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D.C. is a New York town: The president, next speaker and Senate majority leader grew up within 11 miles of each other—what it means for the Big Apple

Gov. Kathy Hochul already wants ‘a few more billions’ for New York, starting with a tunnel Trump says Schumer spent 20 years chasing.

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The midterms didn’t stop the AI buildout. They simply repriced it—and OpenAI is already promising to pay up

Two days after voters rejected data centers almost everywhere, OpenAI pledged to cover its own power bills and post financial guarantees.

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Trump admitted the Iran war and gas prices hurt Republicans. It was his version of the identity politics that cost Democrats 2024

Trump admitted on election night the war hurt Republicans. Gas is up 40% since it began, and tariffs cost families $1,000 a year.

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‘Pick another protein’: A cattle rancher senator’s answer on beef prices could give Democrats their first Mississippi Senate win since 1982

Trump called affordability a ‘fake word.’ Scott Colom’s ad turned her ‘so many proteins’ line into the race’s defining moment.

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Wall Street’s best post-midterm rally in 44 years lasted just one day—then $3 trillion vanished as chip stocks plunged over AI fears

Chip and AI stocks led a delayed selloff on fears new Democratic governors will pause data centers. Analysts split on how long.

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Meet the AI company retiring your CPA so he can still see you face to face this tax season

Numica has bought seven small accounting firms from owners ready to retire. Software does the books, and the old CPA can stay on to see clients.

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Appeals court tosses lawsuit over Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout, ruling homeowners can’t sue over notices

The decision reverses a Staten Island judgment that ordered the city to redo its notices. Other legal challenges continue.

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‘People really effing hate data centers’: How the AI buildout became the midterms’ affordability issue

Abdul El-Sayed, Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton all campaigned against data centers, and even some Republicans moved their way.

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Voters were sick of incumbents. Tuesday was only the third time in 50 years a party lost control of both chambers of Congress at once

Republicans lost a six-term senator, a three-term governor and two appointed senators as voters named the cost of living a top issue.

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‘This might just be the biggest defeat for big money in politics’: Billionaires poured hundreds of millions into Tuesday’s races and still lost

Elon Musk’s pick lost in Texas and billionaires Vivek Ramaswamy and Rick Jackson lost their own races, though California’s wealth tax is trailing.

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Susan Collins’ Maine concession could leave New England without a Republican in Congress for the first time since the 1850s

“It has been the honor of my life,” Collins said. One uncalled Maine House race will decide whether a GOP streak dating to 1854 ends.

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Asked about the cost of living, JD Vance joked about Jon Husted’s butt, then admitted Republicans fell short. Days later, Husted lost Ohio

Voters named the cost of living a top issue. In Ohio, the Democrat who ran on grocery, gas and electric bills beat Trump’s Senate pick.

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Trump promised every adult $5,000 if Republicans kept control of Congress. Thanks to Democrats, taxpayers won’t have to pay up and blow up the debt

Democrats flipped at least six Senate seats and won the House, gaining power over Trump’s nominees and investigations but not his veto.

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James Talarico wasn’t born the last time a Democrat won a Texas Senate race. At 37, he won one despite $200 million from Elon Musk to stop him

Talarico is the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Texas since 1988, carrying suburban counties Trump won two years ago.

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Billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy’s millions and Greg Abbott’s $106 million war chest couldn’t stop Democrats from flipping Texas and Ohio

Democrats flipped governor’s races in Texas and Ohio despite nine-figure spending, and won Iowa’s governorship for the first time since 2006.

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In Democrats’ second Senate flip of the night, South Carolina rejects the senator Trump hand-picked

Trump put Darline Graham in her late brother’s seat and even rallied for her thrice. She ran about 10 points behind her own party’s candidate for...

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‘Lawyer up’: Democrats take the House, and warn Trump’s family businesses are first in line for subpoenas

Democrats can’t override Trump’s veto, but the incoming Oversight chair promised to probe the family’s crypto deals, and other family businesses.

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After topping 2024’s donor list, Elon Musk said he’d do ‘a lot less.’ Since then, he’s given more than George Soros has personally in his lifetime

Musk has given $427 million to federal political groups since May 2025. Soros has given $243 million of his own money since 1979.

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You should pick your credit card perks like Warren Buffett picks his stocks, TD Bank exec says

The billionaire’s philosophy for preaching the ways of compound interest might also apply to how many credit cards you have in your wallet.

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Voters usually decide one or two income or wealth tax measures a year. This midterm season, there are nine

Colorado, Washington and Cook County voters will also weigh taxes on top earners, while other states move to make taxes harder to raise.

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Italy’s inflation hits 5.4%, outpacing the U.S. and China, as a farmers’ revolt empties shelves of pasta and mozzarella

Blockades over diesel costs halted mozzarella and pasta production in the south. Now farmers are joining a national strike.

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‘You can’t trust the Reese’s logo’: The grandson of Reese’s inventor says Hershey’s 2027 recipe fix is ‘a stall’—and he’s igniting a family feud

Hershey says it will bring back the classic recipe in 2027. Brad Reese calls that a stall, but his cousins say he speaks for no one.

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Spirit Halloween’s CEO says Trump’s tariffs were ‘going to put us out of business’—they even set up a war room. Then it had its best year ever

Spirit stopped ships, froze spending, and absorbed the tariff costs. Now its charity Spirit of Children is aiming for $20 million in its 20th year.

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For the first time since 1992, a Fed governor and president dissented together, as Kevin Warsh says the ‘monetary medicine’ is starting to work

The Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4% six days before the midterms, as Cook—whom Trump has tried to fire—and Hammack pushed for a hike.

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Fed holds rates steady days before the midterms, even as inflation runs hot

Kevin Warsh’s Fed split 10-2 on keeping rates at 3.75% to 4%, and traders are betting on a hike in December.

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‘As New York’s mom Governor, I’m taking action’: Kathy Hochul bans bots from cozying up to kids, cracks down on baby monitors

“As artificial intelligence advances at a rapid pace, there’ve been too many tragic incidents that should have been stopped," Hochul said.

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Ex–Google engineer Nate Soares hasn’t added to his 401(k) in a decade because he’s an ‘AI kills all humans guy’

The coauthor of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” puts the odds that humanity doesn’t have 10 years left at better than even.

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About 70% of tax scholars would vote against California’s billionaire tax, a new survey finds

Economists and accountants overwhelmingly oppose Prop. 40, while law professors lean yes, according to a UNC professor’s poll of 105 tax academics.

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You now need $215,000 a year to afford the typical Manhattan apartment as NYC rents hit a record $3,785 a month—and buying costs $7,000 more

Rents for studios through two-bedrooms jumped 7.1% in a year, far outpacing New York wages, which rose only 4.2%.

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‘There’s nothing temporary about a temporary store’: How Spirit Halloween’s CEO took it from 130 stores to 1,550—and swallowed your mall’s Hot Topic

Steven Silverstein built Spirit Halloween into a 1,550-store giant with vacant buildings, returning workers and a show borrowed from Bloomingdale’s.

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An $8 billion Treasury break helped bring Meta’s tax rate to 2%. Now it has a week to answer senators about data center tax credits

Senators want Meta to explain why it claims a research credit on AI data centers. Meta says the facilities require real experimentation.

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Mark Zuckerberg owns 13% of Meta but controls 61% of its votes. California’s wealth tax would bill him on the 13%

Paying a potential $12 billion bill would have meant selling the shares that give him control. A new class of stock solves that.

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GTA VI probably won’t cost the U.S. economy $1 billion—and economists say it wouldn’t matter if it did

Workers may take time off for Grand Theft Auto VI’s launch, and a viral headline says it'll cost the economy $1 billion—but that doesn't add up.

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No city employs more tech workers than New York. Now it’s spending $10 million to train 40,000 people for AI jobs

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are supplying credits and certificates to a Queens nonprofit that has trained about 500 people in AI so far.

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Collectors sent rare Pokémon and sports cards to get graded. Then thieves stole nearly $1 million worth of them from the FedEx truck taking them home

A YouTuber who lost 104 cards says PSA’s payout may be capped at $1,500 a card, even for cards PSA valued higher.

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Leica’s U.S. boss says F1 ‘goes at incredible speed’ and photography helps ‘stop the moment.’ Now they’ve made $10,000 camera together

Leica’s U.S. president Mike Giannattasio says the camera maker and F1 share an obsession with craftsmanship—and the same collectors.

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Strangers are paying up to $150 for empty seats at weddings all because one couple ran out of date-night ideas—20,000 people have signed up

San Diego couple Jeff and Karina Besen have been married 19 years. They built Not a Wedding Crasher after running out of date night ideas.

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‘I’ve never had a real job’: Shaq talks building his brand through ads, and says he hates ‘wealthy athletes’ who show off. It ‘makes me sick’

The NBA legend explains how his endorsements built his brand and why he turned down Wheaties because he doesn't endorse what he doesn't believe in.

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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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