Photo: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images At least Donald Trump’s cabinet made it intact until the 101st day of his presidency. National security advisor Mike Waltz is expected to step down on Thursday in the first shake-up among the president’s top advisors. The development, reported first by CBS News, comes just over a month after […]
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Mark Zuckerberg wearing sunglasses” width=”970″ height=”738″ data-caption=’Mark Zuckerberg at The 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hanger on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. <span class=”media-credit”>Variety via Getty Images</span>’> Meta beat analyst expectations in the first quarter, reporting $42.3 billion in revenue, up 16 percent from the year prior, and $16.6 billion in
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For years, critics and fans have been denouncing the “woman problem” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From early on, the female characters have been ill-defined and sidelined by the more powerful male characters, despite efforts to fix that as the movies and TV series expanded with new characters and new storylines. The studio, helmed by
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Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images One of the most important games being played in Washington right now is the struggle by congressional Republicans to make Medicaid cuts to pay for Donald Trump’s legislative agenda while pretending they aren’t really Medicaid cuts. The arithmetic and politics of the “big, beautiful” budget-reconciliation bill that will deliver Trump’s tax
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For about half of New York City apartments, rent may soon go up again. During a meeting Wednesday night to hold a preliminary vote, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board backed an increase for rent-stabilized apartments of 1.75% to 4.75% on one-year leases and 4.75% to 7.75% on two-year leases. The final maximum increase is subject
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Printemps, the decadent Parisian retailer doling out luxury garments and goods since 1865, has branded itself with the tagline, “not a department store.” In appointing Gregory Gourdet as culinary director of its first New York outpost at One Wall Street, the high-fashion hub ensures its new fine dining restaurant, Maison Passerelle, is “not just another
Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images For over 50 years, a top environmental-science journal has been an influential clearinghouse for research on how pollutants like lead, forever chemicals, and polluted air impact our lives. But in the coming months, the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, will indefinitely pause the publication of new research due to budget cuts at
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Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Aside from adding a Diet Coke button and displaying the occasional Sharpie-scrawled map, during Donald Trump’s first term his changes to the White House were in line with the design tweaks every president makes. But in his second term, the real-estate mogul is bringing his maximalist aesthetic to the White House,
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When New York corrections officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is nurses who must document and treat the resulting injuries. Their choices can save lives or cover up abuse. A prisoner at Green Haven Correctional Facility, in the Hudson Valley, accused a
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promised that his company was quickly addressing a major issue with its wildly popular chatbot, ChatGPT. “We are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week,” he wrote. He wasn’t talking about the tendency of newer “reasoning” models to hallucinate more than
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