Explore More George Clooney’s stunning Lake Como villa in northern Italy may have netted a buyer.
“An agency in Milan is following the sale, I can’t reveal which one. Since we have a certain type of clientele, someone has already called us,” real estate agent Yasemin Baysal, owner of Engel & Volkers Lago di Como, told the Italian publication Oggi last week, according to a translation.
“In particular, one customer is very interested: We have started all the necessary checks before submitting a possible offer. Read More...
When Nick Rawlinson, a third-year student at Georgetown University Law Center, heard that a poet accused of antisemitism would be delivering a talk on campus, he was worried.
Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian activist whose work has revolved around his family’s experience living under occupation in East Jerusalem. But the Anti-Defamation League has accused him of having a “troubling pattern of rhetoric and slander that ranges far beyond reasoned criticism of Israel” — an assessment a student group that invited El-Kurd to campus called “baseless. Read More...
RICHMOND — With Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s plan to build a $2 billion arena in Alexandria for the Washington Capitals and Wizards in jeopardy, three political and business figures have been pitching an unlikely Hail Mary: an idea to pair the sports arena with a new casino in Fairfax County.
Instead of building the arena in Potomac Yard with taxpayer-backed bonds, their plan calls for putting it in the Tysons area alongside the casino, with tax revenue generated by gambling used to guarantee the arena bonds. Read More...
