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Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Do you see that?” said Andrew Cuomo, who was making the rounds over brunch at Melba’s in Harlem one Sunday in March. Earlier that the morning, Cuomo had […]

Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump routinely says things that are bonkers, but he made some particularly wild new claims in his NBC News interview with Kristen Welker over the weekend — including his most alarming comments yet about ignoring presidential term limits. Below are the most notable things he said. Trump said “there are

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Amazon would like the world — and its investors — to know it’s trying a few new things with generative AI. “We’ve got about 1,000 different generative AI applications we’ve either built or are in the process of building right now,” said CEO Andy Jassy on an earnings call in February. Most of these

Photo: Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn’t just accidentally group chatting with a magazine editor about upcoming airstrikes, he’s bringing his family members to work, too. The scandal-plagued self-proclaimed “war fighter” has brought his wife, former Fox & Friends producer Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth, to at least two meetings with foreign

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images With an unelected billionaire taking a wrecking ball to the administrative state and the president’s Cabinet giving away national secrets, it can be easy to forget that the president is treating the crypto industry like an open-source ATM. You may remember that Donald Trump launched a novelty cryptocurrency in January

Photo: Graeme Sloan/The Washington Post/Getty Images Both parties have plenty of reasons to look forward to next year’s midterm elections. Republicans can test out the MAGA hypothesis that Donald Trump is building a new majority coalition that will last for decades. Democrats will rely on the more plausible historical precedent that the president’s party almost

Photo: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts University doctoral student, was leaving her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday to join friends in breaking her Ramadan fast when she was arrested by ICE agents. Video of the agents in masks accosting Ozturk on the street generated a new wave of public outrage just two

Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Getty Images Over the past nine years, Elise Stefanik transformed herself from a Donald Trump critic into one of the president’s biggest cheerleaders. Her exemplary MAGA shilling was finally rewarded in November, when Trump announced that Stefanik would serve in his Cabinet as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik gave up her

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images On Monday, the FBI announced a new task force to crack down on what Elon Musk has described as “evil attacks” against Tesla vehicles and facilities. “This is domestic terrorism,” director Kash Patel wrote of the more than 80 instances of vandalism, arson, and gunfire that have targeted Musk’s signature cars

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Illustration: @WhiteHouse/X There’s understandably a lot of talk in the air about significant numbers of 2024 Trump voters feeling some buyer’s remorse as the 47th president’s actual agenda unfolds. Those who backed him because they wanted a return to economic normalcy, for example, are not going to be very happy with the price-inflating