Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts of former U.S. presidents from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy them.
Hankins had helped construct Presidents Park, and while he wasn’t necessarily in the position to inherit 43 humongous heads, he didn’t have the heart to destroy them, either.
The busts of former presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — are 18 to 20 feet, each weighing between 11,000 and 20,000 pounds.
There are two glaring omissions from the array of busts: Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Presidents Park ran out of funding before it could commission a full-sized bust after Obama was elected in 2008, and the park closed in 2010, well before Trump took office.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo says he was only able to run at less than half speed as he tried to make it back for the Milwaukee Bucks’ final playoff games before their first-round exit. Antetokounmpo strained his left calf in an April 9 victory over the Boston Celtics and didn’t play again. “In our opinion, it was not safe for me to be out there because I couldn’t run full speed,” Antetokounmpo said Friday, one day after Milwaukee’s season ended with a 120-98 Game 6 loss to the Indiana Pacers.
All drivers in the Halifax Regional Municipality who are pulled over by the RCMP for traffic violations this month will be required to take a breathalyzer test to determine if they're driving under the influence of alcohol."We're getting into summertime," Const. Scott Aldridge of the RCMP Southeast Traffic Services said Friday. "The underlying thing is public road safety, and impaired driving is the No. 1 cause of criminal death and injury in Canada."Police said drivers will not be pulled over i
Watch live as Joe Biden honours 19 Americans with the nation’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on Friday 3 May. A winner of seven Olympic gold medals, a leader of the Mississippi civil rights struggle and a pioneer of television’s tabloid talk show genre are part of this year’s class of recipients. The honorees list plays special homage to “firsts” in their field, including the Everything Everywhere All at Once actress Michelle Yeoh, who was the first Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Canada's main stock index ended higher on Friday, led by gains in technology and healthcare during a broad-based rally as slowing U.S. jobs growth in April raised hopes of early interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index ended up 128.52 points, or 0.59%, at 21,951.74, paring most of its losses in the past week. U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in April and annual wage gains cooled, with traders now adding to bets that the Fed will deliver its first interest rate cut this year in September compared with expectations of one cut in December before the data.
Michael Showalter and Nicholas Galtizine tell IndieWire how Apple's 1999 banger ended up in the movie. But it's not the first time a male comedy auteur has relied on her music to tell stories of women in romantic freefall.
SIR – Despite Sir Keir Starmer’s dizzy rhetoric about seismic swings and new horizons for Labour (telegraph.co.uk, May 3), the turnout in the Blackpool South by-election was only 32 per cent.
The April jobs report was softer than what experts were expecting with the US economy adding 175,000 new jobs during the month, accompanied by a modest 3.9% growth in wages. Joining Market Domination to discuss this report is T. Rowe Price Chief US Economist Blerina Uruci. Uruci acknowledges that the jobs report represented "a big miss relative to expectations." However, she notes that investors are interpreting it as "a soft report" due to the "big upside surprises" witnessed in the first quarter, labor prints now cooling after significant labor market gains in the past few months. Uruci says this jobs report shows the Federal Reserve that "this patient approach" on inflation is "paying off." However, Uruci highlights two areas of concern: the concentration of job growth primarily in the healthcare and education sectors, and "the gradual increase" in the US unemployment rate. Additionally, Uruci addresses the ongoing wage growth pressures, stating "we're moving in the right direction" and characterizing the slowing growth as "particularly encouraging." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. Editor's note: This article was written by Angel Smith
Exxon Mobil will take 18 to 24 months to achieve its desired production synergies from its $60 billion purchase of U.S. shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources, the company's top shale executive said on Friday. Exxon this week closed all-stock acquisition after agreeing to an antitrust consent order that barred the former Pioneer CEO from joining its board and is moving in coming weeks to combine operations that will form the largest oil producer in the Permian basin. The purchase more than doubles Exxon's output in the Permian, the top U.S. shale field, to about 1.3 million barrels per day of oil and gas.
The Conservatives are on track for their worst ever local election results. Labour has had a strong showing, taking control of a string of councils and gaining a new MP in the Blackpool South by-election. Counting in the London mayoral and assembly elections will not begin until Saturday morning.
XA pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Mississippi was overtaken by counter-protesters Thursday, culminating with a viral clip of white students mimicking monkey noises and gestures in the direction of a Black woman.That gross clip was captured moments before police shut down the demonstration entirely and escorted the outnumbered pro-Palestine protesters from the scene. In the video, an unnamed white man in a light blue shirt is seen contorting his face to mimic that of a monkey wh