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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cinema owner appeals decision to stop demolition
The owner of a long-disused cinema has lodged an appeal with the local council in his attempt to get the building demolished. The old Central Cinema on Hobson Street in Cambridge has not shown a film for more than 50 years. In November, councillors refused an application by owner Mark Richer to knock it down to make way for an office block after planning officers said this would result in "significant harm" to the conservation area. Mr Richer said the building was a "dead end" and could not be converted into anything else. The Central Cinema was opened in 1930 with 1,069 seats. It closed in 1972 and reopened as a bingo hall, but it has been unused since 2009. Mr Richer wanted to create retail units, "community space", and refurbish Hobson's Passage as part of his application. Concerns about the proposals were raised by planning officers at Cambridge City Council, who said the complete demolition of the "iconic 1930s Egyptian art deco style" building would result in "significant harm". Mr Richer bought the building from a nightclub operator in 2011 and said the previous owner had wanted to turn it into a burlesque club. He explained that particular plan "fell apart through a combination of high development costs and local opposition". He added: "I've talked to cinema operators, restauranteurs, gym operators, religious groups, and hoteliers [about possible uses] and we haven't made any meaningful progress in 14 years. "Everyone acknowledges the pressing need to do something on this site, to stop the rot and breathe in fresh life." He said he had now been "forced to make our case on appeal, rather than achieving planning permission from the council, who appear to have set their face firmly against any demolition". "A position we consider to be wholly unjustified," he added. A decision on the appeal is expected later this year. The council has been contacted for a response. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Disused art deco cinema needs 'magic money tree' Plans to demolish former art deco cinema refused Memories shared of Art Deco cinema frozen in time Cambridge City Council
The Hindu
05-05-2025
- Climate
- The Hindu
Mild tremors cause panic in Karimnagar district
Mild tremors were felt for a few seconds in parts of the erstwhile Karimnagar and Adilabad districts at around 6.50 p.m. on Monday. Residents in various parts of Karimnagar, Ramadugu, Choppandandi and several other mandals in Karimnagar district reported experiencing light tremors for two seconds with no immediate reports of damage to properties or causalities. Several residents in Vavilalapalli and Bank Colony in the district headquarters town felt vibrations of buildings prompting them to rush out of their houses in panic. A sudden spell of unseasonal rain accompanied by strong winds disrupted power supply in various parts of the town on Monday night. Sources quoting the National Centre of Seismology said an earthquake of 3.8 magnitude on the Richer scale of 10 km depth was recorded in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district at 6.50 p.m. It may be mentioned that an earthquake of 5.9-magnitude was recorded in Mulugu on December 4, 2024.
Business Insider
02-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Kepler Capital Sticks to Its Buy Rating for PPHE Hotel (PPH)
In a report released on April 30, Julien Richer from Kepler Capital maintained a Buy rating on PPHE Hotel (PPH – Research Report), with a price target of p1,600.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at p1,252.00. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. According to TipRanks, Richer is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 3.5% and a 52.61% success rate. Currently, the analyst consensus on PPHE Hotel is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of p1,630.00, a 30.19% upside from current levels. In a report released on April 30, Jefferies also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a £17.00 price target. The company has a one-year high of p1,495.00 and a one-year low of p1,140.00. Currently, PPHE Hotel has an average volume of 27.22K.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Will 2026 Be a 2020 Redux?
Take a hypothetical walk with me about 18 months into the future to November 3, 2026. Americans (well, likely less than half of the eligible voting population) have just voted in a hard-fought midterm election to determine which party will control the House of Representatives. Despite economic uncertainty and the expectation that the incumbent president's party typically takes a hit in a midterm, the outcome between Democrats and Republicans is still too close to call. We're all waiting on California to finish tabulating a handful of its congressional races before we know whether President Donald Trump will have another two years of a pliant Republican House or if Democrats will be back in control. If it's the latter, congressional investigations, a stymied legislative agenda, and even another impeachment are all on the table for the remainder of Trump's term. With the current Republican majority at just a three-seat margin, this scenario is well within the realm of possibility. According to The Cook Political Report, five Republican-held congressional seats in California have a partisan voter index with just a 2- or 1-point advantage for the GOP. California, too, is notoriously slow at counting votes and declaring winners thanks to its expansive vote-by-mail voting practices. It's not hard to imagine that as America waits for California to count its votes, Trump himself enters the fray to cast doubt on any outcome that allows Democrats to win back control of the House. Republican-run Florida had its results on election night, after all, so what Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats are doing in California is automatically suspicious, part of a plot to steal the House elections and shackle the duly elected president! What tools could the Trump administration use to, um, stop the steal? Lawsuits, the Department of Justice, the Insurrection Act? Is it all on the table? This is the 'nightmare scenario' posited by Stephen Richer, the former elected recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona. In a recent interview with me, Richer said the House majority hinging on a couple of elections in California might all of the sudden prompt a deluge of action. 'I could and can imagine that that would launch an investigation into the California secretary [of state], various election officials, L.A. County's election director, so on, and so forth,' Richer told me. 'California allows ballots to just be postmarked on Election Day. California has some competitive U.S. House races, and of course, you know, California is the bogeyman.' And Richer would know. The Republican was elected in 2020 to a position that put him in charge of everything from voter registration to tabulating mail-in results in Maricopa. But upon taking office he found himself having to defend the previous election as Trump allies demanded recounts and audits. His refusal to bow to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election in Arizona earned him the opprobrium of MAGA world, and as a result, last year Richer lost the Republican primary for Maricopa County recorder. We're at this point in early 2025, pondering how populist Republicans might undermine the legitimacy of 2026 as they did in 2020, thanks in large part to Trump himself. He still seems unable to let go of his hang-ups about losing that election more than four years ago. A case in point is a one-two punch of executive orders signed by the president in the last few weeks, which have been lost in the reigning chaos of Trump's tariff actions and the economic fallout. The first, issued on March 25, would represent a significant federal incursion into how state and local governments conduct federal elections. Under the premise that Trump's administration is seeking to enforce the limited number of existing federal election laws, the order as written seeks to throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day even if they otherwise comply with state laws about postmarking; ban vote-tally machines that use bar codes and QR codes (which a large majority of jurisdictions currently employ); and require the federal departments of Homeland Security and Government Efficiency to 'review each State's publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities.' The second order came last week and targeted Christopher Krebs, the first and former director of the federal agency responsible for ensuring cybersecurity over all areas of government. Krebs, a Republican, was appointed by Trump to head the new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in November 2018. Under his leadership, the agency provided pushback via official webpages to online rumors and conspiracy theories on everything from Covid-19 to election fraud. Two years and a day after his appointment, Trump fired him after Krebs stated publicly that there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. 'The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate,' Trump tweeted at the time. More than four years later, Trump's executive order appears to continue where he left off with Krebs, calling him a 'significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority.' The order also calls on multiple high-level officials, including the attorney general and the secretary of homeland security to 'review' Krebs's activity while the head of CISA, including whether Krebs improperly disseminated classified information. The executive order does not offer evidence to suggest Krebs acted improperly along these lines. 'Nobody is even pretending that it's about anything other than he said that the 2020 election wasn't stolen and that it was safe and secure,' said Richer, who knows Krebs personally. But if we're looking for canaries in the coal mine for election chicanery on the part of the Trump administration, these orders fit the bill. They signal a willingness for the administration to get involved in the nitty-gritty of elections and target government officials who threaten to stand in their way.
New York Times
09-04-2025
- Business
- New York Times
A Friendship Divided by Musk
I'm doing something a little different with the newsletter today: delving into some reporting left over in my notebook that shows how Elon Musk — and the strong feelings that working for him can engender — can come between even the closest of friends. Last month, my colleagues and I published a story about Steve Davis, a longtime Musk lieutenant who has worked for the billionaire for more than two decades, at three different companies, and is now one of the most powerful people leading his cost-cutting effort in Washington. When Davis moved to Washington as a SpaceX employee more than 15 years ago, he developed a busy extracurricular life, running a popular frozen yogurt shop and bar; organizing kickball and competitive karaoke teams; and hosting game nights and Shabbat dinners. Much of that he did side by side with a close friend and roommate named Stephen Richer. (Here they are performing together in a flash mob for Davis's Mr. Yogato yogurt shop. Richer is the tall redhead.) Friends called the two inseparable. Richer sang the praises of SpaceX and the Boring Company, the Musk-founded tunneling startup that Davis would go on to lead. And a few years later, after Richer had gone back to law school in Chicago and then moved to Arizona, Davis backed his buddy when, of all things, Richer — a Republican — ran for and won the 2020 election for Maricopa County recorder, which oversees voting in the state's largest county. If you've been reading the On Politics newsletter for awhile, you may already guess where this is going. In his new role, Richer battled against allegations of voter fraud, as conspiracy theorists on X pushed misleading information about undocumented immigrants registering to vote. Among the biggest spreaders of that misinformation was none other than Musk. Perusing Richer's posts on X over time shows a man struggling to maintain — and demonstrate — his admiration for the billionaire. 'So proud of all my @SpaceX friends,' Richer tweeted in 2021, with a photo of himself at a SpaceX facility. The next year, he credited Musk with having revolutionized digital finance, the space industry, electric vehicles and battery technology. Then, last April, Musk promoted the idea that hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants had registered to vote in Arizona. And in September, Musk accused Arizona of 'refusing to remove illegals from voter rolls,' in a post that has been viewed 38 million times. At first, Richer tried to strike a conciliatory tone, even as he said there was '0 validity' to the idea that so many undocumented people had registered to vote. 'We loved the recent rocket launch that we could see in the Arizona sky,' he wrote as part of an eight-point post last April rebutting Musk's misinformation. He added that he was the 'owner of many, many Musk-related products.' Yet, as Musk has leaned into conspiracy and posted more about supposed voter fraud in Arizona, Richer has become less fawning and firmer in his pushback. He lost a Republican primary in his bid to retain his seat last August, after he denied that the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump. In September, Richer posted that Musk had been wrong in every one of his posts about Arizona elections, but 'never corrected any of them.' And in an interview on MSNBC a few days later, Richer spoke more sharply. 'When people like Musk post on Twitter or speak to news outlets, and it's just filled with innuendo, or filled with lies, or filled with inaccurate information, then it's offices like mine and the 150 full-time employees that are in my office who see the downstream effects of that,' he said. Richer, who did not comment for this piece and is now a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, has now become a regular critic of the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, the agency that his old roommate helps lead. On X, Richer has expressed concerns that Trump's actions have undercut the power of the legislative branch, and cracked jokes about DOGE's elimination of unnecessary positions when its co-head, Vivek Ramaswamy, left to run for governor of Ohio. Davis also did not respond to a request for comment. But he has asserted himself in his DOGE role, which at first was kept under wraps, and sat for his first public interview a week after we published our story. On Fox News, with more than a dozen other people who are taking part in the cost-cutting effort, Davis defended the team's slashing overhaul of the federal government. He sat directly next to Musk. A continued fixation on Social Security Musk is using his X account as a megaphone. My colleague Kate Conger looks at how he is fixating on Social Security recently. Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed of late that Social Security has been a target of enormous fraud, without providing much evidence. At the same time, he has pushed the unfounded theory that Democrats have allowed immigrants into the United States as part of a scheme to shift voter demographics, echoing a white-nationalist conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement. On Wednesday, Musk seemed to try to combine these two threads, taking to X to revive his concerns about Social Security and sharing data from his Department of Government Efficiency team that he said showed immigrants had increasingly been issued Social Security numbers while they waited for their asylum cases to be heard. 'Insane,' Musk wrote, sharing a Fox News clip that discussed the findings. He also shared several posts from other X users who amplified the same Fox News video. After one user suggested that members of the Biden administration should be arrested, Musk replied, 'Absolutely.' Immigrants who are authorized to work in the United States are given Social Security numbers because they need to pay taxes, though they are not automatically eligible to receive benefits. Proposals to cut Social Security have been some of the most contentious ideas from Musk's team. The program is widely popular, and many Republicans fear that Musk-backed cuts could upset their constituents. But Musk has continued to focus on Social Security, sending one of his oldest and most trusted investors, Antonio Gracias, to the agency to oversee DOGE's work there. Other notable posts: 314 That's how many separate fields of data about people living in the United States are contained in information systems to which Musk's associates at the Department of Government Efficiency are seeking access, according to a New York Times analysis. That data could include a citizen's mother's maiden name, bank account number or amount of student debt — and a whole lot more. The categories of information in the analysis come from 23 data systems holding personal information about the public across eight agencies. See the eye-opening list of data categories and The Times's full story here. A pilot sues an X influencer for defamation Jo Ellis, a 35-year-old transgender pilot in the Virginia Army National Guard, became the center of a conspiracy theory after popular accounts on X spread the false rumor that she had been at the helm of a helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington in January. To the online mob, her suspected involvement in the incident was evidence that diversity initiatives in the federal government had played a role in the crash. None of it was true. On Wednesday, she filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against Matt Wallace, an influencer on X with more than two million followers who helped spread the falsehood. 'My life was turned upside-down at that point,' Ms. Ellis said in an interview with my colleague Stuart A. Thompson. 'Forever on, I'm known as 'that trans terrorist.'' Read more here.
