cossyphas, was on his way to a grocery store in Brickell when he heard a woman shouting…

Archaeologists working with Indigenous rangers have documented two underwater sites off Murujuga in Western Australia, uncovering evidence of how First Nations communities used the landscape before rising sea levels submerged it thousands of years ago. The findings, reported by ABC News and detailed in a new study published in Quaternary Science Reviews, expand on earlier…

Iran faces mounting financial pressure as US officials report $25 billion in lost oil revenue, $350 million in crypto frozen and militias sending funds back to the IRGC Iran is facing mounting financial pressure after nine months of war, with a US naval blockade costing it $25 billion in lost oil revenue and $350 million…

Zelensky called his EU counterparts “real leaders” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday sharply criticised US President Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, saying it would send cash back to Moscow, and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of reducing peace negotiations to a “parody”.Speaking at an EU summit in Brussels, Zelenskyy said Russia did not want…

A Ukrainian drone company, SkyFall, demonstrates StarGate, an aerial medical evacuation drone designed to carry wounded soldiers from front-line positions, potentially saving lives where conventional rescue vehicles cannot reach NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to…

Five women of Trump world who dominated headlines. Anthony Scaramucci served as White House communications director for 11 days, from July 21 to July 31, 2017. The record of the shortest tenure in the Trump world is likely to be broken by Katie Zacharia, the new press secretary who was panned on the very first…

A conservation group in California has filed a lawsuit to stop plans for permanent roads and utility lines across a newly created 402-acre nature preserve. The legal action comes four years after the land was saved from housing developers. Placer Land Trust filed the lawsuit to block infrastructure construction through Clover Valley, an area of…