90 m. ago Groundbreaking architect Frank Gehry's famous buildings, in photos

Groundbreaking architect Frank Gehry died Friday at age 96

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1 hour ago Despicable moment teenager 'sets sleeping train passenger on FIRE in heinous rage'

It is claimed Hiram Carrero ignited a piece of paper and dropped it near the passenger on the train at the 34th Street—Penn Station stop in Manhattan, New York City

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1 hour ago Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine gets 3 months in prison for violating probation in gang case

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to three more months in prison for violating his supervised release terms in a New York gang case

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3 h. ago High school student, 18, charged with arson in fire that burned New York City subway passenger

A New York City high school senior has been jailed on a federal arson charge days after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger

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3 h. ago FAA launches investigation into US airlines over flight cuts ordered during the shutdown

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into whether U.S. airlines complied with an emergency order to cut flights at 40 major airports during the recent government shutdown

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5 h. ago Former DEA agent charged in alleged deal to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartel

A former DEA agent and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain weapons for a Mexican drug cartel

Economics

6 h. ago Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi part ways amid scandal over RFK Jr relationship

‘Mutual’ decision follows controversy over relationship with presidential candidate and claims of ethical breachesVanity Fair is ending its association with Olivia Nuzzi, who had briefly been the magazine’s west coast editor, as the publication distances itself from controversy tied in part to her relationship with the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.“Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year,” publisher Condé Nast said in a statement on Friday shared with the New York Times. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Florida man charged in 1997 killing of woman once linked to Gilgo Beach murders

Authorities have arrested a man in the 1997 killing of a young mother whose body was found in a Long Island state park

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7 h. ago The bodies of a woman and toddler were linked to the Gilgo Beach killings. Now a man in Florida has been charged

The case has long been linked to the murder investigations centered on Long Island, New York

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7 h. ago Terror as woman nearly plunges to death from 10th floor fleeing her lover’s wife

A viral video shows a woman dodge death in a hair-raising escape from a 10th floor window, losing her grip for a heart-stopping moment as she flees her lover's missus

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9 h. ago New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles

Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted contentThe New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegal copying of millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists’ work without permission en masse.The Times said that Perplexity AI is also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup’s generative AI products create fabricated content, or “hallucinations”, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago What might change for streamers under the proposed $72B Netflix

Two of the most popular streaming services have agreed to combine, in a move that could change the streaming service landscape

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11 h. ago New York’s empty office blocks being transformed into 12,000 new apartments

New York City office buildings that were originally used by firms such as Goldman Sachs are being transformed into luxury apartments

Society

12 h. ago Day 4 of Luigi Mangione's pretrial hearing is postponed because he's sick, judge says

A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione’s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case has been postponed because his lawyers and the judge say he's sick

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12 h. ago Darlene Love reflects on her enduring holiday classic, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'

Darlene Love can't escape her holiday classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

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12 h. ago Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attractionWhen a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip, and takes a deep breath – what is known in the world of animal husbandry as a “flehmen response” – it is often a sign of arousal. Sheep have a small sensory organ located above the roof of the mouth, and the flehmen response helps to flood it with any sex pheromones wafting about.Usually, rams flehmen when they encounter ewes during the mating period, according to Michael Stücke, a farmer with 30 years of experience raising sheep in Westphalia, Germany. But on Stücke’s farm, the rams flehmen “all the time”. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Mystery of Virginia Giuffre's missing millions: What has happened to the Andrew payout?

Virginia Giuffre’s family says her estate is worth just over £233,000, despite her receiving an estimated £9million from the former Duke of York

Economics

14 h. ago Digested week: Minor quake hits book lauding bits of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s chest | Emma Brockes

Defenders rally to Olivia Nuzzi amid book mockery, while rakish David Dimbleby channels his inner DickensIt’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned around memoir by the former New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who took on the challenge of explaining what it was about Robert F Kennedy Jr she found so alluring, a task for which no upper word limit is adequate. Nuzzi, if you’ve fallen behind, developed romantic feelings for the then presidential candidate, now Trump health minister, while profiling him for the magazine and since I’ve had to read this sentence, you do too: “He was exhausted, and he threw himself onto the bed, his pink shirt unbuttoned, revealing my favorite parts of his chest.” If you have a favourite part of RFK Jr’s chest, or consider chests in general subject to preference by localised area, this may be the book for you. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Aer Lingus passengers face 'nightmare’ as New York flights cancelled from Manchester Airport

The airline said that flights were cancelled due to 'aircraft technical issues'

Transport

15 h. ago Rachel Reeves escapes ministerial ethics probe over Budget lies as standards tsar rejects Farage's demand for Chancellor to be investigated

Reform leader Nigel Farage had demanded the Chancellor be investigated for saying there was a black hole in the public finances of more than £20billion, which it later emerged did not exist.

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