Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Batman Forever/R. McDonald Event on June 13, 1995 in New York City. Patrick McMullan | Getty Images New York federal court documents containing previously hidden names of people associated in some way with the late notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed Wednesday, an official said. Many of … Read more
A young cancer survivor spent Christmas in New York while having the first doses of a vaccine to stop her deadly disease returning. Seven-year-old Arianna Solieri was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma two years ago and finished her frontline treatment in November. The rare and aggressive cancer has a 50 percent relapse rate. Her parents Abigail, … Read more
Indulge me for a moment—I love watching the Times Square Ball Drop every New Year’s Eve. Before you assume I’ve gone completely mad, let me clarify that you won’t catch this New Yorker competing for an unobstructed view of the Manhattan madness. Not in this lifetime, anyway—and certainly not when over a million people are … Read more
Student debt rose to $1.6 trillion Student loan borrowers spent the first half of the year hoping to see their balances reduced, if not erased, by the end of the summer. Many spent the second half of the year scrambling to figure out how they were going to resume making payments. By the end of … Read more
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has again vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s wrongful death statute by letting families recover damages for emotional suffering from the death of a loved one. Hochul declined Friday to sign the Grieving Families Act for the second time this year. In a veto … Read more
What begins as a gender wage gap inevitably becomes a significant shortfall by retirement. In the U.S., women who work full time are typically paid about 80 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts. That gap has persisted despite women’s increasing levels of education and representation in senior leadership positions. Women are also still more … Read more
Pedestrians carrying Nike and Allbirds shopping bags in the SoHo neighborhood of New York on Oct. 24, 2021. Nina Westervelt | Bloomberg | Getty Images After years of unbridled consumer spending on everything from home improvement to dream vacations, some companies are now finding the limits of their pricing power. Shipping giant FedEx last week … Read more
The 14 and 16-year-olds suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds, police sources said. A man stabbed two teenage tourists having a Christmas meal with their parents at a Grand Central Terminal restaurant on Monday, December 25, CBS News reported. The two victims, who are teenage sisters from South America, were enjoying a meal with their parents when one … Read more
The squatters hadn’t paid their mortgage in more than a decade. (Representative pic) An Indian-origin man in New York witnessed a “Christmas miracle” after two squatters who had taken over his home finally moved out. According to the New York Post, Bobby Chawla, whose family purchased the house 22 months ago in a bank auction, … Read more
When you hear the word “hallucination,” you may think of hearing sounds no one else seems to hear or imagining your coworker has suddenly grown a second head while you’re talking to them. But when it comes to artificial intelligence, hallucination means something a bit different. When an AI model “hallucinates,” it generates fabricated information … Read more
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