USA Update

The five-finger discount is in retreat. Shoplifting is down 13% in the Big Apple and across the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul crowed Wednesday – taking yet another victory lap for her retail theft crackdown ahead of the holiday shopping season. Hochul touted her administration’s efforts, including a $40 million statewide task force, in tackling the...

Frustrated residents complained that the "popping" sound of the sport has been echoing through the seaside community and driving them nuts.

“The Anti-Defamation League and other well-heeled Jewish groups” did “almost nothing” to prevent the rise of “a man with Mamdani’s views,” fumes Liel Leibovitz at City Journal.

After a season that ushered the Charmers into a new “grown-up” era, "Southern Charm" is back.

Skattebo, who took the league by storm with his bludgeoning style of play, stirred buzz at Madison Square Garden this week after getting into it with Dominik Mysterio, who originally taunted comedian Andrew Schultz.

The first tropical cyclone of the season is slowly carving its path towards the Northern Territory, with residents told to prepare for destructive and wild weather.

WASHINGTON — National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the federal government’s steward of funding for public broadcasting stations. The settlement, announced Monday, partially resolves a legal dispute in which NPR accused the Corporation for Public Broadcasting […]

Yann LeCun Yui Mok – Pool/Getty Images Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, is leaving the company. LeCun said in a social media post that he is creating a new AI startup. The departure comes amid a period of instability within Meta’s AI organization. Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and one of the most […]

Just three weeks ago, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to be worth more than $5 trillion thanks to the cutting edge computer chips it makes for artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, Nvidia provided a reminder of just how much the world craves those chips. The company said that in its most recent quarter, its […]

Joe Rogan has mocked President Donald Trump for flip-flopping on the Epstein files. The podcaster, who endorsed Trump last fall, is baffled that the president has gone from opposing the release of the files, which he called a “hoax” earlier this week, to now pushing for their release like he did during his 2024 campaign. […]