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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A quarter of hospitals in New York earned high scores for preventing patient infections, reducing falls and increasing staffing at their facilities, a report out today from the Leapfrog Group shows. Thirty-six of the 144 hospitals graded across the state received an A for patient safety, according to Leapfrog, a Washington, D.C.-based patient safety nonprofit
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HOSPITAL PRICES: The City Council is expected to pass a resolution today calling on state lawmakers to pass the Fair Pricing Act, a bill that caps how much hospitals can charge for certain routine outpatient procedures such as colonoscopies and vaccines. The bill, sponsored by Manhattan state Sen. Liz Krueger and Bronx Assemblywoman Chantal Jackson,
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The city’s public employee unions are challenging a bid by the Adams administration to recoup expected savings from a halted effort to shift municipal retirees to privately administered health insurance. The move to that plan, known as Medicare Advantage, was fiercely opposed by workers and has been tied up in court since 2023. The Municipal
Eleven of North America’s 50 best bars are located in New York. That’s according to new rankings released this week by the World’s 50 Best organization, which also creates lists for the World’s 50 Best Restaurants and 50 Best Hotels. The highest New York name on the 2025 list is Superbueno at No. 2. It
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An invisible border divides the world of Midtown office towers. On the side of the line closer to Grand Central Terminal, many buildings are full of asset managers, law firms and others paying top-dollar rents. On the other side, more buildings are struggling. For instance, the vacancy rate is just 7% for all of Rockefeller
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Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images It’s official — the cringiest Democratic phrase of 2025 is “dark woke.” Brat Summer, indeed, is over. No need to hear aging pundits contemplating the nature of Brat and what it all might mean for a British pop star to casually endorse Kamala Harris. Brat, with its bright, irreverent greens, is
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