Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This morning, American markets fell and rose by trillions of dollars over a misinterpreted cable news interview, a few headlines, and a flurry of misleading posts on X. As the chaos continued, harried financial professionals and journalists tried to piece together the particulars. Was it a Reuters misreading of a CNBC […]
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When a patient is on their deathbed and their next of kin are notified, doctors often make another, more discreet call to LiveOn New York, a nonprofit with exclusive rights to retrieve organs for donation in the New York City region. For years the Long Island City-based group was consistently cited among the lowest-performing organ
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Health interests aggressively vied for the state’s attention over several high-profile issues and spent tens of millions of dollars on lobbyists to get it. Companies and wealthy individuals spent a record $377 million to directly influence state government in 2024, just shy of a 5% increase over the year before, according to records kept by
VAPE LAWSUIT: The city filed a federal lawsuit against nine major vape distributors for selling illegal e-cigarette flavors such as pink lemonade, watermelon, banana and lychee in city retail locations and online, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, seeks to block distributors from selling illegal flavored
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A Long Island City company purchased $30 billion worth of medical debt, a sizable chunk of the national total, in order to erase it. Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit dedicated to buying and forgiving medical debt, spent just $36 million to acquire the debt, according to spokesman Daniel Lempert. The company announced the deal with
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The city’s luxury real estate market slowed down last week, as financial markets continue to slide. Across the city, 27 units asking more than $4 million went under contract during the week of March 31 to April 6, according to Olshan Realty’s luxury market report. That’s a fairly typical showing but still a decrease of
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Photo: Daniel Cole/Reuters Much has been made recently of the Democratic Party’s systemic problems. Donald Trump won the popular vote, Republicans netted a healthy Senate majority, and almost every demographic group, absent the white and wealthy, gravitated to the GOP. As Trump has laid waste to the government and cowed civil society, few Democrats could
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In the nearly nine years since off-duty police officer Wayne Isaacs shot and killed 37-year-old Delrawn Small in an alleged road rage incident in Brooklyn, a criminal prosecution, an acquittal, two lawsuits, an appeal and three investigations have unfolded. But so far, there has been no NYPD disciplinary trial for Isaacs, who shot Small three
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Attorneys for a Columbia University student who has been living legally in the U.S. since age seven are questioning whether the Trump administration, which has been seeking to detain and deport her, “provided incorrect or false information” to a magistrate judge to obtain a warrant to search her dorm room. In a court filing submitted
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Ford (F) dealership ” width=”970″ height=”665″ data-caption=’Ford is offering new consumer discounts in response to tariffs. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images</span>’> Fresh discounts, hiked prices and paused production are among the strategies that America’s largest carmakers are embracing in response to the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on imported cars, which took effect
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