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...Other investors included Hudson Bay Capital Management, which put in $250mn, and Citadel, the hedge fund led by billionaire Ken Griffin....
...The county’s progressive liberalism has always played a role in its allure, as has the legacy of the 20th-century counterculture that proliferated across the Bay Area....
...Penguin Random House is suing the Escambia County School Board in Florida for banning several of its books, including titles by Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Khaled Hosseini....
...Last November the Financial Stability Board warned that the scenarios used to assess risks to the financial system may understate climate vulnerability....
...On the February day I meet Palmer Luckey at Anduril’s sprawling campus in Costa Mesa, Orange County, there has been an escalation in the Middle East....
...But amazingly, home prices are still at nose-bleed levels in the city as well as in a three-hour ring around it where wealthy people have bought up so many second homes that some counties are calling for...
...The primary result, a local canvassing board essentially refused to certify an election, but the secretary of state sued them with the state supreme court essentially to be like, hey, you have to do your...
...That made it the first school district in northern California to adopt a vaccination requirement, but several other school boards in the San Francisco Bay area are also considering similar measures....
...Then she says something else: “We want everyone to know, everything is above board, everything is transparent.” I hadn’t suggested that anything was below board. In fact, I hadn’t said much at all....
...(Kayak and paddle-board rentals are nearby too.)...
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...Built in 1983 along Biscayne Bay, its distinctive “red wall” can be seen in the opening credits of the 1980s television show “Miami Vice”....
...Coronavirus digest San Francisco and six Bay Area counties yesterday became the latest areas in the US to reinstate a universal mask mandate for indoor public places in an effort to contain the spread of...
...“My priority is urgent action on climate and ecology and you won’t get that without everyone being on board,” he said....
...“Three of the deadliest structural collapses in the last 10 years occurred in one county. That’s not even including the other structural failures that were not deadly. One county, dude....
...The move came after the Wayne County board of canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, initially deadlocked on certifying the county’s votes before unanimously approving them....
...One of the members of the canvassing board told The Washington Post that she had received a brief call from Mr Trump on Tuesday evening, but said she was not pressured to change her vote....
...More than 330 of these “tenant buyouts” were agreed to last year in San Francisco County, and the renter takes home an average of almost $50,000 to pack their bags....
...Mori’s remarks were the last straw for some sponsors: one said they had had board level discussions about whether to pull out altogether....
...“Our challenge is not to put people off coming in the summer but make sure they book ahead,” says Malcolm Bell, chief executive of Visit Cornwall, the county’s tourist board....
...“My commute to work is 20 minutes downstream on a paddle-board. Could it really get better than this?”...
...Peak District The national park in central England stretches across six counties and, according to Ordnance Survey’s mapping system, includes the most popular starting point for a walk in the UK: Edale....
...A case of coronavirus involving a patient who had not recently travelled overseas or had known contact with an infected person or traveller was identified in Santa Clara County on Friday....
...Now 54, he sits on philanthropic boards. Isn’t his success proof that the American dream is alive and well? “Not really,” he says. “I have been blessed with some very lucky breaks.”...
...By the diving board was a copy of The Great Gatsby, a book in which the pool is full of symbolism – a looming reminder of the emptiness of wealth, the illusive nature of fulfilment....
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