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prices are setting new records as buyers scramble for
an accepted offer amid a continuing inventory crunch.
The median sale price was a
record high $329,100 in March, according a report from the National Association
of Realtors. It was the highest median price since NAR began tracking in 1999.
The median price, which includes existing single-family homes, townhomes,
condominiums and co-ops, was up a record 17.2% from a year ago. —read
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New
York (CNN Business) – Two passengers were killed in a crash of a Tesla Model S on
Saturday in which there was no one sitting in the driver’s seat, according to
police.
The crash in
the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, killed a person in the front passenger
seat and one in the rear seat of the car, according to Constable Mark Herman,
the head of the Harris County police precinct that responded to the crash.
“I can tell you our
investigators are certain no one was in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash,”
he told CNN Monday. —read
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(CNN) – Wednesday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of musical icon Prince, and
the world has not felt the same since he left us.
Nowhere does that feel more true than in the city he both loved and helped to
put on the map, Minneapolis.
Racial strife existed in the city long before the murder of George Floyd — a
fellow Black man who also adored Minneapolis. But the trial of the police officer
who caused his death, coupled with police recently killing
another Minnesota Black man, Daunte Wright, have heightened racial tensions and
attracted a global spotlight.
In many ways it feels like Prince foretold that these days would come. —read
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Jaleel White played Steve Urkel on “Family Matters.”
(CNN) – Actor Jaleel White is joining the growing list of celebrities who
have launched a cannabis brand.
White, known for playing Steve Urkel on the
1990s sitcom “Family Matters,” is partnering with 710
Labs on his new line, itsPurpl. It’s set to launch in
California on April 20, or 4/20, and includes
variants of the strain Purple Urkle. —read
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Lewis Hamilton got the job done when it mattered in a scintillating Emilia Romagna Grand Prix qualifying session, beating Red Bull’s Sergio Perez by just 0.036s at Imola, with Max Verstappen inside a tenth of a second of pole in third.
There was nothing to choose
between Mercedes and Red Bull heading into the second qualifying session of the
2021 campaign, with both teams saying the other were favourites for P1 and
playing down their own chances.
It was initially Valtteri Bottas who looked the most comfortable out on a track
where he dominated all three segments of the one-hour shoot-out last time out
at Imola, but he didn’t deliver in Q3 as his world champion team mate rose to
the top of the pile with a brilliant first lap in qualifying. —read
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The
annual Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 2021
competition, with two of the top prizes going to photographers who reexamined
biases in how culture and history is portrayed.
Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita was named Open Photographer of the Year,
a category honoring single images, and awarded $5,000 for her winning portrait,
“African Victorian.” British documentarian Craig Easton was named
Photographer of the Year and awarded $25,000 for the series “Bank
Top,” which comprises black-and-white images and text, capturing a
humanistic portrait of a small community in Blackburn, northern England. —read
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A dogged work ethic
has granted fashion royalty Naomi Campbell a phenomenal 35-year-long modeling
and acting career, but even perennial highfliers need some R&R. Campbell
takes hers in a spacious and serene East African retreat, where a turquoise
saltwater pool stretches from the sunny patio right into the living room.
After a visit to Malindi, Kenya, in the 1990s left Campbell besotted, the
supermodel, who at the time dominated runways for Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and
Versace, bought an idyllic villa in the sleepy seaside town which has served as
her circuit breaker for more than 20 years. “It’s a very calming
place,” Campbell told Architectural Digest in a recent interview for the
magazine’s May cover story. “You don’t really want to be on the phone.
You’re not trying to find a television. You just want to read and be with
yourself. It’s nice to just have the silence and the crickets.” —read
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(CNN) – There is a section of my closet — I live in New York City, so by
“section” I mean a few hangers bunched together — packed with tulle
and sequins and leather, increasingly over-the-top items that I bought during
the pandemic as I dreamt of life after lockdown. The longer lockdown lasted,
the more months without family gatherings or travel or nights out, the wilder
my closet grew. And I know I’m not alone.
As vaccination rates have soared (even with all the new variants and surges
adding some uncertainty to the mix) it’s become clear that when the lockdowns
finally lift, Americans will be primed for a new Roaring ’20s, an exuberance
expressed in fashion, art, music — anywhere we can display the kind of manic
joy that comes after a year when the world became very small and quiet.
Our Roaring ’20s would arrive a century after the end
of the last massive pandemic, which occurred alongside a devastating war. The
end of these twin crises unleashed a decade of exuberance and experimentation
— and a decade of growing inequality and deepening conservatism. “The war
tore away our spiritual foundations and challenged our faith,” Ellen Wells
Page wrote, as she explained why she embraced the flapper lifestyle.
“We are struggling to regain our equilibrium.” As we enter the
post-pandemic period, it’s worth reflecting on how Americans navigated their
reentry in the 1920s, and the ways their newfound vitality fed the era’s
dramatic cultural and political changes.
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London (CNN Business) – No one knows for sure what the post-coronavirus era holds. But
businesses are doing their best to get ready, announcing a wave of mergers and
takeover bids designed to prepare them for what’s next.
What’s happening: Global mergers and acquisitions worth $1.3 trillion were
announced during the first three months of the year, according to data from
Refinitiv. That’s a 94% increase compared to one year ago, and the strongest
opening period since records began in 1980.
It’s the third quarter in a row that dealmaking has come in above $1 trillion. —read
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