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Wall Street Journal
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Where Jazz Singer Samara Joy Keeps Her Five Grammys
Samara Joy, 25, is a jazz singer and the winner of five Grammy Awards. Her most recent album, 'Portrait,' was released last year, and she currently is on a global tour through the fall. She spoke with Marc Myers. I grew up in the past. I think this is true of many people who are close with their parents and enjoy their taste in music. You can't help it.
Al Jazeera
19-05-2025
- General
- Al Jazeera
Mexican ship hits Brooklyn Bridge: What went wrong, who were the victims?
Two people have been killed when a Mexican navy training ship struck New York City's Brooklyn Bridge. According to Mayor Eric Adams, the vessel, named Cuauhtemoc, was carrying 277 people when it crashed on Saturday into the bridge. Of the 20 people injured in the accident, 11 were in critical condition, the Mexican navy said in a statement. Adams said the 142-year-old bridge was spared major damage. An investigation has been launched into the incident. Here is what we know: The vessel set sail from Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast on April 4, according to a release from the Mexican Secretariat of the Navy. It arrived in New York City on Tuesday and was headed to Iceland as part of a global tour. The mission was designed to 'exalt the seafaring spirit, strengthen naval education, and deliver a message of peace and goodwill from the Mexican people to the seas and ports of the world', the government said. The voyage was scheduled to last 170 days at sea and include 84 days in port with planned stops at 22 ports in 15 countries. The crew had 277 members, 64 women and 213 men. The ship's itinerary included stops in Jamaica, Cuba, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The journey also was meant to commemorate the 1825 expulsion of the last Spanish stronghold in Mexico by its navy, an event that marked the consolidation of Mexico's independence and the emergence of a new national era on the sea. Cuauhtemoc was built in Bilbao, Spain, in 1981. It was acquired by the Mexican navy to serve as a vessel dedicated exclusively to the training of captains, officers, cadets, noncommissioned officers and seamen. The vessel is 91 metres (300ft) long, and its main mast stands 50 metres (160ft) tall, about 9 metres (30ft) higher than the distance between the water and the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge. The ship was parked at Pier 17 in Manhattan, right below the Brooklyn Bridge On Saturday night, it was scheduled to depart southwards through New York Harbor, making a brief stop along the Brooklyn waterfront to refuel before continuing its journey to Iceland. However, about 8:20pm (16:20 GMT), the Cuauhtemoc appeared to be travelling in the wrong direction and was never meant to pass under the Brooklyn Bridge. Authorities began responding about 8:26pm after receiving multiple 911 calls, the New York City Police Department said. According to reports, the captain of the Cuauhtemoc told investigators that he lost control of the vessel after the rudder stopped working. 'They had some kind of mechanical problem. They lost power, so since they couldn't use the rudder, they couldn't manoeuvre,' an official told CNN, cautioning that all information about the accident at this point is preliminary and subject to change. Adams previously said the ship lost power, and other city officials previously indicated that 'mechanical issues' may have caused the collision. The ship was also manoeuvring in turbulent waters. The tide had just turned, and a fast current was heading up the East River as a 16-kilometre-per-hour (10-mile-per-hour) wind set in, according to a report by The Associated Press news cadets dressed in white uniforms could be seen dangling from the ship's crossbeams after the crash. Three of the ship's masts were snapped. A female cadet and a male marine died from their injuries, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters on Sunday. According to media reports, the two people killed have been identified as America Yamileth Sanchez, 20, of Xalapa in the eastern state of Veracruz and Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos, 22, from Oaxaca in southern Mexico. In a statement shared on Facebook, the local city council of San Mateo del Mar, located in Oaxaca, expressed deep sorrow over Maldonado Marcos's death and extended 'heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones'. Sanchez, who would have turned 21 in June, and Maldonado Marcos had been training on the ship for the past nine months. Sanchez was in the masts when the ship crashed into the Brooklyn The deceased cadets from the accident involving the ship Cuauhtemoc in New York have been identified. One is Adal Jair Marcos, originally from San Mateo del Mar, #Oaxaca. And America Yamileth Sanchez, from the state of #Veracruz. Family and friends gathered on Sunday at Sanchez's home in Xalapa to pay tribute. Her death has left those close to her searching for answers. 'It's impossible for something so serious to not be thoroughly investigated,' Gael de la Cruz, a relative of Ssnchez, told the Reuters news agency. 'What happened there is illogical. There must be someone responsible.'
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump's sons promote real estate and crypto deals across world that will benefit the president
Donald Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr have embarked on a worldwide tour in recent weeks with stops across Europe and the Middle East promoting Trump-associated business ventures that could directly benefit the president. The deals include a $1 billion luxury hotel in Dubai, a golf course and villa complex in Qatar, a hotel in Serbia, and a $2 billion investment from an Abu Dhabi-backed venture capital fund using a currency offered by the Trump family's crypto firm World Liberty Financial. On the home front last month, Donald Trump Jr announced the launch of a $500,000-per-membership exclusive club in Washington, D.C., called, cheekily, the Executive Branch, the name for the category of federal offices that include the presidency. Taken together, the deals will generate millions for the Trump family and its companies, with some of those benefits flowing directly to the president, according to an analysis from The New York Times. The White House insists that the president's assets are held in a trust managed by his children, so the deals don't prevent a conflict of interest. 'It's laughable that the left-wing media thinks that I should lock myself in a padded room while my father is president and cease doing what I've been doing for over 25 years to earn a living and provide for my five children,' Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement to The Times. Others have argued the Trump administration is conducting an unsavory mix of business and politics, a criticism that hit the family during the first Trump term, as lobbyists and foreign officials filled the halls of the now-sold Trump hotel in Washington. Responding to reports that a trucking firm bought millions in Trump crypto coins to lobby on tariff policy, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, called the administration 'the most corrupt White House in American history' in an X post on Monday. 'It's called bribery,' he said. 'And apparently it used to be illegal.' This week, Trump is attending a $1.5-million-per-plate crypto dinner hosted by a pro-Trump super PAC, as well as a dinner later in the week for top investors in the Trump crypto meme coin. Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly attacked Hunter Biden for his business dealings with Ukrainian company Burisma when his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
