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Woman pleads guilty in $1.2 billion plot targeting Wes Edens, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and Aston Villa, and co-founder of Fortress Investment

Court documents allege she hid a phone in sanitary pads, and describe a LinkedIn message and two other men she allegedly defrauded.

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An Ohio police lieutenant allegedly used Flock cameras 29 times to track someone he knew. Now he’s facing a felony

Sharonville Lt. Walter Cordes faces up to a year in prison after he was indicted following a department audit of its Flock cameras.

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FBI says an OpenAI engineer used his wife’s AI chatbot to figure out how to plant a secret recording device at the office

FBI says Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife and a third unnamed family member also had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul.

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The GOP billionaire behind the biggest political gift in U.S. history could be sued for allegedly fueling a Chicago rat infestation

A city document says Barre Seid has paid workers for three years to scatter nuts in Lincoln Park, but officials say the practice draws rats.

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Susan Collins’s allies spent $25,000 attacking her rival in the Oregon version of Portland: ‘They can’t even find it on a map’

“Good luck convincing Mainers you know what’s best for them when you don’t know which Portland they live in,” blasted her Democratic rival.

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‘I drive a Tesla’: After Elon Musk said he’d lose his job, Delta CEO Ed Bastian says there’s ‘no tit for tat’ as airline unveils earnings miss

Bastian says the Starlink snub was business, not personal, as a 62% fuel jump led to Delta’s first earnings miss in two years.

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‘You decided to evade them’: Former HSBC banker ‘clearly in a financial position to pay’ banned from finance for dodging $7,800 in fares

Joseph Molloy was banned not only from working in regulated financial services but also from the railway operator.

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‘This is not sustainable’: Families with young kids are fleeing NYC’s high cost of living, and the schools are emptying out

City Comptroller Mark Levine calls the drop from over 1 million students a decade ago as unsustainable and says affordability is a major factor.

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Former CIA official with Top Secret clearance admits to $194 million fraud, including 298 gold bars and four luxury South Florida properties

Rush will give up 298 gold bars, Palm Beach and Jupiter Island real estate, 35 watches, two BMW Alpinas and about $40 million in cash.

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Texas businessman gets 13 years in federal prison as feds seize his Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Firebird and dozens more cars to pay back fraud victims

Clayton Iley pitched a fake Defense Department loan program and used victims' identities to fund 90-plus collector vehicles, prosecutors say.

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It’s ‘more likely than not’ humanity loses control: Former AI insiders testify safety fixes may be ‘duct tape that will fall off later’

Former insiders warned the New York City Council about losing control of AI, while OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google couldn’t say how big the risk...

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Sports betting is America’s new pastime—and it’s bigger than movies, music, and museums together as Americans wage a whopping $166 billion on bets

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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AI will create more jobs than it kills, McKinsey says. The catch: 11 million Americans may need new careers

Only one in seven displaced workers has a direct path to a growing job, and most new work in healthcare and construction can't be done remotely.

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‘We can’t trust them completely’: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors

Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI's and Anthropic's top researchers, say that many times, "internal safeguards have not been...

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We’ve lost about 200,000 creative jobs since the rise of AI. The urbanist who coined ‘the creative class’ said AI is coming for the ‘grind-out jobs’

New York has lost one-quarter of its film jobs. The urbanist who named the creative class says AI will make cities matter more, not less.

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Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling

More than four in 10 Americans quite like the sound of it, shrugging off Trump's warnings about "communism, socialism and Marxism."

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Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling

More than four in 10 Americans quite like the sound of it, shrugging off Trump's warnings about "communism, socialism and Marxism."

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Wilbur Ross was Trump’s first-term tariff hawk. Now he says refunds give importers ‘an extra profit’ and pay them ‘more than the money’ they laid out

The former Commerce secretary says importers who passed tariff costs on to customers are now being paid back for money they didn't lose.

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‘Never waste a crisis’: Sweetgreen cofounder on stolen recipes, the cyclospora cyclone, and the company’s first-ever chef in residence

Nic Jammet on a lettuce scare, growing up at New York’s La Caravelle, Molly Baz’s residency, and the Hoboken fan whose 25-day challenge went national.

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Wilbur Ross says New York’s pied-à-terre tax targets people who ‘can’t retaliate at the ballot box’

The former Commerce secretary and Steve Wynn are suing the state over annual bills of $83,531 and $183,094 on their Manhattan homes.

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Judge orders Mamdani administration to cancel pied-à-terre tax notices and start over

The ruling leaves New York City’s tax on luxury second homes in place but wipes out the thousands of warnings the city mailed this summer.

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How Japan went from a rice shortage to a rice surplus in two years, as climate change, tourism, and a U.S. trade fight collided

A drought-driven shortage in 2024 nearly doubled prices to ¥4,300 a bag and toppled a minister, before farmers overcorrected into a record surplus.

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Trump banned MS NOW from the White House. Symone Sanders-Townsend says he still watches, and she stands by her Hasan Piker interview

The former Harris spokesperson calls retribution "a feature, not a bug" of Trump's White House and explains why she pressed the streamer.

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35% of bettors are leaving sportsbooks for prediction markets, echoing the regulatory loophole DraftKings built its business on

The American Gaming Association says states have already lost $500 million in tax revenue to prediction markets.

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New York City writes bill to rein in AI while insisting it wants to be the ‘AI capital of the world’

We obviously are not in any way looking to stifle innovation,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin told Fortune.

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‘Taxes aren’t really high enough for them to be sensitive’: the fears of the wealthy fleeing New York and California were just that

We heard the wealthy would move out of New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles because of an unfriendly business climate, but did they actually?

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Gates Foundation and MTN launch AI maternal health platform to reach 500,000 women by 2030 in Nigeria, which accounts for about 30% of maternal deaths

The four-year, $25 million partnership pairs AI tools with phone and connectivity access to cut preventable maternal deaths.

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Mamdani confronts Trump with ‘all the members of the press’, hours after CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue over White House ban

The president was also pushed on his decision to end TPS for Haitian immigrants; New York has the U.S.'s second-largest Haitian population.

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‘You’re a going to be a great one’: Trump tells Mamdani he has ‘potential’ to be a great mayor and floats federal funds to his native Queens

As the first sitting president visit to Gracie Mansion in decades, Trump backsed mayor's Sunnyside Yards push.

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Moderna’s Bob Langer and AI pioneer Yann LeCun join board of Cellular Intelligence, bringing AI into medicine via a Parkinson’s drug

CI is pairing top AI and biotech minds on its board (plus an advisory role for OpenAI's Fidji Simo) as it tests models on a Novo Nordisk drug.

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‘I now realize I was foolish’: Widow of early Roblox programmer allegedly defrauded out of $6 million trying to buy out a man from his escort contract

A lawsuit says a male escort exploited Marianne Flippo's grief and rare illness to take $5.95 million meant to buy his way out of an escort contract.

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Meet Warren Buffett’s son Howard, a former sheriff, war photographer, and now, Berkshire’s new chairman

He received top honors from Mexico, Colombia and Rwanda; he runs a family farm and held elected office.

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The same algorithm Gen Z fears is managing its portfolio

Either Gen Z is a generation of giant hypocrites when it comes to AI adoption, or it's drowning in a sea of misinformation. Or maybe both.

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College grads shut out of AI-exposed majors since 2022 are ending up in retail and food service instead of the white-collar jobs they studied for

Entry-level hiring dried up after ChatGPT, and graduates who majored in those fields are settling for lower-paying service work instead.

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Man sentenced in $35 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded Travis Kelce: ‘He did this out of greed’

He also asked to be married to his fiance while in prison.

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‘Give the American people a say in how AI develops’: OpenAI’s least favorite New York politico sees an opening

Alex Bores told Fortune that the Overton Window is wide open: "Even the questions that are being asked are up for grabs."

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This Las Vegas casino just gave almost 10,000 workers more than $70 million in company stock to celebrate its 50th birthday

Every eligible employee gets $1,000 in Red Rock Resorts stock for each year on the job. One worker who started in 1977 got $49,000.

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After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety

Jacob Coxon's resignation didn't start this fight, but his resignation ignited the moment officials on both sides stopped staying quiet about it

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Howard Lutnick, Larry Silverstein, Jim Pierce and Mitt Romney all had last-minute changes of plan that kept them out of the WTC on 9/11

A school run, a doctor's visit, a budget fight in Congress. Small shifts in plans kept dozens of people out of the World Trade Center that morning.

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How often you check your phone matters more than how long you spend on it—and if you watch brain rot, you’re burning yourself out

Research finds frequent phone checking predicts stress, and watching low-quality content burns you out.

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Trump’s first term had real stimulus checks. His second has promised ones tied to problems he started

The $5,000 pledge follows a DOGE dividend that failed and a tariff rebate that never arrived, both stemming from policies Trump created himself.

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Microsoft’s move in the AI school debate: controls over how student data gets used

Microsoft will offer AI privacy standards to every school district as Randi Weingarten says OpenAI and Anthropic have "expressed willingness."

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Trump’s ‘America First’ national park fees for foreign tourists have raised a quarter of what was promised

The Department of Interior says foreign-tourist fees raised $22.5 million this year, a quarter of what it was supposed to bring in.

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There are fewer than 4,000 billionaires worldwide, and they now hold a record $15.1 trillion. That’s nearly half of the U.S. economy

Just 29 superbillionaires now control more than one-quarter of all billionaire wealth, up from 7% in 2017.

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One in five Americans call sports betting an investment. For Gen Z, it’s twice as many — and they don’t come close to breaking even

People used to place bets periodically, but now it has become a daily habit for nearly a quarter of sports bettors.

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The Vatican is smaller than a single data center. Now it’s spending $117 million to go carbon-neutral

The microstate is still smaller than Meta's Hyperion data center campus, which is expected to consume up to 5 gigawatts by 2030.

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Toilet paper becomes a kitchen table issue for Trump again as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs could spell another shortage

A tariff fight with Canada is pushing tissue prices higher, echoing the shortage scare that preceded his 2020 election loss.

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Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school

NYC, which boasts the largest school system in the nation, issued a one-year moratorium on AI in city elementary and middle schools.

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Trump calls data center opponents ‘backwards and poor’ as the industry props up the economy—but his own party wants nothing to do with it

Data centers are fueling US growth, but bipartisan backlash is forcing candidates to run from them before the midterms.

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Bank of America vice president identified as victim in random Times Square stabbing

Erin Piacenti, 32, died after a woman with a documented mental health history attacked two strangers.

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