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Catherina Gioino

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After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety

Jacob Coxon's resignation didn't start this fight, but his resignation ignited the moment officials on both sides stopped staying quiet about it

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Howard Lutnick, Larry Silverstein, Jim Pierce and Mitt Romney all had last-minute changes of plan that kept them out of the WTC on 9/11

A school run, a doctor's visit, a budget fight in Congress. Small shifts in plans kept dozens of people out of the World Trade Center that morning.

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How often you check your phone matters more than how long you spend on it—and if you watch brain rot, you’re burning yourself out

Research finds frequent phone checking predicts stress, and watching low-quality content burns you out.

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Trump’s first term had real stimulus checks. His second has promised ones tied to problems he started

The $5,000 pledge follows a DOGE dividend that failed and a tariff rebate that never arrived, both stemming from policies Trump created himself.

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Microsoft’s move in the AI school debate: controls over how student data gets used

Microsoft will offer AI privacy standards to every school district as Randi Weingarten says OpenAI and Anthropic have "expressed willingness."

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Trump’s ‘America First’ national park fees for foreign tourists have raised a quarter of what was promised

The Department of Interior says foreign-tourist fees raised $22.5 million this year, a quarter of what it was supposed to bring in.

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There are fewer than 4,000 billionaires worldwide, and they now hold a record $15.1 trillion. That’s nearly half of the U.S. economy

Just 29 superbillionaires now control more than one-quarter of all billionaire wealth, up from 7% in 2017.

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One in five Americans call sports betting an investment. For Gen Z, it’s twice as many — and they don’t come close to breaking even

People used to place bets periodically, but now it has become a daily habit for nearly a quarter of sports bettors.

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The Vatican is smaller than a single data center. Now it’s spending $117 million to go carbon-neutral

The microstate is still smaller than Meta's Hyperion data center campus, which is expected to consume up to 5 gigawatts by 2030.

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Toilet paper becomes a kitchen table issue for Trump again as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs could spell another shortage

A tariff fight with Canada is pushing tissue prices higher, echoing the shortage scare that preceded his 2020 election loss.

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Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school

NYC, which boasts the largest school system in the nation, issued a one-year moratorium on AI in city elementary and middle schools.

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Trump calls data center opponents ‘backwards and poor’ as the industry props up the economy—but his own party wants nothing to do with it

Data centers are fueling US growth, but bipartisan backlash is forcing candidates to run from them before the midterms.

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Bank of America vice president identified as victim in random Times Square stabbing

Erin Piacenti, 32, died after a woman with a documented mental health history attacked two strangers.

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PBR promises thieves who return 40,000 pounds of stolen beer by next Tuesday ‘no questions asked.’ That won’t stop California prosecutors

That's roughly 34,000 cans of beer worth about $70,000, according to police.

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‘We’re facing a double whammy’: America’s hottest tinned fish snack is shrinking by nearly half thanks to climate change and war in Iran

Sardine landings in Morocco, the world's top supplier, have fallen nearly 46% as warming waters and war-driven fuel costs squeeze the fleet.

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American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices

"No one has ever built a new stadium and made tickets cheaper. No one’s trying to.”

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New York City sends 11,000 more pied-à-terre tax letters as it apologizes to the 1,200 wrongly targeted because it didn’t check 2025 tax returns

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted the city lacked 2025 tax data before sending 17,000 warning letters.

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Flock is going from the center of the surveillance debate to bipartisan target in record time

Two Arizona cities cut ties with the license-plate reader camera company hours apart, as Senators Sanders and Hawley took aim from Washington.

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Don’t praise Meta ‘for what the court orders them to do’: Meta will only pay the full $17.1 billion settlement if TikTok and YouTube match it

State attorneys general guaranteed $12.1 billion. Meta says it's holding back $5.3 billion unless its rivals sign on.

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Why Wall Street sees a $39,800 pancreatic cancer pill as proof of a much bigger bet

Dr. Danish Nagda, a shareholder in the developer, told Fortune it was "incredibly exciting ... maybe half a decade away from the post-cancer era."

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Meta’s $18 billion settlement leaves out the child protections New Mexico already won at trial, its Attorney General says

Raúl Torrez said New Mexico secured stronger protections against AI chatbots and predators than the national settlement. Child safety experts agree.

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New York metro area touts $3.5 billion impact from World Cup, silent on full costs from transit overruns and hosting FIFA

The final tally came after some naysayers derided the total spend from both New York and New Jersey, which put up an estimated $245 million.

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Pope Leo XIV on AI’s new ‘form of domination’: it risks becoming a tool of ‘economic colonialism’

Addressing Catholic legislators, the pope said algorithms are creating a new form of domination and warned AI threatens the family.

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What Anthropic’s Dario Amodei can learn from the airline industry’s painful lesson about marketing and the concept of safety

The airline industry discovered that stating a fear about yourself is worse than saying nothing, because the word does the same work against you.

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Four firms control more than half of the world’s seed supply. Italian farmers are fighting back and returning to the bartering system

Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF dominate the global seed market. Growers in Italy are saving and trading seeds outside that system.

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Flock Safety has been a venture darling. Will data privacy controversies halt its rise?

Flock operates in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, and is an $8.3 billion venture darling. Now, the company’s run into trouble.

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Meet Flock, the $8 billion startup backed by a16z and Tiger facing growing backlash against surveillance capitalism

Cities are canceling contracts, cameras are getting vandalized, and lawyers who've reviewed the company's contracts say data ownership is not clearly...

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Taxing all 938 billionaires at 100% wouldn’t stop the $40 trillion national debt, says Elon Musk. Bernie Sanders says tax them 5% and send you a check

Elon Musk argues America’s $40 trillion debt is too big for billionaire taxes to fix, but Bernie Sanders says a 5% tax could at least put $3,000...

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In this economy, millennials and Gen Z would rather break up than date someone in debt: ‘There’s a pretty big divide’

Nearly half of Americans say a partner's debt is a dealbreaker, and younger generations are the pickiest of all.

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Moderna’s and Merck’s personalized mRNA vaccine shows real promise against deadly skin cancer melanoma in late stage trial and sends stocks soaring

The shot, paired with Merck's Keytruda, cut the risk of melanoma recurrence in a trial of more than 1,100 patients.

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Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips

Nevada capped Tesla's fleet at a fraction of its request and kept it away from Harry Reid airport.

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New Mexico’s attorney general reportedly pushes new social media safety laws a day before 29 AGs testify against Meta in federal trial

Raul Torrez, New Mexico’s attorney general, is drafting two bills as a separate 29-state trial over child safety opens in Oakland tomorrow.

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Some gamblers are buying losing lottery tickets on eBay as a way offset taxes on their gambling wins

If you're looking to offset taxes on your gambling earnings, purchasing thousands of dollars worth of losing lottery tickets on eBay may be lucrative.

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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in killing of UnitedHeathcare CEO. ‘I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died’

The 28-year-old entered the plea at a hastily scheduled hearing, setting off a legal fight over whether he can still be tried on murder charges.

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Randall Lane probably didn’t break the law by accepting $6 million while working at Forbes, but he may still pay a price under a 140-year-old doctrine

A New York legal doctrine requiring employee loyalty could pose more risk to the fired Forbes editor than any criminal exposure.

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Jerry Buss made the Lakers Hollywood. Bob Iger and Josh Kushner reportedly bought the show for record-breaking $12.5 billion, up 21% in just 14 months

The pair are buying the team from Mark Walter, who paid $10 billion for it just over a year ago, and someone who Magic Johnson once said would own the...

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Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why?

Americans went through a “happiness crash” right after the pandemic. The ones who are married are the only ones who really recovered.

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Italy’s $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

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We’re not dancing like no one is watching anymore. Actually, we’re just not dancing—or talking, walking, or interacting anymore

Neighborhood socializing has cratered since 2012 as people stop asking their neighbors for help, or stop talking to them altogether.

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Meet the 82-year-old Kentucky grandma who turned down $26 million to turn her farm into a data center: ‘I don’t need your money’

Ida Huddleston says no amount of money was worth losing land that’s been in her family for more than 200 years.

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We’re ‘me-maxxing’ so much, we’re saying 30% fewer words a day than we did 20 years ago

From Tom Wolfe's "Me" decade of the 1970s, to the convenience economy of the 2020s, we're "me-maxxing" our time, and we're talking less as a result.

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Are you committing tax fraud? New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s about to find out, all thanks to the pied-à-terre tax rollout

The governor's office says it will pursue New Yorkers who dodge income taxes by claiming to live outside the city—or register their cars out of state.

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In its first deal since going public, Italian unicorn Bending Spoons buys Airtable at a $9 billion discount

Airtable was valued at $11 billion during its 2021 boom.

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Trump meets AI giants, Senate Dems decry ‘unpredictable’ governance—and cheap Chinese AI looms as giant security risk

While Democrats say the lack of clear rules will lead American firms to choose Chinese AI companies over domestic ones, experts say it’s the cost.

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From Pochettino to MLS, the giants of American finance keep making big promises about the future of U.S. soccer

Ken Griffin helps fund Pochettino through 2030, KKR backs MLS's development league, and the new MLS commissioner is an Apollo veteran.

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How Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax exposed an epidemic of ‘ghost cars’ instead

Those out-of-town plates you see might belong to residents of the city you're in, but they may be drivers slick enough to pull insurance fraud.

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Go ahead, make fun of Tommy Bahama. The CEO is happy to join you, and he’s probably not a fan of your preppy shorts

Doug Wood's a lovable character. His thoughts on what you should wear, and how to have fun while wearing it, are up for debate.

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For the third time in history, women outnumber men in the workforce as the stay-at-home boyfriend becomes an economic trend

Women now hold more jobs than men in America, for the third time ever. A Federal Reserve economist says this time, it's not reversing.

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Bars, bowling alleys and movie theaters cost too much to run and visit. Americans have run out of places to hang out and we’re paying with our health

Chronic isolation has the same health impact as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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European nations have won more than half of all World Cups. Now they’re threatening to boycott the next one

UEFA nations have won 13 of 23 World Cups, but they're threatening a walkout after the sport's most profitable tournament yet.

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