The US Commission of Fine Arts overwhelmingly approved design plans for President Donald Trump’s ballroom project at the White House. The panel made up of Trump appointees signed off on the design after architects made changes in response to commission concerns. “We have to protect the country and the country’s guests, and this is a facility that is definitely needed for over 150 years,” Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr said. The East Wing of the White House was demolished last fall to make way for the ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit, sued to halt ballroom construction,…
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Selling supplements online sounds simple at first. Good product. Decent margins. Repeat customers. Then payments hit you like a wall. One day everything is fine. Next day: “Your account is under review.” Payout delayed. Reserve raised. Transaction volume capped. Sometimes the processor just pulls the plug. No warning that feels fair. No explanation that helps. This space has a reputation. Some of it was deserved, some of it just guilt by association. Either way, the payments side treats supplements like a higher-risk category. So the real question becomes: how do you run the business in a way that payment partners…
Orthovisc sits in that category of medical products where “buying” is never just buying. It’s sourcing. It’s risk control. It’s logistics. It’s also the kind of product where a perfectly fine clinician can end up with a bad patient experience simply because something went wrong before the box ever reached the clinic. So let’s talk like people who have to make real decisions: how to judge supply legitimacy, what storage actually needs to look like, and how to handle it once it lands in your hands. No fluff. Just the stuff that keeps you out of trouble. Start with supply…
President Donald Trump says the world will find out “over the next, probably, ten days” whether the US will reach a deal with Iran or take military action. At the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington DC, Trump said “we have some work to do” in coming to an agreement with the Islamic Republic about its nuclear programme, and that “we may have to take it a step further”. In recent days, the US has surged military forces to the Middle East, while progress was also reported at talks between American and Iranian negotiators in Switzerland. Democratic…
A rogue police officer posing as a traffic was arrested on Thursday morning after allegedly attempting to extort money from a former Safaricom board chairman and motorist in the Muthaiga area of Nairobi. The officer had also extorted an expatriate who is a foreigner of USD300 and Sh9,000 in Karen. According to the ex-Safaricom chairman John Ngumi, a resident of Muthaiga, the incident occurred at around 10:00 a.m. while he was driving his motor vehicle, a Toyota saloon, along Muthaiga Road towards his residence. Ngumi reported that he was stopped by a man dressed in a khaki police uniform adorned…
The government will ensure completion of 6000kms of roads countrywide that have stalled since 2020 after clearing pending bills owed to contractors, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said. The DP stated that contractors have been instructed to hasten construction works and strictly adhere to completion dates without compromising the quality of the roads that are spread across the country. Speaking on Thursday when he inspected the construction of the 66kms Taveta-Challa-Njukini-Rombo-Illasit Road, Prof. Kindiki said the economy is now stable because of fruitful interventions by the government since 2022 hence the focus on completion of stalled roads and commencement of…
A woman was arrested after police recovered suspected fake foreign currency amounting to USD 25 million during a raid at a residence in Runda, Nairobi. The operation was conducted by officers from Runda Police Station following a case of obtaining money by false pretence that had been reported on February 16, 2026. Police said the officers proceeded to a house along Pan Africa Insurance Lane within Runda Estate, where the main suspect in the fraud case is believed to reside. Upon entering the premises, they found three adult occupants — two workers and a woman believed to be the wife…
Police authorities are pursuing individuals suspected of being illegally in possession of teargas canisters and other ammunition, Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has announced. Speaking in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, following a high-level security and consultative meeting with conservancies, the CS revealed that security agencies are also investigating police officers suspected of colluding with criminals to unlawfully issue them teargas and ammunition, warning that those found culpable will face the full force of the law. “The Inspector General of Police is investigating whether some civilians are in possession of teargas canisters or whether there are police officers colluding…
President William Ruto rallied Members of County Assemblies to stand behind his ambitious development plan to take Kenya into the league of first world economies within a generation. He urged MCAs to support the proposed National Infrastructure Fund which, he said, would unlock financial resources necessary to build dams, airports, roads, and extend electricity across the country. “I am asking for your partnership to change Kenya; it is doable; it is possible,” he told the annual County Assemblies Forum meeting held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi on Thursday. Present were Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, Nairobi Governor…
Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, his philanthropic organisation said hours before the Microsoft co-founder was due to speak. The Gates Foundation said the decision was made after “careful consideration” and “to ensure the focus remains on the [summit’s] key priorities”, but did not elaborate. Gates’s withdrawal comes amid a controversy over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he was named in new files released by the US Department of Justice in January. Gates’s spokesperson has called the claims in the files “absolutely absurd and completely…
If you ever need keys cut, the best thing you can do is contact a locksmith. Sure, key-cutting services exist outside of a locksmith, but why rely on anyone but the experts? A locksmith can have your keys cut in minutes. Even if you need something more specific, like a safe key, a locksmith should still be able to use a machine for cutting keys and have your replacement/new keys with you in 30 minutes. When you arrange to have keys cut with a locksmith, you usually get an in-person appointment. That could be at their local depot, or it…
Are you in charge of curating and managing a museum? Then you likely will feel under pressure. Managing a museum is a time-consuming, detail-oriented profession. If you oversee keeping the museum safe whilst making sure your most opulent items are on show, you need to have quality museum display cabinets. While visibility is essential so that guests can interact with and see these amazing discoveries, they also need to be kept safe. That’s why you need quality locks in place! Unsure where to begin? Fear not. We know your struggle, and want to provide useful advice that you can use…
A Republican lawmaker leveled a stunning allegation last week: Not only had government documents named a billionaire retail magnate a co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, the Department of Justice had tried to shield the man from accountability. Rep. Thomas Massie chastised the DOJ in a House hearing for redacting various names and details in records released with the Epstein files. “This is bigger than Watergate,” Massie said. “This cover-up spans decades.” Massie’s comments shined a new spotlight on Les Wexner, the former owner of Victoria’s Secret, who is one of the most mysterious figures in Epstein’s orbit –…
Pope Leo XIV will not be joining US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the Vatican’s top diplomat said Tuesday, adding that the United Nations should be left to handle crisis situations. The board, which will be chaired indefinitely by Trump, was originally designed to oversee reconstruction of Gaza. However, its objective has since expanded to make the board a global peacekeeping body. Pope Leo was invited to join the board last month. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, told reporters they will not take up the invitation saying they were left “perplexed” by some points of…
Eight of nine skiers buried in an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains have died, according to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. One is still missing, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said. Six skiers participating in the three‑day backcountry trip had previously been rescued with “various injuries,” the sheriff’s office said. A group of skiers on the final stretch of a three‑day backcountry trip near Lake Tahoe in Northern California was returning to the trailhead Tuesday morning when a wave of ice, rocks and debris came crashing down on them. In the avalanche’s wake, survivors were…