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PALO ALTO — Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to add to her expansive estate by demolishing three adjacent homes she owns to build a swimming pool and pool house that could cost almost $1.6 million. But so far, Palo Alto planning officials have said no, pointing out that a pool doesn’t warrant removing homes from the city’s housing stock. Like other cities in the Bay Area, Palo Alto is under intense pressure by the state to produce thousands of additional homes to chip away at a… Source link

ZHANGJIAKOU — There comes a moment in the life of every gunslinger when the competition’s just too young and too fast. They come for your crown and your name, and if you stick around too long, you’ll lose both. For Shaun White, the moment he realized his time was done came last November in Austria. He watched younger snowboarders pulling off tricks that were beyond the reach of his 35-year-old body. His knee hurt, his ankle hurt, his back hurt. Exhausted and defeated, sore all over, he… Source link

I went to interview Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at her headquarters in the Bronx last week, and to be honest I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would she and her people have an attitude? Would her office be a disorganized mess? And then I wondered, why did I have those preconceptions? The answer to the latter question says something about me no doubt, and maybe something about our current political environment as well. As it turns out AOC’s people were polite and professional, and… Source link

Nigeria is looking to Europe for funding to complete infrastructure projects such as railways, with a senior official in the West African nation saying Chinese loans are drying up. Analysts say Nigeria’s situation reflects a broader Chinese move away from funding these expensive projects in Africa, where China has provided hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to develop infrastructure as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Last weekend, Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi told Nigerian… Source link

YANQING, China — High-speed winds and controversy swept through the National Alpine Skiing Center here on Saturday, with the cancellation of a men’s downhill training session sparking fears that the Olympic competition will be neither safe nor fair. Organizers, citing wind gusts that created “dangerous” and “unpredictable” conditions, called off Saturday’s session after just three runs. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the gold medal favorite, got one of them. His top… Source link

A Dutch journalist at the Olympics was dragged away from the camera in the middle of his live report. (Photo via @NOS/Twitter) A Dutch journalist covering the Winter Olympics in Beijing was accosted and dragged away by Chinese guards mid-broadcast on Friday outside the Games’ opening ceremonies. Sjoerd den Daas, a Dutch public broadcasting correspondent for NOS Nieuws, was seen attempting to finish his report while being yelled at, pushed and grabbed by a red armband-wearing guard before the… Source link

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has an interest in bridge infrastructure. The billionaire, currently the world’s second-richest man, will pay the Dutch city of Rotterdam to dismantle and then rebuild part of a historic 95-year-old bridge to allow his new superyacht, the world’s tallest, to pass through it and out to sea. It’s a move that lies in stark contrast with bridge infrastructure in Bezos’s home country: the United States. A new study by the American Road & Transportation Builders… Source link

(Reuters) -Peloton Interactive Inc has drawn interest from potential buyers including e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the exercise bike maker struggles to maintain pandemic-fueled growth. Shares of Peloton surged 30% in extended trading on the news, which comes days after activist investor Blackwells Capital urged the company’s board to put it up for sale. Amazon is exploring an offer for Peloton and is speaking with advisers about whether… Source link

Starbucks (SBUX) customers are staying loyal to the Seattle-based coffee giant despite a higher cost for their cup of coffee, even as political pressure mounts in response to rising prices. In a phone interview with Yahoo Finance after Starbucks’ fiscal first-quarter earnings results, CEO Kevin Johnson said customer demand during the holiday season was “very strong” with revenue growth of 19%, coming in at a record $8.1 billion dollars for the coffee giant. Like a growing number of companies Source link

Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [ Last week’s Fact or Fiction: A changing of the All-Star guard ] LaMelo Ball is the biggest Eastern Conference All-Star snub How you feel about NBA All-Star Game snubs depends on how you feel about the exhibition itself. [ 2022 NBA All-Star Game: Starters • Reserves ] If you’re the type… Source link