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For more than a hundred years, the city’s most isolated borough has threatened to leave. After the election of Zohran Mamdani, some on the island think it’s time.

A conflict that was supposed to be brief has sent oil prices soaring and raised the risk of a worldwide recession.

Trump’s campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime.

Jill Lepore writes about “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” and A.I. constitutions, like that of Anthropic’s chatbot Claude.

The pop star brings motherhood and middle age to the dance floor.

Sam Surridge’s excellent form could attract interest from the Premier League, while Marc Dos Santos’s excellent start at LAFC continues If St Louis had built Energizer Park as an indoor venue, then Marcel Hartel’s worldie would have surely blown the roof right off. After shocking MLS in their 2023 debut by winning the West, St … Read more

The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes. Markwayne Mullin is apparently still proud of challenging a witness … Read more

Senate candidate James Talarico, D-Texas, has been facing an intense online firestorm after a resurfaced video showed him calling on Texans to ditch meat to fight climate change. Republicans and conservative influencers have widely panned the remark as a potentially fatal blow to his Senate bid and suggested his anti-meat stance could dog him on … Read more

Donald Gorske has eaten nearly 36,000 Big Macs. His verdict on the new Big Arch? ‘I think the Big Mac is better’ The Wisconsin man who holds a seemingly unassailable world record after eating nearly 36,000 Big Macs over his lifetime has found McDonald’s widely publicized new offering, the Big Arch burger, underwhelming. During a … Read more

Supreme Court to hear arguments in a mail-in voting case, weighing whether states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day.