Photo: Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Redux When Hillary Clinton used a private email server while she was secretary of State, she became the subject of a yearslong Justice Department investigation that culminated with a public announcement by the FBI director that she had been “extremely careless” but would not be indicted. When Donald Trump took […]
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The state attorney general is urging customers of 23AndMe to have their genetic data deleted after the DNA testing company declared bankruptcy this week. The company, which provides over-the-counter genetic testing to help customers map their ancestry or check for potential health dispositions, has struggled financially for years and recently laid off a sizable portion
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The home of one of the East Village’s oldest dive bars has a new owner. The building, 224 Ave. B, where Mona’s has served drinks to jukebox-grooving and pool-playing patrons since the early 1990s, was sold by Herbert Hirsch to The Sabet Group for $13 million, according to a deed that appeared in the city
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EMERGENCY ROOM UPGRADE: NYU Langone is planning to add a CT scanner to the emergency room on its Manhattan campus to accommodate growth in emergency room visits, according to a certificate-of-need application it filed with the state Department of Health last week. The hospital, located at 550 E. First Ave., has seen an uptick in
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Compass is taking the old concept of whisper listings—homes available for sale to those in-the-know without their hitting the public market—to a whole new level, even as industry bigwigs are loudly opposed. A curated, Compass-brokers-only website that potentially allows the brokerage to keep the buyer- and seller-side brokers’ fees in-house, the program is intended to
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The city has a higher share of vacant life science space than any other part of the country due to a slowdown in venture capital funding, exposing challenges in the local industry that could worsen as the federal government plans cuts to research funding. More than 40% of the city’s life science lab and office
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A Hudson Yards landlord and onetime street cart mogul is parting ways with a Garment District industrial building, city records show. George Makkos, who owns a string of mixed-use properties on Ninth Avenue near Hudson Yards, is in contract to sell 349 W. 37th St. through the entity M & T Pretzel Inc., according to
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images After reading about “Houthi PC small group” — the Yemen-air-strike-planning Signal group that included the secretary of Defense, the director of national intelligence, the vice-president, and, accidentally, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic — there are a few images I can neither separate nor get out of my head. There
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Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump that precipitated Elon Musk’s MAGA conversion in the summer of 2024, there was at least one prominent member of Trumpworld who had been courting Musk in public for years. In May 2020, Musk posted, “Take the red pill,” with a rose emoji, to his 34
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It’s a tough job market right now for lots of New Yorkers. As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to cut staff across federal agencies, at least 942 former federal workers have filed for unemployment in New York State in the last two months according to a Department of Labor spokesperson. That doesn’t
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