Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In 1959, a teenage Kitty Cone was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. The daughter of a well-off military family, she discovered that her disability often worked against her family’s wealth and political connections. She attended five different high schools, including the posh Holton-Arms School where her cousins had to carry her up […]
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Alex Rotar was one step away from ending it all. He stood on a ledge on top of a six-floor apartment building in Dyker Heights as officers from the NYPD and the U.S. Marshall’s Fugitive Task Force yelled at him to come down on March 14, 2024, according to court records. “I’m standing there with
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Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images My initial reaction to the news that Cory Booker was going to hold the Senate floor for many hours to dramatize his opposition to Trump 2.0 was a bit despairing: Having demonstrated that they no longer have any leverage over the administration and its supine congressional allies, Senate Democrats would now
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As Meta prepares to invest tens of billions of dollars in the race to develop artificial intelligence, the company is losing one of its most influential researchers. Joelle Pineau, head of A.I. research at Meta, announced yesterday (April 1) that she will leave the company next month “to create space for others to pursue the
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“While I cannot always prevent pollution from entering my kids’ lungs, I can call on Gov. Hochul to move forward with cap-and-invest and pass strong climate legislation.” Climate groups staged a rally in March calling for Gov. Hochul to move faster on climate policies. Photo by Noemie Trusty. It’s every parent’s nightmare: knowing something is harming
Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court, New York Focus reports. Less than a year ago, Governor Kathy Hochul talked about cap and invest as if it were already up and running. Her recent about-face is at the center of a
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New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo worked as a paid adviser to an offshore cryptocurrency exchange as it dealt with a federal investigation before it pleaded guilty to operating illegally in the US, according to two people familiar with the matter. Cuomo advised OKX, an exchange based in the Seychelles, on policy matters and how
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At 4 p.m. this afternoon, President Trump is expected to gather the press in the White House’s Rose Garden to formally unveil his tariffs plan on what he’s dubbed, for some reason, “Liberation Day.” Looming over the economy for months—sending stock portfolios and the financial solvency of families across the country into a tailspin with
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When U.K. punk band the Buzzcocks were looking for cover art for their 1977 Orgasm Addict single, twenty-three-year-old Linda Mulvey had just completed a graphic design degree at Manchester Polytechnic. The band settled on one of Mulvey’s untitled photomontages for their cover—a naked female torso with a steam iron instead of a head. A year
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President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the federal agency overseeing health services for survivors of the September 11th attacks have triggered widespread condemnation, including from Republicans worried the reduction will jeopardize a program that has symbolized the government’s commitment to victims of a defining event of the last quarter century. On Friday, Health and Human
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