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Good afternoon, and thank you for subscribing to Building Austin, our weekly newsletter focused on real estate, growth and development in the Austin region. I’m Shonda Novak, the American-Statesman’s real estate reporter. My articles the past few days brought you exciting updates about two high-interest developments I’ve written about in recent years. Apartments and condominiums in the St. Elmo neighborhood Friday May 17, 2024. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates struck a paragraph from the indictment on Monday but denied a defense request to dismiss some of the charges. The paragraph concerns allegations that Trump, in 2021 and while no longer president, showed a classified map of a …

TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab. But this is La Paz, Bolivia, and the fruity aroma of coca steeping in barrels signals that you’ve arrived at the government-authorized El Viejo Roble distillery, which for …

Doubt has been cast on the possibility of a lake of liquid water buried beneath Mars’ southern ice cap by new computer simulations, which suggest that closely compacted layers of ice could produce the same radar reflections that liquid water would. In 2018, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter used its MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere …

Following its win in the European elections, France’s right-wing populist National Rally (RN) wants to woo other right-wingers, including from the far-right Reconquest party, for the snap parliamentary elections called by President Emmanuel Macron. “I myself am perfectly willing to discuss with personalities who do not come from the National Rally and who share the ambition to bring some of …

State leaders are asking Ohioans to stay safe while on boats this summer. >>People express concerns over proposed annexation in Huber Heights The Ohio Department of Commerce Divisions Liquor Control and Cannabis Control and Ohio Department of Natural Resources are warning about the dangers of alcohol and cannabis use while on boats, according to a spokesperson. They said it is …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday, speaking to the group just two weeks after he was convicted on 34 charges in his hush money trial and as GOP senators have increasingly rallied around him. The invitation was issued by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the chairman of the GOP conference, and Trump has accepted, …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Russian statements regarding the capture of a village in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region. “As of this morning, the Russian flag in the village [of Ryzhivka] has been destroyed, and there are no occupiers present,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Monday. The alleged conquest of the village was a Russian propaganda campaign, he added. On …

By Puyaan Singh and Mariam Sunny (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to French drugmakers Ipsen and Genfit’s drug for a chronic inflammatory liver disease, Iqirvo, the companies said on Monday. Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) causes inflammation of the small bile ducts in the liver and eventually destroys them. It primarily affects women aged 30 to …

The first astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule will last a bit longer than we’d thought. Starliner launched on June 5, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) on a shakeout cruise called Crew Flight Test (CFT). Wilmore and Williams arrived at the orbiting lab on June 6 for a roughly week-long stay …