‘Engraved with initials’: Titanic passenger’s gold pocket watch sold for 1.78m pounds; memorabilia auction sets new record

[ad_1] Image source: X/@LivesandLores A gold pocket watch belonging to a Titanic victim sold for a record 1.78 million pounds at an auction in Wiltshire, setting the highest price ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, according to Henry Aldridge & Son. The 18-karat gold watch sold on Saturday belonged to Isidor Straus, the Macy’s co-owner who […]

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What is Pocket Rescission? Trump uses rare loophole to freeze $4.9 bn aid — Congress can’t stop it

[ad_1] President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson he will not spend $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, invoking a little-used budgetary maneuver that hasn’t been deployed in nearly half a century.In a letter sent Thursday to Johnson, R-La., and later posted on the White House Office of Management and Budget’s X […]

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