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NYC Council push to crush package-delivery contractors is another progressive bid to turn back the clock

Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán’s bill, Intro 518, could hike customer bills by $664 annually.

Snubbed by Trump, GOP candidates fighting for re-election act like they have his backing anyway

Republican incumbents facing primary challenges are leaning into Trump imagery in campaign ads, even when the president has endorsed their rivals.

The AI you use every day is biased — and it’s quietly shaping your worldview, new report says

AI models show a center-left ideological bias across the spectrum, according to an America First Policy Institute report on AI transparency and safety.

Miranda Devine: Playing the Trump card vs. Tehran

Iran thought they had the world over an (oil) barrel. Turns out they signed...

NYC mayor touts ‘socialist’ wins in first 100 days alongside Bernie Sanders

Mayor Zohran Mamdani highlights major policy wins in his first 100 days, crediting a democratic socialist agenda as Bernie Sanders praises the approach.

GLP-1 drugs could save Uncle Sam billions — Congress should account for that

Obesity is a major public health and economic challenge in the US, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion annually, and the Congressional Budget Office should refine its scoring methods to account for the long-term economic and societal costs of obesity and the efforts to mitigate it.

Which are the most dangerous cities for drivers?

The study, conducted by ConsumerAffairs, sought to find the worst places for drivers, in terms of fatal car accidents.

Watch live: Jeffries gives remarks on government shutdown Day 9

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day. Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs...

Netanyahu says Trump should get Nobel Peace Prize: ‘He deserves it’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his belief that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing Trump's 20-point peace plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. "Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!" Netanyahu wrote on social platform X. The post also includes an image generated with...

Climate change is not a ‘con job’ 

I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own experiments, which were never focused on climate change, that have been telling me repeatedly that the Earth’s biggest pollution problem is increased temperatures.

Did Trump end 7 wars? What to know ahead of Nobel Peace Prize announcement

President Trump's moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded.  Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations...

Senate defeats government funding measure as shutdown hits Day 9

The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve the impasse. The House Republican-drafted measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, a "clean" continuing resolution that would keep funding at...

Jamie Dimon says he’s ‘far more worried than others’ about stock market decline

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed alarm over the state of the stock market in a recent interview, saying he was "far more worried than others" amid concerns about the economy and the state of the world. Dimon told the BBC in an interview published Wednesday the market could fall into a correction — a...

Flight delayed or canceled during government shutdown? Here’s what you should do

The federal government shutdown has entered its second week, and already shortages of air traffic controllers have strained operations and disrupted flights at some U.S. airports.

Congress is abandoning centuries-old ethics lessons in its crypto push

Unfortunately, in their eagerness to throw together a legal framework, Congress has left the back door wide open to corruption. 

Rove knocks Porter over testy interview, leaked video: ‘She’s going nowhere’

Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for Governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state's highest office. “It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that...

Top DHS official defends ICE agents who shot pastor with pepper ball

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin on Wednesday defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot a pastor with a pepper ball from a rooftop, after a video of the incident went viral this week. Videos of the Sept. 19 incident, which circulated widely Wednesday on social media, showed Pastor...

Watch live: Senate votes on funding bills to reopen government

The Senate on Thursday morning will hold its seventh vote on the GOP- and Democratic-led stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government. Senate Republicans need to flip at least five more Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to turn the lights back on. Despite three defections thus far, the last six votes on...

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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