A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.For Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the so-called pied-à-terre tax was a way to make good on a promise to raise taxes on the wealthy.
Also, ICE is planning a hiring surge. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.The offices of OpenAI in San Francisco.
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.Boys Town Junction in Monrovia, Liberia. The U.S. deportation deal with Liberia is one of the largest third-country deportation agre
Prosecutors say Wilber Garces Perez struck an agent with his car’s mirror before another agent shot him. The charge reveals the existence of body camera footage of the shooting, though that video has not been released.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was working as a food delivery driver when he was shot
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
Prosecutors have reopened the case of a woman who said she was sexually assaulted on campus in 2024. The woman’s lawsuit brought renewed pressure to reopen the investigation.Students walk past the now shuttered Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.The Cornell Daily Sun is independent of the university and has its offices off campus.
Prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a former student’s claims that several men sexually assaulted her in a campus fraternity house.Cornell University administrators and the Tompkins County district attorney are under pressure over their handling of a former student’s allegations.
Three campaigns left their positions unclear, and two said they would not join the president on the trail.
Some Republicans in the state fear that the sensational biography of Victor Marx, their party’s candidate for governor, could drag down the rest of the ticket.Victor Marx, pictured outside his ministry’s training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., says he wants to be governor to bring the state “bac
A new “propaganda playbook” aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.Black voters have been the target of disenfranchisement campaigns, and some groups and public figures are trying to counter those efforts.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.“To be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, “we don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” the term that Mr. Trump prefers.President Trump unveiled an A.I.-powered government website at the White House on Tuesday,
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.
Democrats amplified statements from America.gov that frequently contradict the president on tariffs, election fraud and other topics.The chatbot calls itself “America” and fact-checks many of President Trump’s most common false claims.
The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.
He went from outsider businessman to disappointing politician.
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
Over 90 percent of Ukraine’s scientific discoveries have been attributed to Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, including advancements in astronomy and military technology.A Russian drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine, killed at least two people on Monday.
