The United States has vetoed a United Nations security council resolution calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza while the 14 remaining countries on the council voted in favour. The vetoed resolution also called the situation in Gaza “catastrophic”, and demanded the “immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions on the entry…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Elon Musk on Wednesday ramped up his attacks against the massive tax-cut bill President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to pass, claiming it will condemn America…
California’s years-long effort to construct a high-speed rail faces yet another hurdle as the Trump administration said the project has no “viable path” to move ahead and threatened to pull billions of dollars in federal funding. Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, released a compliance review report that said the project is in default of…
The Frick Collection is opening its new museum restaurant this week. Westmoreland will open on the Upper East Side at 1 East 70th Street, near Fifth Avenue, on the second floor starting on Friday, June 6. The Danny Meyer-founded Union Square Events is running the cafe and bar, led by chef Skyllar Hughes, who had…
Students are seen on the campus of Columbia University on April 14, 2025, in New York City. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. Education Department said Wednesday that Columbia University has failed to meet the standards for accreditation because it “is in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws” for allegedly tolerating harassment of…
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs dangled a friend of his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura off the balcony of a 17th-floor apartment in September 2016, the friend testified on Wednesday at Combs’s sex-trafficking trial. Bryana Bongolan, Ventura’s friend, told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Combs then came up to her from behind on the balcony…
Turns out, our KFC-loving president does have a food following. As an ode to his flip-flop tariff trade tendencies known as TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”) — an acronym coined by Financial Times in May — a food truck celebrating Taco Tuesday was an apparent lunchtime hit on Capitol Hill yesterday. The Democratic National Committee…
HM Revenue & Customs has lost £47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard. Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their accounts were locked…
George Kurtz, chief executive officer of Crowdstrike Inc., listens during an interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of CrowdStrike slumped more than 5% on Wednesday after the cybersecurity company issued lackluster revenue guidance for the current quarter. The security software maker said…
For more than 20 years, Marc Weisskopf has been working to understand why military veterans face twice the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal disease with no known cause or cure, as the rest of the population. That research is now in jeopardy due to federal funding cuts, said Weisskopf, Cecil K….
