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It’s a drastic, painful, potentially fatal tactic more associated with third-world political movements calling attention to brutal regimes, or history lessons about legendary protest leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. Leaders say they launched the strike because city leaders, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have repeatedly turned a deaf ear to their complaints about the fate of Walter H. Dyett High School in the historic, majority-black Bronzeville neighborhood. Emanuel’s administration,
A federal appeals court said a minority owner of the Miami Heat basketball team cannot stop a woman from running a scathingly critical blog featuring an unflattering photo of him with his tongue protruding askew from his mouth. Raanan Katz, who is also a Florida real estate developer, had sought to stop Irina Chevaldina, a disgruntled former tenant in one of his shopping centers, from using the “ugly” and “embarrassing”
A federal appeals court has given the developer Larry Silverstein a new chance to recoup more money for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, on top of the $4.1 billion of insurance proceeds he has received. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge incorrectly calculated that Silverstein lost just $2.805 billion on his 99-year lease for the site, signed six weeks before
[Marketwired] – Kinross Gold Corporation announced today that it has updated its 2015 full-year guidance for all-in sustaining cost, cost of sales, capital expenditures, production and overhead. The positive adjustments …
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration has moved to block environmental groups and a Democratic state senator from intervening in the state’s $225 million settlement with Exxon Mobil.
Three weeks ago Egon von Greyerz told KWN: “There are so many black swans circling at this point. So there is no chance of a U.S. interest rate hike as I have been saying for a while. …
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Once among the most powerful women in American business, Carly Fiorina emerged as a leading contender in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign alongside Donald Trump, another outsider from the corporate world. Fiorina’s performance in the party’s Wednesday night debate elicited praise on social media and from political strategists as she commanded the stage equally with the likes of billionaire Trump, 69, and former Florida
