If you’re searching for the ultimate holiday gift, this 1962 Ferrari may be just the ticket — provided you have $55 million.
This eye-watering price tag vastly exceeds the current world record auction price of $38.1 million paid in 2014 for a red version (formerly belonging to British racing legend Stirling Moss) of the same 250 GTO model.
Yet according to John Collins, founder of U.K.-based Ferrari dealer Talacrest, which is selling the car, the less commonplace color of this model should make a difference to the price.
“The color’s striking, the blue with a white stripe — it’s original race colors and the race history on the car is really good,” he explained.
Two bomb blasts near an Istanbul stadium after a soccer match ended killed 38 people and wounded 155 others in an attack that appeared to target police, Turkey’s interior minister and officials said.
Thirty of the dead are police officers, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in an address early Sunday.
Deputy Prime minister Numan Kurtulmus declared a day of mourning, as he confirmed thirteen people have so-far been detained in connection with the attack
The first bomb exploded at around 10:30 p.m. as law enforcement left the newly built Vodafone Arena Stadium, where home side Besiktas were playing Bursaspor, Turkish security forces said.
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Police arrive at the site of an explosion in central Istanbul on Dec. 10. Murad Sezer / Reuters
Days after a video surfaced showing an Orange Coast College professor telling students that Donald Trump’s election was an “act of terrorism,” violent threats have forced the instructor to flee her home state of California.
Olga Perez Cox — who was secretly recorded by one of her students last month discussing the presidential election — received a flood of angry emails, phone calls and Facebook comments — some of which were violent and threatening, according to the Orange County Register.
An email Cox received said, “You want communism, go to Cuba . . . try to bring it to America and we’ll put a (expletive) bullet in your face,” according to the paper.
The threats didn’t end there, according to Rob Schneiderman, president of the Coast Federation of Educators/American Federation of Teachers Local 1911 that represents Cox.
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Orange Coast College Students Divided Over Free Speech After Professor’s Trump Comments
President Barack Obama on Friday defended his early response to suspicions that the Russian government attempted to influence the 2016 election and appeared to threaten retaliation against those plotting cyberattacks against America.
“Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to Russia, and others, to not do this,” he said, adding “Because we can do stuff to you.”
He urged that U.S. investigations of cyberattacks should not become a “political football.”
“I think we handled it the way it should have been handled,” he said during his final scheduled news conference of 2016.
Dylann Roof has been found guilty of the Charleston church shooting and must now beg for his life or be sent to his death.
A jury took just two hours to convict the 22-year-old of 33 federal crimes after a week-long trial in which he was described as a suicidal loner who viewed the nine black parishioners he killed as ‘animals’.
Roof made no attempt to deny slaughtering his victims on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel AME Church, only entering a not-guilty plea to avoid being sent to his death.
He will now serve as his own lawyer and beg for his life as jurors weigh up whether to sentence him to life behind bars or execution despite a judge’s suggestion to have an attorney speak for him.
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Roof was arrested on June 18 last year (pictured). He upheld his decision to represent himself at sentencing
Actor Alan Thicke died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack, a publicist for his family told NBC News.
He was 69.
According to TMZ, which first broke the news, Thicke collapsed while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter.
He was transported to Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank, California, around noon (3 p.m. ET) and was pronounced dead there, the site reported.
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A man who killed an Alabama convenience store clerk more than two decades ago was put to death Thursday night, in an execution that required two consciousness tests as the inmate heaved and coughed 13 minutes into the lethal injection.
Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m., about 30 minutes after the procedure began at the state prison in southwest Alabama.
Smith was convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 8, 1994, fatal shooting of Huntsville store clerk Casey Wilson. A jury voted 7-5 to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment, but a judge overrode that recommendation and sentenced Smith to death.
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This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Ronald Bert Smith Jr.. Smith, who was executed late Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 for the 1994 slaying of a Huntsville store clerk. AP
Dimitri points to a picture on his Instagram showing a bar table decked with expensive champagne and sparklers.
It’s from his 18th birthday just four months ago — a lavish party in his east European hometown that he says wouldn’t have been possible without President-elect Donald Trump.
Dimitri — who asked NBC News not to use his real name — is one of dozens of teenagers in the Macedonian town of Veles who got rich during the U.S. presidential election producing fake news for millions on social media.
The articles, sensationalist and often baseless, were posted to Facebook, drawing in armies of readers and earning fake-news writers money from penny-per-click advertising.
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A view of Veles in November. GEORGI LICOVSKI / EPA
President-elect Donald Trump is staying on as an executive producer of NBC’s “The New Celebrity Apprentice” despite his impending responsibilities as leader of the free world, according to reports Thursday in The New York Times and Variety.
The popular program, which propelled the businessman to national prominence and paved the way for his eventual presidential win, is set to begin airing again in January with its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The show went off the air during Trump’s presidential bid.
MGM, which produces the show for NBC, confirmed to Variety that Trump will still be one of the program’s executive producers, and that MGM, not NBC, will pay the president-elect’s fees. (MGM did not return a request for comment from The Huffington Post.)
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President-elect Donald Trump is staying on as an executive producer of NBC’s “The New Celebrity Apprentice”
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John Glenn, a war hero who became the first American to orbit the Earth and later served four terms in the U.S. Senate, has died in his home state of Ohio. He was 95.
Glenn’s death was announced Thursday by officials at Ohio State University, where he was being treated at James Cancer Hospital. Glenn had experienced a number of health problems in recent years, including a stroke he suffered two years ago after having had heart valve replacement surgery.
“We are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero,” NASA said. “Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra [to the stars].”
The author Tom Wolfe wrote that Glenn, once a small-town American, became “the last true national hero America has ever made.”
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John Glenn worked as a payload specialist aboard the shuttle Discovery from Oct. 29 to Nov. 7, 1998. REX/Shutterstock / Shutterstock
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