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Hillary Clinton slept here. The year was 2000. Clinton was in the middle of her first political campaign, running to be New York’s junior senator. Steven Spielberg, an enthusiastic donor to Mrs Clinton who had the use of a pied-à-terre in Trump Tower purchased for him by Universal Pictures, barely stayed at the place, despite its views of Central Park, and offered it to the candidate as a crash pad on gruelling campaign days . Trump Tower in New York. Photo: Bloomberg Donald Trump and Clinton were on good terms back then. He donated money to her candidacy and called her “tough and smart”. Moreover, Trump was skilled in the art of spinning his associations with celebrities into publicity. This was particularly true at Trump Tower. Michael Jackson lived in Donald J. Trump’s gleaming Midtown edifice . So have gamblers, a disgraced dictator, a Ponzi schemer and a stock huckster. Credit Photo Illustration by Peter Horvath; photographs by Chad Batka for The New York Times (Trump); Hiroko...

Published time: 14 Aug, 2017 22: 47 Edited time : 15 Aug, 2017 11:58 Crowds have gathered inside and outside of Trump Tower in New York to take a stand against the president’s comments after a weekend of deadly violence in Virginia, where white supremacist groups and counter-demonstrators clashed. Hundreds of people gathered outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, chanting, “Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Donald Trump has got to go!” “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” “Not my president” and “Love, not hate, will make America great .” Inside Trump Tower , “Hate has no home here” was seen on a pink board held up to the windows. Other protesters held aloft signs that read “Too little. Too Late!” in reference to president Trump ’s initial criticism of violence “on many sides” following a two-day gathering in Charlottesville, which ended in tragedy. On Saturday, a participant of the alt-right Unite the Right event killed Heather Heyer , 32, and injured 19 people after mowing through a group of ant...

Photo Credit: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock In 1994, I visited the home of Donald Trump. He was a Democrat then, of sorts, and I was the party’s nominee for governor of Connecticut. He’d taken an interest in our state owing to his keen desire to lodge a casino in Bridgeport, an idea I found economically and morally dubious. I had scant hope of enlisting him, but made the trip anyway, thinking that if I convinced him I might win, he’d be less apt to bankroll my opponent. I arrived at Trump Tower in early evening, accompanied by my finance chair and an old friend and colleague. Stepping off the elevator into his apartment, we were met by a display of sterile, vulgar ostentation: all gold, silver, brass, marble; nothing soft, welcoming or warm. Trump soon appeared and we began to converse, but not really. In campaigns, we candidates do most of the talking; because we like to, and because people ask us lots of questions. Not this time. Not by a long shot. Trump talked rapidly and virtually no...

KERA is a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award , for just the second time in the station's history. The honor — for breaking news among medium-sized newsrooms — is for coverage of the Dallas police shootings of July 7, 2016. Two other North Texas media outlets are also finalists for coverage of the shootings: NBCDFW.com in the same category as KERA, and the Dallas Morning News in the large-newsroom category. The Texas Tribune, a partner of KERA, is a finalist in five small-newsroom categories, including general excellence . NPR is a three-time finalist; PBS Frontline is also a finalist. Here is a complete list of the OJA finalists. The awards, to be presented Oct. 7 at the annual Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C., are the most prestigious honors in digital journalism . KERA won an OJA for topical reporting in 2015, for its Breakthroughs series, "The Broken Hip." KERA has won a station- record 39 awards this year, including a nation-...

Mack- Cali Realty Corp . (NYSE:CLI) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 03, 2017 08:30 AM ET Executives Michael DeMarco - President and Chief Executive Officer Anthony Krug - Chief Financial Officer Marshall Tycher - Chairman of Roseland Residential Trust Analysts John Guinee - Stiefel Manny Korchman - Citi Jamie Feldman - Bank of America Rob Simone - Evercore ISI Vincent Chao - Deutsche Bank Operator Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Mack- Cali Realty Corporation Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call . Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Michael J. DeMarco, President and Chief Executive Officer . Please go ahead, sir. Michael DeMarco Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining the Mack-Cali's second quarter 2017 earnings call . This is Mike DeMarco, the CEO of Mack-Cali. The lovely day in a waterfront, sun shining. I'm joined today by my partners Marshall Tycher , Chairman of Rosel...