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Divisions Emerge Over Whether Eric Adams Should Resign

Amid the growing calls for Mayor Eric Adams’s resignation, some have taken the opposite tack.

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Lara Jakes

Israel Likely to Have Enough Weapons for Multiple Conflicts

Although Israel, like many countries, is highly secretive about its weapons stockpiles, experts believe it could outlast adversaries in offensives on at least two fronts simultaneously.

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Israel’s New Campaign Against Hezbollah Started With Raid in Syria

An attack on a secret weapons lab was one of the most daring Israeli operations against the Iranian proxy group in years, covert in name only.

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‘Tariff Man’ Trump favors huge new tariffs. Here’s how they work

As president, Trump imposed tariffs that targeted imported solar panels, steel, aluminum, and pretty much everything from China.

Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.
The former president and current Republican nominee asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to...

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Trump’s latest venture: Diamond-encrusted watches

Thursday’s launch, coming 40 days before Election Day, could open him up to criticism about monetizing his campaign.

He’s sold Bibles, sneakers, photo books and cryptocurrency during his third campaign for president. Now, Donald Trump is launching a new business venture: diamond-encrusted watches.

The Republican presidential candidate unveiled the “Official Trump Watch Collection” on Thursday. The most expensive, listed as including 122 diamonds on its bezel and available in three...

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Michael Grothaus

How to help Hurricane Helene victims: 4 things you can do right now as the powerful storm batters Florida and the Southeast

Emergency resource groups are mobilizing throughout the impacted areas. Here are a few organizations that need donations.

Last night, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida. The Category 4 hurricane was the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the Big Bend areas of the state. Hurricane Helene made landfall just after 11 p.m. in Florida before moving up to Georgia and the Carolinas. 

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Lance Lambert

Wall street’s big housing market bet created 12 new billionaires

A new report finds that the bull market for large homebuilders has made some in the industry very rich.

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Psychology research says you can change your personality. Here’s how

People can intentionally shape the personality traits they need to be successful in the lives they want.

Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song “perfectly matches your vibe.”

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Noa Dalzell

How Veronica Burton went from out of the WNBA to guarding Caitlin Clark in the playoffs

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Veronica Burton was waived from the Dallas Wings in May. Just four months later, she was the x-factor in eliminating Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — For the entire second quarter of Wednesday’s deciding matchup between the Connecticut Sun and Indiana Fever, Veronica Burton never subbed out.

The 5 ‘9 Sun guard matched up with Caitlin Clark full court, while also exploding for 8 points in the period. Burton didn’t...

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Emma Roth

Steam will let you sue Valve now

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Steam just removed its forced arbitration policy, opening the door for lawsuits against its parent company, Valve. In an update on Thursday, Steam says its subscriber agreement “now provides that any disputes are to go forward in court instead of arbitration.”

Many companies include a forced arbitration clause in their user agreement, waiving a person’s right to a trial in court. Arbitration involves settling a dispute outside a legal system before an impartial...

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Umar Shakir

Now searches on Google Flights will suggest Amtrak train rides, too

Trains are cool but aren’t always cheaper to ride. | Image: Amtrak

Amtrak fares and trip suggestions are getting integrated into Google Search as part of Google’s efforts to offer greener ways of travel over flights. Now, when you search for airline fares on Google or Google Flights between destinations with Amtrak terminals, you’ll also get suggestions for train rides that you can click through to Amtrak’s site for purchase.

Google has been working on offering sustainable...

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Jess Weatherbed

CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall

CNN chairman Mark Thompson announced plans to introduce a digital subscription business in July. | Image: CNN

CNN will put some of its digital content behind a subscription paywall starting next month, The New York Times reports. The experiment will test similar subscription models to those used by publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, with CNN reportedly hoping to bring in additional revenue amid a decline in cable TV viewership.

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Drone sailed straight into Hurricane Helene, captured powerful footage

Hurricane Helene spawned tempestuous seas.

A collaboration between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Saildrone, the company that builds innovative sailing drones, sent a robust robot into Hurricane Helene, the major hurricane that made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region on Thursday night. Before hitting land with catastrophic storm surge and extreme 140 winds, a drone captured footage in the storm's eyewall, home to some of its strongest winds.

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Hurubie Meko

Judge Dale Ho, Who Is Presiding Over Eric Adams Case, Fought for Civil Liberties

Judge Dale E. Ho, who will oversee the case, has a sterling educational pedigree and a history of pointed remarks as a civil rights lawyer.

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U.S. bird flu outbreak faces this new challenge, prompting farmers to call for a vaccine

The avian flu outbreak is colliding with the fall migration of wild birds that can spread the disease.

U.S. farmers are increasing pressure on the Biden administration to allow vaccinations for chickens, turkeys and cows to protect them from bird flu infections that have devastated flocks for three years.

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Hunter Schwarz

These super-simple billboards are popping up across swing states like Arizona and Ohio. Here’s why

Fighting Election Day disinfo with can’t miss info.

Billions of dollars will be spent this year persuading Americans who to vote for, but one billboard campaign is just telling them when to vote.

VoteAmerica, a voter mobilization group, is spending $7 million to put up approximately 800 billboards across 10 states with information about early voting and Election Day. The billboards are simple. They predict that “there will be record high voter turnout this year,” and list the date for...

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Google’s antitrust trial expert says government’s ad tech data is way off

Mark Israel said the government’s claims that Google holds a monopoly over advertising technology are focused on a narrow market.

Federal regulators who say Google holds an illegal monopoly over the technology that matches online advertisers to publishers are vastly underestimating the competition the tech giant faces, an expert hired by Google testified Thursday.

Mark Israel, an economist who prepared an expert report on Google’s behalf, said the government’s claims that Google holds...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Why X suspended journalist Ken Klippenstein for sharing a hacked document on JD Vance

The social media company confirmed it had placed a temporary ban on the account, but wouldn’t say when it would be lifted.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein was deemed by X to have crossed a line when he shared a link to a dossier about Ohio Sen. JD Vance. That has resulted in a ban from the social media platform, and prompted questions over company owner Elon Musk’s supposed neutrality over when and how he intervenes over questionable content.

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Yasmin Gagne

WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani is leaving the company

The diet and weight-loss brand, which has struggled to adapt in the Ozempic era, is losing its latest chief executive after only two and a half years.

WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani is leaving the company after two and a half years. During that time, the company has radically altered its business model to stay competitive in the Ozempic era.

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X complies with Brazilian judge, requests its service be unblocked in Brazil

X fulfilled judicial orders to pay fines and block certain accounts on the platform.

In the high-stakes showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Elon Musk blinked.

Musk’s social media site X has complied with Alexandre de Moraes’s orders and requested its service be reestablished in the country, two sources said Thursday.

X complied with orders to block certain accounts from the platform, name an official legal representative in Brazil, and pay...

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