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Super-rich complain but experts welcome Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax

New York mayor’s policy set to generate revenue and address housing crisis despite outcry in some quarters New York City’s introduction of a pied-à-terre tax has provided fodder for Zohran Mamdani’s critics, who accuse the democratic socialist mayor of attacking the rich – even as others welcome it as a much-needed effort to tax the wealthy in a city known for its yawning inequality and cost-of-living crisis. The tax, aimed at closing the city’s budget gap, covers people who own but do not live

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Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history” last month, he knew another big change was imminent. This shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, announced this week he was relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive and becoming chair. He is also taking on the role of chief scienti

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Morgan Fairchild says two men once abducted her off NYC street as bystanders laughed

Morgan Fairchild believes her sense of humor may have saved her life. The actress, whose role on "Flamingo Road" cemented her bombshell image before she became a glamorous vixen on "Falcon Crest," has a new podcast, "2 B----es From Texas," co-hosted with her sister, Cathryn Hartt. The show features never-before-heard stories from their decades in showbiz and sit-down interviews with celebrity friends. On a recent episode, Fairchild recalled being abducted on a New York City street before fame ca

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Colorado's socialist surge shakes up the Democratic establishment

Democratic socialist candidate Melat Kiros shocked Colorado ’s Democratic establishment when she defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the state's June primary. The double-digit win exposed a growing rift over the party's values that has left some Democrats stunned and questioning the future of the party. "If you had told me this woman would have won by 13 points, I would have bet my house against that," Doug Friednash, a veteran political strategist in Colorado, told Fox News Digital

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Socialist wave 'ripping America apart' will hit a wall with Michigan voters: Rising star House candidate

WARREN, MI - Mike Bouchard Jr., the Republican nominee for Michigan 's 10th Congressional District, says Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow Senate primary victory is no sign Michigan as a whole is embracing socialism and that the progressive Democrat's message is dividing the country. "El-Sayed was campaigning with Hasan Piker the day before the election, Hasan Piker said that America deserved 9/11, we did not deserve 9/11, tell that to the thousands of people who died in 9/11 and the thousands of American

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Actress convicted as accessory after double murder made disturbing remark before killings, former friend says

A month before Juri "Julie" Kibuishi and Samuel Herr were murdered, Rachel Buffett was planning her bachelorette party when she encouraged a former friend to take ecstasy, according to the woman, Audrey. "Well, if I slipped it in your drink, you wouldn’t know about it," Buffett told her, Audrey claimed. Audrey, who also recounts the exchange in the Investigation Discovery true-crime series, "A Killer Among Friends," said it was the last straw. SLAIN DAD'S DAUGHTER KNEW ‘BLACK SWAN’ EX-BALLERINA

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NPR News · 8m ago

Opinion: Europe's summer of heat

Europe is in another brutal heat wave. The summer's earlier record-breaking weather already damaged crops, sparked wildfires and led to increased deaths. (Image credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

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Fox News · 8m ago

Trump pumps brakes on Senate budget plan, delaying GOP SAVE America push

Senate Republicans may have left Washington on a high note early Saturday morning, but they left one major item on the table: passing the SAVE America Act. It’s the bill that has dominated President Donald Trump’s attention span and garnered heavy criticism against Republicans in the upper chamber for not being able to pass it. And despite guarantees from some in the party that they would object to leaving until Sept. in order to pass the voter integrity bill, lawmakers’ suitcases were packed an

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Guardian - World · 8m ago

Arron Banks ‘hired private detective’ to look into journalist who investigated Reform UK

The prominent Reform UK member and Brexit campaigner Arron Banks is said to have set private investigators on a Sunday Times journalist after he broke a series of stories about Nigel Farage. Banks is alleged to have paid for the services of investigators to examine Gabriel Pogrund, editor of the paper’s Insight investigations team. The detail emerged in the New Statesman on Friday. When approached for comment, Banks did not appear to deny it. He is said to have instructed Precision Risk and Inte

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NPR News · 8m ago

Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country in the world

Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants. (Image credit: Rob Schmitz)

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The Bond effect? How MI6 fascinates spy watchers around the world

Britain’s spooks take quiet satisfaction from survey ranking Secret Intelligence Service Europe’s top espionage agency MI6 has the swagger of James Bond; its French equivalent, DGSE, the complexities of the television drama Le Bureau. The film and TV shows may be fictional, but a survey run by a French magazine that placed the British spy agency above the French as No 1 across all of Europe this week is not. L’Express , a news weekly, conducted a Eurovision-style poll of 60 current and former sp

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I got stage 4 cancer in my 40s. My young daughter and husband keep me fighting

When I was first diagnosed with rare metastatic appendiceal cancer in October 2023, my world blew up. It was a diagnosis with no known cure and no specific treatment protocol. Talk about shattered dreams. I had just turned 40 and had been married only three years. My daughter wasn’t even 2 years old yet. I shared the terrifying early days of my diagnosis here on Fox News and how stunned I was to be diagnosed with stage 4 cancer despite having minimal symptoms. Later, I wrote about my fierce dete

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From Iron Dome to Abraham Accords: Congressional trips helped shape 15 years of US-Israel cooperation

For 15 years, dozens of American lawmakers have had the opportunity to see one of the country's most important — and increasingly debated — alliances firsthand. Since 2011, the U.S.-Israel Education Association (USIEA) has brought members of Congress to Israel, giving them an on-the-ground look at the security, technology and geopolitical issues that often come before them in Washington. USIEA Founder and President Heather Johnston reflected on the organization's 15th anniversary in a conversati

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Guardian - World · 8m ago

The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand – all for an app that wants you off your phone

The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birding On a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an almost improbably flamboyant painted bunting. With an ultra-fine sable brush, he made a few intricate additions to the cobalt blue plumage on the bunting’s head, and, satisfie

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Guardian - World · 8m ago

Baywatch honors teenage lifeguard hero who saved boy in viral video

Ryder Williams, 16, presented with distinctive red jacket by star of TV rescuer reboot, Stephen Amell As life imitates art and vice versa, the star of the Baywatch reboot recently presented one of the distinctive red jackets seen on the beach rescuer drama to the teenage lifeguard who went viral for saving a boy off the California coast on camera. Stephen Amell, who was cast as the main protagonist for the first season of the new Baywatch scheduled to premiere in early 2027, presented the garmen

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Police bigwig accused of driving son's getaway car in gang shooing is sorority sisters with mayor: report

A suburban New York police official accused of driving the getaway car for her son's alleged gang shooting reportedly had connections to the mayor's office when she landed the leadership role. Court records indicate Jennifer Lackard, 49, and her son Chase, 20, were both arrested by the New York Police Department on Tuesday in connection with a June 29 drive-by shooting at rival gang members near the Bronx Criminal Court. Prior to her arrest, Lackard worked as the deputy commissioner of wellness

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Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries ups

Record-low water levels in the Danube have exposed remnants of Europe’s Nazi past, with dozens of second world war warships emerging from the riverbed during an intense drought. In the middle of the river on the Serbian and Romanian border, a broken-up hull was visible on a sandbank that is normally underwater. Other vessels were partly submerged, some still believed to be laden with weapons. The ships were part of Adolf Hitler’s Black Sea fleet that the German military deliberately sank towards

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The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut

The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season. (Image credit: Jaclyn Licht for NPR )

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Democratic socialist Francesca Hong has former child star, OnlyFans model in senior campaign role: report

Former child actress and OnlyFans model Renee Olstead is reportedly serving in a senior role on Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong's gubernatorial campaign ahead of next week's Democratic primary. Olstead, who also goes by Renee Faust, is serving as Hong's deputy campaign manager, according to The Heartland Post. Hong, a Democratic socialist, is among the candidates competing in next week's Democratic gubernatorial primary . The outlet reported that Olstead has worked as a paid campaign operati

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Charlotte career criminal records himself punching woman in unprovoked attack, posting to social media: police

A North Carolina man accused of punching a woman in a Charlotte sidewalk attack and allegedly posting video of the encounter on social media had been arrested at least nine times since 2023, records show. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said 32-year-old Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday after officers responding to an attempt-to-locate call were shown a social media account containing videos detectives had already been investigating. Officers determined one video depicted an