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In 2018, billionaire pharma heir Frank Binder paid $33 million for a Hollywood Hills mansion; now the Lenny Kravitz-designed home is listed for $35 million as he builds a $2 billion residential yacht
Billionaire pharma heir wants $35M for LA mansion as he prepares to build the world’s biggest yacht Swiss pharmaceutical heir...
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Plans for major overhaul of councils halted
Plans for a major shake-up of local government are on hold, after the government launched a review in light of...
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US issues security warning, restricts government travel to Mexican border city Nogales | World News
US restricts government travel in Mexican border city over unspecified threat. Travel and official activity for US government employees in...
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Illinois Victorian Home: In 1894, a 4,000-sq-ft Illinois Victorian was built; 132 years later, a 67-year-old retiree bought it for $97,500 and has already spent $85,000 restoring just 1,000 sq ft
Rebecca Roucloux Avery, 67, had already done the thing most people aspire to: she owned a brand-new home in Austin,...
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Trump admin again urges Supreme Court to restrict mail-in voting as midterms approach | World News
Trump admin renews Supreme Court bid after judge extends block on mail-in voting. The Trump administration has asked the US...
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Meet Benjamin Choi, a 17-year-old who built a $300 mind-controlled prosthetic arm that reads brainwaves through non-invasive electrodes
Each one of us spent the pandemic doing something that we normally wouldn’t have the time to. While some picked...
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A farmer turned 70 acres of his Oregon barley farm into a wetland; now it hosts 140 bird species and endangered fish | World News
A farmer in southern Oregon transformed 70 acres of his 400-acre barley farm into a wetland in 2021, creating an...
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In 1912, Alabama monk Brother Joseph Zoettl began recreating landmarks he had mostly never seen; 46 years later, at age 80, he finished the last of 125 miniatures
Alabama monk Brother Joseph Zoettl In 1912, a Bavarian-born Benedictine monk at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama, began building...
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Chancellor John Healey to say UK economy ‘turning a corner’ despite debt concerns
The chancellor is set to give an upbeat view of the state of the UK economy ahead of next month’s...
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Pat McAfee has put more than $6 million of his own money into GameDay prizes and charity; Home Depot matched his $500,000 LSU offer, giving one student two kicks at $1 million, but both missed
An LSU undergraduate missed out on a life-changing $1 million (£760,000) prize on national television after missing two field goal...
