Mayor Muriel Bowser said city leaders were focused on how to make the most of the additional federal support.

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The attacks in the New York City mayor’s race may have veered into the personal, but they also reflected a larger debate on who should benefit from government regulation of housing costs.

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Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s push to keep “rich” people out of less-expensive apartments is aimed at his political rival in New York, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

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A federal appeals court said that it appeared to be unconstitutional for New York to prioritize some of its own residents for licenses to open cannabis businesses.

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Dennis “Tink” Bell was 25 years old when he fell into a crevasse on King George Island. Over the decades, a glacier receded, and a scientific team from Poland found his remains this year.

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Hogan last appeared on WWE on “Monday Night Raw” on Jan. 6.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately improve conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility

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The Vice President’s visit to the California theme park in July was met with protests

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Starmer will join a virtual call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

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A police department in Southern California has recovered about $30,000 worth of Labubus that were stolen from a warehouse

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Wintour was revealed to be stepping down from the publication in June

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So much for Zohran Mamdani’s ballyhooed anti-President Trump tour. The Democratic socialist on Tuesday again spent a stop on his weeklong “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour instead bashing his mayoral election rival Andrew Cuomo — calling the pugilistic ex-gov “petty” amid their escalating spat over Mamdani’s $2,300 rent-stabilized apartment. Even when Mamdani spoke about Trump,...

President Donald Trump's D.C. police takeover could signal the end of home rule as administration asserts federal control over the nation's capital city and its law enforcement.

ExxonMobil has signed a deal to explore a vast area near Trinidad and Tobago for oil and gas despite the pressure on the twin-island nation to focus more on green energy deals

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Former Superman star Dean Cain responded to HBO host John Oliver’s rant against the actor recently announcing that he would be sworn in as an ICE agent.

The Liberty are in a funk that goes well beyond a championship hangover.

New analysis shows thousands of young children, hospital patients and elderly people at risk as UK hit by fourth heatwave of summer

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Ollie Palmer scored twice in second-half stoppage time to force penalties, which Wrexham won

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She played a witty teenager on one of the first American television shows that centered Black teenagers.

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Report ramps up criticisms of Europe, Brazil and South Africa but says little about abuses in Israel and El Salvador

Donald Trump’s administration has significantly changed a key US government report on human rights worldwide, dramatically softening criticism of some countries that have been strong partners of the Republican president, such as El Salvador and Israel, which rights groups say have well-established histories of abuses.

Instead, the US state department sounded an alarm about what it said was the erosion of freedom of speech in Europe and ramped up criticism of Brazil and South Africa – both of which Washington has clashed with over a host of issues.

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Terraform Labs co-founder, pleading guilty to two charges, was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSD

Do Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost an estimated $40bn in 2022 and caused the market to implode, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud.

Kwon, 33, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, entered the plea at a federal court hearing in New York. He had pleaded not guilty in January to a nine-count indictment charging him with securities fraud, wire fraud, commodities fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.

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Spirit Airlines may not make it past 2026, the company said in its quarterly report on Monday

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Pedro ‘Pete’ Baez, 68, died at his home in 2024 — and his daughter has pushed for months for authorities to further investigate it

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But eat the whole pepper at your own risk...

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